James Thomas
Quality Assurance Analyst at Oak National Academy
Skipton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Thomas is a seasoned Quality Assurance Analyst with 12 years’ experience ensuring accessible, robust, and user-friendly digital products, currently embedded in Oak National Academy’s Curriculum squad. He blends deep accessibility expertise—nearly a decade of auditing, training and remediation—with hands-on testing, automation (notably Cypress), and CI/CD integration to catch issues from requirements through production. James has led and mentored teams as a Lead Test Analyst, trained and line-managed apprentice testers, and translated accessibility guidance into practical training and consultancy across public and private sectors. A pragmatic tester and occasional code tinkerer, he pairs exploratory and scenario-driven testing with high-level strategic advocacy for quality and inclusion. Based in Skipton, he also contributes to the community through writing and speaks to accessibility best practice beyond his day-to-day role.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Music, Bachelor of Arts, Music at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
English, French, Welsh, German
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Github Skills (91)
http10
web-development10
javascript10
html10
js10
vagrant10
selenium-webdriver10
documentation10
css10
nightwatch9
virtualization9
testing9
selenium-server9
automation9
selenium9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rightsaidjames/cypress-starter-kit
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
A no-nonsense Cypress template for copying into new or existing projects, with some sensible defaults and useful helper functions.
Contributions:3 releases, 40 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 3 months
cypress
rightsaidjames/wedding
Jul 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 9 months
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