Resume
SDET + Test Automation Engineer + Concordia MS ‘25
Contact: watch1602@gmail.com + Montreal, Canada + Open to relocate across Canada
LinkedIn: feng-lin + GitHub: L1nwatch
Summary
Master’s in Software Engineering (Concordia, June 29, 2025; 3-year PGWP eligible): first author of 2 LLM research papers, including one accepted at ICSE 2025; co-authored 2 more papers
1 year part-time Research Engineer (Canada): built automation tools saving 30,000+ testing hours and uncovering 100+ bugs; fine-tuned LLMs to solve hard cases with 92% accuracy
5.5 yrs full-time SDET (China): ran functional, performance & security tests for 80+ releases; designed test frameworks/tools for AI, cloud, IoT & firewalls, reducing manual effort by 40%
Skills
Hands-on Experience Project List: https://l1nwatch.github.io/skill-tree/
Skill-Tree: https://l1nwatch.github.io/skill-tree/skills-hub/
- Testing & QA (5.5 yrs): Test planning & design, Functional/Automation/Performance/Security testing, Selenium, Appium, Postman, JMeter, unittest, Locust, Wireshark, Kali
- Development (3 yrs): Web apps (Flask, Django), Custom test frameworks, LLM-based tools, Databases (MySQL, MongoDB), Python (primary), Java, Shell, C/C++, JavaScript
- DevOps (2 yrs): CI/CD pipelines, Environment setup & maintenance, Service/server monitoring, Agile Project Tracking, Jenkins, Docker, Git, Jira, Kafka, Linux, virtualenv
- AI/ML & LLM (2 yrs): Data generation, Automated labeling, Model Eval, Prompt engineering, Paper replication & extension, OpenAI/Claude, PyTorch, YOLO, MLflow, CodeGen
- Languages: English (Fluent), Mandarin Chinese (Native)
Education (Highest: Master)
Master of Applied Science, Software Engineering (Research-Based)
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (August 2023 – June 2025) GPA: 4.15/4.30
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Research-Based Program(Supervisor): Focused on combining LLMs and advanced testing techniques to enhance code generation quality.
- Publications: 2 Accepted at ICSE 2025 (47th IEEE International Conference), 1 Under Review
- ICSE 2025 (1st Author, Cited 54 Times):
SOEN-101: Code Generation by Emulating Software Process Models Using Large Language Model Agents - ICSE 2025 (2nd Author):
GUIWatcher: Automatically Detecting GUI Lags by Analyzing Mobile Application Screencasts - Under Review (1st Author):
RobuNFR: Evaluating the Robustness of Large Language Models on Non-Functional Requirements Aware Code Generation
- ICSE 2025 (1st Author, Cited 54 Times):
- Courses (CGPA: 4.15/4.30):
- McGill ECSE 688: Automated Software Testing and Analysis (Java-based projects)
- Concordia SOEN 691: Generative AI for Software Engineering (Python-based projects)
- Concordia SOEN 7481: Software Verification & Testing (Python-based projects)
- Concordia SOEN 6491: Software Refactoring (Java-based projects)
Bachelor of Information Security
Xidian University, Xi’an, China (August 2013 – July 2017)
- Key Courses (GPA: 3.7/4.0):
- Programming (C/C++, Data Structures, Algorithm Analysis)
- Cybersecurity (Cryptography, Software Reverse Engineering, Network Security)
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Systems (Operating Systems, Database Principles, Computer Networks)
Work Experience
Total Experience: 5.5 years, specializing in Software Engineering in Test (SDET)
Huawei Canada
Support Researcher Intern, Part-time, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (April 2024 – Present)
Enhanced QA capabilities through research methods; supported internal LLM training
- Data Generation & Environment Setup [LLM Training]: Built a Docker + Kafka env for 512 concurrent reward calculations, integrated MLflow for tracking, distilled 3,000 DeepSeek reasoning outputs into training data using the TACO dataset.
- Transition Issue Detection [LLM GenAI Application]: Deployed Qwen-2.5-VL-7B with CoT method to detect issues in HarmonyOS testing, achieving 92% precision.
- Jank Detection [Vision Algo + ML]: Designed a solution using SSIM + YOLO to detect screen stuttering during mobile testing, achieving over 90% precision. Reduced manual video review by 30,000+ hours and uncovered 100+ critical bugs.
Alibaba
Local Life Service, Shanghai, China – SDET (January 2023 – July 2023)
Ensured the quality of cloud services that support mobile apps (16M DAU).
- Cloud API Testing: Developed Java scripts to boost test case generation by 30%, and executed 400+ test cases across 22 APIs using tools like Postman—ensuring six cloud version releases with zero production issues.
- Performance Testing: Created test scenarios and used distributed JMeter to simulate load and monitor server metrics for performance risks.
TCL
Internet of Things, Shenzhen, China – SDET & Test Team Leader (July 2019 – June 2022)
Led and implemented automated testing solutions for TCL IoT ecosystems, involving voice control, apps, cloud services, and smart devices (e.g., TVs, ACs).
- IoT Testing Framework: Spearheaded the design and development of a Python testing framework using keyword-driven, data-driven, and unittest methods. Delivered 40+ automated solutions (e.g., automating door lock controls with robot arms), automating 600+ manual test cases and supporting testing for 240+ APIs.
- Team Management: Integrated Agile to boost team efficiency by 230% and implemented DevOps to reduce testing time by 19% across 20+ product versions.
- Quality Assurance: Contributed to designing IoT software quality models and oversaw development processes through reviews, including test case evaluations.
Sangfor
Security Products, Shenzhen, China – Automation/Security Test Engineer (July 2017 – February 2019)
Designed and executed test cases for security products. Developed scripts to collect and label data for ML-based services, ensuring high-quality training and evaluation.
- ML-based Virus Detection Engine Evaluation: Leveraged Python and file services (e.g., VirusTotal) to build and label 10 million virus datasets, then compared the engine’s precision and recall rates against four competitor products.
- Web Testing: Developed Selenium-based test scripts to automate 80% of web UI test cases and used shell scripts to automatically validate configuration execution.
- Penetration Testing: Leveraged Kali Linux tools and Python’s Scapy to perform penetration tests assessing the defensive capabilities of network firewall products.
Publications (Selected First Author)
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SOEN-101: Code Generation by Emulating Software Process Models Using LLM Agents
ICSE (IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering) - 54 Citations (2025) -
16 Patents on Software Testing & Automation
China National Intellectual Property Administration (2019 - 2022)
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Awards
| Organization | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Concordia University | Concordia Merit Scholarship | 2025 |
| Concordia University | Concordia Merit Scholarship | 2024 |
| Alibaba | 228th Newcomer Learning Star (Top 15%) | 2023 |
| TCL | Excellent Employee of the Year 2020 (Top 5%) | 2021 |
| TCL | Patent Expert in Test Engineering (16 Accepted Patents) | 2019-2022 |
| Sangfor | Excellent Employee of the Year 2018 | 2019 |
| Sangfor | Excellent Newcomer of the Year 2017 | 2018 |
| Sangfor | Innovative Gold Coin Prize 2018 (Top 20 Annually) | 2018 |
| Sangfor | Innovative Team Award 2018 (Top 5 Annually) | 2018 |
| Sangfor | Quarterly Excellence Award (8-Time Recipient) | 2017-2019 |
| Xidian University | National Encouragement Scholarship | 2016 |
| Xidian University | First Prize Scholarship | 2015 |
| Xidian University | Outstanding Student Award | 2015 |
| Xidian University | Special & National Scholarship | 2014 |
| Xidian University | Outstanding Student Model | 2014 |