Jamie Pendleton Email & Phone Number

Reading, Ma, Us

* Currently working with a well-managed, awesome group of people on an Agile team as contractor, developing insurance related, field employee tools for FM (formerly FM Global)* Attending quarterly planning meetings in Providence, RI.* Attending daily scrum, sprint planning, retro meetings.* Using Cypress/JavaScript and C#, to develop automated UI and API tests, then push them through PR creation, code review, merge, then monitor. My goal is to always have automation in sync with what is going to go to prod. I like bullet proof automation.* Monitoring results, reporting product bugs and fixing automation bugs* Manual testing* Using Microsoft DevOps* UI and API testing* Utilizing browser dev tools, including DOM Inspector, Network, Console, and Application tabs/tools, Postman

Senior Software QA Engineer in an Agile dev environment, with a strong focus on automation, including Selenium and Cypress. Detail-oriented and results-driven, excellent communicator, problem solver, and team player, emphasizing knowledge sharing. My collaborative approach with Test, Product Management, and Development teams consistently produced impactful results on product outcomes. I am eager to learn and adapt, thrive in dynamic environments, and continuously apply new skills and cutting-edge testing methodologies to meet evolving business needs. • Recruited to establish automation for the Endurance FOS Marketing team.• Authored and maintained UI, API Automation using Selenium WebDriver (JS), Cypress, POM, node.js, Mocha test framework, Chai assertion libraries. Offloaded cross browser test runs on BrowserStack. • Re-wrote/migrated projects from Selenium WebDriver (JS) to Cypress (JS), unifying automation across teams. • Proactively identified, communicated, and documented issues found on pretest, qa, and staging environments to developers. Actively monitored test results run on production after launches.• Monitored UI, API availability, performance and errors on Rigor Frmwk.• Verified fixes and tested new stories daily. Monitored and updated qa ticket status. • Attended daily stand-up, sprint planning, retro meetings. • Strived to merge new automation in sync with product maintenance and new feature releases.• Code reviewed peer's automation • Utilized SourceTree, Git, Stash, Bitbucket, and Bamboo for source control and builds. CI/CD• Utilized browser dev tools, including DOM Inspector, Network, Console, and Application tabs/tools, Postman. • Maintained cutting-edge versions of testing frameworks, ensuring up-to-date and efficient automation code.• Collaborated with other teams to test and implement new API methods, acting as an early expert and mentor for unified API releases across brands.• Authored onboarding procedures for new employees

Automation test engineer for EBSCO Medical product line offerings in an Agile oriented work environment, implementing continuous integration and development strategies. The apps built by our group at EBSCO are designed to return medical content used by doctors and nurses, as a means of properly diagnosing patients, and to master required career skill sets. • Conducted API and Web UI automation testing for .NET front-end web apps and services on AWS using Selenium C# and WebDriver JS.• Executed end-to-end/integration API and UI automation (desktop and mobile) for front-end web apps and microservices on AWS, employing Selenium WebDriverJS, JavaScript, Mocha test framework, Chai, assertion libraries, Sauce Labs, Loopback API framework within Visual Studio Code IDE.• Engaged in continuous peer reviews of fellow tester and developer code.• Demonstrated adaptability in a rapidly changing development environment, swiftly shifting gears to meet evolving requirements.• Documented defects and verified fixes to maintain a comprehensive record of the testing process.• Participated in biannual corporate-wide Agile product planning sessions to strategize for new and backlog features

Focused on testing of Master Data Management Integration project implementing SSIS. Project required a meticulous approach to testing and problem-solving to ensure the successful implementation and reliability of enterprise data processing and business intelligence tools.• Conducted comprehensive automated and manual testing of SSIS packages and REST Directory services API using Robot Framework, integrating built-in and database libraries (Python version), as well as SoapUI.• Implemented Browser UI automation using Robot Framework in conjunction with Selenium 2 library.• Analyzed daily automation failure logs to swiftly identify and address issues, ensuring the reliability of the testing suite.• Reported and investigated product defects, collaborating closely with developers to discuss solutions and verify fixes.• Executed testing procedures for product Hub, integration tables, stored procedures, product views, and schema changes.• Gathered and maintained data samples stored in BacPacs, integral for automation SSIS and API tests.• Diagnosed data issues in various test environments using SQL queries, ensuring data integrity.• Utilized Jira Agile Systems and GIT Source Control system to manage project tasks and version control.

Automated testing of Office Win32 Client Authoring Apps Suite. (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Microsoft’s SharePoint, MySite site instantiation (a document, content, task and profile manager), Document locations API.• Lead test ownership of product features: Worked closely with Product Management and Development from inception to RTM of features I was responsible for. • Documented technical test specifications based off of product specs, and collaborative meetings with Product Management and Development.• Owned and maintained test cases based on specifications and customer scenarios. • Wrote and maintained automated client server UI and performance tests in C#.• Used SharePoint Log viewer, SQL tables, SharePoint PowerShell scripts, and correlating product code, as a means of diagnosing and debugging feature failures.• Tested features for World readiness and localization for all supported languages. • Collaborated with Test/Development/Product Management to reproduce and deliver timely solutions for critical, and escalated defects of shipped legacy products.• Drove efficient results with peers in scheduled group test fests to out bugs early in the development cycle.• Authored technical documentation of test procedures in an effort to enable other testers. • Acted as internal driver for IE and Windows sustained support: Communicated automation run results to peers for IE, Windows patches, Service packs, as well as for new IE and OS versions, in an effort to sign off on continued quality of our features. • Supported legacy products through diagnosis of customer issues, investigation of automation failures, testing of hotfixes, in an effort to ensure continued 10-year quality for Microsoft products.• Trained on internal systems required for test: VM, Server, Virtual Dev and Local Dev/source control setups.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Manual and automated testing of Groove Management products. The concentration of our test group to Invest in integration and assimilation of Microsoft standards into our own testing and products. • Wrote and maintained test cases based off of product specifications working closely with PM and Dev.• Wrote and maintained automated tests using Java to verify Groove Manager UI features and data recovery tool. • Involved in initial and long term effort of ramp up, learning Microsoft’s testing methodologies, source depot, C # automation environment and other technologies.• Continued Groove Networks feature and test assignments while testing integration of our products into existing Microsoft Sharepoint offerings, in an effort to assimilate our features with Microsoft standards.• Cross team collaboration driver, acting as team liaison with other Microsoft team’s concerning common test requirements such as AD Group Policy Objects, and Office customization tool settings.

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Testing of the Groove Management Server product, used by admins to create Active Directory integrated Groove identities, impose administrative security policies, generate usage reports. • Wrote and maintained test cases based off of product specifications. • Worked closely with Product Management and Development from inception to RTM of features. • Conducted manual client/server testing of server admin pages, identity and device policies, licensing, account activation, data recovery, and other UI features.• Conducted testing of internal and external Groove PKI (public key infrastructure, certificate authority) features pertaining to Domain trust relationships, identity authentication, smart card and password reset, certificate expiration/revocation.• Used C++ debugger to provide detailed bugs with call stacks, local variable values, code snippets for exceptions, access violations, assertions. • Worked with Dev and release engineering on a revolving basis to run automated smoke tests for each build.• Reproduced/documented/regressed bug fixes working closely with product developers.• Tested global readiness and localization for the different supported languages.

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Tested Xerox Scansoft imaging and optical character recognition software bundled with nearly all consumer and enterprise scanners. • Tested OEM scanning software across leading scanners to ensure market compatibility with the product.• Wrote and maintained test cases pertaining to features I owned. • Documented and reported defects to development team, verified and regressed fixes.• Set up and maintained images in all supported OS languages.• World readiness and localization testing for the different supported languages.

Ba, Philosophy/Psychology

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