Jacob Cheyette

ISTQB certified QA Automation Engineer with a Software Testing Apprenticeship who owns an end-to-end test framework in an Agile environment. Proposed and delivered the migration from a licensed low-code tool to a JavaScript framework wired into Jenkins CI/CD, cutting regression effort by over 60% and removing recurring licence costs. Experienced across functional, regression, API, accessibility and security testing.

QA Automation Engineer - Forfront

(2024-01)

Joined as a Software Testing Apprentice in 2024, promoted to Software Tester in March 2025 and to QA Automation Engineer later that year.

• Re-engineered the company's automation testing, spearheaded the migration from Mabl to TestCafe. Cut regression effort by over half and removed recurring licence costs.
• Wired the suite into Jenkins for fail-fast CI/CD execution, and packaged it so developers can run it locally against their own changes before check-in.
• Work alongside a manual test lead as the sole automation engineer, covering functional, regression, API and exploratory testing across releases.
• Devised the severity ranking system the team uses to quantify defect risk and agree priority between QA and development.
• Raise defects backed by evidence from automation runs and manual testing, including reproduction steps, logs and failing test output, so developers can act without a round trip.
• Take part in daily standups, refinement and sprint planning, and support retrospectives with analytics built from Jira and release-cycle data.
• Built a live in-house QA portal used across the business: configurable test runs, defect and manual-run trend analysis, and per-developer visibility of tickets and defects.
• Implemented Xray for Jira as the test management layer, standardising test design and traceability, and integrated the GitLab and Jira APIs into a single quality reporting view.
• Added automated accessibility testing with axe, and am currently extending coverage into performance testing with k6.

IT Consultant - Craig Solicitors

(2020-06)

Part-time, self-managed engagement held alongside full-time employment.

• Sole ownership of the IT function for a legal practice; analysed and upgraded internal systems and processes.
• Built the firm's website end to end: requirements, planning, development and testing.
• Managed hardware, software and IT security upgrades, including third-party vendor negotiation.

Paralegal - Craig Solicitors

(2018-09 - 2019-02)

• Liaised with clients by phone, email and in person, and corresponded with opposing counsel.
• Drafted wills and client correspondence, and prepared bundles for court.

A Levels - Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Physics - Mander Portman Woodward (2014-01 - 2016-01)

GCSEs - Mathematics, English, Sciences and Languages - University College School (2004-01 - 2014-01)