Kevin Lamping
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Lamping is a staff software engineer with 14 years of hands-on front-end and QA experience who blends technical depth with a focus on team dynamics and process improvement. He has led testing and front-end initiatives across startups and enterprises, driving CI reliability, UI testing frameworks, and standards that scaled teams and reduced release friction. At SSTID he defined QA automation strategy and built AI-assisted failure triage and agent workflows that cut manual triage by roughly half. He is an active open-source contributor to WebdriverIO—improving timeouts, docs, and reliability—and created a reusable WebdriverIO starter kit used in client automation frameworks. Kevin pairs practical engineering (from Playwright and Appium to K6) with clear stakeholder communication, turning test coverage into measurable business outcomes like faster releases and significant revenue lift at Teal. Based in Rochester, MN, he combines a long track record of mentoring engineers and SDETs with a knack for making automation ergonomic and durable.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Arts and Technology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Arts and Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
webdriverio10
testing10
documentation10
test-automation10
automation9
nodejs9
nodes9
automations9
jasmine8
mochajs8
html6
ruby-on-rails6
html-parsing6
validation6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
webdriverio/webdriverio
Oct 2015 - Feb 2022
Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 65 commits, 48 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to improving the test framework and documentation of the WebdriverIO project. They addressed issues by increasing default timeouts, removing deprecated features, and creating output directories for reports. Furthermore, they added examples and fixed documentation inaccuracies related to the usage of `waitFor` commands and other browser functionalities. These contributions enhanced the reliability and usability of the testing framework.
test-automation-frameworkjasminemobile-automationcucumberperformance-test
klamping/react-webdriverio-tests
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Functional tests for the React DOM Fixtures
Contributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 50 pushes in 10 months
reacttestingreact-domdomfunctional-tests
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