# Rick Schubert

> Software Engineer, Udemy Online Instructor

Location: City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/rickschubert

I'm passionate about programming and always strive to better myself. I love to share my learning through teaching online at udemy. Check out my course about Automated Web Testing with JavaScript and Playwright!

## Work Experience
### Full Stack Engineer @ Aviva
Jan 2025 – Present | London, United Kingdom

### Backend Engineer ("Software Engineer") @ Pod Point
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Created 270 pull requests in my first year, developed 127 jira tasks, code reviewed and/or tested 112 tickets – all in my first year
- Led the migration from a third-party provider for location-based search functionality to another provider, resulting in cost savings of $10.000 per month and an average speed increase of 5% per search
- Researched and implemented a cloud distribution network (CDN) solution using AWS Cloudfront to cache the response of the most requested endpoint for both private and public users in the mobile app, resulting in a decrease of app loading time from a maximum of 15 seconds down to 50 milliseconds
- Fixed numerous bugs and created dozens of new features across our distributed system of microservices, serving 220.000 charging stations with millions of network requests per day (Internet of Things)
- Key contributor in completing a fast-paced project to upgrade our existing system to implement a new messaging protocol
- Technologies: Golang, TypeScript, AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Cloudwatch, S3, API Gateway, RDS, Kinesis), Rest APIs, Event-sourcing, Websockets, Docker

### Backend Engineer ("Cloud Services Application Engineer") @ YouView TV Limited
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom
- Established and led a biweekly guild meeting which resulted in many actions, a wider team alignment and greater job satisfaction
- Led a department OKR to understand services' test coverage
- Actively worked on a highly scalable, distributed cloud system serving a billion requests per day using JavaScript, Golang, Clojure with microservice architecture (Internet of Things)
- Full responsibility of the entire development lifecycle for each feature: development, testing across various automated test levels, deployment
- Worked on features such as search, content discovery, content targeting, data ingestion
- Investigated and fixed live service issues, incident response
- Frequent deployments of new services using infrastructure as code (Cloudformation, Docker, ECS)
- Led a department OKR to correctly size resources on the various microservices, reducing infrastructure costs while still maintaining high availability and performance – driven by automated load tests
- Technologies: Golang, JavaScript, Clojure, REST APIs, AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Cloudwatch, S3, API Gateway, Cloudformation), Neo4j, Oracle DB (SQL), SOLR, Docker

### Senior Software Development Engineer in Test @ tray.io
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | London, England, United Kingdom
- Built from scratch an extremely performant end-to-end test framework using TypeScript (superset of JavaScript) and WebdriverIO/Selenium
    + Makes use of API calls and other shortcuts to speed up the testing process
    + Detailed reports
    + Heavily parallelised on the CI system with docker
    + Cucumber
    + Page object pattern
- Heavily involved with CI processes: built, maintained and improved release and test pipelines
    + Contextual stages (only run stage A if files of type X changed; only run tests for files that have changed)
    + Exposes many notifications in our company messaging systems and user interactions attached to these, such as retries
    + Tools: Jenkins, Docker, Linux, bash, Groovy, git
- Built from scratch a comprehensive API test framework in TypeScript which accesses REST APIs and GraphQL APIs
- Built from scratch the nodejs testing library mock-inspect to mock network request and assert how these requests have been made by the application code - now open-source
- Built contract testing framework from scratch

### Test Engineer @ Arcadia Group Ltd
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | London, United Kingdom
- Created highly performant and extremely stable browser test suite using Selenium/WebdriverIO
    + Customisable: runs on desktop and mobile viewports, works against all 7 Arcadia brands
    + Smart setups: pre-test creation of user profiles and gathering of test products via API
- API tests
    + Polished and resurfaced 1 year abandoned/dysfunctional API suite
    + Very stable, 0% non-genuine error rate
- UI Integration tests
    + Created a UI integration test suite completely from scratch, using Cypress
    + Mocks all network requests - high stability
- CI/Jenkins
    + Helped integrate test suites into Jenkins jobs with Docker

### QA Specialist @ Arachnys
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | London, United Kingdom
- Created a web application from scratch to track the weekly team progress (React, node.js)
- Updated browser test suite
- Continuously identified issues around the app and improved testing processes
- Performance testing
- Enforced code standards

### QA Specialist @ Tag
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
- Automation of processes for the entire account (developed more than 20 custom desktop applications)
- Received an "Exceptional Award" in the category of "Exceptional Ideas and Solutions" 
- Established new and restructured existing processes
- Reference point for technological innovation
- Raised client satisfaction ratings
- Meticulous attention to detail across each brand


## Education
### Master’s Degree in German Literature and Linguistics
Chemnitz University of Technology

### Bachelor’s Degree in German Literature and Linguistics
Chemnitz University of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rick-schubert
- Website: https://rickschubert.net

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Last updated: 2026-04-05