Courtney Zhan

I'm a Software Development Engineer at Amazon. I am passionate about programming, automated testing and graphic design.

When I'm not programming, you'll find me practising automated testing, writing technical articles on Medium and doing Chinese painting.

Skills

Technical Skills
Selenium WebDriver web test automation Appium + Selenium native desktop app test automation Ruby + Rails Python3 Java C/C++ Unity C# SQL Git

Awards
2023 UQ, Best Innovative Application (Cloud Computing course) 2021 UQ, Class of 2021 Future Leaders Program 2020 UQ, Prentice Scholar in the UQ EAIT Scholars Program (top 5% of cohort) UQ, Deans Commendation for Academic Excellence UQ, Alumni Advantage Scholarship for Computing 2019 UQ, Deans Commendation for Academic Excellence

Publications

Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#: 3rd Edition

Authored. Published Dec 2023

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(Educative Course) Discover Ruby Programming Through Fun Examples

Authored. Published Apr 2023

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Practical Desktop App Test Automation with Appium

Co-authored. Published Dec 2021

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17 of my Medium articles have been featured in Software Testing Newsletters.

Experiences

Date
Dec 2024 - Now	Amazon, Software Development Engineer II AmazonFresh development team, focused on fulfilling grocery orders. Technologies: Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, Swift (iOS), AWS, Scala.
Mar 2022 - Dec 2024	Amazon, Software Development Engineer I AmazonFresh development team, focused on fulfilling grocery orders. Technologies: Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, Swift (iOS), AWS.
Summer 2021	Telstra, Software Engineering Intern Self-initiated intern project to develop a suite of Automated End-to-End UI tests for a React-Admin CMS. Went beyond the original goal to use Microsoft's Playwright framework and also used Selenium WebDriver framework, set up a local Continuous Testing server and wrote documentation on all technologies used. Technologies: Microsoft Playwright, Selenium WebDriver
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021	UQ, Teaching Assistant Academic tutor for: COMP2048: Theory of Computing INFS2200: Relational Database Systems INFS3200: Advanced Database Systems
Winter 2021	UQ, Winter Research Project ML Project on detecting position and orientation of particles. Github link.

Projects

Outer Space

Part of the 11th Legacy Game Jams. Ranked 3rd.

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Whenwise

BookPhysio, the service booking app I developed during high school and university, was later acquired by AgileWay and evolved into the commercial platform WhenWise.

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