• 8+ years QA/SDET; you have built a test-automation foundation from scratch for a fast-shipping product — you'll build ours before scaled module QA exists.
• Master issue-isolator and root-cause debugger — you narrow a failure to the service, the commit, the event; dev teams love your bug reports because they're half the debugging done.
• Fast regression discipline — parallelized suites, smart test selection, results in minutes; quality at weekly-deploy speed without becoming the bottleneck.
• Comfortable in high-load testing environments — load, stress, and soak testing of high-throughput, low-latency systems; you know how to find the knee of the curve.
• Experience testing event-driven systems, WebSocket flows, and browser extensions — ordering, race conditions, real-time state.
• CI-native mindset — tests wired into trunk-based CI/CD; flake management as a first-class discipline (a flaky suite is a broken suite).
• Contract/API testing between services; synthetic data and traffic generation (simulated calls, event streams, audio) for repeatable real-time testing.
• Testing AI outputs — eval-style assertions for non-deterministic LLM/ML features — a strong plus.