Tim Yao
Test Automation Lead
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolTim Yao is a Test Automation Lead based in Melbourne with nine years of hands-on experience building and scaling automated testing across government digital services. He leads test engineering teams at Digital Victoria/Single Digital Presence, driving continuous testing, CI/CD integration, and automation strategy using tools like Cucumber-js, Cypress, Selenium, BrowserStack and CircleCI. Previously he led frontend development for the SDP component library and has a strong full‑stack background spanning Node.js, TypeScript, PHP and performance testing with K6. Tim blends people leadership and mentoring with pragmatic engineering—designing scalable test frameworks for fast-moving, high-profile public websites. He also contributes to open-source SDP projects, bringing practical product delivery experience to reusable design systems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Application, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Application at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (145)
selenium-server10
storybook10
testing10
javascript10
webdriver10
nightwatch10
bdd10
selenium-webdriver10
ripple10
cucumber10
typescript10
full-stack10
gherkin10
vue10
valine10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tim-yao/cucumber-nightwatch
Apr 2023 - Feb 2024
A small library to enable us to use latest nightwatch.js(v3) in cucumber.js(v9)
Contributions:11 releases, 2 reviews, 60 PRs in 9 months
cucumber-jsnightwatchjs
dpc-sdp/github-actions
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
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Contributions:3 releases, 38 reviews, 29 PRs in 1 year 5 months
devopssdp-terraform-github
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