Jon Eman

Test Automation Architect / Engineering Leader - Bullhorn, Inc.

October 2018 – Present

Organizational Leadership & Strategy:

• Built and scaled the automation engineering organization, defining its charter, hiring and mentoring talent, and aligning initiatives with business priorities.
• Represented automation and quality engineering at executive product line reviews, driving conversations on release velocity, risk reduction, and product quality.
• Partnered with product and engineering executives to prioritize roadmap investments in developer productivity, automation, and test infrastructure.

Innovation & Developer Experience:

• DiffCon: Designed, and led implementation of a risk-based change detection system that identifies high-risk files in dev repos and alerts engineers via Sourcegraph and Jira integrations.
• Smart Triage: Designed and led implementation of an AI-assisted triage platform that analyzes automation failures with Sourcegraph Cody, InfluxDB, Jenkins, and Jira MCPs to guide teams on triage priorities in plain English.
• Dev’s Advocate: Built a Slack-integrated code review bot that surfaces stale or unreviewed merge requests, improving code review throughput across engineering teams.
• Introduced AI-driven tooling to reduce flakiness and optimize developer productivity, aligning with the company’s AI adoption strategy.

Technical Contributions:

• Architected the migration of 400+ suites from Protractor to WebdriverIO, cutting runtime 30% and improving stability from 60% to 99%.
• Developed Grafana dashboards for quality metrics, test flakiness tracking, and performance insights.
• Integrated WebdriverIO, Selenium, Rest-Assured, and Gatling to create a scalable test automation ecosystem supporting high-traffic SaaS applications.

Project & People Management:

• PMP Certified since 2014; applied project management expertise to Agile delivery, sprint planning, and roadmap execution.
• Conducted performance reviews and career growth sessions, fostering the next generation of automation and QA leaders.

Software Quality Assurance Lead - Stamps.com

November 2015 – October 2018

• Established and managed the QA team, driving test automation adoption and improving release quality in collaboration with product managers and engineering leads.
• Led integration QA with key partners (Amazon, eBay, BigCommerce), ensuring seamless ecosystem compatibility.
• Championed adoption of Ranorex and Selenium automation frameworks in C#, reducing regression cycles.

Software Quality Assurance Lead - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

August 2010 – November 2015

• Directed functional, regression, performance, and automated testing efforts on critical banking applications, ensuring compliance and stability.