Sam E. Lawrence

Hi, I'm Sam and I'm an advocate for quality software. I'm a Cypress Ambassador and I work as the QA Lead at Pointivo where we're digitizing real-world infrastructure for analysis and maintenance.

ATL Joined on Jan 22, 2019 https://samelawrence.com

Education

Georgia Tech

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He/him/his

Work

QA Lead @ Pointivo

Sam E. Lawrence

Dec 26 '24

The worst mistakes to make when interviewing a job candidate

#career #interview #hiring

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Sam E. Lawrence

Dec 26 '24

On proactively naming elements within Cypress '.within()' blocks

#cypress #testing #javascript #programming

1 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Nov 29 '24

My QA Tech Stack in 2025

#testing #tooling #career #workplace

2 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Jul 25 '24

Interaction between .skip() and after() in Cypress

#testing

2 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Jul 24 '24

Three reasons to remove old LinkedIn connections

#career #socialmedia

3 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Jul 24 '24

My Favorite Interview Questions for QA Engineers

#hiring #testing #career

5 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Jul 18 '24

How to break out of .within() scope in Cypress

#testing

1 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Jul 15 '24

Three optional styles for UI assertions in Cypress

#testing

2 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Apr 29 '24

3 nuggets of advice for mid-level engineers who don't want the management track

#testing #career

3 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Mar 26 '24

How I implement drag-and-drop in my Cypress tests

#testing #cypress

2 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Mar 11 '24

How I would begin a career in software QA

#testing #testdev #javascript

3 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Mar 11 '24

Migrating a QA Team's Test Repo from Testrail to Qase

#testing #tooling

2 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Mar 8 '24

My favorite cy.type() tips and tricks

#testing #cypress

3 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Dec 13 '23

Conditional UI testing in Cypress

#testing #tutorial #cypress

1 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Aug 7 '23

Essential Cypress Plugins I Can't Live Without

#testing

3 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Mar 16 '23

Why I Enjoy Working in Tech, and You Might Too!

#beginners #career

5 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Dec 15 '22

Shifting Left, How the Role of QA is Changing

#testing #career #beginners

2 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Jul 18 '22

Testing with Cypress Across Multiple Environments

#cypress #javascript #testing #tutorial

3 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Oct 24 '21

Constructing Custom Locators in OpenTest

#opensource #testing #android #javascript

3 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Oct 18 '21

Muting Noisy XHR Logs in Cypress

#testing #javascript #cypress #testdev

1 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

May 11 '21

How To Avoid Getting Stuck in Vim as a New git User

#bash #git #codenewbie

1 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Jun 26 '20

The Rest Operator

#javascript #typescript

1 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

May 13 '20

Arrays and Objects Are Passed By Reference

#javascript #beginners

1 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

May 1 '19

Chaining 'let' and 'const' statements

#javascript

1 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Mar 11 '19

On The Inequality of Arrays

#javascript #arrays

2 min read

Sam E. Lawrence

Feb 21 '19

Passing Go (Not the Language)

#programming #javascript #code

1 min read