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Luke Hughes

Senior QA Engineer · New York · United States

Senior QA Engineer with experience in risk-based testing, defect prevention, automation, and release confidence. Practical work includes Test strategy, Playwright, API testing, Risk analysis.

Experience

Amazon

New York · United States

Senior QA Engineer

Jan 2021 - now

  • As workstream lead, wrote risk-based test plans for ad playback across devices, covering consent, mid-roll timing, and failed requests. Linked each quality assurance check to a release criterion and a reproducible defect.
  • With responsibility for the review standard, built Selenium test automation for subscription and playback flows; replaced fixed sleeps with state-based waits and retained network logs so failures could be distinguished from flaky timing.
  • Mapped acceptance criteria to automated regression cases and exploratory charters; isolated flaky timing assertions so a passing build represented reproducible behavior.
  • Owned test automation for the checkout regression suite using Selenium, reducing manual repeat checks from 90 to 35 minutes while retaining failed-run screenshots.
  • Published CI/CD test plans with isolated fixtures and explicit quality-assurance gates, resolving false failures caused by shared state before making the checks blocking.

Datadog

New York · United States

QA Engineer

Mar 2016 - Dec 2020

  • Built reusable test data for 9 account and entitlement states; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, kept turnaround time within the agreed operating window.
  • Reviewed a proposed change against the existing interface contract, reproduced a reviewer’s edge case, and added the missing test or example before merging the change.
  • Investigated a failure reported by a downstream team using the exact version and input they supplied. Reduced it to a reproducible test, delivered the fix with compatibility notes, and confirmed the original case passed before closing the report.

Selected project

QA Engineer — independent case study

Cross-functional project lead

Mar 2023 - Jul 2023

  • Introduced defect escape reviews by source, detection gap, and prevention action; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
  • Built an isolated fixture with normal, malformed and interrupted inputs; recorded the expected response before running the implementation so failures were distinguishable from a changed assumption.
  • Packaged the reproduction steps, configuration and regression tests with the project; checked the instructions from a clean environment and documented the unsupported cases instead of claiming production readiness.
  • Owned the independent regression fixture using isolated inputs, resolved a failing edge case and released a reproducible test package with expected outputs.

Education

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington · United States

B.S. Computer Science

Sep 2008 - Jun 2012

Relevant coursework: Algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks

Skills

Role expertise

Test strategy · Playwright · API testing · Risk analysis · CI pipelines · Defect triage

Certifications

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level

ISTQB

Nov 2023

Publications

  • Published an independent technical note using the project’s before-and-after traces, explaining the failed assumption, regression coverage and cases the implementation does not support.

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Amazon

Quality Assurance Engineer, Prime Video Ads

New York · United StatesMid-level

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  • In the posting
      • test automation
      • automation
      Term in work evidence

    Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for Prime Video Ads platform, ensuring high coverage across functional, integration, and end-to-end testing.

    Champion AI adoption in test automation — leveraging AI/ML tools to generate test cases, predict risk areas, detect anomalies, and accelerate defect resolution.

    In this resume
    With responsibility for the review standard, built Selenium test automation for subscription and playback flows; replaced fixed sleeps with state-based waits and retained network logs so failures could be distinguished from flaky timing.
    Senior QA Engineer · Amazon
  • In the posting
      • test plans
      • quality assurance
      Term in work evidence

    Lead org-level quality initiatives and define QA strategy & test plans across multiple concurrent projects, collaborating with engineering, product, and data science teams.

    3+ years of quality assurance engineering experience

    In this resume
    As workstream lead, wrote risk-based test plans for ad playback across devices, covering consent, mid-roll timing, and failed requests. Linked each quality assurance check to a release criterion and a reproducible defect.
    Senior QA Engineer · Amazon
  • In the posting
      • Selenium
      Term in work evidence

    Experience with at least one automated test framework like Selenium or Appium

    In this resume
    Owned test automation for the checkout regression suite using Selenium, reducing manual repeat checks from 90 to 35 minutes while retaining failed-run screenshots.
    Senior QA Engineer · Amazon
  • In the posting
      • testing
      • software development
      Evidence not found

    Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for Prime Video Ads platform, ensuring high coverage across functional, integration, and end-to-end testing.

    Drive shift-left testing practices by embedding quality early in the software development lifecycle, including requirements review and design validation.

    In this resume

    No supporting experience found. Do not add this keyword unless your own work supports it.

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  • In the posting
      • CI/CD
      Term in work evidence

    Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated tests are integrated and executed efficiently across build and deployment workflows.

    In this resume
    Published CI/CD test plans with isolated fixtures and explicit quality-assurance gates, resolving false failures caused by shared state before making the checks blocking.
    Senior QA Engineer · Amazon
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