Annabelle Wright

eBay

Feedback & Reviews Platform

• Build and maintain eBay's Feedback and Reviews platform, a large-scale reputation system shaping trust between millions of users
• Led migration of legacy Marko-based pages to React and TypeScript, including high-stakes flows for revising and managing feedback
• Built stateful, multi-step decision UIs handling confirmation, rollback, error recovery, and long-lived transactional state
• Improved frontend infrastructure: stricter linting, upgraded React tooling for hot reloading and faster iteration, reduced technical debt across shared repositories
• Resolved accessibility issues across core user flows, improving keyboard navigation and screen-reader support

Microsoft - AI/Ads Engineering

Portland, OR

• Developed and optimized workflows for user-facing pages, achieving 40% faster page loads and meeting SLO performance targets of 3-second mean and 6-second 95th percentile load times
• Refactored and standardized React components across repositories, improving engineering efficiency and maintainability
• Designed and implemented Kusto-based dashboards to monitor application errors, providing real-time insights and reducing downtime
• Built comprehensive end-to-end testing strategies using React Testing Library, significantly increasing test coverage and reliability for user workflows
• Enhanced accessibility by resolving key bugs, improving inclusivity and usability for all users
• Developed filters for performance metrics and revamped UI components utilizing React and Figma for seamless design integration
• Mentored junior engineers through pair programming and code walkthroughs, fostering team growth and knowledge sharing
• Reduced customer-facing web page errors by 90% (from ~500/day to <50/day) through proactive bug monitoring and remediation using metrics tools

Microsoft (Previously Xandr)

Portland, OR

• Spearheaded company-wide initiatives to improve testing standards, ensuring accessible documentation, engagement, and best practices across teams
• Integrated continuous code quality and security checks into application repositories using SonarQube, enhancing code reliability and compliance
• Designed and maintained lightweight testing environments in Kubernetes, tailored to specific application dependencies, streamlining development workflows
• Implemented a developer-centric testing workflow with Cypress, bridging engagement gaps and embedding testing into the development process
• Adopted a strategy of mocking external dependencies for medium-level tests, enabling the team to focus on resolving bugs within team-owned applications

City of Eugene

Eugene, OR

• Designed and implemented a versatile test automation framework in Python for web and desktop applications, database validation, and REST API testing, enhancing testing efficiency and coverage
• Conducted performance testing using the Locust library in Python, comparing web application response times between on-premise and cloud environments to ensure scalability
• Developed a Python-based database to track historical test results, streamlining analytics and ensuring consistency across all test suites
• Established a QA strategy to increase test coverage for new projects while reducing technical debt in legacy products
• Administered Jira and Confluence, implementing customized workflow schemes and ticket layouts to align with best practices and improve team productivity

Accruent

Austin, TX

• Coordinated successful integrations across multiple products as the primary QA point of contact, ensuring seamless functionality post-release
• Developed and maintained an automation framework using Selenium WebDriver, streamlining testing processes and enhancing accuracy
• Conducted weekly performance tests to monitor application stability, ensuring continued success and reliability across deployments
• Executed post-deployment validation testing during two release cycles, troubleshooting issues to uphold high-quality standards