Joining the Moving Train
I joined the OrangeTheory Fitness team as a Senior QA during the graveyard shifts. My first major hurdle wasn't a bug—it was the project's velocity. The platform was already live, high-traffic, and iterating fast. With almost zero formal training, I had to retroactively learn a massive legacy codebase while simultaneously keeping pace with upcoming features.
I spent those early nights diving into documentation, experimenting on staging, and mapping the business logic to ensure I wasn't just 'checking boxes,' but understood the mission: seamless class bookings and precise user tracking.
Your impact on this team has been nothing short of stellar, and it’s hard to imagine the OTF crew without your sharp eye and endless good vibes.
Tech Stack & Rationale
Snowplow
Marketing Precision: Beyond functional testing, we ensured captures of critical user behavior for marketing lead generation.
Snowflake
Data Security: Validating the flow of sensitive member data into a massive warehouse for strategic conversions.
JMeter
API Performance: Transitioned from manual DevTools analysis to automated performance testing to handle scale.
Lighthouse
UX Guardrails: Automating the audit of dozens of pages to maintain SEO and performance budgets during rapid releases.
From Tedium to Automation
As our release cycles tightened, I noticed a bottleneck: running Lighthouse audits across multiple pages was becoming a manual grind. I saw an opportunity to automate. Using Node.js, I built a custom tool that wrapped the Lighthouse CLI, ran it against a predefined list of critical pages, and automatically consolidated the data into a single, report-ready document. What used to take hours now took minutes.
The Accessibility Deep-Dive
When a legal challenge surfaced regarding accessibility, we were met with over 20,000 compliance flags. Most were redundant contrast issues, but the sheer scale was daunting. I dove deep into WCAG criteria, learning that while automation can catch the 'easy' 20%, true accessibility requires a human eye for context-completeness and user interaction. I led the charge in manual verification, turning a crisis into a long-term standard for the team.
Thank you po so much for the great experiences while working with you... thank you for everything boss! Lalong-lalo na sa pagtuturo sa’min maggrow for our career.
I left OrangeTheory [and Outliant] with more than just hours of night-shift logs. I left with a robust testing design mindset, a suite of automated tools, and a team of juniors empowered to think like architects rather than just executioners.