Lucas Chen

Lucas Chen

QA Engineer Intern

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Prev Full Stack Engineer intern @ Hexagon MI | 4th year Software Engineering Coop @ McMaster

  • Education

    • Iona Catholic Secondary School

      2016 - 2020

      Activities and Societies: Varsity Tennis Team, Varsity Swim Team, Math and Physics Tutor Dolphin Award (+90%)

    • McMaster University

      2020 - 2025
      Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering

      Activities and Societies: Mac AI Project Team Member, McMaster Asian Focus General Member, Mcmaster CS Hackvember, MacHacks, DeltaHacks 8, Engineering 1P13 TA, Computer Architecture 2GA3 TA, DeltaHacks 9 Mentor 2020 - 2021 Dean's Honor List, 2021 - 2022 Dean's Honor List

  • Experience

    • InsideDesk

      Jun 2021 - Sept 2021
      QA Engineer Intern

      โ€ข Identified ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ+ ๐›๐ฎ๐ ๐ฌ, conducted QA testing and validated bug fixes, and acted as an interface between the clients and the development team.โ€ข Decreased manual tasks by over 30% by developing custom ๐‰๐š๐ฏ๐š๐’๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ ๐’๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐›๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ to automate the customer onboarding notification system.โ€ข Developed automated E2E UI test cases using ๐’๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ง, decreasing manual QA testing by ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽ%.

    • McMaster Artificial Intelligence Society

      Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
      AI Software Developer

      โ€ข Coordinated with a team of 4 software developers on humanoid simulation project using ragdoll physics.โ€ข Designed ๐€๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐‚# ๐š๐ง๐ ๐”๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ to train and simulate humanoid to walk and navigate through obstacles.

    • Exchange Solutions

      May 2022 - Aug 2022
      Software Engineer Intern

      โ€ข Reduced e-commerce client on-boarding by over ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ฑ by developing shopify app with ๐€๐–๐’ ๐‹๐š๐ฆ๐›๐๐šs.โ€ข Spearheaded an ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ Proof of Concept for a National Loyalty Program leveraging ๐Ÿ–๐ญ๐ก ๐–๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐–๐ž๐›๐€๐‘ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‰๐š๐ฏ๐š๐’๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ.โ€ข Boosted a loyalty platformโ€™s ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐›๐ฒ ๐Ÿ’% by integrating it with blockchain assets, using ๐๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ๐‰๐ฌ, ๐„๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐ฅ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐€๐๐ˆ.โ€ข Engineered a real-time data visualization dashboard using ๐ƒ๐Ÿ‘๐‰๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐…๐ฅ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐’๐๐‹ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ to increase early error catching and data comparisons by over ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ%. Show less

    • Faculty of Engineering - McMaster University

      Sept 2022 - Apr 2023
      • 2GA3 Computer Architecture Teaching Assistant

        Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
      • 1P13 Teaching Assistant

        Sept 2022 - Dec 2022
    • Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence

      May 2023 - Jun 2024
      Full Stack Engineer Intern

      โ€ข Developed ๐Ÿ”+ ๐”๐ˆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ’+ ๐€๐๐ˆ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ, using ๐‘๐ž๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐“๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ž๐’๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ, for Nexus Platform.โ€ข Achieved a ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ•% ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ฅ๐จ๐š๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ for user list pages by optimizing API calls and refining Express APIs.โ€ข ๐ƒ๐ž๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ-๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐›๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ–% through strategic parallelization of Playwright automation test suite setup.โ€ข Proposed and reduced API response times ๐›๐ฒ ๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ% by migrating 3 Express APIs from server-side pagination to ๐‚# .๐๐„๐“ ๐๐š๐ญ๐š๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Lucas Chen
      Dean's Honor List - 2021
    • Awarded to Lucas Chen
      Dolphin Award Iona Catholic Secondary School Sep 2020 Awarded to students with an average above +90%
    • Awarded to Lucas Chen
      McMaster Honor Award - Sep 2020 Entrance Average above 90%
    • Awarded to Lucas Chen
      Tennis Team MVP award Iona Catholic Secondary School Nov 2018
  • Volunteer Experience

    • General Member

      Issued by McMaster Artificial Intelligence Society on Sept 2020
      McMaster Artificial Intelligence SocietyAssociated with Lucas Chen
    • Technical Mentor

      Issued by DeltaHacks on Jan 2023
      DeltaHacksAssociated with Lucas Chen
    • Tutor

      Issued by Iona Catholic Secondary School on Sept 2019
      Iona Catholic Secondary SchoolAssociated with Lucas Chen