About

Songyu Wang is a highly skilled software test engineer with over three years of experience in test strategy design, test automation, test plan, test execution (manual and automated), and test framework/tool development. He specializes in the highly regulated industry, working in a SCRUM/Agile environment. Songyu has a deep understanding of functional testing with behavior-driven development and test-driven development, and has strong technical acumen with extensive defect and bug identification, triage, reporting, and verification exposures. He has overseen verification and validation regularly for web applications, API services, and more. Currently, Songyu is working as a Software Engineer, Quality at Benchling, a cloud company that develops software platform powering breakthrough research on biotherapeutics, biofuels, and biomaterials. He is responsible for participating in multiple company-wide quality-related projects, working on various test infrastructure improvements, improving E2E (end-to-end) testing coverage for various teams, onboarding all new hires for the QE (Quality Engineering) team, and more. Songyu has designed and implemented test case management SOP (standard operating procedure) that meets the regulations and participated in GxP (regulations and guidelines applicable to life sciences organizations) SOP design and technical implementation/automation. He has also designed and implemented software versioning CI (continuous integration) pipelines for various types of the product and performed release activities as an acting release engineer for GxP customers. Prior to Benchling, Songyu worked at HeartFlow, Inc as a Software Engineer in Test. Here, he oversaw quality and testing for platforms' and services’ components in a SCRUM/Agile environment for a medical technology company that develops software used to create 3D models of coronary arteries to analyze blockages and the impact on blood flow. He supported development and verification of three web applications, three backend/API services, and four workflow/product-related components. Songyu maintained and refactored existing legacy test frameworks to improve stability and speed, continuously delivering new features for newer frameworks. He implemented and maintained internal tools to support the development and verification effort and designed manual and automated tests using Python and JavaScript to refine and verify product requirements prior to launch/implementation. Songyu holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He is skilled in various technologies, including test, Software Engineer, SDET, Web, Integration, CI/CD, qa, Research Scientist, infra, Python, Javascript, Backend