Ted Lawson

QA Manager

Bellevue, Washington, United States3 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Quality Assurance and Payments at Amazon.
  • Developed automation tools enhancing testing efficiency.
  • Refactored testing suite, improving code coverage significantly.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance Engineer with expertise in AI/ML and Payments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality AssurancePaymentsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningAutomationSoftware DevelopmentTesting

Other Skills

Fraud PreventionAIMLNLPTTSManual TestingAutomation TestingInternal Tools DevelopmentPythonGitHubRefactoringCode CoverageManagementTrainingHiring

About

QAE at Amazon - Payments

Experience

3 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr
Average Tenure
1 yr 8 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

Quality Assurance Engineer

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid

  • Quality Assurance Engineer working on the future of fraud prevention on the Amazon Payments team.
Quality AssuranceFraud PreventionPayments

Apple

QAE I - Siri

Sep 2023Oct 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Worked along side the AI/ML team to improve Siri through manual and automation testing.
  • Developed and refined my QA skills in relation to Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.
  • Created an automated log collection tool to replace a previously manual process, leading to reduction in tester time spent on each task
  • and increased reliability/accuracy of testing results.
  • Performed rigorous testing of production-grade software in a critical environment, under the pressures of hard deadlines.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define task scope and deliver test results which adhere to strict requirements.
  • Demonstrated proficiencies: AI, ML, LLM, NLP , TTS, Manual testing strategies, Internal tools development
AIMLNLPTTSManual TestingAutomation Testing+3

Google summer of code

Software Developer

Apr 2023Sep 2023 · 5 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

  • Selected as one of only 966 successful candidates from a pool of over 43,000 applicants for the program.
  • Refactored testing suite from Unittest to Pytest, resulting in increased test modularity, readability, and reduced code duplication.
  • Increased total code coverage from 72% to 80% by writing a series of unit and integration tests for previously untested code.
  • Designed a dynamic GitHub workflow optimizing tests based on action, reducing overall runtime and resource use by 60%.
  • Collaborated with global contributors, using Github for source control and versioning to manage individual contributions.
PythonGitHubTestingRefactoringCode CoverageSoftware Development

Education

University of South Carolina

Bachelor of Science - BS — Computer Information Systems

Aug 2012Aug 2016

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