Yasy Mandi

QA Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing scalable test infrastructure and building tooling to streamline software quality and delivery. Proven track record automating large test suites, reducing regressions, and leading org-wide maturity efforts across cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and customer-facing applications.

Technical Co-Founder - Goalbridge AI Startup - Remote

(2024-12 - 2025-04)

• Built AI-driven platform enabling employees to track skills, set career goals, and receive personalized development roadmaps aligned with organization objectives. Accepted into Berkeley 2025 Accelerator and SkyDeck Incubator.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer - Qualtrics - Seattle, WA

(2020-07 - 2024-07)

• Automated the entire backlog of 300+ previously manual E2E UI tests using Python, Selenium, and Docker, reducing regression testing time by 75% and enabling the team to shift from monthly to weekly releases.
• Collaborated cross-functionally to gather test requirements and create detailed test plans and test cases for 4–6 medium to large sized features per quarter, ensured all high-priority (P0 & P1) scenarios were fully automated, and executed accessibility (A11y), cross-browser, globalization, and regression testing prior to release.
• Org-wide QA leader for onboarding 2 new data centers onto AWS backend services, coordinating across 75 projects and 120+ engineers across both US and EU regions.
• Defined key metrics and performed quarterly test infrastructure audits (data center health, load testing, code coverage, etc.) driving quality improvements to take test maturity from 26% to 68% to maintain excellence while scaling.
• Designed and built full stack internal tool (React, TypeScript, Python) to improve QAE’s daily failure triaging by 46%.
• Performed root cause analysis on 150+ Jira tickets, presented findings to collaborate on a solution with engineering managers, and led efforts to reduce defects in targeted areas from 60% to 5% in the following quarter.
• Analyzed test results from daily Jenkins runs, logged bugs in Jira, and sustained >90% pass rates and <5% flakiness.
• Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins to execute automated test suites on each merge for frontend, search, and core teams, reducing regression risk across distributed frontend and backend services.
• Onboarded and provided technical mentorship and runbooks for 5 new engineers.

Software V&V Engineer - Edwards Lifesciences - Irvine, CA

(2017-06 - 2019-10)

• Validated and verified embedded medical devices through unit, integration, and system testing using C++ and python.
• Automated Systems Engineer manual testing with robotic arm, saving 2 hours of engineer time per test.

B.S. - Computer Engineer - University of California, San Diego (2017)