Matthew Eakin Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Lead a global team of software testers. Responsibilities include:* Create and implement training Workshops to ensure team has latest and greatest skills* Create and evangelize a "Who the QA Engineering Discipline is and what we do" sales deck* Research latest AI in Testing trends and incorporate them into the trainings* Created and lead the first "AI in Testing Challenge" at Launch* Create and continue to evolved an in-house application to help Studio and Discipline Leads manage their bench consultants

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Helping clients through their Test Automation journey.

Versailles, Oh, Us

As the Test Automation Manager, Mr. Eakin is responsible for creating and implementing Midmark ITs overall Testing Strategy and promoting a test-first mindset throughout the organization. Aligning the Testing Strategy with 2-3 OKR's was key. Specfically 1 or 2 "big boulders" which drove all of our work. Next was aligning with Midmark's extensive QMS; which is driven by FDA regulations. Upon arrival at Midmark IT, Mr. Eakin found an organization early in its agile transformation and early in its testing and test automation journey. Most testing was manual. The little test automation in place was python-Robotframework and mostly happy path and negative testing. Not familiar with python, Mr. Eakin had to quickly learn it. Midmark also had no dedicated testers; which meant a lot of "hands on" testing work. Midmark’s primary applications are Oracle EBS, SalesForce and in-house MuleSoft built API’s. This also required a lot of learning as Mr. Eakin had never tested Oracle EBS or SalesForce before. The biggest challenge Mr. Eakin has faced is getting all testing into Azure DevOps. The agile teams have only been using ADO for a couple of years. So much of the requirements and test cases were scattered elsewhere. It's a large, on-going effort to get enough documentation into ADO to be able to test all of our Must Have, Should Have and Could Have requirements. This effort began laying the groundwork for determining what needs to be tested and how it should be tested (manual, automated using UiPath, automated using python/Robotframework).

South Jordan, Utah, Us

When hired Innovecture was looking at Practices to better align resources and help drive sales. Over the next few months Mr. Eakin worked with almost everyone at Innovecture, in the US, India and London to create a Practice Roadmap. This work-in-progress leveraged Mr. Eakin’s vast knowledge of how Practices are organized and aligned to help Innovecture drive future sales. His first assignment as an ATDD Coach was with the KNOW-it-all’s (as they became known). They had no working knowledge of agile and a legacy MEAN stack application originally built over 5 years ago. Team KNOW-it-all’s transformation covered every aspect: epic breakdowns into testable, behavior-driven User Stories with gherkin scripted Acceptance Criteria which were automated with Cypress; value streams and workflows; 3 Amigo’s meetings; sprint planning; creating a team heartbeat; retrospectives; and much more. To measure the transformation progress, Mr. Eakin helped create a transformation assessment. When the KNOW-it-all’s started they were 0’s (out of 4) across the board. In 3 months Mr. Eakin was able to raise the team up to a level 2 with many categories trending toward 3. In a follow-up assessment conducted in August, the team continued their agile transformation, scoring a 3 in many categories with some even trending toward 4’s.On his last assignment Mr. Eakin was part of a team of Agile Coaches. The PPM Program underwent a SAFe transformation prior to the teams arrival. But it was very poorly coached and trained. Mr. Eakin was spread across 8 US-based teams. His primary focus was Product Discovery Workshops; epic break-downs, user journey maps, behavior-driven User Stories with gherkin-scripted acceptance criteria, 3 Amigo’s team discussions. As the team moved into the 2nd PI, assessments were conducted on all PPM teams (which now included 4 International teams). Mr. Eakin’s focused shifted to educating and training various teams on gaps which were revealed during the assessments.

Dayton, Ohio, Us

General testing Consultant. During his time at Centric, Mr. Eakin created numerous Testing Strategy documents; conducted numerous Testing Assessments; developed behavior-driven and Gherkin Scripting Workshops which were conducted internally, at client sites, and nationally at various Software Testing Conferences; created and implemented numerous cucumber (Ruby) frameworks which were used for UI and acceptance testing, API testing, and database testing; lead various teams of manual and automated testers; conducted mobile testing, API testing (using Postman), data movement validation using QuerySurge; leverage docker to execute 1,000’s of automated tests simultaneously; helped create a DevOps pipeline leveraging various automated tests; created and managed teams of testers, both manual and automated, both onshore and offshore.

Dayton, Ohio, Us

As the Test Lead role was transitioned to Argo, Mr. Eakin was retained to continue developing and maturing the monitoring process. Scope grew to include workflow orchestration using AWS Step Functions calling AWS Lambda Functions which utilized AWS SSM Scripts. Workflow orchestration was new to Argo. Currently includes running Attunity jobs (data movement). Upon successful completion execute test automation validations.

Dayton, Ohio, Us

Argo is a global business insurance company. In 2017 Centric was brought in to do a comprehensive Data Strategy to migrate over 40 source systems into 1 large Data Mart. The Data Mart will then be used by Argo Executives and Actuaries to drive business decisions. In January, 2019 Mr. Eakin was brought on and was faced with a daunting challenge. There are over 40 source systems on various platforms: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and Snowflake which are being transformed into Postgres database on AWS. In addition to “normal” ETL testing, Data Governance rules are then applied to the data before it is finally moved into an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). Since there has never been a “normalization” of the data effort at Argo, even migrating one database all the way through to the EDW was challenging. The goal of test automation was to free up the manual testers from the “routine” testing (validate record counts, validate all columns were migrated properly, validate all column data types were migrated correctly, validate Data Quality rules applied) so they can tackle the more challenging data issues which arose.While this data transformation was going on, the team was also a pilot project at Argo in Agile delivery. Argo has never tried Agile before and much of the team and its structure was driven by Argo. A major part of Mr. Eakin’s role on the project has been Agile transformation and helping establish an Agile roadmap. As the scope of the OneData Project grew so did the scope of the test automation framework. Data was being moved into a Landing Zone (PostgreSQL in AWS Cloud), a Data Lake (PostgreSQL in AWS Cloud), a Snowflake database (Snowflake in AWS Cloud) used by the Actuaries, and to the EDW (PostgreSQL in AWS Cloud). Results of the validations were uploaded to AWS Metrics (for monitoring and alerting) and to a reporting database we created which fed a PowerBI data movement dashboard.

Dayton, Ohio, Us

Worked with Clarity Leadership Team to create and implement an agile transformation roadmap. Based on the roadmap, developed a Test Strategy to determine the best way to test Clarity’s CSP (Customer Service Portal) application. Built an automated regression suite from scratch using Ruby-Cucumber running in a Centric-side Integration environment. As code was deployed using Jenkins in AWS, numerous tests were executed; which included web-layer validation, API validation and business logic validation for over 60 web pages.

Dayton, Ohio, Us

Account Center is a secure online credit account management site. The site offers publicly available pages geared to marketing information and credit application as well as secure pages with credit-oriented financial services, bill pay, management of account information, loyalty and other marketing programs. Prior to Matthew's arrival as Test Strategist the Manual Testing team, the Automation Testing team and the rest of the Agile Team (Developers, ScrumMaster, Analysts) all reported to separate organizations. It was a very waterfall, silo'd approach to project delivery. Upon his arrival, Matthew lead the merger of all roles into one organization (Digital Technology Organization) and ultimately co-located.During his time as DTO's Test Strategist Matthew accomplished: • Agile Transformation Board was created in DTO to help guide the organization from a waterfall SDLc into a more agile methodology. Matthew sat on this Board from its inception to when he left ADS, • Created an overall DTO-Testing Strategy which emphasized Collaboration, Automation and Training, • Created a DTO-Testing roadmap based on the Strategy. • Staffing - created roadmap to get testing staff levels from 6:1 developer-tester ratio to 2:1 • Regression Suite - there was no regression suite when Matthew arrived. The roadmap laid out a plan to first get a Smoke Test suite running to Pass in all environments, then specific functionality, then different browsers, and finally different mobile devices. • Reporting - Product Owners, ScrumMasters, Management and other staff contributors were involved in discussions develop reports on each build (is the environment ready to be tested?), on functional tests (are the changes introduced by the Developers working) and on regression tests (did the Developers break anything else in the application?), • Created job descriptions and job expectations for all Manual and Automation roles

Dayton, Ohio, Us

ScrumMaster for 4 agile teams: • Team TooFast (Production Support for the Account Center application) - Established agile processes to manage the intake of production support tickets to be worked; managed the process of how work is managed using Kanban methodology. • Team WolfPack (Technical debt application development) - Established agile processes to manage the intake and completion of technical debt work; managed the process of how work is managed using SCRUM methodology. • Team CBC (Development team for Commenity Business Center application) - Established SCRUM methodology to manage team workload. • DevOps Team (Operation/System support for Account Center application) - Established Kanban methodology to manage team workload.

Dayton, Ohio, Us

Worked with a small team to develop an automated testing solution for the Guidewire application using the ruby/cucumber automation tool. Guidewire is a web-based Claims processing tool. While highly customizable, the core Guidewire product was used. Automating such a “black box” has its own unique challenges. As a team we were able to overcome these challenges and create a framework which will help companies improve their Guidewire testing efforts and significantly improve documentation of the core system functionality. Automated 8 scenarios (a Personal Auto claim with an unverified policy, a Personal Auto claim with an existing policy, a Commercial Property claim with an unverified policy, a Homeowners claim with an unverified policy, a Workers’ Compensation claim – Incident only with an unverified policy, a Workers’ Compensation claim – Loss of work claim with an unverified policy, a Workers’ Compensation claim – Hospital visit claim with an unverified policy, and a validation test of an error message).

Paris, Paris - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

Created an overall Testing Strategy to build and test the Residual Value Setting application. Testing complexity included 3 phases (Administration, Setting, Reporting) an on-shore, off-shore mix of developers, and 3 testing environments (integration, QA, and acceptance) and included in-house manual business acceptance testing. Due to the projects iterative timeline and use of ATDD principles (both of which were new to BMWFS), a large emphasis was placed on the Test Strategy to help guide the entire team through daily work.Out of the Test Strategy we decided to leverage a ruby/cucumber automation framework for the integration, acceptance and in-house manual testing efforts of the web-based application. QualityCenter was used to coordinate BMW UAT testing. Reports were sent out daily to all Sogeti and BMW project team members detailing testing progress for the day. Completed Phase 1 (Administration) on time in spite of numerous set-backs presented by BMWFS. Automated all 134 scenarios using a ruby/cucumber framework. This framework was used in Phase 2 as a full regression suite and executed daily to testing numerous refactorings of the code and database due to BMW corporate standards. Zero defects were open entering and exiting Phase 1 UAT testing.

Paris, Paris - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

Specialization in Agile Testing transformation and general testing. During his time at Sogeti, Mr. Eakin immersed himself in agile testing. The immersion began with learning the cucumber test automation framework (Ruby) and all things agile. As his experience grew, he applied his knowledge and enthusiasm into creating an Agile Boot Camp and a Cucumber (Ruby) Boot Camp for Sogeti. Both became very successful and were offered externally to clients and internally to all Sogeti USA consultants nationwide.In addition to his agile work, Mr. Eakin conducted numerous Testing Assessments; developed behavior-driven and Gherkin Scripting Workshops which were conducted internally and at client sites; created and implemented numerous cucumber (Ruby) frameworks which were used for UI and acceptance testing, API testing, and database testing; lead various teams of manual and automated testers; conducted mobile testing, API testing (using Postman), data movement validation using cucumber (Ruby); helped create a DevOps pipelines (Jenkins, Bamboo) leveraging various automated tests.

Paris, Paris - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

Worked with NiSource testing team and business owners to automate many of their Job Order testing scripts using HP’s Unified Functional Testing (formerly Quick Test Pro) tool. The entire flow was driven by data in a spreadsheet. As flows were created they were presented to the business who made suggestions/recommendations.  Automated the Job Order Create flow Automated the Job Order Planning flow Automated the Time Entry (against a Job Order) flow Automated the Job Order Execution flow

Paris, Paris - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

CASDraw is a JAVA Applet that Chemists around the world use to draw chemical structures. This structure is then used to search CAS’s extensive databases for any abstract ever published which references that specific structure. The CASDraw Agile team’s task was to re-write the entire application from the ground up in JavaScript.Project Accomplishments as Test Manager Created an overall Test Strategy for the Project in Iteration 0. This laid out what needed to be tested, which environments each test was to be executed in, when each type of test was to be executed, and that we were going to leverage a ruby-cucumber test automation framework. Reporting (daily, per sprint, for management) was also detailed. Created and helped maintain a Ruby automated framework to test the web-based CASDraw application Was primarily responsible for writing Acceptance Test scripts in the Gherkin Scripting language Integrated Ruby automated framework, which included the Gherkin Scripts, into a GIT repositoryIntegrated framework to execute when application code is checked into Gerrit/Jenkins code review system Integrated framework to execute on numerous virtual machines (VM’s) of various Operating System/Browser combinations Worked with CAS QA Team to create an extensive run reporting databaseProject Accomplishments as ScrumMaster Created weekly progress reports for CAS and Sogeti Created and maintained a project burn-up chart Led team decomposition discussions on numerous Epics Was responsible for creating and adding cards to our Agile Wall Led Amigo Review & initial Gherkin Script/Acceptance Test Scripts discussions Facilitated “monthly” retrospectives with the team As team “roadblocks” were seen, lead team discussions on potential solutions Ensured all Epics, User Stories, and defects were entered and tracked in JIRA/Greenhopper Facilitated daily stand-ups Was responsible to demonstrate to the business owners completed functionality

Paris, Paris - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

Primary task was to teach Managers and Testers how to test using the Ruby Programming Language. A curriculum was created to walk the teams through the basics of the Ruby programming language and the RubyMine IDE tool. A lunch-and-learn was held with the Team to plan out which training modules they needed/wanted and which they didn’t. From this meeting the courses were customized to better suit the Nationwide team.After the 3 day Workshop was completed, monthly coaching sessions were held. The purpose of these sessions was to ensure the testers were using all they learned and to help them get around any difficult Ruby problem that arose.

Paris, Paris - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

Primary task was to build out the Nationwide Investments testing team. This included, but was not limited to: helping with interviews, on-boarding (making sure all new testers were set-up properly in all the systems and applications they needed to be), and on-going training and coaching in Agile testing (Ruby programming language, working with the “team” to get proper acceptance criteria for each user story, creating comprehensive cucumber scenarios to ensure proper functional and regression testing is done, documenting results, working with the “team” to determine when the project is done).As the need diminished to bring on new testers, Mr. Eakin’s focus shifted from Manager to Individual Contributor; although the role and responsibilities of “Manager” never fully ended. As an Individual Contributor Mr. Eakin was “in the trenches”, assigned to an Agile team, working with the team from receipt of User Story through production implementation. Tasks included, but were not limited to: working with the team to get the best User Story, working with the team to get the best Acceptance Criteria, working with the team to determine the best Gherkin script Scenarios to thoroughly cover the changes needed, developed Ruby code to execute the Gherkin script Scenarios using cucumber and other Ruby gems.  Developed a comprehensive Tester On-Boarding Checklist Developed a thorough Ruby training program Coached the testing team to the point where they were the team members leading many important Agile discussions Worked with NW Investments staff to develop a better way to test Upgrades Used my knowledge of Ruby to develop an Automated Regression tool which saved NWINV significant manual testing man hours

Paris, Paris - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

Primary task is to build an automated database conversion testing suite using the Ruby programming language and Gherkin scripts. The Department of Public Safety was converting from an Oracle database to a SQLServer database. A framework was created to read data from the Oracle database and validate it was converted properly into the SQLServer database.

Paris, Paris - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

Provide Testing Lead support for the Online Account Opening (OAO) project. This was a new application development exclusively by Sogeti to make Huntington’s online account opening process much more streamlined.  Developed a comprehensive testing plan Worked with all project participants to identify high-risk areas of the application. This was incorporated into the test plan and drove our testing efforts. Created over 500 functional test scripts; covering login, customer information, disclosures, account funding and selecting plastics. Managed the functional and integration testing phases of the project Assisted the business with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase of the project Managed all defects raised during functional, integration and UAT testing in Mercury Quality Center. Tasks include: validation, assigning to development, re-testing and assigning to original tester for more re-test, closing/deferring/rejecting defect.  Utilized Selenium and Quick Test Pro (QTP) for regression testing Utilized Gomez to do cross-browser testingAdditional Accomplishments Worked with Huntington testing team to improve their scripting process Worked with Huntington testing team to develop a testing plan template Worked with Huntington testing team to develop during-project reporting templates and post-project reporting templates Worked with Huntington testing team to improve their automation process

New York, Ny, Us

I was the Software Quality Control Lead for HP's ServiceManager (former ServiceCenter), HP's Release Manager (former Change Control Manager) and the in-house Enterprise Change Management System (ECMS).

New York, Ny, Us

Managed Production incidents in the Enterprise Systems line-of-business.

New York, Ny, Us

Built entire client-server testing process at Chase Home Finance - Core Servicing

Mpa, Public Administration

Bachelors, Political Science