About Rowan Kendal
Senior QA Automation Engineer · Team Lead
Who I am
I am a Senior QA Automation Engineer and Team Lead with five years of experience in the automation space. I focus on building the infrastructure that allows engineering teams to ship code rapidly and with total confidence, treating QA as a high-velocity engineering discipline rather than a gate at the end of the pipeline.
What I do
I have led migrations from legacy Selenium setups to fast, modern Playwright frameworks, built custom MCP (Model Context Protocol) tooling to integrate AI capabilities directly into the SDLC and test management systems, and engineered real-time monitoring dashboards to track pipeline health. Along the way I have crafted 500+ test cases, built 550+ automated tests, reviewed 370+ merge requests, and helped cut release sign-off from days to hours while saving teams 100+ manual hours per week.
Beyond QA: building automation
Quality work taught me where organizations lose time, and building automation is how I hand it back. I have shipped AI-powered automations for every department: a customer support agent that resolves and closes conversations without human intervention, HR out-of-office and sick-day reporting driven by calendar events, and sales data migration and follow-up flows. I work hands-on with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, build flows in n8n, Make, and Zapier, integrate Monday and Notion, and connect systems through APIs, web scraping, and MCP servers I have published to PyPI.
How I work
Quality is a shared team responsibility, shifted as far left as the requirements phase. I mentor engineers (36 QA automation engineers so far), advocate for testability in design reviews, and build regression suites that give teams the confidence to keep shipping. My test processes and documentation follow ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119, the international standard specific to software testing. I am particularly interested in teams building on Web3, AI, or high-velocity stacks.
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