Senior Software Engineer
CurrentWork as an Automated Test Engineer to develop test tools for NGI. Develop/maintain over 2000 automated tests developed in SoapUI Software Suites. Tests utilize REST/SOAP Web Service calls, XPath/CSS querying, Groovy scripting, JDBC database, and Selenium web application verifications. As a member of a SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) team we delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as management continues to transition to an Agile Methodology.Participated in Scrum meetings, which included Program Increment Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Refinement & Retrospective.Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and formalize requirements. Utilize Story Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.Operate in 3-week sprints with flexibility on length based on immediate functionality concerns.Built and maintained Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources in GovCloud. Developed Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) pipelines in GitLab for Kubernetes cluster testing and validation using Sonobuoy. Monitored, maintained, and deployed Kubernetes cluster resources. Monitored and maintained Kubernetes native workflows using Argo for daily creation and destruction of NGI development environments.