Sweeney Vista
Quezon City
Summary
Results-driven Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with 6+ years of experience delivering high-quality mobile, web, and enterprise software across Agile environments. Proven track record in building QA processes from the ground up, leading cross-functional teams, creating test strategies, owning release readiness and sign-offs, and driving process and automation improvements. Experienced in test planning, defect management, risk assessment, and engineering workflow optimization, with recent focus on leveraging Generative AI and Agentic AI initiatives to improve QA efficiency, test design, bug reporting, and automation workflows. Passionate about continuous improvement, mentoring QA engineers, and driving scalable, high-quality software delivery.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Quality Assurance Engineer, QA Tech Lead
Wizy Software Labs Inc.
08.2024 - Current
- Own release readiness, release sign-offs, and risk assessments to ensure stable and high-quality product releases.
- Lead and mentor 4–5 QA engineers while remaining hands-on in testing.
- Drove process improvements and team collaboration, implementing quality assurance strategies across multiple products to strengthen testing outcomes.
- Collaborated with development leads, product managers, and stakeholders to align testing efforts with business goals and product requirements, enhancing overall product quality.
- Refined QA processes to enhance efficiency, consistency, and scalability, contributing to smoother product releases.
- Reduced test plan and test case creation time from 2–3 days to less than 1 day and bug report preparation time from 5–10 minutes to 1–2 minutes.
- Spearheaded the adoption of Generative AI in the QA workflow, implementing AI-powered assistants for test planning, test case generation, bug reporting, and automation script maintenance.
- Started R&D initiatives for AI-focused testing strategies, exploring approaches for validating non-deterministic AI product features and AI-generated code across multiple repositories to evolve the company’s testing methodology for AI-driven systems.
- Initiated Agentic AI R&D and developed the WizyVision Knowledge Architect Agent, which transforms technical codebase changes into business-friendly documentation and automatically publishes updates to Confluence.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Wizy Software Labs Inc.
07.2022 - 07.2024
- Reviewed test plans and JIRA tickets, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and precise bug reporting for improved product quality.
- Led, mentored, and trained Junior QA engineers and interns, equipping them with skills in test planning, bug reporting, regression script creation, and test execution. Successfully trained a total of 27 interns and 4 junior QA engineers.
- Optimized team processes by automating progress tracking and reporting using Google Apps Script for Google Sheets.
- Expanded knowledge of test automation principles and tools, enhancing testing efficiency and accuracy.
- Participated in team planning with development leads, product managers, and sales teams, aligning project deliverables with standards and business objectives.
- Traveled to France (June 2023) to observe client use cases and collaborate with international team members.
- Conducted client observation sessions in the Philippines (April 2024) to gain a deeper understanding of user needs and product usage.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Wizy Software Labs Inc.
01.2021 - 06.2022
- Focused on web and mobile application testing for WizyVision, including new feature validation, bug isolation, and reporting, and conducted regression and smoke testing.
- Tested and validated AI-powered features, ensuring functionality, performance, and reliability within WizyVision.
- Conducted API testing using Swagger and collaborated with developers for root cause analysis and issue resolution.
- Introduced BigQuery, Chrome Dev tools, and Sentry for data-driven bug isolation and analysis.
- Utilised SQL for data analysis and testing to improve test coverage and accuracy.
- Trained and mentored multiple batches of QA interns and Junior QA engineers, providing hands-on guidance in test planning, reporting best practices, and skill development to enhance their QA expertise.
Junior Quality Assurance Engineer
Wizy Software Labs Inc.
03.2020 - 12.2020
- Established and managed smoke and regression testing processes for various products, including GMerge, Form Workflow, GoWizApp, and WizyVision, while also creating test plans for newly developed features to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Co-founded QA team, establishing and developing QA processes aligned with business goals and Agile methodologies.
- Designed the foundational QA processes that shaped the company's QA standards.
- Led research and evaluation of test management tools (Testrail, Qase, Xray), enhancing tool selection for QA procedures.
- Trained and mentored junior QAs, strengthening the skills of the growing QA team.
Junior Software Developer (Front-End)
Wizy Software Labs Inc.
05.2019 - 02.2020
- One of the pioneering developers of WizyVision, leading the development of early features, including admin pages and billing integration with Stripe.
- Developed Marker App using React.js and Firestore to meet specific client needs.
- Resolved critical bugs, enhancing scalability of iDAM and WizyVision platforms.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Metro Manila, Philippines12-2019
Skills
- Testing & QA Processes: Test Planning & Strategy, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, API Testing, Mobile Testing, Web Testing, Bug Isolation & Root Cause Analysis, Release Readiness & Risk Assessment, Test Automation
- AI-Driven Quality Engineering: Generative AI for QA Workflows, AI-Assisted Test Planning & Test Case Design, AI-Assisted Bug Reporting, AI-Assisted Automation Script Maintenance, Agentic AI Research & Development
- QA Leadership: QA Team Leadership & Mentoring, Cross-Functional Collaboration, QA Process Development, Agile / Scrum Practices, Sprint Planning & Quality Metrics
- Technical Skills: SQL, BigQuery, Firestore, Sentry, Swagger, Postman, JavaScript, ReactJS, Google Apps Script, Playwright
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vistasweeney
Timeline
Staff Quality Assurance Engineer, QA Tech Lead
Wizy Software Labs Inc.
08.2024 - Current
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Wizy Software Labs Inc.
07.2022 - 07.2024
Quality Assurance Engineer
Wizy Software Labs Inc.
01.2021 - 06.2022
Junior Quality Assurance Engineer
Wizy Software Labs Inc.
03.2020 - 12.2020
Junior Software Developer (Front-End)
Wizy Software Labs Inc.
05.2019 - 02.2020
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Polytechnic University of the Philippines