Detail-oriented QA professional with 5+ years of paid professional testing experience delivering functional, regression, exploratory, and automated testing for global enterprise clients across fintech, casino, healthcare, AI wearables, streaming, and sports betting industries.
Over 100 repositories spanning test automation, QA infrastructure, chaos engineering, CI/CD tooling, and data analytics.
Live Portfolio Dashboard - Interactive view of all repos categorized by discipline
Currently open to full-time and contract remote roles as a QA Engineer, QA Automation Engineer, or QA Architect.
Production-grade systems that tie the entire testing lifecycle together:
- E2E automation - Playwright, Cypress, Selenium with POM, cross-browser, visual regression
- API testing - RestAssured, Postman, GraphQL, WireMock service virtualization
- Mobile automation - Appium, WebdriverIO on Android/iOS
- Performance testing - K6, JMeter (smoke, load, stress, spike, soak, endurance)
- Security testing - OWASP ZAP, DAST, SQL injection, XSS, auth testing
- Accessibility testing - axe-core, WCAG 2.1 AA, Pa11y, Lighthouse
- Contract testing - Pact consumer-driven contracts, schema validation
- BDD frameworks - Cucumber, Gherkin, human-readable specifications
- CI/CD pipelines - Quality gates, progressive delivery, deployment safety
- Chaos engineering - Fault injection, resilience validation, circuit breaker testing
- Test environments - Ephemeral provisioning, lifecycle management, cleanup policies
- Test data - Schema-driven generation, compliance masking (HIPAA/GDPR), bulk streaming
- Flaky test management - Detection, classification, quarantine, SLA tracking
- Observability - SRE stack, SLO tracking, distributed tracing, alerting
- Data pipeline testing - Schema validation, quality checks, transformation testing
- AI/ML testing - Model accuracy, bias detection, fairness, prompt regression
- Analytics dashboards - Retail, healthcare, fintech, sports, cybersecurity
Freelance QA Tester - Remote | March 2020 - Present
Paid QA tester delivering testing cycles for global enterprise clients across diverse industries:
- Casino platform functional and regression testing
- Sports betting platform testing across staging and dev environments
- AI-powered smart glasses testing including live AI features
- Fintech payment platform audits and compliance testing
- TV app upload, installation, and functional testing
- Live streaming app testing across multiple devices and platforms
- Healthcare web and mobile platform testing
- Patient decision module testing across multiple browsers
Tools: Jira, Xray, TestRail, NATS, Confluence, video and screenshot bug evidence Platforms: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Windows, Android, iOS, TV
- Postman API Fundamentals Student Expert
- Introduction to Prompt Engineering - Simplilearn (March 2026)
- Introduction to Software Testing - Simplilearn (March 2026)
- Best Practices for Cross-Functional Communication - CodeSignal (March 2026)
- Software Testing Foundations: Test Techniques & Strategy - LinkedIn Learning
- Foundations of Software Testing and Automation - LinkedIn Learning
- Succeeding in Software Testing - LinkedIn Learning
- Web Development Fundamentals - IBM
- Portfolio: djones-qa.github.io/qa-portfolio-dashboard
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/darrius-jones-28226b350
- GitHub: github.com/Djones-qa
- Open to QA Engineer, SDET, QA Automation Engineer, QA Architect roles - remote preferred
