Waweru Mwaura
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (Contractor) at .
Nairobi, Nairobi County, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWaweru Mwaura is a Senior Software Engineer in Test with 9 years of experience specializing in JavaScript-based test automation across Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright, mocha, k6, and Nightwatch. He designs and maintains end-to-end, integration, component, and regression suites, and has shaped test strategy and CI/CD pipelines for teams at Bread Financial, Andela, and enterprise banking environments. Beyond test code, he builds tooling and platforms that improve test data access and measure QA performance, reducing manual regression efforts from hours to minutes. An author of an End-to-End Web Testing with Cypress book and a CircleCI technical contributor, he combines hands-on framework development with thought leadership. Comfortable across frontend, backend, containerization, and Kubernetes, he treats tools pragmatically—using whatever gets the job done rather than chasing badges. Based in Nairobi with a global footprint, he blends engineering craft with a managerial streak, mentoring teams and driving measurable quality improvements.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Management Information Systems, MBA Management Information Systems at Unicaf UniversityBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Multimedia University of Kenya
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Github Skills (92)
web-testing10
api10
emr10
java10
nodejs10
documentation10
accessibility10
cypress10
health10
react10
perfect9
javascript9
leiningen9
testing9
fitness9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mwaz/yummy-recipies
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
Andela Bootcamp challenge which provides a platform for users to keep track of their awesome recipes and share with others if they so wish.
Contributions:15 PRs, 142 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
reactrecipeskeepexpressjsjavascript
mwaz/pop-mgt-api
Mar 2019 - May 2021
A system that stores a list of locations and the total number of residents in each location broken down by gender.
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
totalresidentsgenderlocationbroken
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