Oct 2026
QA Engineer
Strata Decision Technology · Healthcare · Chicago
Full-time start on the healthcare product, separate from the higher-education suite. Automated tests, defect notes, and AI-assisted cleanup before cases land in Azure DevOps.
QA Engineer · Strata · October 2026
Melissa
Laiz
M.S. Artificial Intelligence and B.S. Computer Science, Illinois Tech. August 2022 – December 2026.
About
Testing, shipping, and the degrees happening at the same time.
I’m in Chicago, finishing a bachelor’s in computer science and a master’s in AI together at Illinois Tech. This October I start full-time as a QA Engineer at Strata Decision Technology on the healthcare side. The summer internship was a different product: Playwright coverage for Axiom Higher Education.
- School Illinois Institute of Technology
- Degrees B.S. Computer Science · M.S. Artificial Intelligence
- GPA 3.45 / 4.0 · 3.6 / 4.0
- Stack TypeScript, Playwright, Python, React, SQL, Swift
Work
Jun – Aug 2026
Software Quality Engineering Intern
Strata Decision Technology · Chicago
Built and maintained 100+ Playwright cases in TypeScript for Axiom Higher Education. Used Claude Code to clean and document tests. Testing efficiency up about 70%, then walked the results to the executive team.
Oct – Dec 2025
Software Engineer Intern
Aubot · Melbourne
Python and SQL exercises for 1,000+ learners, plus code review so the training pipelines stayed CI-ready.
May – Aug 2025
SAP Data Analyst Intern
Woodward MPC · Niles, IL
Pulled production data out of SAP, built Power BI dashboards, and replaced manual reporting with workflows leadership actually used.
Projects
badjet
Local-first iOS and Mac budgeting app. Nested money maps, CSV export, encrypted cloud backup so the server only sees ciphertext.
LockBook
Bookkeeping backend for independent restaurants. CSV and spreadsheet ingest, S3 storage, Stripe billing, role-based access.
Loka
Public-safety app for Jakarta–Depok. Live map, incident reports, alerts. QA passes before each TestFlight build.
JobExtractX
Transformer extraction on 11k job posts. Quantized training cut GPU memory about 75%.
ChiSky
Real-time flight tracker with a four-person team. FlightAware AeroAPI plus PostgreSQL for live and historical flights.
Playwright + Claude
Regression suite for form flows, plus a small tool that turns a feature description into edge cases and then into tests.
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