Summary
Nicholas Cooper is a product-focused Software Development Engineer in Test with 11 years’ experience improving quality for major Australian financial firms and fintechs. He designs and implements test automation platforms and CI/CD-integrated API and performance test suites (TypeScript, Jest, Karate), reducing incidents and speeding deployments across squads. Comfortable as both sole QA and mentor in Agile teams, he blends hands-on automation, root-cause analysis, and cross-team collaboration to raise reliability and observability. Currently based in Greater Sydney and completing a Master’s in Data Science at UNSW, he brings a data-driven mindset to testing strategies and has practical experience applying SQL and cloud-native microservices testing. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often pairs engineering rigor with product-first thinking to deliver measurable improvements in production stability.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Macquarie University
Bachelor of Applied Finance with a Bachelor of Economics, Finance and Economics, Bachelor of Applied Finance with a Bachelor of Economics, Finance and Economics at Oxford Brookes University
UNSW Sydney