Julian Hayward Email & Phone Number

Working at Hastings Direct - doing what I love to do!I am a senior Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET) and enjoy the challenge of architecting the test activities of complex systems and working with developers to achieve an efficient CI/CD pipeline. I fully appreciate the development of reliable software products. I create test plans and test strategies which allow software development teams to incorporate appropriate testing into the continuous integration build, ensuring products are evaluated at scale before deployment. Incorporating test automation, products can be delivered faster as part of an efficient continuous delivery pipeline.Professional SkillsTest Management | Unit, Integration, System and User Acceptance TestingSystems Implementation |Project Management | Test Automation | Cucumber JMeter | Agile | Agile Coaching | Kanban | Scrum | SQL | HTML | JSON | Python Selenium |Jira | Cloud based technology | AWS | CI | DevOps | Team Manager The test process requires documenting to ensure clear communication, test maintenance and knowledge sharing. Working closely with developers and stake to understanding of priorities, and deadlines.I enjoy continuous learning, new tools and techniques. This helps with mentoring junior staff and working across teams. This is the best way to share knowledge, create new ideas and provide quality assurance. Cloud adoption has new and exciting challenges, and presents a whole new area for software test development.I design, develop and maintain automated test scripts using tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Cucumber, JMeter, PITest, but I am familiar with many cross-over applications. I review code written by team members, providing feedback and use code repositories such as GIT to ensure the reliability and scalability of the test automation framework. My specialist skill set is writing adjunct code in languages such as Python and Java to compensate for inadequacies identified in commercial automated testing tools. Creating and executing automated tests for API endpoints using RestAssured, Postman and similar, ensures the reliability and correct function of back-end services. Augmenting tests using tools such as JMeter I orchestrate performance tests to identify bottlenecks, scalability issues, and absolute limits under load conditions. An important part of my day is identifying, documenting and reporting software defects using Jira, and assisting developers as a part of the debugging process.