Jordon Kloiber
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Summary
Senior Quality Engineer with 6+ years building automated testing foundations from the ground up. Energized by lean, AI-augmented teams: uses Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and agentic workflows as force multipliers to ship quality at speed across high-traffic consumer web, iOS, and Android without growing headcount. Owns QA infrastructure end-to-end, from test strategy and CI/CD pipeline health to API, performance, regression, and accessibility testing, with a risk-based approach to coverage. Champions shift-left quality practices, embedding testing early through Figma spec review, sprint planning, and PR cycles to catch defects before development begins.
Brings an innovative, user-first mindset, grounding quality decisions in real-world user impact rather than coverage metrics alone. A reliable remote collaborator with clear async communication, producing bug reports, test plans, and QA documentation for distributed, remote-first teams, and works effectively amid uncertainty.
Core competencies
- Test Strategy Development and Implementation
- iOS / Android Test Automation
- Manual, Exploratory, Usability, A/B, and Mobile Testing
- Microservices Validation
- API Contract and Schema Testing
- Component and Visual Regression Testing
- Cross-Platform Compatibility Assessment
- Quality Metrics Analysis and Reporting
- LLM / AI Feature Testing
- AI-Driven Automated Test Generation
Technical skills
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, SQL, Go
Methodologies
Agile, Scrum, Shift-Left Testing, Risk-Based Testing, Continuous Testing
Test frameworks & automation
Playwright, Nightwatch (Selenium WebDriver), Cucumber (Gherkin), Jest, PyTest, Storybook, API Proctor (in-house API test framework), Postman, Swagger, axe-core, React.js
Frontend
React.js, Astro
API testing
REST API, Postman, Swagger, API Proctor (in-house API test framework)
CI/CD & infrastructure
GitHub Actions, Docker, Git, GitHub, GitHub Pages, Kubernetes, Redis, AWS (RDS)
Mobile testing
Appium, Maestro, iOS, Android, BrowserStack
Performance testing
k6
Security testing
OWASP Top 10, Snyk
Accessibility
WCAG 2.2 AA, ARIA, NVDA, VoiceOver, AXE DevTools, Screen Reader Testing, Keyboard-Only Navigation
Databases & data tools
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, DBeaver, AWS (RDS)
AI tools
Claude Code, Claude Skills, GitHub Copilot
Debugging & bug tracking
Browser DevTools, Network Profiling, Jira, Confluence, BrowserStack, Google Analytics, SumoLogic, Snowflake
Experience
Niche
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Senior Software Quality Engineer, 2023-2026
Software Quality Assurance Analyst, 2020-2023
- Used AI coding tools (Claude Code, Claude Skills, GitHub Copilot) as a force multiplier to accelerate test authoring, maintenance, and analysis, including agentic test-planning workflows and strategies to test non-deterministic LLM features. Streamlined test plan creation from feature specs, doubling number of branches shipped per sprint.
- Built custom Claude Skills workflows adopted for cross-functional and cross-team use beyond QA.
- Owned quality across registration product team, led end-to-end test strategy across distributed microservice architecture, including manual and automated full-stack testing (Playwright and API Proctor, an in-house API test framework), API contract and schema validation, CI / CD pipeline maintenance, and performance / load testing.
- Wrote over 300 Playwright tests, building coverage from scratch for 7+ major features and integrations with fixtures and page object models, plus visual regression for critical flows.
- Used Storybook regularly for component-level QA, authoring stories and interaction tests with play functions, running the Storybook test-runner, and reviewing components in isolation, with visual regression checks to catch UI drift before merge.
- Mentored QA peer with zero automation experience into a proven Engineer responsible for automating all new E2E tests in 6 months. Provided coaching and code reviews to fellow QA engineers on writing and maintaining automated tests.
- Designed and ensured quality on 5 A/B experiments, including building custom AB Tasty widgets from scratch in JavaScript.
- Conducted accessibility / WCAG testing (ARIA attributes, color contrast, alt text) to ensure compliant, inclusive user experiences on over 300 different accessibility improvements.
- Shipped 26 production frontend feature branches and bugfixes in React / TypeScript with Jest unit coverage, bridging engineering and test ownership.
- Tested mobile apps across iOS and Android using Appium, Maestro, and BrowserStack, covering exploratory and regression passes, bug triage / reporting, and performance / load testing.
- Gained exposure to location-based feature testing, including validation of functionality built on the Mapbox API.
- Authored structured test plans and defined QA process standards across functional teams and roles.
- Managed CI/CD suite health across GitHub Actions workflows, including flaky-test triage, runtime optimization, and reliability improvements.
- Shifted quality left across the development lifecycle, participating in sprint retrospectives, release planning sessions, and code reviews to raise cross-team quality standards and drive continuous improvement.
- Reviewed Figma design specs and UX flows early in the sprint to identify edge cases and logic gaps before development began.
- Researched automated testing strategies for emerging frontend architectures, including micro-frontends and module federation.
Additional experience
Design Center Inc.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
QA Intern, 2016. Tested features on mobile and tablet apps. Identified and reported bugs. Tested and researched VR technology.
Projects
test-run-api
Go, PostgreSQL
Building a REST API from scratch that ingests CI test-run results and tracks flakiness over time, including schema design, input validation, and test coverage. Ongoing personal project; github.com/jordonKloiber/test-run-api.
Education
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
B.S., Information Science, 2020