Ryan Davis Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Portland, OR, US

• Contributed to the success of the Scrum team by designing, coding and testing software components to implement features defined in Agile stories.
• Significantly reduced operating costs by replacing scheduled email feature in legacy platform with a client component that integrates with an external AWS Lambda-based component (Java, Spring, RxJava, AWS Lambda.
• Measured and reported software quality metrics of a new scheduled email component by developing a manual regression test plan, managing its execution, determining root cause of reported defects and communicating the.
• Enabled external customers of our team’s REST API component to filter results by implementing a custom query URL parameter (Java, RxJava, Spring, Maven)
• Notified external consumers of state changes made to domain objects owned by our team’s platform component by publishing messages to an AWS SNS topic by implementing an AWS SNS Client component to publish the messages.
• Enabled internationalization of results from our team’s REST API component by providing translations based upon the accept-language HTTP Request header field (Java, Spring, Maven)

• Significantly improved performance of automated test execution by preventing the creation of unnecessary Gradle Tasks by implementing a JVM parameter to gate the dynamic Gradle Task creation (Java, Groovy, Gradle)
• Enabled team members to develop automated tests faster by implementing JVM parameters to disable executing failed tests for a second time and to disable deletion of data created in the system by the tests (Java.
• Implemented automated regression tests to verify REST API component (Groovy, Spock, REST-assured, Maven)
• Implemented automated regression tests to verify legacy Web UI components (Java, TestNG, Selenium\WebDriver, HttpClient, Gradle, Jenkins)
• Provided technical expertise to the team in test automation, Gradle, Groovy and Spock

Suwanee, Georgia, US

Beaverton, OR, US

Beaverton, OR, US

• enabled QA engineers on four project teams to develop effective automated tests by providing mentorship, custom software tools and expertise in test automation, programming, software design/architecture, build systems.
• established, communicated and documented best practices for using Gradle to execute QA automated tests, implemented and shared a reference implementation (Java, Groovy, Geb, Spock, Gradle, Windows Shell Scripts.
• enabled an agile team to meet its goals by assuming a Java Developer role for two Sprints, used Spring to proxy domain data through a Java backend, developed unit tests (Java, Spring, Groovy, Gradle, TestNG)
• created a reference implementation Gradle Wrapper project to demonstrates the best practices and act as a template from which Nike Java and Groovy applications can be built upon
• assisted Dev Ops team by designing and implementing an automated process to manage the deployment and configuration of Selenium and Saucelabs external dependencies used by QA automated tests (Groovy, Gradle, Go CD.
• coordinated with Nike Dev Ops and Saucelabs Support to develop and test new features in Saucelabs Sauce Connect tunnel application to enable Selenium tests running in Saucelabs cloud to test web applications deployed.

Lake Oswego, Oregon, US

• Mobile Web application Test Lead responsible for defining a test strategy to objectively assess the quality of the software and managing its execution and communication of the recorded metrics
• Responsible for providing objective quality metrics for evaluating the risk of releasing software which must persist customer payment device data in a PCI compliant manner
• Applied Exploratory testing techniques to quickly assess the quality of new features with minimal design and requirements
• Architect responsible for the design and implementation of a test framework to automate the parallel execution of Web and Mobile Web application regression tests (Java, Maven, Nexus, WebDriver, TestNG, JDBC, SQL.
• Integrated Sauce Labs service into QA by creating a Sauce Labs REST API Client with a Java Servlet front end to enable QA Engineers to create encrypted links to Sauce Labs jobs and update Sauce Labs job metadata
• Designed and implemented test framework to automate the functional and regression testing of a SOAP Web Service (Groovy, JUnit, JAX-WS Java Objects, SOAP)

Blue Bell, PA, US

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• Defined and executed functional and smoke tests for new product features for an n-tier J2EE web application used for managing Health Plan contracts with Providers.
• Implemented automated smoke test of web application product using a test framework I developed using Java 1.6, Maven, Selenium, JUnit and DBUnit to automate the test execution and reporting of results.
• Designed and executed system, performance and scalability tests using Java to automate creation of test data and Selenium/Watij to automate execution of tests
• Automated white-box testing of contract and provider web service APIs using soapUI to generate XML requests and analyze the XML responses from the server
• Designed tests for and maintained an existing test framework using Java, Watij and FitNesse

(see position at Portico Systems as QA Engineer)

Lake Mary, FL, US

• Designed, implemented and tested; UI, database and business logic software components to maintain and enhance the suite of enterprise business applications
• Implemented a software tool to seamlessly integrate code editor with version management and build process, reducing the overhead needed to modify a code component by 20%. Recognized with an award for Innovation in Feb.
• Developed an automated test harness for functional and regression testing of data conversion code, significantly reducing development time
• Designed and implemented SQL Server database initialization scripts
• Provided SQL Server database support to Development and QA groups
• Defined and executed functional test cases, scripts and plans for new product features

• DBA for LoadWire’s production and development MS SQL Server 2000 databases, owned database’s schema, maintained integrity of data, tuned performance
• Designed and implemented database SQL Server Stored Procedures to allow customers access to the database through parameterized reports
• Developed tools to convert, scrub and normalize third-party data for use in LoadWire’s database