Joseph Conlin Email & Phone Number

Tooele, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Software Technology Group, Quality Assurance Lead 9/2008 – PresentContract with State of Utah Department of Health 9/2021 – PresentSelenium, Java, Git, Maven, TestNG, PostgreSQL, Jira, Wildfly- Built and maintained a Java / TestNG / Selenium page object based testing framework- Provided Java programming leadership / mentoring to more junior QA engineer teammate- Took on task of researching / creating proof of concept version of the J2EE application able to run on Wildfly 26 with Elytron security as well as being JDK 17 compatible- Executed automated tests and reported results for release candidate and new functionality branches- Worked with dev leadership to define QA stories and subtasks for automation- Worked with dev leadership to better understand QA best practices / methodologies / thought processes

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Software Technology Group, Quality Assurance Lead 9/2008 – PresentContract with LDS Church (Enterprise Web Services Team) 7/2021 – 8/2021SoapUI, Groovy, Github, Jira- Executed and updated existing SoapUI tests for regression testing

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Software Technology Group, Quality Assurance Lead 9/2008 – PresentContract with Pattern 2/2021 – 6/2021Selenium, Java, Github, Maven, TestNG, Clickup- Wrote and executed Selenium automated tests for new inventory management system- Worked with developers and project management to define desired test cases, report test results, and support deployment of the new system

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Software Technology Group, Quality Assurance Lead 9/2008 – PresentContract with Unishippers/Worldwide Express 2/2019 – 10/2020Selenium, Rest Assured, Java, Git, Maven, TestNG, JMeter, PostgreSQL, Jira, Jenkins, Docker- Provided Java programming leadership / mentoring to QA team spread across sites in Salt Lake City and Dallas working on testing brand new micro-services application- Coordinated with QA leadership on code reviews and suggested and implemented standardized Maven and Java coding standards- Instructed QA team and implemented best practices for enabling parallel test runs by writing thread-safe test code while using Extent Reports and Selenium- Wrote performance testing framework using Maven and jmeter-maven-plugin and created Jenkins job to enable easy performance testing with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) system- Took on task of researching automated testing of notifications sent via email and text and recommended / implemented testing using Mailosaur as the receiving service for both- Wrote manual and automated test cases for new functionality- Executed manual and automated test cases, logged defects, tested fixes

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Software Technology Group, Quality Assurance Lead 9/2008 – PresentContract with Northwest Research Inc./FedEx 12/2015 – 2/2019Selenium, Appium, Java, Git, Maven, JUnit, Gauge, PostgreSQL, Jira, Jenkins, Docker• Lead team of two QA engineers working to test a system for warehousing and researching lost package shipments as well as a custom online shopping application• Maintained and rewrote existing automated tests into a more maintainable page object model and provided automation guidance and standards to other QA engineers• Wrote new automation framework for new version of warehousing application and guided creation of new automation framework for Android handheld access to existing application• Updated new warehousing application Jenkinsfile for Jenkins pipeline build to better utilize Maven Docker container and run integration tests via Maven and JUnit• Wrote manual and automated test cases for new functionality• Executed manual and automated test cases, logged bugs, tested fixes• Wrote and distributed release testing reports• Finished migration of automation framework from TWIST to Gauge with Selenium Grid• Coordinated with managers and training team to provide internal and external customer support as issues arose

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Contract with LDS Church (Missionary Language Evaluation Team) 5/2013 – 9/2015Oracle, Jira, Enterprise Tester, Anthill Pro• Lead team of two QA engineers working to test new application and integration with multiple existing applications• Wrote test cases for new functionality• Manually executed test cases, logged bugs, tested fixes• Wrote and updated release plans, stabilization and test plan• Coordinated with QA leads on integration of our application into their applications and release plans and schedules• Assisted with creation of knowledge base articles, help and support documentation• Provided internal and external customer support as issues aroseContract with LDS Church (Seminaries and Institutes – WISE, SIBI) 3/2012 – 5/2013C#, mbUnit, WatiN, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Oracle, Microsoft Test Manager• Worked closely with developers and designers to document requirements of new features• Wrote test cases for new functionality• Manually executed test cases, logged bugs, tested fixes• Updated existing automated tests and wrote new automated tests to work with new version of WISE• Worked with developers to create SQL scripts for SIBI reports and insert large sets of test data for SIBI• Provided internal and external customer support as issues arose

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Software Technology Group, Quality Assurance Lead 9/2008 – PresentContract with LDS Church (CrowdSource Team) 2/2010 – 2/2012C#, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server (TFS), SQL Server, Microsoft Test Manager• Worked closely with developers and designers to document requirements of new features• Worked closely with customers to validate business requirements and foster User Acceptance testing• Wrote test cases for new functionality, created reports to summarize information about work items and test cases, and integrated reports with Sharepoint for easy access by team members and customers• Manually executed test cases, logged bugs, tested fixes, and occasionally fixed bugs in the source code• Coordinated testing assignments on a team of two and provided technical and process guidance• Provided internal and external customer support as issues arose• Helped create second generation architecture to better meet customer needsContract with LDS Church (IMOS Team) 9/2008 – 1/2010Java, Watij, TestNG, SQL, Jira, TestLink• Updated existing automated tests and wrote new automated tests to work with new version of IMOS• Worked closely with developers and designers to document requirements of new features• Wrote test cases for new functionality and was a key contributor in refactoring existing test cases• Manually executed test cases, logged bugs, tested fixes, and worked through any problems arising as part of the testing process• Tested each new release of IMOS as it went into production to help ensure correct installs

Technical Support Engineer II, Brooks Automation/Applied Materials, Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 2006 – Sept. 2008Advanced Productivity Family (APF) support team (Sept. 2006 – Sept. 2008).- Provided phone, email, and on-site technical customer support for APF application suite.- Wrote BASH and BATCH scripts to gather data for multiple components to help debug process hangs and provide information to development for bug fixes.- Participated as support representative on the Integration Project team, attending meetings, creating training materials, and sharing new feature knowledge with support for each new release of the Integration components of APF.- Handled automated Windows crash reports, looked up the stack traces, and logged defects for the crashes.- Assisted with support level code debugging in C/C++, and served as the team expert in dealing with Java issues with customers.

TOPS QA web integration test team (Dec 2005 – Sept. 2006).- Wrote and tested C-based Mercury Load Runner scripts as part of a performance test of a J2EE based loan application.- Wrote Jameleon test scripts in XML and Jameleon custom functional tags in Java to automate J2EE web application testing.- Interfaced with development to provide improved HTML tags for automated testing.

ZENworks Linux Management (ZLM) integration test team (Mar 2005 – Nov 2005). - Wrote and executed manual and automated test cases for the mirroring and imaging components of ZLM.Novell Migration Wizard and Server Consolidation Utility team (Nov 2003 – Mar 2005).- Ran and streamlined the manual test cases and developed several automated test cases to increase coverage. Novell J2EE/Web Services team (Dec 2000 – Nov 2003).- Tested J2EE application servers on NetWare (SilverStream Application Server, IBM WebSphere, JBOSS, Tomcat Servlet Engine).Novell Intern, Logan, UT, (Feb 1999 – Dec 2000).- Recruited top Computer Science and Engineering students from Utah State University to visit Novell and helped place them in jobs with Novell (internships and full time positions).