October 17, 2026
Dear [Hiring manager's name],
At Thornfield QA Labs I built the end-to-end automation framework that now runs 1,800 regression tests against our checkout flow before every release, work that used to take four QA engineers three full days by hand. I'm applying for your Automation Test Engineer role because your posting still describes manual regression as the norm, and I've watched what happens to release velocity once that changes.
That framework, built in Playwright with a page-object model, cut full regression runtime from three days to 90 minutes and brought our flaky-test rate down from 18% to under 2% by isolating test data instead of sharing a database between runs. Release cadence for the checkout team went from every three weeks to weekly within two months of the framework going live.
I write tests in Playwright and Cypress, wire them into GitHub Actions so a failing test blocks a merge instead of getting noticed after deploy, and I maintain the test-data factory the rest of the QA team now builds their own suites on top of. I still review every new test added to the suite for hidden timing dependencies before it merges.
I'd welcome a conversation about which of [Company name]'s release cycles are still slowed down by manual regression testing. I'm happy to walk through the framework and the flaky-test fix in detail. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Leon Jackson