Danielle Okafor

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Senior QA Engineer with 8 years of experience shipping enterprise SaaS products across fintech and healthcare verticals. Specializes in test automation architecture, CI/CD pipeline integration, and performance benchmarking using Selenium, Cypress, and k6. Reduced production defect escape rate by 41% at current employer and cut regression cycle time from 3 days to 4 hours through full automation coverage.

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Senior QA EngineerMar 2021 - Present

Meridian Financial Technologies, Austin, TX

Architected an end-to-end Cypress + TypeScript automation suite covering 1,200+ test cases, raising regression pass confidence to 97% and eliminating a 3-day manual cycle.
Integrated automated smoke and regression jobs into GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline, cutting defect detection time by 58% and blocking 34 critical bugs before reaching staging in 2023.
Led cross-functional QA guild of 6 engineers, standardizing test-case taxonomy and reducing duplicate test coverage by 22% across 4 product squads.

QA Engineer IIJun 2018 - Feb 2021

Helix Health Systems, Denver, CO

Built a Selenium/Java regression framework from scratch that automated 780 test scenarios, reducing manual QA effort by 65% and freeing 120 engineer-hours per sprint.
Designed and executed HIPAA-compliance test plans for 3 patient-portal releases, resulting in zero compliance findings across two consecutive third-party audits.
Conducted API contract testing with Postman and REST-Assured across 14 microservices, catching 47 breaking-change regressions before they reached the integration environment.

QA Engineer IAug 2016 - May 2018

Stackline Commerce, Seattle, WA

Authored 400+ manual and exploratory test cases for a B2B e-commerce platform processing $120M in annual GMV, achieving a defect leakage rate below 1.2%.
Introduced k6 load testing for checkout and search endpoints, identifying a bottleneck that, once resolved, improved p95 response time from 4.1 s to 680 ms under 500 concurrent users.
Mentored 2 junior QA analysts on BDD practices using Cucumber, accelerating their onboarding by an estimated 3 weeks each.

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Cypress & Selenium WebDriver · API Testing (Postman, REST-Assured) · CI/CD Integration (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) · Performance Testing (k6, JMeter) · BDD / Gherkin / Cucumber · SQL & Database Validation · ISTQB Certified Tester – Foundation Level · Test Management (Jira, TestRail) · Java & TypeScript for Test Automation

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