Jim Vannest
Senior Test Engineer at GoFundMe
Portland, Maine Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJim Vannest is a Senior Test Engineer with 16 years of full-stack QA experience, spanning IoT hardware and wearables to complex web back-ends. He specializes in greenfield QA—building proprietary automation frameworks, embedding AI-driven test validation, and turning noisy SDLC workflows into scalable, automated quality pipelines. Jim has led teams at GoFundMe, Internal.io, and others to implement end-to-end UI, API, and mobile automation (Playwright, Cypress, Appium) and to raise automation coverage from zero to production-grade. He pairs deep technical skill with cross-functional leadership, authoring public-facing docs, training engineers, and aligning QA with product and sales. Outside engineering he’s a professional musician and father of four in Maine—an unexpected background that strengthens his communication, creativity, and people leadership. Jim is seeking a leadership or lead IC role in R&D or greenfield builds where hard problems and unwritten solutions meet.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Music Education, Music Education at State University of New York College at PotsdamAudio Engineering, Audio Engineering at Berklee College of Music
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Github Skills (43)
webdriver9
selenium9
ios9
windows9
android9
automation9
appium9
reporter9
w3c9
test-automation9
automation-framework9
macos9
test-suite8
testing-library8
e2e8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ustwo/US2MapperKit
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
JSON driven object mapper developed by ustwo
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes in 1 day
objectmapperobject-mapperjsonmapper
jimberley/citrine_take_home
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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