# Casey Van Groll

> Senior Software Engineer at Northwestern Mutual | CS BA from UW-Milwaukee

Location: Greater Milwaukee, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/caseyvangroll

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Northwestern Mutual
Jan 2022 – Present | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Work on a scrum team developing services and frontends for an internal web application used by Financial Representatives. Foster a culture of continual growth amongst developers and others.

### Software Engineer @ Northwestern Mutual
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Work on a scrum team developing microservice-based frontend for an internal web application used by Financial Representatives.

Technologies used: React/Redux/GraphQL/Jest/GitlabCICD/Docker

### Test Engineer @ Northwestern Mutual
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Downtown Milwaukee
• Automated and manual testing of front-end components
• Manage deployments to lower environments, and provide checkout on releases
• Install pipeline gateways to run pulse/end-to-end testbeds
• Build PDF testing tool for use in automated tests
• Assist in various other testing development (slack bots, snapshot tests, JSON validation)

### Test Engineer Intern @ Northwestern Mutual
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Milwaukee Area
• Work on QA team of the NGIS project to expand, maintain, and exercise its testbeds.
• Use Swagger, Postman, and Fiddler for API testing and analysis, and JS/Cucumber/WebdriverIO for automated testing.

### Homework Design Assistant @ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
• Work directly with Chair of department and Teaching Assistants to create/refresh content of Data Structures and Algorithms (CS-351), a keystone programming course for all Computer Science majors.
• Assignments created include: Linked-list queue used in a CPU Scheduler simulation, Binary Search Tree built around Date/Time to efficiently search through bank transactions, XML reader/validator, and many more.
• Design new assignments and create solutions, locked test suites, and student handouts of increasing complexity.

### Test Engineer Intern @ Northwestern Mutual
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Milwaukee Area
• Work on QA team of the NGIS project to expand, maintain, and exercise its testbeds.
• Use Swagger, Postman, and Fiddler for API testing and analysis, and JS/Cucumber/WebdriverIO for automated testing.

### Independent Tutor @ Varsity Tutors
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Milwaukee Area
• Tutor high school and college students in Calculus I/II and ACT Math on and individual or small group basis.
• Customized tutoring approach based on student skill level and learning objective.


## Education
### Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/caseyvangroll
- Portfolio: https://caseyvangroll.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-30