I am a Senior Quality Engineer with 20+ years of experience across enterprise financial, healthcare, government, and e-commerce platforms. I own end-to-end release readiness, drive automation expansion, and establish defect governance practices in Agile CI/CD environments. I have hands-on expertise in Playwright-based E2E automation, cross-browser testing via LambdaTest, production smoke testing, and Jira defect visibility. I have a proven track record of elevating quality by replacing manual processes with scalable automated solutions and delivering actionable test strategies. I collaborate with engineering partners on integration testing, monitor production deployments with Datadog to identify anomalies, and build Jira defect dashboards to provide real-time visibility into release readiness and issue trends.

Bryan Daigre

I am a Senior Quality Engineer with 20+ years of experience across enterprise financial, healthcare, government, and e-commerce platforms. I own end-to-end release readiness, drive automation expansion, and establish defect governance practices in Agile CI/CD environments. I have hands-on expertise in Playwright-based E2E automation, cross-browser testing via LambdaTest, production smoke testing, and Jira defect visibility. I have a proven track record of elevating quality by replacing manual processes with scalable automated solutions and delivering actionable test strategies. I collaborate with engineering partners on integration testing, monitor production deployments with Datadog to identify anomalies, and build Jira defect dashboards to provide real-time visibility into release readiness and issue trends.

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I am a Senior Quality Engineer with 20+ years of experience across enterprise financial, healthcare, government, and e-commerce platforms. I own end-to-end release readiness, drive automation expansion, and establish defect governance practices in Agile CI/CD environments. I have hands-on expertise in Playwright-based E2E automation, cross-browser testing via LambdaTest, production smoke testing, and Jira defect visibility.

I have a proven track record of elevating quality by replacing manual processes with scalable automated solutions and delivering actionable test strategies. I collaborate with engineering partners on integration testing, monitor production deployments with Datadog to identify anomalies, and build Jira defect dashboards to provide real-time visibility into release readiness and issue trends.

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Language

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Work Experience

Quality Engineer II at Grainger
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2025
Owned end-to-end release readiness and QA verification for production and QA deployments; designed a structured production smoke test checklist; developed and executed Playwright-based E2E automation with LambdaTest cross-browser coverage; contributed WDIO automation to expand regression coverage; replaced manual verification steps with automated checks; built Jira defect dashboard for real-time visibility; led defect triage with detailed reproduction steps and environment context; authored a 1-page test strategy; contributed to integration test strategy; monitored production deployments with Datadog; participated in daily Scrum and weekly status updates; tested APIs with Postman; worked within CI/CD pipelines and blue-green deployments with GitHub.
QA Analyst at Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES)
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2017
Executed functional, regression, and UAT testing for a statewide unemployment benefits modernization initiative; designed test cases from Design Specification Documents (DSDs) and business requirements; validated claimant workflows, cross-browser behavior, and data accuracy; performed backend data validation using SQL; tracked and managed defects through full resolution cycle; communicated risk and status to project stakeholders.
Quality Assurance (Contract/Various Employers) at Various Employers (BCBSIL, JPMorgan Chase, Lincoln Financial Group, Harris Bank, US Bank, DeVry Inc., and others)
January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2015
Delivered QA across financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, and government platforms; designed and executed test cases from BRDs/FRDs and requirements; performed functional, regression, integration, UAT, and system testing; conducted IVR and call flow testing; performed data conversion and backend validation using Oracle and SQL Server; contributed automation initiatives with Silk Test and TCL in prior roles.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Chicago State University
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 1997

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Healthcare, Government, Software & Internet, Retail, Professional Services