SUMMARY

17 year Software Professional with 14 years specializing in Test Automation, Test Automation Frameworks. Adding recently DevOps for CI and CD; making use of open source when applicable and creating simple facades to improve the velocity of automation engineers. Champion for automated testing, automation of processes and tools to eliminate redundancy and improve productivity. Skilled at managing, teaching, coaching and growing QA teams by building their the QA presence, technical aptitude and drive for a quality product by building working relationships with the teams they work with and deliver to. Work effectively with teams to ensure that quality is what we do and help ensure we put out a quality project by managing risk and being truthful about bugs, functionality and overall quality and performance of the product and its evaluated impact to the end user.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, Texas

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consult with and provide onboarding services into central DevOps environment with a goal of green deployments
• Create and document build, test, promotion examples using Confidential set of tools
• Coach teams on test automation, best practices and proper planning and communication
• Provide direction for tools and framework selections
• Develop and Support core automation utilities to help improve velocity

Technologies : Java, python, ruby, groovy, javascript, docker, Openstack, Ansible, Artifactory, Jenkins, cucumber, cucumber - jvm, cucumber-js, radish-bdd, serenity bdd, maven, gradle, git, gerrit, pytest, junit, robotframework, jira, confluence, soap, rest, ssh, selenium

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Global Practice Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage team of Subject Matter Experts in Professional Services for Home Care Products
• Provide training, training material and coaching to help Regional Business Centers in project implementation
• Participate in New Product Introductions, work with RnD in feedback loop and extract training material
• Created work packages to provide product cost estimates based on feature selection and high-cost/low-cost region implementation options

Technologies: Java, javascript, css, html, rest, excel

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Global Practice Lead - Test Automation

Responsibilities:

• Provide Test Automation development, coaching and support for professional services create pattern oriented test automation that can be applied across customers using our products1
• Architected and developed customer facing Test as a Service Web site for 20+ customers to do device testing

Technologies: Java, vert.x, Postgresql, javascript, jasmine, css, html, rest, polymer, linux, nginx, soap, rest

Confidential, Austin, Texas

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for vision, strategy, reporting and execution for incorporating test tools into the manual and automation test effort
• Coach team them on adding depth and breadth to testing by being more aware of the Application stack and how that translates to a Test Stack, providing more opportunities to improve test penetration
• Responsible for resource assignments and hiring

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Test Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for driving test automation and manual solutions in 2 organizations
• Created test keyword/table driven test automation framework. Enabling manual testers to be engaged in test automation in Professional Services and RnD, over time amounting to > 15,000 functional automated tests
• Trained and coached on automation best practices
• Worked with teams to provide solutions

Technologies: Java, swing, rest, soap, oracle, mysql, mariadb postgresql, Bamboo, maven, groovy, j unit,selenium, ant

Confidential, Austin, Texas

QA Lead / Test Automation

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Test Architecture, daily builds and defect management, building automated tools and applications to support the testing process.
• Developed application to analyze customer data that uses statistics (ratios, percentages, score impact and rule correlation) to provide insight on the effectiveness of the product and its scoring system by rule, and filter by keywords to analyze rule impact.
• Optimized production stored procedures to alleviate load and capture history used in customer data for analysis.

Technologies: SqlServer, c#, javascript, dojo framework, watin, nant, data generation, performance testing

Confidential, Round Rock, Texas

QA Lead /Automation Development

Responsibilities:

• Experience with successfully leading and facilitating all Quality Assurance aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• This includes project test estimates, test schedule, resource allocation, reporting and other documentation agreed upon for each phase of the SDLC in accordance with Confidential 's CMM process
• Responsible for resource management across multiple projects, training and challenging resources to help meet the specific needs of upcoming projects.automation development and sustainability.
• Development lead, test lead, product manager and customer support responsible for an in house automation tool, supporting a user base of around 250 users.
• Decommissioned or replaced software that duplicated other IT software packages.

Technologies: c#, TestDirector, Quality Center, WinRunner, Quick Test Pro, Watin, Visual Basic, Soap, SqlServer, SVG