What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador?
I want to help grow a strong, practical testing community around Cypress. I show people working code and let them build confidence by doing. That's the same philosophy behind the bootcamp I run: everyone leaves with their own repo, not just notes.
How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress?
I mentor teammates and collaborate closely with developers and product owners to improve testing practices day to day. Outside of work, I teach an online Cypress and Cucumber bootcamp where each student builds real exercises in their own repository instead of just watching demos. Whether it's a colleague or a student, the goal is the same: less theory, more hands-on repetition until it clicks.
What is your favorite Cypress feature?
The interactive time-travel debugging combined with automatic waiting. Together they remove most of the guesswork that makes testing frustrating, you can see exactly what the app was doing at each step instead of chasing flaky timing issues. It's the feature that turns skeptics into believers the fastest when I'm teaching.
What is your favorite "Cypress Best Practice" and why?
Write small, independent, deterministic tests and use stable selectors. Once a suite grows, those habits are what keep it maintainable. Skip the discipline and you pay for it later in flaky, tangled tests.
Outside of work, what are your favorite things to do (hobbies, passions, etc.)?
I enjoy traveling, watching movies, and spending quality time playing with my son and my dog. I also like experimenting with new testing tools and building small automation projects just to keep learning.
What is one professional milestone you are proud of?
Being promoted to QA Automation Lead and successfully leading the automation efforts on a PIM Web project. Getting there wasn't one big leap, it was building the automation practice piece by piece and bringing the team along with it. Watching that same approach now work for bootcamp students learning from zero, is its own kind of milestone.
For new users - what is the best way to "get started" with Cypress?
Install Cypress and run the example specs to see how it works, then create a small end-to-end test for a simple user flow like login or search. Learn the core commands (cy.get, cy.request, cy.intercept), use dedicated selectors like data-cy, and take advantage of the interactive runner and time-travel debugging to speed up learning. Start small and let the tool teach you as you go.
What is your favorite quote or saying?
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."