Interview, hire, and train a talented and lean automated software testing team from the ground up. Provide ongoing testing and automation support, problem solving, and strategic direction to the team and broader engineering organization. Work with executives to define testing and release processes that expedite feedback, improve quality, and increase confidence for developers, product owners, managers, and customers. Perform regular automation code reviews and offer feedback to test engineers on how to better engage in the peer review process.

Assemble and maintain a modular test and test reporting framework from open source tools, enabling cross-browser testing of web applications, SOAP & REST APIs, Oracle and PostgreSQL databases, and backend performance testing. Automate rendering and publishing of comprehensive test reports in HTML, PDF, JIRA Xray, and EazyBI. Build, test, and publish test framework builds to Artifactory via GitLab CI to be consumed by downstream product- and project-specific test repositories. Setup and maintain integration test pipelines across a variety of products and projects. Deploy and maintain an automation code linting tool to promote best practices, and implement custom rules as needed.

Perform all line-management duties for my team, including running regular standups, retrospectives, one-on-ones, performance reviews, requisition justification, and auditing of JIRA time logging.

Covered all quality and test needs for a multi-platform client/server GIS mapping application. Authored a Selenium/Node BDD automated test suite with over 1,300 tests while simultaneously qualifying monthly releases. Setup a Selenium grid and Jenkins jobs executing against multiple environments and targeting multiple operating systems and browsers with aggregate HTML reports. Authored a visual regression suite to inspect UI and ensure availability of rendered data. Implemented a CI/CD pipeline for the web client, and managed production deployment of releases and hotfixes.

Embedded into an agile feature delivery team with focus on test strategy, automation, and maintenance, as well as optimization of continuous integration and deployment pipelines. Provided regular guidance to developers and QEs on best practices. Responsible for code and architecture reviews, and authoring/execution of test plans for a variety of front and back end systems, including platform code distributed across a variety of cloud providers and a user-facing account management portal. Technologies leveraged in this role include Python, Ruby, Rails, SQL, PHP, JavaScript, REST, AWS, Ansible, Jenkins, Selenium, Docker, Vagrant, Apache, Varnish, and nginx among others.

Developed front and back end functional test frameworks using Geb, Spock, Groovy, and Gradle. Created comprehensive Selenium page and module objects for a variety of front end applications and a database-connected framework for validating data processing and ETL. Managed performance test creation and execution and implemented tests and environment management tasks into Gradle and Jenkins.

Responsibilities included the authoring, review, and execution of WebDriver code leveraging cloud infrastructure and mobile platform coverage to target an HTML5/Flash media player and a Node/Angular CMS. Developed test cases and automation around the analytics, reporting, and ETL portions of the business, as well as the administration of Dynatrace APM.

Design and execute processes and a tech stack including SoapUI, Cucumber, and Groovy to automate functional and performance testing of SOAP and RESTful web services in a CI environment. Responsible for onboarding new hires to the QA team; teaching processes and best practices and providing ongoing support for level 1 engineers.

I earned two years of Computer Science credits before deciding a certificate program was a better fit for my career needs at that time.

Graduated Magna Cum Laude