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Lauren Christianson is the QA and Test Automation Manager at Beautiful.ai, where she leads quality assurance, test automation, and release management for the engineering organization. She has over eight years of experience in software testing and quality engineering, with earlier roles at Bold Penguin, Best Buy, Delta Air Lines, and Magenic. She specializes in web application test automation and has built automated frameworks with Cypress, WebDriverIO, Appium, and Selenium, along with API test suites using Mocha and Supertest.

At Beautiful.ai she reduced production hot-fixes from 85% to 8% and cut regression runtime from over two weeks to 20 minutes. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from North Dakota State University. She maintains the Medium publication Software Quality Engineering and advises teams on QA and automation best practices. Outside of work, she enjoys biking, swimming, video games, and traveling to the best foodie cities around the world.