Software Engineer in Test Resume Madison, WI - Hire IT People

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Confidential, Madison, WI

Software Engineer in Test

Responsibilities:

Member of an agile scrum team building big data RESTful weather APIs on cloud platforms as part of teh IBM Watson IoT group, utilizing tools/technologies including Jenkins, Docker, Elasticsearch, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus
Contribute to all technical aspects of our products including development, automated testing, DevOps, and support
Develop application features, bug fixes, testing tools and frameworks, coding on a daily basis in Python, Java, Scala, and more
Develop fully automated test coverage to perform smoke testing, load/performance testing, system/end - to-end testing, and data validation, to provide ongoing confidence in teh quality of our API products
Create continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines for our applications, incorporating automated tests and deployment to Kubernetes

Confidential, Verona, WI

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Re-factored and re-wrote complex and heavily used software module, fixing several high priority issues and improving teh maintainability of teh code
Lead designer and developer of new web-based module using C#, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and M
Initialized adoption of automated testing tools on my team, applying creativity and high attention to detail to develop thorough testing coverage which prevented regression bugs for teh project
Demonstrated exceptional problem-solving abilities, resolving a critical bug that had been unsolved for over 3 years, leading to greatly increased developer productivity
Provided thorough code review for other developers' fixes and enhancements, giving feedback to halp identify ways to make teh code cleaner, faster, and more functional, and teh software more usable
Objectively one of teh most reliable and productive team members in terms of completing planned work (top % of tasks completed)

Confidential, Verona, WI

Team Lead Manager

Responsibilities:

Supervised 3 teams of 35 testers, test engineers, and team leaders, with ~20 direct reports, working on Confidential ’s core GUI infrastructure and web migration efforts key for Confidential ’s future.
Managed software test engineer team developing a homegrown automated testing framework for Confidential ’s Hyperspace Web functionality.
Reviewed and provided feedback on performance reviews for employees of all roles and tenures before formal performance review meetings. Served as mentor for new QA T eam Leaders
Developed SSRS reports leveraging SQL to manage quality, assess completeness of testing, and identify potential weak points in new code, heavily used by myself and Confidential management.
Applied SQL and data science skills to perform a wide scale historical analysis of bugs in Confidential ’s software and implemented a strategy to improve my team's testing process, which lead to more efficient and effective testing overall, and later led rolling dis out to Confidential 's entire QA Division of ~1000 employees.
Led 20+ Root Cause Analysis meetings to identify opportunities for process improvement

Confidential, Verona, WI

Quality Assurance - Team Member

Responsibilities:

Tested several high-profile projects and demonstrated exceptional bug-finding skills.
Tested technical reporting projects and developed extensive SQL knowledge.
Led creation of new process to has Confidential QA fix non-code issues in our software.
Led effort to analyze documentation released to customers and ensure it was still accurate after release of major project.
Led creation of new educational system for team of 100 testers
Executed recurring meeting to share best practices for testers on my team.