Christopher Owen Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Test Lead of the OTT/CTV space on the CNN side for the CNN Testing Center of Excellence. Managed end-to-end testing processes for the CNN CTV app across diverse platforms, overseeing both manual and automated testing.Contributed significantly to the improvement of the Appium/HeadSpin automated testing framework, ensuring comprehensive testing of the CTV app on OTT devices across various platforms.Led all sprint ceremonies and domain walkthroughs for the engineering of the OTT area, fostering collaboration and efficiency within the team.Authored meticulous Jira tickets, providing essential details for OTT automation engineers, thereby facilitating the timely completion of tasks.Formulated epics for the OTT space, offering clear guidance and direction to the team, contributing to a cohesive and goal-oriented work environment.Crafted comprehensive spec files for automation engineers, providing them with a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) template, enhancing efficiency and alignment with project goals.Maintained GitHub Actions for daily runs in the OTT domain, proactively adjusting configurations and capabilities to ensure seamless integration and reliable testing.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Continued maintenance of Politics WebdriverIO tests and test suites for the 2022/2023 election cycles, including manual testing of Politics components.Developed a mocha integration testing framework to rigorously test Politics race ratings data against its original source, ensuring data accuracy and reliability.Assisted in the setup and maintenance of the serverless artillery load testing framework, contributing to robust load testing capabilities for election web pages.Collaborated in the creation and execution of load tests using serverless artillery, effectively preparing for election night event traffic and ensuring optimal performance under high loads.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Played a pivotal role in rigorous testing efforts leading to multiple successful Election Night events, serving millions of users without encountering a single major issue, showcasing a commitment to quality assurance.Spearheaded the creation and maintenance of comprehensive WebdriverIO tests and test suites, leveraging BrowserStack for cross-browser/platform testing across Election Centers spanning 2019 to 2021 (Generals and Primaries).Conducted thorough manual testing of Politics related features using BrowserStack, ensuring compatibility across diverse platforms and maintaining overall system stability.Oversaw the upkeep of test cases, regularly updating test plans, and meticulously documenting results in TestRail, contributing to a well-organized and efficient testing process.Contributed to CNN-wide GDPR implementation testing initiatives for all Election Center pages, ensuring compliance and data protection standards.Managed the upkeep and maintenance of Politics team Jenkinsfiles and Jenkins jobs, ensuring the continuous execution of tests for election web pages, enhancing the efficiency of the testing pipeline.Created new Supertest backend API tests, expanding Politics coverage and ensuring comprehensive testing of backend functionalities.Developed and led the curriculum for the "QA Automation Jam," conducting Politics-centric test automation learning sessions, fostering skill development within the team.Contributed to Project Seaton, a CNN-wide initiative to improve testing efforts, including the creation of a scanner farm for testing CNN sitemaps, demonstrating a commitment to enhancing testing methodologies across digital platforms.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Recruited by Brooksource as a contractor for the CNN Digital Politics team for the 2018 Primaries/General election. Responsible for manual testing of the CNN Digital Politics Election Centers (2017, 2018). Primarily identifying bugs, creating defect reports in Jira, and writing test cases in TestRail.Developed automated test scripts in Protractor and WebdriverIO to test functionality of maps and election results pages and components. Implemented a UI snapshot testing POC for Protractor to be used for the CNN Digital Politics team. Led a new initiative to introduce and incorporate test automation in the CNN Digital Politics team for the first time.Assisted in the testing of innovative CNN Digital products during the 2018 Primaries, such as the new geo maps (Maps with enhanced functionality- such as pan, zoom, points of interests), as well as The Forecast, a predictive analysis of the 2018 Primaries results.

Greater Atlanta Area

Responsible for managing and executing all manual test scripts for the Atlanta team, as well as designing new tests suites for new features.Wrote automated test scripts in Protractor for ClearPoint Strategy's web application, which tested basic functionality of CPS features. CPS is ClearPoint Strategy’s Angular web application for implementing the balanced scorecard management tool.Helped in the execution of Mocha/Chai scripts, which used JSON schema files to generate automated tests for CRUD.Created several click-path testing suites, and modified them using Katalon Studio successfully.Organized and revamped the entire Swagger API documentation for CPS, editing ColdFusion files to correctly depict 100+ entries.

Greater Atlanta Area

Responsible for testing language and phrase packs used by the Nexidia Interactions Analytics (NIA) application. Language and phrase packs contain data that is used by a speech recognition neural network for identifying spoken words and phrases.Tested language packs/phrase packs contents for authenticity and accuracy against queries in SQL Server Management Studio.Wrote and ran queries against imported language packs and phrase packs to test their compatibility with the company’s software.Wrote automated test scripts for basic functionality of the company’s software, using a tech stack of Selenium, Ruby, Capybara, and Cucumber.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

International Baccalaureate Program