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Greater Seattle Area

• Develop proof of concept projects to compare Playwright and Selenium automation for regression testing.
• Develop the automation framework for smoke and regression tests using Playwright and Specflow.
• Maintain and develop Selenium WebDriver performance test workflows deployed in production environments.

Washington, United States

• Knowledge transfer in test automation, CI/CD processes, and product features to newly hired SDETs working at Nuix.
• Ensure product quality and QA processes are maintained, and bi-weekly product releases are met.

Greater Seattle Area

• As a member of multiple feature development teams, collaborate with developers and product owners through product design, story refinement and acceptance criteria definition, creation of test plans, and testing of code.
• Design, develop, document, and maintain automated test scenarios for new features in the regression test automation solution. The tests perform user workflows through the UI using Selenium, and also drive user.
• Prioritize daily regression test results analysis, test code changes, report bugs to make sure new product issues are fixed during the bi-weekly release cycle to prevent any new defects.
• Troubleshoot and resolve CI/CD pipeline failures, maintain and extend functionality in existing pipeline jobs to support the bi-weekly release cadence and ensure the quality of every release. The pipelines compile the.

• Engineered the first series of reusable template scripts for load test workflows using Apache JMeter; then trained multiple teams to follow best practices when developing load test scripts, resulting in a library of.

• Contributed UI automation tests in Specflow/Selenium for Windows forms and web pages, keeping the automation test suite current with user interface changes and additions.
• Developed our first Postman collections of re-runnable HTTP request tests to verify new web service endpoints, providing early verification of expected behavior prior to testing through the product.

• Contributed to team velocity by developing new product features and debugging product code to develop bug fixes in 5 different consumer products.
• Through thorough development and testing, achieved product quality in every release by reducing our products’ defect backlogs while maintaining zero escaped defects.
• Wrote T-SQL data extraction stored procedures and unit tests for ETL data conversion of legacy products to ensure customer migrations with minimal data loss.
• Provided customer support and satisfaction by resolving dozens of escalation issues for five different products.

Guided a new team of contract testers from design documentation review and test case development through mobile device stability testing and final acceptance testing, creating a highly productive, collaborative, initiative taking, self-managed team.

Expert product knowledge proven effective in testing many areas of a complex ERP product: performing functional UI tests, manual regression, automated regression of app object code, functional interoperability, build verification, upgrade/migration, server and client installation and environment, and multi-user load (performance) tests.Provided customer.

• Performed every aspect of testing to ensure quality: functional UI, manual regression, build verification, upgrade and migration, server and client installation, and multi-user load tests.Utilized code debugging and.

Forecast Analyst Analyzed historical data, product life cycles, and marketing activities to generate and revise direct account sell-out forecasts and to determine weekly requirements (recommended purchase quantities) for distributors and resellers.Interfaced with Buyers and Account Managers to obtain and validate promotional activities; with Master.

Bachelor Of Arts, International Relations And French (With A Business Orientation)

Graduated Magna Cum Laude. Dean's List four of six semesters. Included one year studying at the Université des Sciences Sociales.

Professional Development, Computer Science

Increased breadth of technical knowledge through courses in C++, C#, Java, and Linux.