SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an experienced Software Development Engineer in Test with over 30 years of experience in the IT industry.
• In his current role at Nordstrom, Bob works as a SDET to help add UI tests to existing systems and improve existing selenium - based test harness.
• Prior to his current role, Bob worked at Providence as a software engineer to help create a telehealth software interface using XAML, MVVM and Unity. Bob also has experience with C# and RESTful Web Services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Software Testing Expert 10+ years
• .NET Frameworks Intermediate 10+ years
• OOP Expert 10+ years
• C# Expert 10+ years (Currently used)
• C/C++ Expert 25 years
• Java Beginner 4 months
• Linux Beginner 4 months
• WTT Intermediate 6 months; set up server and created test cases xUnit Intermediate 5 years, created test structures around it
• ASPX Beginner Just used off and on for the last year
• XML Intermediate 3+ years
• XAML Beginner Several months, still learning
• IOC - Unity Beginner Several months
• MVVM Beginner Several months
• SOAP/RESTful Intermediate Consumed services, did not write them
• Selenium Expert 10+ years
• XPath Beginner 1 year

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SDET

Responsibilities:

• Helped create a wrapper around Selenium in order to make the package easier to use and more stable
• Created page automation for 100+ pages using the Selenium wrapper
• Created 300+ UI tests
• Daily analysis of test failures
• Help plan sprints and do meta-sprint planning
• Fix and maintain logging infrastructure and test harness enhancements
• Using: C# and Selenium

SDET

Responsibilities:

• Helped add UI tests to existing system
• Improved existing Selenium-based test harness
• Fixed and updated broken tests
• Used on Linq-SQL for verification of logging
• Used Selenium for test development
• Using: C# and Selenium

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as part of a team writing telehealth software to interface to remote stethoscopes
• Shop uses Pair Programming and Kanban variation
• Worked on UI in XAML
• IOC work using Unity
• MVVM design of user code
• Created logging framework using Log4Net
• Helped design support code as both tester and developer
• Using: C#, Selenium, XAML

Sr. SDET

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing a Coordinating database structure for the whole enterprise at Outerwall
• Writing infrastructure code in C# and Powershell
• Writing a simulator for Web APIs
• Setting up a continuous integration system involving Octopus for deployments and TFS for testing and building
• Mentoring others on how to maintain system
• Administrative work with computers and systems to work through permissions

Sr. SDET

Responsibilities:

• UI Test Automation on POS system
• Rescue in-house UI test automation harness (It was essentially dead)
• Create a new test automation harness using better technology
• Write tests in XML for the C# harness
• Write software to generate result database from POS entry screen
• Verify test generated records against system and file bugs on differences (SQL testing)

Sr. SDET

Responsibilities:

• Create test automation and implement automation framework for web testing using Selenium and TestNG
• Write tests in C# and Java
• Set up testing environment
• Mentor other testers in creating and maintaining test automation
• Solve problems and challenges in using Selenium on modern web designs
• Diagnose and solve Linux server problems

Sr. SDET

Responsibilities:

• Create tests for high speed OCR system
• Collect performance and test data
• Create and maintain C++ test harness, including rewriting much of it
• Help convert Java test setup to C#
• Create and maintain tools for all the above
• Mentor other testers in C# coding and testing methods

Sr. SDET

Responsibilities:

• Create test infrastructure for web-based UI N-Unit testing
• Create test cases for the infrastructure
• Work with other testers, mentoring and helping with test and development problems
• Created a test harness to automate test case development
• Assisted fellow testers setting up Build Verification Tests
• Debugged web design

Sr. SDET

Responsibilities:

• Create tools for testing web and windows services
• Manual testing of complex web based software
• Testing and analyzing windows-based software
• Participated in SCRUM and worked on some TDD projects
• Designed and implemented a Build Verification Test system that monitored the Hudson-based build machine and installed and tested the product after each build
• Designed and built a test harness to handle a virtually unlimited number of computers in order to test synchronization of networking software
• Designed a test system for doing Build Verification Tests for a Web 2 style system.

Sr. SDET

Responsibilities:

• Created tools for testing low-level services
• Analyzed SQL databases and XML files
• Helped drive test training in my area and in Expedia
• Helped create an Automated Test Framework based on MbUnit and C#
• Set down best practices / coding standards for tests
• Designed three-level framework
• Interface - Takes care of gathering info and calling XML based services
• Support - Creates a simple, intuitive environment for test writers to use in creating their tests
• Test Cases - Testers are able to focus on their test cases rather than having to deal with the interface.
• Created an XSD parser for generating interface class structure in C#
• Helped train SDETs to use the latest C# technology
• Supported other testers with needed infrastructure
• Maintained a test website, adding features and fixing bugs

SDET

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and maintained test plans
• Followed up and regressed bug fixes
• Utilized test automation to create test scenarios
• Tested network communications for Xbox Multi-Player Game systems
• Aided in play-testing multiplayer games
• Tested technologies including ASP.NET, SQL, Client / Server system
• Designed and implemented XML test reporting scheme
• Created Administration Page walkthrough for Xbox Live trading systems

SDET

Responsibilities:

• Set up the Test Lab for a Microsoft Research project
• Set up and maintained a WTT server
• Created both BVT’s and scenario tests for WTT
• Wrote and maintained test plans
• Utilized test automation to create test scenarios
• Coordinated / Communicated with developers and PM’s to facilitate test case creation and maintenance
• Tracked down code bugs in the lowest level code and helped clarify the difference between bugs in the code, radio, network, and servers.
• Through our exercising of the cellular phone data systems, helped to improve the speed and reliability of cellular phone networks.
• Helped to create the Stinger (Cell Phone) division at Microsoft.
• Developed the tools needed to test cell phone systems, including a GSM radio emulator and tests using that software
• Developed a stress tool that could be used to try various user scenarios (Patented)
• Developed tools to parse and check SMS messages and SIM toolkit strings
• Wrote tests for low-level OS components used to communicate to the Cell radio

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Embedded systems design using assembler-level code (and no operating system)
• Used C and C++ to design coding tools and set up data generators for these systems
• Forth language used for real-time system controls
• Aided in the design of consumer electronics for radio systems
• Created software used to operate stand-alone consumer devices for radio station automation and manufacturing.
• Created debugging and data entry/formatting tools
• Created a high-speed Z80 floating point math package for the Z80 (NSC800) processor in order to do trigonometric calculations
• Created a real-time dampened sine wave analyzer in assembler for a small processor

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Used Z80 assembler to program video games used to teach math
• Created a Z80 disassembler (to learn how Z80 code worked)

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed code in Fortran on the PDP 11-08 to operate a Neutrino Telescope and analyze the results