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Experience

10+ years validating live and on-demand video quality across the streaming lifecycle — from channel acquisition to client playback. A few highlights from each role, auto-playing below.

Comcast

Sr. QA Engineer — Philadelphia, PA
Jul 2018 – Present

Guarding Live TV at Scale

Owns playback quality for Xfinity Stream — 3.2M+ monthly users and 45M+ hours of streaming a month, across Roku, Web, Mobile, and Smart TV.

Xfinity Stream across TV, tablet, and phone

Big-Game Ready

Led 4K quality validation for the Super Bowl, FIFA, and the Olympics — checking channel lineup and stream quality live, on air.

Cracking Playback Failures

Traces HLS/DASH streaming issues down to the exact layer — client, delivery, or backend — and validates DRM playback via Widevine and PlayReady.

Automation-First Mindset

Built a custom LG Smart TV test driver with AI-assisted coding, automated half of Roku's manual regression, and unified 3 platforms onto one shared test suite.

QA tooling: Charles Proxy, Playwright, Selenium, Postman

First to Cross the Bridge

Led the first successful validation of the XTVAPI-to-XVP migration — the pattern every other platform followed afterward.

Mentor & Cross-Team Partner

Coaches offshore QA engineers and partners daily with development and product to shape what "release ready" really means.

AT&T Labs

Automation Test Engineer — Middletown, NJ
Mar 2017 – Jun 2018

Automating DirecTV Now

Automated roughly 70% of DirecTV Now's test workflows — account setup and video playback — using Java, Selenium, and TestNG.

Built From the Ground Up

Stood up a Roku automation suite on the Lattice HTTP server, plus Appium-based scripts covering Android and iOS mobile testing.

Testing by ZIP Code

Automated channel-lineup verification by ZIP code, cutting manual validation effort across every regional market.

Multi-Device Stream Validation

Used Direct Measure of Quality servers and parallel cross-browser Android execution for stable, repeatable automated runs.

Covering Every Screen

Ran manual validation on Chromecast, Fire TV, and Apple TV, and delivered a proof of concept for Fire TV automation.