Freelance SDET Consulting: What Clients Actually Ask For
Common requests I get from clients looking for test automation consulting.

SDET & Test Automation Consultant. I help engineering teams ship faster with reliable Playwright, Selenium, and CI/CD test automation.
5+ years
In QA and quality engineering across insurance, e-commerce, hospitality and HR tech.
88%+
Regression suite stability, sustained for 15 months on a live insurance project.
2 days → ½ day
Regression cycle time after I introduced automation on my first team.
Selenium · Playwright · Cypress · Cucumber · TestNG · BDD · API testing · Java · Node.js · Python · SQL · Jenkins · GitLab CI · TeamCity
Four ways I work with engineering teams that want faster, more trustworthy feedback from their tests.
I maintain and repair existing test suites so the results can be trusted. Flaky failures stop hiding real bugs and the team stops ignoring red builds.
I review your manual test cases to decide what is worth automating, then write new tests from your technical specifications and business priorities, so coverage grows where a failure would actually cost you.
I add features to the framework you already have, or build a new one, with the goal of shortening the time between a code change and useful feedback.
I use automation to create or improve the workflows around testing, from maintaining Jenkins and GitLab pipelines to clear status reporting, so your team hears about problems sooner.
Common requests I get from clients looking for test automation consulting.
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