Resume

Joseph H. Polsky

New York City, NY • jhpolsky@gmail.com

Summary

Senior Software Engineer in Test with 10+ years building automation frameworks and test infrastructure in healthcare and financial systems. Specialized in FHIR/HL7 clinical data pipelines, API testing, CI/CD, and containerized test environments. Experienced team lead with a background bridging QA engineering and DevOps practices.

Skills

Languages: Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Java, C#
Testing Tools & Frameworks: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO, k6
CI/CD & Cloud: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, AWS, Terraform, Docker
API & Integration: REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Postman, Newman
Databases: PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL, MongoDB
Testing Expertise: Functional, Regression, Integration, Performance, Load, Stress
Leadership: Team leadership, best practices, cross-functional collaboration
Languages Spoken: Spanish

Education

Cornell University, Ithaca NY — Bachelor of Science, Minor in Information Science
eCornell — Machine Learning Professional Certificate (In Progress 2026)

Relevant Experience

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY June 2022 – Mar 2026
Software Engineer II (Promoted from Software Engineer I)
- Built a Python-based tool to generate HL7 metadata files and load test digital pathology image pipelines, supporting high-throughput clinical imaging workflows
- Developed test automation for LLM-extracted data from clinical EDC systems, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with downstream FHIR/HL7 data models
- Developed and containerized test automation with Docker for FHIR/HL7 clinical trial data to ensure integrity and consistency across research systems
- Spearheaded automated RESTful API and microservice testing to support clinical research workflows
- Designed and implemented CI/CD workflows using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions to automate test execution
- Served as core team member building and maintaining a shared WebdriverIO, Axios, and k6 test automation framework adopted by engineers across the organization, supporting UI, API, performance and load testing needs
Allvue Systems (Formerly Black Mountain Systems), New York, NY March 2018 – June 2022
QA Engineer II
- Promoted from QA Analyst through QA Engineer I to QA Engineer II over four years
- As co-founder of the QA team, envisioned and implemented test frameworks for API and UI using RestSharp and Cypress, establishing best practices that measurably improved product quality and drove positive client feedback
- Led a team including offshore analysts responsible for writing and maintaining UI tests with Selenium and Cucumber
- Produced hackathon award-winning project for JavaScript-based end-user tutorials
- Boosted client relations by raising quality and establishing best practices as co-founder of the QA team
Major League Baseball Advanced Media, New York, NY Nov 2015 – March 2018
QA Lead
- Promoted to QA Lead from QA Analyst and QA Intern over three years
- Led QA of the Electronic Baseball Information System modules for trades, scholarship plans, and Rule 5 draft
- Expanded the team's Selenium WebDriver Java framework and aided regular maintenance
- Deployed the trade and scholarship modules (CEP.mlb.com), and received unanimous positive end-user feedback

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