🐼 Brendan Donegan Email & Phone Number

County Dublin, Ireland

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

- Helped bootstrap a Quality and Release Engineering department with the Technology Solutons Group of HMH- Involved in hiring for offshore teams in Pune, India- Developed and used Github API based scripts to gather development metrics.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

- Managing a team of ~10 Quality Engineers- Grew headcount from a team of 4 throughout 2022- Responsible for recruitment, onboarding and career development of team members.- Coordinate the Quality Strategy for the engineering department.- Create and measure team goals using the OKR framework.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

- Developing and guiding the quality strategy for 10+ scrum teams working on a large scale React project- Developed and maintained all testing and deployment pipelines using Jenkins and Docker- Bootstrapped Monorepo with Lerna, Yarn, Jest and Webpack. Later helped migrate to Nx and PNPM and added in tools such as Chromatic for visual regression testing

QA/Python consultant with a client based in Dublin, Ireland.

London, England, Gb

I returned to Canonical to work in the Cloud Dev Ops group as the QA Engineer for the MAAS (Metal as a Service) team.

Container data services

London, England, Gb

Worked in the QA team in Ubuntu Engineering, I was involved in promoting quality across the Ubuntu platform and helping development teams reach for and maintain high quality in their projects.

London, England, Gb

Worked in the Hardware Certification team to certify OEM hardware for compatibility with releases of Ubuntu. This was an agile team and my previous role was also in an agile team so I gained extensive experience with this development methodology.Roles and responsibilities:- Creating and maintaining tests for the Hardware Certification test suite (Python, Bash)- Executing test runs and reporting results.- Raising bugs against failures in Launchpad.- Developing the automated systems for testing and reporting.- Co-ordinating execution of hardware testing for Ubuntu kernel updates.- Representing Hardware Certification team at weekly release meetings- Attending conferences and running planning sessions for the teams workload during each development cycle.- Managing release of our main test tool - Checkbox

London, Gb

I was responsible for developing the Symbian Foundation's test processes, tooling and infrastructure to ensure test results are available quickly and dependably.Key Tasks:- Automating regular execution of packaged tests- Running regression and smoke tests for package and platform releases- Publishing, tracking and analysing test results- Analysing test failures and raising defects- Contributing to the Symbian Foundation test automation systems and processes- Working with the community to develop a strong suite of contributed test cases- Identifying and creating tools to assist in debugging/defect analysis- Reviewing, maintaining and improving existing test software and processesI was also a member of the core Symbian Bug Squad team, a community of volunteers which engaged in testing and bug triage/fixing activities aimed at Symbian's open-source software asset.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Responsible for System Testing of new OS features- Performing analysis on requirements and writing test cases for new features.- Implementing tests in native Symbian C++- Raising defects with development teams, providing information on the defect such as logs and method to reproduce.- Worked in a structured development environment (CMM Level 3)- Designing test cases.- Implementing test cases in Symbian C++.- Primary focus on Bluetooth functionality.

Santa Clara, California, Us

- This position was undertaken as a work placement for my Bachelors degree in Computer Science.- Worked in the IT Innovation team of the Ireland Computing Department.- First project was to develop a front-end UI for a Network-Distributed File System as part of a EU Framework Program 6. This was implemented in Java with use of Swing UI components.- Also performed System Testing on another Network-Distributed File System used as the storage back-end to a content archival system for Microsoft Sharepoint. This mainly involved writing SQL queries to examine the contents of the back-end database.- Engaged in a number of social activities, including organising Student events, taking part on community projects (such as painting and tree planting) and participating in the Intel Summer 7-a-side Football event.

Msc, Applied Science (Mobile Computing & Networks)

Bsc, Computer Science