Richard Bradshaw
Senior Architect at The Vernon Richard Show
Congleton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Bradshaw is a Senior Architect in Quality Engineering with 13+ years helping teams embed pragmatic, human-centric automation and whole-team quality practices across web, mobile, Salesforce and AI-driven systems. He founded the Automation in Testing namespace and trains globally on designing automation that adds immediate value rather than disrupting existing testing efforts. Former CEO of Ministry of Testing, he scaled community learning and product offerings through the pandemic while also delivering hands-on test strategy, tooling and training for clients like BMW and Sage. At Slalom Build he blends quality leadership with software engineering and GenAI testing work—building AI agents, POCs and novel evaluation strategies for non-deterministic systems. Known as FriendlyTester, he combines deep technical fluency across multiple languages and frameworks with a contextual, measurement-led approach that helps teams move confidently.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation In Software Testing, Foundation In Software Testing at ISEB/ISTQBProblem Solving Leadership, Problem Solving Leadership at PSLRapid Software Testing For Managers, Rapid Software Testing For Managers at DevelopSense2:1, BSc Computing, 2:1, BSc Computing at Sheffield Hallam UniversityRapid Software Testing, Rapid Software Testing at Satisfice
Github Skills (10)
javas10
selenium-ide10
webdriver10
selenium10
java10
test-automation10
ui-testing9
uitest9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mwinteringham/restful-booker-platform
Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
A SaaS platform used for various test automation training
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Richard's commits primarily focused on enhancing end-to-end tests using Selenium. They created and modified page objects, test cases, and driver configurations to validate the functionality of the "restful-booker-platform". The changes included the implementation of test automation for creating hotels and verifying their details, and updating the ChromeDriver. Additionally, the user fixed an issue with the year display on a report page.
test-automationautomation-in-testingautomation-uitrainingsaas
FriendlyTester/Free-Java-Basics-Course
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
This is the repository that supports my Free Java Basics Course
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 2 months
java
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