Jacob Rede Email & Phone Number

Temecula, California, United States

• Conducted Technical Interviews for prospective Software QA's• Created Selenium python docker containers• Created selenium Page Object Model framework in python• Created Image diff compare tests for webelements x, y, width, and height• Created multiple Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to auto test after deployments• Executed deployments to both integration & production environments• Debugged complex problems with API testing using Postman• Maintained multiple repositories used by different teams• Created git tagging format / structure for teams• Created locust.io performance testing scripts• Created / Optimized locust.io redis cache heating scripts• Created / Outlined performance tests and how our application performs while under load• Conducted meetings with clients to go over performance testing results and discussed what types of tests would be conducted• Reduced automation test error rate from 7.5% to <1.5%• Implemented Jira, Gitlab, and MySQL API's into our automation framework• Implemented Jira commenting system• Created automated test creation script, will parse out documented manual tests and create automated versions• Created global spellchecker for all test cases• Updated automation Docker containers for newly added features• Created new automation sanity test pipeline• Implemented multiple CICD pipeline execution (multiple automation test repositories synced together)• Analyzed logs to determine best fix for under performing parts of our application• Created 1000s of automated test cases in python• Analyzed Splunk & DataDog results to find potential issues

Lake Elsinore, California

• Created player projection system for three major sports; NFL, NBA, and MLB • Created website DFSCombine.com for letting others simulate baseball players fantasy scores • Created Selenium applications to perform data-scraping services for automating database updates / automatically editing hundreds of lineups based on late-breaking news • Designed genetic algorithms for automatically adjusting variables to minimize error rate with player regression projections using C# .NET • Implemented Accord .Net genetic algorithms for: lineup optimization, error rate minimization, and player selection. • Created multiple MySQL databases with relational integrity in order to quickly create player statistics across different code-basis. • Moving from working full-time to playing daily fantasy sports full-time was an adventure! I had the chance to try something unique and felt I was still young enough to endure the risk. I learned an incredible amount about the sports that I love and how to use big data to my advantage.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Created & maintained multiple Selenium test suites for many of the internal websites that Progressive hosts (C#) • Created documentation for undocumented testing applications that our team was currently hosting • Developed team portal website using Web API 2.0 and AngularJS for the front end with Bootstrap for the styling • Created XSLT code colorization tool for showing new developers how their changes would affect the resulting XML documents • Created XSLT mathematical operation checks for ensuring that any math that was done during the XSLT transformation was correct • Identified over 100 errors with mathematical operations that went uncheck during XSLT execution • Led a handful of daily standups, SCRUM style • Transitioning from a full time college student to working at Progressive was a great experience, Progressive is a great place for new graduates to enter the work force and i'm glad I had the opportunity!