Michael Salvia
Staff Software Development Engineer In Test at FOX Tech
High Bridge, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Salvia is a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test with 11 years of experience building and scaling cross-platform test automation for web, mobile, and OTT SDKs. At FOX Tech and previously JW Player and Disney, he architected CI-driven pipelines, extended mobile and TV test frameworks, and reduced execution times by over half through pragmatic integrations like websocket-driven native actions. An active open-source contributor, he made notable testing improvements to the popular webdriverio project—enhancing Cucumber reporting and multi-feature threading behavior. Comfortable with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Appium, and Selenium grids, he balances hands-on automation engineering with technical leadership and mentoring of remote teams. Based in High Bridge, NJ, he combines a systems-minded approach to testability with a knack for building reusable tooling that surfaces early product health signals.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at Penn State UniversityDiploma General Studies, Diploma General Studies at HCRHS
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
webdriverio10
testing10
cucumber10
automation10
automations10
test-automation10
nodejs9
mochajs9
nodes9
html6
xcode6
appium6
iphone6
encoding6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
webdriverio/webdriverio
Nov 2019 - Jan 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:5 reviews, 8 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the testing framework by implementing and modifying tests. They added new test cases to validate features, including the ability to specify feature files with line numbers in the Cucumber framework. They also enhanced the JUnit reporter to support Cucumber-style reporting and made changes to ensure correct reporting when multiple Cucumber features run in the same thread. This involved adjustments to event handling and report generation logic.
test-automation-frameworkjasminemobile-automationcucumberperformance-test
jwplayer/JWPlayer-iOS-SDK-cocoapod
May 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 review, 50 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 9 months
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