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• Quality Engineering Lead, Carpe Data

  Nov, 2021 - Nov, 20243 years

  Modernized testing processes, implemented test frameworks and infrastructure, managed onshore/offshore QE team (4-5 engineers). Highlights: Getting emojis representing company values added to company slack. Giving a knowledge share for some of the QE teams at Meta.

  • Initiated service level (Lambda/Step Function) and API testing. Result: QA team up-skilled, improved collaboration with development, faster lower risk less releases.

  • Used API swagger docs, TDD, and mocking with PactumJs to deliver api test framework and tests before. Result: Early validation and rapid feedback lead to functional changes. Clean, accurate, developer api docs for smooth integration experience.

  • Implemented Cypress-based automation framework integrating PostgreSQL, AWS services (Lambda, S3, Secrets Manager), and Jenkins. Result: 9x faster test runs, improved reliability. First time company officially tested in production.

• Director of Quality Assurance / Lead SDET, Maestro Interactive

  Aug, 2020 - Nov, 20211 year 3 months

  Established QA team for growth-expansion stage live streaming start up building a platform on nodejs with a react frontend. Highlights: Streaming live interactive event experiences for popular performers to 250k+ concurrent users

  • Built & scaled QA team. Result: Grew a high performing, fully remote QA team from 1 to 6 members from multiple countries and timezones

  • Implemented a hybrid framework using WebdriverIO and Axios to blend UI and API actions into comprehensive test suite, executed by GitHub Actions. Result: Higher velocity and confidence in releases. Synthetic actions used to improve production monitoring

  • Created processes optimized for async work: lightweight 1 sheet test plan, tracking exploratory testing notes in Github repository. Result: Traceability for manual testing and increased stakeholder confidence in release readiness

• Staff QA Engineer, Procore Technologies

  May, 2018 - Aug, 20202 years 3 months

  Worked on microservices for the team focused on ERP integrations. Promoted to Staff Engineer October 2019, Highlight: Being part of an agile team, delivering at scale. Amazed at productivity of Ruby on Rails

  • Developed API integration code, acting as third party developer using new platform endpoints. Result: Early insight and feedback to developers leading to product changes

  • Introduced and lead monthly QA team wide meetup. Result: Increased knowledge sharing, cross team communication and community involvement

• Senior QA Engineer, 

  - Present

  • Owned testing of restful microservices for integrating external accounting systems into core application platform. Result: Collaborated with developers to add tests using mocking (VCR gem) to improve developer feedback loop

  • Introduced Juptyer Notebooks, creating semi-automated tests for testing common manual workflows of integrations with legacy systems. Results: Improved efficiency during testing. Knowledge base that reduced onboarding time

• Software Engineer in Quality Assurance, Agilysys

  Jun, 2009 - May, 20188 years 11 months

  Developed product features and implemented test frameworks using C# for window based enterprise point of sale system. Highlights: Created xUnit.Categories open source package, spoke at first conference

  • Designed & Implemented RESTful api in C# with extensible plug-in architecture. Result: Enabled international sales efforts through faster integrations between Point of Sale terminals and various international fiscal requirements systems

  • Refactored legacy code to enable unit testing of flagship product. Result: Increased confidence from QA in feature updates, faster feedback to developers allowing bugs to be identified earlier in development process.

  • Introduced automated testing framework for regression testing windows based point of sale devices. Result: Reduce regression testing cycle time and increase rate of feature release

Projects Experience

• xUnit.Categories

  Jan, 2019 - Mar, 20256 years 2 months

  Open source xUnit extension to help organize tests through custom categories with +4M downloads

• Introduction to NUnit

  May, 2020 - Present

  Test Automation University course covering the NUnit testing framework

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