(E23) From Broadway Drummer to Senior SDET: Angel Williams on AI-Assisted Testing, Flaky Tests, and the QA Mindset

In this episode of Developers Who Test, host Chris Harbert sits down with Angel Williams, Senior SDET at CHG Healthcare, one of the largest healthcare staffing companies in the US. Angel's journey into software quality is unlike any other—she started as a percussionist trying to make it on Broadway before discovering a knack for debugging deployment scripts during IT contract work.

Key Topics:

• The "restorative" personality trait and QA professionals
• Testing in healthcare: privacy, security, and compliance
• Practical AI applications for SDETs (Claude, Playwright MCP)
• Running tests before merge vs. after
• MCP servers as a new layer for quality insights

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