With over two decades of experience in testing and quality assurance and a background that started with a degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Mark has made significant contributions across diverse commercial sectors. His expertise spans test management, manual and automated testing, the creation of custom test automation frameworks, the design and enhancement of QA processes, and active participation in development activities, including CI/CD and DevOps pipelines. Mark has successfully tested & led or managed the testing effort for various platforms within a multitude of industry sectors including eCommerce and Big Pharma, has spent time working for a big consultancy firm and also has demonstrable experience designing, developing and testing in the web3 space.
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $110,000
Hourly rate: $85
Nationality: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Residency: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Experience
Web 3 QA Engineer
Kwenta.io 2025 - 2024
Joined as the first QA/Testing hire for kwenta.io a web3.0 perps trading platform. Introduced testing into the development lifecycle and defined a lightweight process for capturing new features and acceptance criteria, added automated smoke testing of the platform using a Playwright/TS framework and developed a suite of API tests that could also be used for performance testing using K6/TS.
Test Lead (API & Performance) & Automation Architect
Accelerate QA Ltd 2023 - 2025
Crafted an automated testing strategy for the development of a Greenfield e-commerce platform, focusing on SaaS products within a B2B framework.
Test Automation Lead (API & Performance) (Cloud Migration)
Perform Partners 2022 - 2023
Successfully managed all facets of functional and non-functional (performance) testing for a cloud migration initiative at a Russell Group university.
CTO, Founder & Web3/Solidity Engineer
Private project 2020 - 2022
Led the design, architecture, and end-to-end development of a white-label NFT trading platform.
Test Manager & Technical Architect
MyVoice AI 2018 - 2019
Led the end-to-end lifecycle, orchestrating the design, development, and rigorous testing.
Test & Technical Architect
LFEX Ltd 2018 - 2019
Lead role on the end-to-end creation of a cutting-edge real-time commodities trading platform.
QA Lead (API Automation)
Lloyds Banking Group 2017 - 2018
Created a (Java/RestAssured) framework that functions within a Jenkins CI pipeline delivering API tests.
QA Lead
Pfizer 2016 - 2017
Developed a single Quality Strategy for the Cloud Applications Team that supports the intention to move to Continuous Delivery.
QA Lead
The Telegraph Media Group 2016 - 2016
Responsible for designing and creating a Java/Webdriver/Cucumber framework for integration into the Telegraph Media Group's Continuous Delivery process.
Technical Test Manager and Agile Transformation Consultant
Vitality Health 2015 - 2016
Responsible for designing the overall test strategy as part of a transformation project that took the business from a Waterfall based delivery approach to an Agile one.
Head of Development
Solfyre Ltd 2014 - 2016
Providing specialist test strategy, automation and requirements analysis input into a PII security start-up.
Principal Automation Consultant
Centre4 Testing 2014 - 2015
Providing specialist open source consultancy to the business sales process and advice and mentoring to junior contractors on various client sites.
Skills
ethereum
javascript
typescript
web3
quality-assurance
