Jeff Thoensen

@jeffthoensen

QA Engineer focused on users, not just test cases

Atlanta, GAJoined June 2025

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I’m a QA engineer with a background in customer support, which gave me a strong sense for how bugs impact real users. I spend most of my time doing exploratory testing, working closely with developers, and building out automation with Playwright. I care about catching what actually matters, not just passing checklists.

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JTJeff Thoensenjeffthoensen.hashnode.devMay 27 · 4 min read

Testing a LiveView App with Playwright: Fixing Navigation Timeouts

I was building a Playwright suite against a Phoenix LiveView app for the first time. Tests ran fine in isolation. Overnight, the full suite timed out across the board. Every failure was in a navigatio

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JTJeff Thoensenjeffthoensen.hashnode.devAug 23, 2025 · 1 min read

Don't Automate Everything: Lessons from Playwright

I went heavy on Playwright early on. Wrote tests for every button and every form I could. It looked solid until a small UI change broke a dozen of them because I’d used getByText in bad spots. The suite became useless for a while, and we were shippin...

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Testing a LiveView App with Playwright: Fixing Navigation Timeouts

Don't Automate Everything: Lessons from Playwright