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Indianapolis, In, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Implemented Test Strategy, Test Coverage, coached other SETs and engineers across the org on effective strategies and implementations.- Identified and designed new testing practices and tools to improve the quality of the GitLab. Provided risk analysis and security assessments during code reviews and during code authorship.- Lead test automation infrastructure implementations across multiple product areas.- Performed pipeline on-call duties, including incident response and resolution, often in collaboration with SREs.- Leveraged various provisioning technologies (Kubernetes, GCP) to create and maintain test environments and tools.- Lead a Working Group to implement a new Demo data seeding strategy for Solution Architects and Test Platform teams.- Worked on and managed complex department initiatives.- Assisted with a departmental transition from a "Quality" department to a "Test Platform" department.- Defined and independently manage multiple projects within the Test Platform department.- Perform regular code reviews and maintainership responsibilities for the gitlab-org/gitlab project.- Contribute to, and maintain technical documentation.- Participate in customer calls and takes part in Engineering outreach.- Performed dozens of solo technical, and team peer interviews, leading to the hires of many Engineering Managers and SETs.- Mentored other engineers, including Intermediate and Senior SETs.- Recorded demos.- Wrote and owned OKRs in alignment with higher-level org goals.

San Francisco, California, Us

- First Quality Team member hired in to GitLab.- Established processes for the Quality team, such as documentation and onboarding processes.- Established first iteration of test Quarantining and reporting processes.- Regularly reviewed code and performed maintainership responsibilities for the gitlab-org/gitlab project.- Participated in pipeline on-call duties.- Wrote and owned OKRs.- Mentored other engineers, including Intermediate SETs.- Lead test automation infrastructure implementations across multiple product areas.

Maintain Selenium Docker repositories. Help maintain core Selenium source and documentation

Kista, Stockholm, Se

- Helped author T-Mobile's Electronic Product Catalog, Order Management, and Order Negotiation Software Development Lifecycles, using GitLab as the backbone.- Used Ansible and Rundeck to manage site infrastructure.- Performed on-call SRE duties.- Met with, and performed demos to clients.- Wrote tools in Python, Bash, and Ruby to plug various tooling together.- Authored a Ruby on Rails build tool from scratch to manage client builds and releases.- Led regular update meetings with clients.- Leveraged Azure to provision instances, manage CIDRs, and supply VPN gateways to client VPNs.- Managed login, OpenSSH, and firewall security in RHEL machines.- Designed and maintained a linux infrastructure a team in Chile.- Mentored and led a Chile-based team to maintain their infrastructure.- Provisioned and used Rancher (Cattle) to manage a fleet of Docker containers.- Set up reverse-proxies.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

- Provisioned test pipelines from scratch using GitLab, Rundeck, and Jenkins.- Authored a Containerized version of SoapUI.- Created end-to-end test beds written in Python.- Wrote custom SonarQube code-quality rules- Created an XML Extractor tool in Python for use in Continuous Integration.

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

- Designed and implemented test automation architectures.- Wrote end-to-end tests using Java and TestNG.- Created a one-stop website for all things "Quality", written in PHP.- Authored Jenkins pipelines to run continuous tests.- Created a greenfield Ruby on Rails project to track test performance, and display graphs of the current infrastructure.- Made a web-based subscription system to regularly email test reports to key personnel.- Leveraged Rundeck and Ansible to provision virtual instances in AWS.- Mentored other Test Engineers and engineers.- Led regular brown-bag meetings to coach team members on test design and processes.- Attended and represented the org at open-source conferences.- Led an open-source initiative, inviting engineers around the area to the office, to discuss test automation and showcase ProQuest's testing paradigm.

- Used Dreamweaver to maintain E-commerce websites created in Joomla.- Leveraged FTP to update webpages in-place.

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