Brett Nolan Email & Phone Number

Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States

Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States

Responsible for a mix of both manual and automated testing of unmanned ground robots and Android-based control application. Designed, deployed and maintained Python-based automated test suite and web-based reporting system.

• Created and currently manage a site dedicated to news, reviews and information on mobile apps, and games for iOS devices as well as related accessories and Apple-related topics.Co-hosted and/or guest-hosted several.
• AppAdvice Weekly Podcast (Co-Host) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/appadvice-weekly-podcast/id1193751130?mt=2&at=11l4Bt- Previous -
• The Portable Podcast from 148Apps (Occasional Guest Co-Host) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/portable-podcast-from-148apps-iphone-ipad-android-mobile/id337688855?mt=2&at=11l4Bt
• Apple'N'Apps & AppAddict Weekly Podcast (Co-host)https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/applenapps-weekly-podcast/id480399237?mt=2&at=11l4Bt

Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States

Waltham, Massachusetts

• Automated tests for data storage product using Python 3.6 and Slash automation testing framework.
• Extended and updated common repository of Python fixtures, contexts, and methods.
• Project lead for automated testing of a new product feature; In charge of scoping test effort and developing detailed test plan to verify functionality, faults, negative cases and stress and scale impacts on storage.
• Opened and tracked bugs against system, tools and automation using JIRA.
• Improved automation accuracy and reliability by troubleshooting and fixing automation bugs and failures.
• Manual testing efforts included API validation using Postman and interoperability testing to assure compatibility with several host types.

Lowell, MA

• BIG-IP Products:
• Improved quality of BIG-IP products by writing and executing numerous detailed feature test plans based on product requirement specifications provided by the development team.
• Concentration on black box testing, also worked closely with development team to be certain that testing validated all possible code paths and verified all applicable CLI commands and REST APIs.
• Automated hundreds of functional test cases, both from scratch, and converted existing scripts from a prior language to newer automation framework using Python.
• Developed new and extended existing common Python libraries used by our entire Software Quality Assurance test team, helping to improve automated test accuracy, efficiency, scope and scale.
• Highly productive in both a team dynamic and as sole software engineer responsible for every stage of the testing lifecycle including test planning, test execution, automation, bug reporting and verification.

• As a Software QA Test Engineer, worked on several technologies from storage aggregation to application traffic load balancing and high availability.
• Consistently improved quality of ARX and BIG-IP products by writing and executing numerous detailed feature test plans based on product requirement specifications provided by the development team.
• Concentration on black box testing, also worked closely with development team to be certain that testing validated all possible code paths and verified all applicable CLI commands and REST APIs.
• Automated numerous functional test cases using TCL and Perl.
• Highly productive in both a collaborative team dynamic and as sole software engineer responsible for every stage of the testing lifecycle including test planning, test execution, automation, bug reporting and.
• Performance reviews regularly recognize consistent delivery of test results.

I review iPod/iPhone applications and write feature articles for the site.

• IP Backhaul Solution Testing:
• Wrote the detailed System-level test plan for testing Cisco’s c10000/6500 IPBH Solution.
• Manually tested and wrote automation for IPBH System Test plan for several of Cisco’s CDMA IP Backhaul customers.
• Configured, wired and maintained multiple large-scale test beds to test and support customer network.
• Directly interfaced with customer account teams to quickly reproduce customer found defects in local lab environment so they could be fixed quickly and satisfactorily.Previous work includes:
• Wrote dozens of “show” and “config” procedures for general use across multiple teams/Business Units.

• Developed computer-based training courseware.
• Storyboarded lessons.
• Internal web site development.
• Presented courseware to potential and current customers.
• Reviewed and streamlined code from other engineers.

B.A., Computer Science

Ms, Software Engineering

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