Experienced test engineer looking for new opportunities
Experience
2024 — Now
2020 — 2024
2020 — 2024
Automated and manual testing of SaaS Security Posture Management application for securing major SaaS provider services, including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday and Microsoft365.
• Automated API and UI tests in Python using Pytest, Playwright and Requests libraries for Django/Vue.js application stack; contributed to UI tests in Cypress and Selenium repos
• Maintained Python test framework and reviewed code for pull requests
• Created and maintained CircleCI test automation build pipelines, monitored results
• As part of scrum delivery team, led shift-left test strategy initiative, identified and automated test cases for new features, worked with team to prepare releases; represented QE in team scrum ceremonies:
• - Integration testing with ServiceNow API for incident ticket management
• - Configured and maintained test applications for integration with 3rd party Saas products (including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft365, Workday) for security posture and data access analysis
• Led and participated in weekly team Sentry event review to identify and log errors for remediation
• Worked closely with DevOps team to develop and execute test plan for validating new GCP stacks
• Managed internal crowd-sourced testing efforts and post-deploy testing
• Triaged customer found defects and coordinated with engineering and support teams toward resolution
2019 — 2020
Greater Denver Area
Built and supported CI/CD services and tools on Devops team for internal engineering customers. Shared primary team support duties through on-call rotation.
• Build pipelines (Buildkite, Terraform, AWS)
• VM and Kubernetes deployments (ArgoCD, Chef, Docker registry)
• Code repo administration (Github)
Led SDET team as technical lead and virtual scrum master.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
Greater Denver Area
2014 — 2018
2014 — 2018
Greater Denver Area
Backend Systems SDET, Automation Team
• Designed and developed automation test harnesses for SendGrid's backend mail system services using custom Go testing framework, trained delivery teams on it
• Integrated test framework reporting with TestRail
• Collaborated with multiple delivery teams test framework/harnesses for ongoing test development
• Automated regression tests
• Contributed to design and development of Go web service to manage test user data for automation frameworks
• Developed and documented API endpoints
• Developed unit tests in Ginkgo
Quality Analyst, Marketing Campaigns Team
• Established quality role and procedures in new Agile product delivery team. Worked with product owners on backlog grooming and defining acceptance criteria, and with developers on new features and bug fixes.
• Expanded automation coverage with RESTful API and GUI automated tests in Ruby/Rspec automation framework. Designed and executed performance tests with Jmeter and internal tools.
• Manual and automated white box testing of SaaS email infrastructure and SOA application. Tested web services individually through RESTful APIs, along with integration and end-to-end service testing.
• Worked across teams (including operations, support and account management) to debug/resolve customer issues.
• Created test plans and developed automated test cases. Reported and tracked bugs in JIRA.
• Monitored builds and and setup automated test jobs in continuous integration environment.
Managed deployments to staging and production environments.
Education
University of California, Davis
B.A
Portland Community College