About me
I have an enthusiasm, commitment and excitement for software quality assurance and through my diverse career have honed a unique automation focused testing skillset through leveraging both successes and failures that validates functionality, reliability, performance, and scalability of applications across devices and platforms. The output of this effort results in end-user ready software that exceeds requirements and is delivered on schedule.
- Location:Charleston, SC
- Experience:17 years
- Education:Salisbury University
- Degree:Bachelor Of Science
- Study:Major: Business Admin | Minor: Info Science
- Interests:Software Test Automation, Fatherhood, Fishing, Guitars
Work Experience
LEAD QA TEST AUTOMATION ENGINEER | REMOTE
ArrayLive•January 2021 - April 2024
- • Architected entirely new test framework spanning functional, api,db, web socket and UI tests spanning entire react.js application
- • Deployed rapid scale load testing with hundreds servers replicating thousands of unique sessions per minute.
- • Docker containerized and Kubernetes hosted with scheduled daily and merge triggered pipeline execution of tests
- • Took test coverage from 0 to 90%
- • PagerDuty/On-call rotation to allow for 24/7 high severity issues
- • Onboarded and lead internal/external testing resources
- • Hosted bi-weekly user acceptance testing
- • Integrated gitlab pipeline with slack to quickly address test failures
- • Saucelabs test orchestrations, real device testing, test coverage, performance testing
- • Penetration testing that gained SOC2 compliance
- • Executed live load testing events utilizing 1500-2000 IOS devices
LEAD TEST AUTOMATION ENGINEER | REMOTE
Bracari•October 2019 - July 2020
- • Oversaw and improved entirety of testing process through development of procedural and strategy documentation
- • Responsible for increasing growth of automated test suite by over 80%
- • Integrated test automation into ci/cd pipeline
- • Mentored and trained junior testers
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER IN TEST ( SDET ) III | REMOTE
Boeing•November 2015 - October 2019
- • Architected complex test automation suites across diverse projects via implementation of bash scripts, selenium web driver and UFT
- • Engineered new approach to bypass limitations to test lab machines that had previously prevented automated test deployment across a majority of projects
QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER III | 75% REMOTE
SPARC LLC | BOOZ ALLEN•May 2011 - November 2015
- • Designed and implemented Selenium Test Automation Framework in Java
- • Documented and maintained detailed business requirements and acceptance criteria
- • 508 complicance with JAWS screen reader
- • Developed and maintained API testing suite in SoapUI for e-commerce and and order shipping platform for USPS contract
- • Held Top Security Clearance to architect functional test automation suite in Selnium webdriver for federal contract with VA
November 2009 - May 2011
PEOPLEMATTER | SNAG•November 2009 - May 2011
- • Hired at origin of startup to architect entire quality assurance process
- • Responsible for budgeting, onboarding, managing team and entirety of testing processes
- • Managed additional offshore resources based in Argentina
February 2007 - November 2009
MOUNTAIRE•February 2007 - November 2009
- • Developed linux shell scripts according to the evolving needs of the product sales team
- • 24/7 database support management call rotation
- • Wrote extensive sql to develop oracle forms and reports
Skills
Scripting
Typescript
Shell Script
Python
SQL
Bash
Java
Tools
Playwright
Cypress
Selenium
Penetration Testing | Tenable.io
Performance Testing | Lighthouse CI, Saucelabs
Load Testing | NeoLoad | flood.io | Element | Saucelabs
Docker Containerization
Git
Gitlab CI/CD
AWS
Spoken languages
English
French
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- Location
- Charleston, SC