I am Nancy Gilbert, a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer focused on web UI automation with a strong emphasis on Accessibility compliance, API testing, and CI/CD. I collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to refine requirements and ensure testability that aligns with business goals, and I am passionate about leveraging Generative AI to accelerate the QA lifecycle. Over my career, I have led cross-team QA initiatives at Amazon Canada, built scalable automation frameworks, implemented accessibility strategies in CI/CD, and driven data‑driven improvements to release velocity and defect reduction. I enjoy mentoring teams, driving quality engineering practices, and delivering reliable software with measurable impact.

Nancy Gilbert

I am Nancy Gilbert, a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer focused on web UI automation with a strong emphasis on Accessibility compliance, API testing, and CI/CD. I collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to refine requirements and ensure testability that aligns with business goals, and I am passionate about leveraging Generative AI to accelerate the QA lifecycle. Over my career, I have led cross-team QA initiatives at Amazon Canada, built scalable automation frameworks, implemented accessibility strategies in CI/CD, and driven data‑driven improvements to release velocity and defect reduction. I enjoy mentoring teams, driving quality engineering practices, and delivering reliable software with measurable impact.

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I am Nancy Gilbert, a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer focused on web UI automation with a strong emphasis on Accessibility compliance, API testing, and CI/CD. I collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to refine requirements and ensure testability that aligns with business goals, and I am passionate about leveraging Generative AI to accelerate the QA lifecycle.

Over my career, I have led cross-team QA initiatives at Amazon Canada, built scalable automation frameworks, implemented accessibility strategies in CI/CD, and driven data‑driven improvements to release velocity and defect reduction. I enjoy mentoring teams, driving quality engineering practices, and delivering reliable software with measurable impact.

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Experience Level

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Expert
Expert
Expert
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Intermediate
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Work Experience

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Amazon Canada
June 1, 2022 - Present
Led QA initiatives at Amazon Canada, leveraging Generative AI tools to rapidly generate, refactor, and document test automation scripts; defined an accessibility testing strategy and integrated automated checks into the CI/CD pipeline; achieved a 60% reduction in QA effort and a 75% drop in invalid defects, while increasing UI/UX release frequency from 2 to 5 per year. Designed and implemented functional, load, and performance tests for front-end asset injector APIs and led front-end testing for UI library with JavaScript-based automation, including XSS checks and cookie handling.
Quality Assurance Engineer at Amazon Canada
June 1, 2018 - May 1, 2022
Led test strategy development and company-wide quality initiatives; mentored manual and automated QA engineers, conducted automation design and code reviews, and partnered with framework teams to define robust automation requirements. Advocated quality practices by integrating code linting and static analysis into CI/CD workflows; owned end-to-end migration testing for the Prospect Management System from iCIMS to Beamery, ensuring seamless integration with Amazon Hire. Engineered a Selenium-based UI test framework integrated with a test generation microservice, delivering scalable tests and accelerating releases.
Quality Assurance Engineer at Amazon India, USA & Canada
June 1, 2012 - March 1, 2018
Coordinated User Acceptance Testing across multiple stakeholder teams for major feature rollouts; automated 50+ test suites (Selenium, Java), reducing regression cycles by 40%. Set up Jenkins master-slave architecture for parallel SDK builds, integrated test results into the release pipeline to improve deployment efficiency, and automated 50+ functional, performance, and stress tests for Kindle File Format SDK. Also automated API test suites (Java/TestNG) and established a full-stack user testing environment for Hire-Beamery integration.

Education

Bachelor of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Pondicherry, India
January 1, 2003 - January 1, 2007

Qualifications

ISTQB Certified Tester – Foundation Level
September 1, 2013 - December 17, 2025
SAFe 6 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
May 1, 2025 - December 17, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Retail, Professional Services