Tam Mullen
Quality Engineering Consultant at Syde GmbH
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTam Mullen is a quality engineering consultant and leader with over two decades of experience driving release reliability, test automation, and incident response for large-scale products. He led quality for WooCommerce at Automattic—supporting millions of stores—owning 15 major releases, building e2e and performance test infrastructure, and publishing metrics-driven reports that informed release decisions. Tam blends hands-on automation (notably contributing e2e tests and infrastructure to the high-profile WooCommerce open-source repo) with organisational coaching to embed pragmatic, measurable quality practices across distributed teams. He has a track record of steering Sev-1 incident response and introducing novel safeguards like LLM-based PR security analysis to prevent high-risk vulnerabilities. Based in Belfast and holding an MEng in Computer Science from Queen’s University Belfast, Tam combines deep technical craft with an advisor’s perspective on sustainable SDLC improvements.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (8)
wordpress10
woocommerce10
automated-tests10
e2e10
testing10
php9
javascript9
react5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:151 reviews, 161 commits, 113 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tam focused on writing and maintaining end-to-end (e2e) tests for the WooCommerce platform. Their work involved fixing existing tests related to onboarding flows and product types, ensuring that the tests accurately reflected the intended behavior of the application. The user also updated test dependencies and added a README for the e2e-utils, indicating a focus on test infrastructure and documentation. Additionally, they updated and created tests related to order editing within the WordPress admin interface.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
tammullen/upgraded-guacamole
Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches, 4 issues in 2 years
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