Designed, developed, and tested microservices to implement Smart Driver and Teen Driver services for the MyBrand app. Worked closely with the system architects and DBAs to design the database and Kafka message schemas to provide for current and future functionality.Developed and tested microservices for the Digital Key Service within the CCMS Software Modernization project. Worked closely with the CCMS big data team to populate Hive tables from the Kafka messages published by the DKS microservices. Designed and implemented a PowerBI dashboard sourcing data from these Hive tables together with the vehicle data from the GM Vehicle 360 data lake.Mentored developers and QA engineers including onboarding, system walkthroughs, pair programming, and test automation.

Built scalable Java 8 microservices with Spring Boot as part of a distributed system to serve non-profits. Services produced and consumed Rest API and Microsoft Service Bus messages to communicate with other microservices written in Java and C#. These microservices were developed to replace the legacy monolithic application. Delivered gift receipting feature using Spring boot microservices with an Angular UI on Microsoft Azure cloud service. Microservices handled receipting and e-mail acknowledgment for online donations.Practiced Test-Driven Development (TDD), sometimes pairing with other developers, to provide a very high level of test coverage. Developed unit and component tests for the micro-services written in Groovy. Used the Spock testing and specification framework for Behavioral-Driven Development (BDD).As a side project, I developed an application that was deployed to production that allowed database insight (data usage, average data used per query, query text) and showed XML/graphical query plans, allowing increased efficiency across the entire Development Department. Delivered GoodData integration into a next-generation online fundraising tool, using AngularJS and Spring boot micro-services on the AWS cloud platform.

Sole responsibility for developing and executing the test strategy for a cutting edge HTML 5 web application.Built a test automation framework with Java, Selenium Webdriver, and JavaScript.Expanding knowledge of automating HTML 5 applications, including JavaScript, Application manifest, Angular JS, Scalable Vector Graphics, IndexDB, and MongoDB.

Developed test automation frameworks using Selenium and C#

Principal test automation engineer for a fast-paced web development project.Developed and expanded test automation framework using C# and Selenium Webdriver. Prior to that built a proof of concept framework using WatiN.Trained other QA engineers in Austin and New York in use of the framework and refactoring their code for maximum efficiency

Heavily involved in the design and development of an automated testing framework written in Ruby and Watir.Used Agile development methods to maintain and expand test automation scripts.Gained further experience of Oracle and SQL Server databases as the owner of several QA databases for the Datamart product.Managed off-site engineers in India. Provided training, guidance, and assignment of all tasks.

A key player in the design and development of an automated testing framework written in Ruby and Watir.Tested a variety of applications including web-based Java and Ruby on Rails applications and batch applications written in C++.Responsible for analyzing design documents to create test cases.

Managed variable sized teams of testers to complete testing. Large proportion of testing involved meeting US Customs deadlines. This required attention to detail and ability to work under intense pressure.Responsible for team of 5 quality assurance specialists. Duties included recruitment, performance reviews and managing team’s time using MS Project and Project Web Access.Performed a Business/Functional Analyst role for all customs compliance projects.