David Walter Email & Phone Number

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Quality Assurance Engineer on the Analytics team. Building and testing the next generation analytics platform using technologies such as Azure Synapse and Kafka. Testing frameworks include Jmeter and DeeQu.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

As the Automation Architect / Engineer at Silverchiar my role is to help develop the processes and practices to ensure a robust, efficient and maintainable automation strategy for our platform and clients. This involves determine the best automation authoring, executing and infrastructure solutions that balance the various needs of the organization, such as complexity, cost, and personnel skill sets and working with individual development teams to successfully introduce automation efforts into their software development life cycles. Automation efforts range from front end functional testing utilizing various frameworks and standards such as Selenium, API testing via Postman and Katalon, to load and performance testing using Jmeter and Visual Studio Load Testing.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Worked with leadership to pivot the SQA org from a shared services “tester” model to one of embedded well rounded SQA Engineers based on the belief that a deep understanding early in the process yields the greatest value. Shifted from Quality Control to Quality Assurance. Developed SQA Expectations and Rubrics to assist SQA in grokking the pivot and empowering them to be proactive with concepts such as Ownership, Innovation and Influence as the central pillars. Worked with the SQA’s and leadership to develop an identify for the SQA organization to reinforce the pivot throughout the company. Stratified the department to allow a career and advancement path for SQAs. Moved form a pool of “testers” to Associate SQA, SQA, and Senior SQA roles. The associate position is used as a entry level conduit into the company for exceptional individual who may later go on to be SQAs, developers, business analyst or project managers. Reduce toil in the SQA process thru encouraging, advocating, and implementing new resources and process. Developed and implemented efficient, scalable automation process for critical fault detection. Developed processes necessary to give quantifiable levels of confidence for accessibility and SEO compliance.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Recruited by Silverchair to work with a team of motivated, intelligent individuals to develop state of the art solutions for some of the nations leading STEM Journals. Using .Net, HTML5, SQL, etc... we provide an end to end solution for publishers. We develop tools to ingest their content, parse it and add semantical tagging, and then retrieve and display that content on cutting edge websites. My role, as an SQA, is to insure that we deliver the highest quality holistic solution possible. This involves having a deep understanding of our complete tech stack, from XML/JSON content loading to the latest HTML5 front end implementations across browsers...In this role, I've used a context driving testing approach that uses manual testing of the sites combined with automated tests using Selenium Webdriver for front end testing, PAW to automate the API testing, and JMeter for performance and load testing.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Recruited by TicketsToday to work with a team of exceptional individuals. We maintained an e-Ticketing platform that specializes in small venues and festivals. We developed and maintained the complete system: handheld scanners, web stores, e-commerce portals, backend databases, admin portals, etc... Our clients are some of the industries most respected and admired acts, including DMB, Phish, Bonnaroo,etc.... We're responsive to their needs, constantly adapting and adding new functionality on tight timelines to meet their requirements.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Responsible for the Quality Assurance needs of an Agile Scrum team that designs, builds, and maintains complex processes that acquire, extract, load, analyze and present data via web portals and Excel plug ins. Developing a deep understanding and appreciation of database and query design and SQL.Quality Assurance Community Leader for Automated Content. In this role, I work with and mentor other SQA's throughout the SNL organization on scrum teams that are developing workflows for automatically loading data into the SNL database and product. We work together to develop testing strategies and identify risk for senior stakeholders and management. The result of this is a living document of Best Practices for SQA's for Automated Content.

Harrisonburg

Responsible for the Quality of Rosetta Stones TOTALe client side applications. SaaS applications: TOTALe Pro, Studio, COURSe. Mobile applications:TOTALe Mobile Companion (iPhone, Android) , COURSe HD (4.5 star iPad App). and Physical Media applications: Rosetta Stone Course V4.Using Context Driven Testing, lead a team of QA Analysts in developing new test strategies for both legacy code bases and greenfield projects. Sought out the best methodologies, such as automated testing, scripted testing, session based testing, and exploratory testing for a given situation then combined these into a agile and efficient testing strategies that are easily adaptable dependent on business criteria. Developed a deep understanding of cross team coordination, integration points between technologies, and data flow down the funnel from end user usage thru wired or wireless protocols thru server validation and communication to database storage. Developed ways to communicate these strategies and test plans in clear, concise ways. Mind Mapping, Inforgraphics, and other forms of multimedia were were used to communicate up to stakeholders and as instructional materials for testers.

Working with the Mobile Apps Team developing language learning apps for mobile platforms. Delivered Rosetta Course HD for iPad (4.5 Stars), Rosetta Stone Discover (featured on App Store Education) and TOTALe Companion for iPhone. Practiced the Principles of Context Driven Testing by implementing a Session Based Test Strategy for RosettaCourse, our iPad client which was rapidly developed using Agile. This approached provided for faster test cycles, less resource utilization, more direct UIUX feedback while resulting in a 4.5 star rated app.Deep Dive in the iOS tech stack. Have a holistic knowledge of iOS Quality Assurance including foundational architectural design decisions, in-app purchase deployment, UIAutomation for automated QC tasks as well as various tools within Instruments such as Time Profiler and Leaks for profiling and debugging.

Legacy Village, Cleveland Ohio

Worked here after selling the dealership for something to do and for the fun of it. Learned valuable lessons about customer satisfaction, including the three A's and three P's. Worked with an amazing group of really talented and smart individuals. Developed my knowledge of all things Apple, Multimedia design, photography, videography, and info graphics here.

Akron, Oh

Founder and Centre Manager of Land Rover Akron, Ohio's first Land Rover Centre.Developed my knowledge of leadership and team management here. Opened the first dedicated Land Rover Centre in Ohio. Recruited, hired, trained and lead a small and talented group of unique individuals. Implemented a innovative compensation policy that consisted of 3 equal parts based on Customer Satisfaction, Team Performance, and Individual Performance which encouraged cross role collaboration amongst team members. Direct P&L Responsibility. Sold the Business in 2007.