Jon Purvis
Senior Software Engineer at Visualsoft | Shopify Plus Partner | Full Service Agency
Redcar, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJon Purvis is a Senior Software Engineer based in Redcar, UK with eight years of hands-on experience evolving from junior web developer to engineering lead roles at Visualsoft. He blends strong QA and test automation expertise with DevOps and systems reliability leadership, having progressed through roles such as Quality Assurance Developer, Service Reliability Lead and DevOps Engineering Lead before stepping into senior engineering. Jon contributes to prominent open-source projects like Pest (an elegant PHP testing framework), where his work strengthened test coverage and refined expectation checks—reflecting a pragmatic focus on making testing both reliable and enjoyable. He has led product initiatives such as VS Team, a digital business card platform, demonstrating an ability to design APIs and analytics-driven features for real users. Known for moving between hands-on coding and cross-functional leadership, Jon excels at turning quality and reliability goals into production-grade workflows. Colleagues often rely on him to bridge the gap between test practice, infrastructure, and feature delivery.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pestphp/pest
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Pest is an elegant PHP testing Framework with a focus on simplicity, meticulously designed to bring back the joy of testing in PHP.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 8 PRs, 25 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jon's commits primarily focus on implementing and refining test cases within the Pest framework. They added new tests for expectations related to string manipulation, including uppercase, lowercase, alphanumeric, and alpha checks. Subsequent commits involved refactoring and correcting the implementation of these tests, and enhancing the testing coverage by including tests for `toBeBetween` and `toBeUrl` expectations. Further, the user adds tests for enums and updates to the coverage configuration.
testing-frameworktestingphpframeworkphpunit
JonPurvis/profanify
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
🧼 A PestPHP Plugin to Help Catch Profanity in Your Applications.
Contributions:25 releases, 41 PRs, 81 pushes in 7 months
frameworkpestphpphpunitplugin
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