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I’m Aidai Baiyzova, a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test based in Chicago. I bring 7+ years of experience automating UI and API tests across banking, healthcare, and retail domains, with deep expertise in Java, Selenium WebDriver, RestAssured, TestNG, and CI/CD practices. I’ve built scalable automation frameworks and championed API-first testing and risk-based quality strategies to improve release pipelines and early defect detection. I enjoy designing robust test automation that reduces regression effort, stabilizes flaky test suites, and delivers reliable, production-ready validation. My collaborative approach helps cross-functional teams align on quality goals and ship software with confidence.…I’m Aidai Baiyzova, a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test based in Chicago. I bring 7+ years of experience automating UI and API tests across banking, healthcare, and retail domains, with deep expertise in Java, Selenium WebDriver, RestAssured, TestNG, and CI/CD practices. I’ve built scalable automation frameworks and championed API-first testing and risk-based quality strategies to improve release pipelines and early defect detection. I enjoy designing robust test automation that reduces regression effort, stabilizes flaky test suites, and delivers reliable, production-ready validation. My collaborative approach helps cross-functional teams align on quality goals and ship software with confidence.

Aidai Baiyzova

QA Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, +3

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I’m Aidai Baiyzova, a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test based in Chicago. I bring 7+ years of experience automating UI and API tests across banking, healthcare, and retail domains, with deep expertise in Java, Selenium WebDriver, RestAssured, TestNG, and CI/CD practices. I’ve built scalable automation frameworks and championed API-first testing and risk-based quality strategies to improve release pipelines and early defect detection. I enjoy designing robust test automation that reduces regression effort, stabilizes flaky test suites, and delivers reliable, production-ready validation. My collaborative approach helps cross-functional teams align on quality goals and ship software with confidence.…I’m Aidai Baiyzova, a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test based in Chicago. I bring 7+ years of experience automating UI and API tests across banking, healthcare, and retail domains, with deep expertise in Java, Selenium WebDriver, RestAssured, TestNG, and CI/CD practices. I’ve built scalable automation frameworks and championed API-first testing and risk-based quality strategies to improve release pipelines and early defect detection. I enjoy designing robust test automation that reduces regression effort, stabilizes flaky test suites, and delivers reliable, production-ready validation. My collaborative approach helps cross-functional teams align on quality goals and ship software with confidence.

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I’m Aidai Baiyzova, a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test based in Chicago. I bring 7+ years of experience automating UI and API tests across banking, healthcare, and retail domains, with deep expertise in Java, Selenium WebDriver, RestAssured, TestNG, and CI/CD practices. I’ve built scalable automation frameworks and championed API-first testing and risk-based quality strategies to improve release pipelines and early defect detection.

I enjoy designing robust test automation that reduces regression effort, stabilizes flaky test suites, and delivers reliable, production-ready validation. My collaborative approach helps cross-functional teams align on quality goals and ship software with confidence.

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Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at Chase (JPMorgan Chase)

April 1, 2024 - Present

Designed and owned a Java/RestAssured API automation framework covering 180+ endpoints across payments, accounts, and onboarding microservices, becoming the primary regression harness for all lower-environment deployments. Authored 180+ API and backend test scenarios covering transaction processing, schema validation, and retry/idempotency logic — shifting defect detection left of UAT and reducing escapes to lower environments by standardizing pre-deployment coverage gates.

Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at Walgreens

June 1, 2022 - April 1, 2024

Built SQL-backed reconciliation test suites for ledger entries, payment status, and order inventory; automated 140+ UI and API regression scenarios involving inventory sync, dynamic pricing, order status transitions, and notification delivery using RestAssured and Postman; integrated 140+ smoke and regression tests into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with gated quality checks, enabling weekly production sign-offs and reducing manual validation effort by shifting to automated checks.

Manual Tester at Kyrgyz Slavic Russian University

October 1, 2018 - August 1, 2020

Validated MySQL data integrity for student records, reporting, and permission-based access using SQL queries; designed and executed manual regression and functional test suites for a student portal, role-based access, and reporting workflows—covering 100+ test cases across 4 core academic modules.

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at Chase

April 1, 2024 - Present

Designed and owned a Java/RestAssured API automation framework covering 180+ endpoints across payments, account, and onboarding microservices, becoming the primary regression harness for all lower-environment deployments at Chase.