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About Me

Principal Engineer with a background in Automation, CICD, Java and Python Development.

Name	:	Bryce Sulin
Email	:	sulin@uwalumni.com
School	:	University of Wisconsin
Major	:	Computer Science
Position	:	Principal Engineer

Employment

Principal SDET & Team Lead
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) II
Automation & Quality Engineering Intern

2022-Present

Principal SDET & Team Lead

Veeva
Team Leadership & Quality Strategy: Lead quality engineering strategy for Clinical Data and OpenData Clinical teams while serving as primary cross-functional POC across global Agile teams.

AI-Driven QA & Workflow Automation: Integrate CLI-driven AI developer tools (Claude Code and Gemini CLI) into daily engineering workflows to streamline merge request (MR) reviews, evaluate regression scope, and accelerate automated testing lifecycles.

Intelligent Test Generation & Refactoring: Utilize LLM tools to refactor Cucumber Step Definitions for edge cases, debug step usage errors, and generate comprehensive feature file scenarios.

Documentation & Impact Analysis: Leverage AI to perform multi-document comparison across Design Docs, Implementation Docs, and Test Plans to uncover missing requirement coverage and evaluate platform impact changes for potential regressions.

End-to-End CI/CD Automation: Architect and maintain scalable UI and API automation frameworks, integrating tests directly into CI/CD (Jenkins) pipelines to ensure production reliability.

Internal Tooling & Onboarding: Build custom internal QA tooling, conduct cross-team bug bashes, perform production defect root-cause analyses, and interview, train, and mentor new quality engineers.
2018-2022

SDET II

Xactly Corp
Automation Framework Architecture: Engineered and scaled end-to-end UI and REST API automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, TestNG, and Postman, expanding total automated regression coverage by 45%.

CI/CD Pipeline Integration: Integrated automated regression test suites into Jenkins CI/CD build pipelines, ensuring reliable pre-deployment validation and reducing manual execution time by 50%.

Defect Prevention & Quality Governance: Conducted root-cause analyses on production escapes to establish preventative testing protocols, successfully reducing defect leakage into production by 35%.

Cross-Functional Agile Leadership: Collaborated closely with Product, Engineering, and Release Management teams in fast-paced Agile sprints to maintain rigorous quality gates and streamline change management processes.

Team Mentorship & Standards: Mentored and onboarded new quality engineers, establishing standard operating procedures for test automation, code reviews, and framework maintenance.
2017-2018

Automation & Quality Engineering Intern

Northwestern Mutual
DevOps Infrastructure & Tooling: Engineered a custom DevOps monitoring dashboard utilizing Docker, Grafana, and Prometheus to track real-time GitHub repository metrics and system health.

Test & Build Automation: Developed multi-tier automation suites using Java, JUnit, and Shell Scripting while supporting non-production CI/CD environments via Jenkins and Ansible.

Defect Isolation & Agile Sprints: Active participant in iterative Agile/Scrum sprints, identifying and resolving potential code defects alongside dev teams prior to production releases.

Skills

The percentages indicate how I would evaluate my confidence level of applying the skill in a employment setting.

Java

100%

Scrum/Agile Development/Git

100%

Automation

85%

Python

85%

CICD

85%

AI/ML (Claude, Gemini CLI)

80%

SQL

80%

Education

My academic records are kept private. If you would like to know more, please contact me.

2019 - 2024

M.S. Computer Science

University of Colorado
Specialization: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
2016 - 2018

B.S. Computer Science

University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Certificates: Mobile Development & Unix Administration

Graduated: May 2018
2012 - 2016

B.S. Biology

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity