Chase Mieras
Automation Test Engineer Senior
Cleveland, Ohio
Summary
Automation Test Engineer who is always looking to improve technical skills. Focused in Agile and sprint level testing via manual testing and automation with .Net and Selenium Webdriver. Self-motivated, flexible, and enthusiastic professional with demonstrated problem-solving abilities with experience working in team environments. Life-long learner who prioritizes duties, completes tasks in an efficient manner, and utilizes time wisely
Experience
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio
Automation Test Engineer Senior July 2025 - Present
Working in an Agile environment with 2-week sprints, supporting assigned projects with manual and automated testing, and converting manual tests to automation.
Providing test coverage for production releases and maintaining over 7,000 automated tests across 5 projects spanning 2 separate teams.
Hosting bi-weekly bug report backlog review and automation study sessions for the entire QA team at the Cleveland branch.
Leads and participates in code reviews with QA contractors.
Co-hosts of a monthly showcase of the work that is done by IT within the company, with such topics as UX. AI, Information Security, Testing, and Development/Architecture.
Led event planning for the 2026 Federal Reserve System Quality Assurance conference, participating as a planning committee for the new Federal Reserve System Developer conference.
Successfully migrated codebase and pipeline runs from Azure DevOps to GitLab, utilizing both Windows and Docker runners for pipeline runs.
Implemented a proof of concept for Selenium Grid using Docker.
Onboarded and trained new QA contractors on internal tools and workflow.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to plan and execute a successful conference.
Developed and maintained relationships with conference attendees, sponsors, and partners.
Automation Test Engineer January 2023 - July 2025
Designed and maintained a custom automation framework in .Net using Selenium Webdriver which enabled testing with Chrome, Edge and Firefox, mobile device emulation with Chrome and Edge, account sign in to ignore Multi-Factor Authentication, and logs various interactions into an HTML report.
Implemented parallel testing for all test runs, decreasing testing times by 70%.
Lead the planning committee for the annual internal hackathon and participated in two teams, winning the People’s Choice award and the 2025 Chris Moore Spirit of Innovation Award for our efforts.
Presented at the Federal Reserve System Quality Assurance conference in 2024 and 2025.
Lead the Networking committee for the 2025 Federal Reserve System Quality Assurance conference, where we planned unique networking experiences for both in person and remote participants.
Hosted automation study session for QA team, where members learned .Net and the team's custom automation framework.
Assisted with yearly outreach events to educated highschoolers on IT career paths.
Software QA Analyst Associate June 2021 - January 2023
Created 1500+ automated tests and the code the support it that run on a desktop, mobile and tablet view across Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers.
Created automated test health check/smoke test suite that ran on a nightly basis from a CI/CD pipline.
Manually tested bugs and sprint level work from developers.
Hosted meetings to create QA backlog and for Automation.
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Using multiple Ubuntu based servers using Docker containers, I host various services for myself and family members. This includes a media server, photo backups, notes taking, meal prep and recipes, and Gen AI.
Python tool for Table Top RPGs that allowed the Game Master to slowly reveal the map to their players.
Simple Python tool I made for myself to track factions in a Table Top Role Playing setting and the reputation that faction has with the players.
Python tool that generates transcripts of audio with dictiation using WhisperX.
A markdown based website that uses Hugo for the frontend. Resume is based on a JSON file generated from the too Reactive Resume.