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Parsippany, New Jersey, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

- Technical manager of a team of four engineers responsible for building, testing and maintaining automated financial software solutions in the cutting-edge cryptocurrency space.- Created, assigned, and followed up on Automation Team tasks using Jira.- Conducted code review to ensure automation quality using GitHub.- Developed, maintained, and ensured the quality of a suite of automated products and tests using Python, SQL, Selenium, and APIs.- Developed, maintained, and ensured the quality of the team’s automation pipeline using Azure, Jenkins, Docker, and GitHub.- Assisted business team with adapting investment strategy to evolving market conditions.- Delivered final product under budget and early by developing workflow automation.- Product will continue to be ROI positive for the company for the foreseeable future.

Greater New York City Area

- Lead Engineer of a team of seven engineers responsible for assuring the quality of a dozen specialized business news websites for a Financial Times company.- Coordinated with Business Analyst to create testing scope for all new features.- Developed automated tests using SQL, Python, and Selenium.- Created process automation to facilitate cooperation between existing onshore team and newly created offshore team using Jenkins, Jira and Zephyr.- Conducted senior code review for offshore engineers and junior onshore engineers using GitLab.- Maintained automation-related system architecture using Docker, Kibana, and AWS.- Managed the work of offshore engineers (including creating tickets, assigning tickets, and ensuring ticket completion using Jira).- With three months of experience, single-handedly reduced test flakiness from 50% to 0% after all of the more experienced team members had left the company.- Using process automation, reduced release sign-off time from an 8-hour task for four engineers to a 2-hour task for two engineers.- Granted a raise faster than any engineer in the history of the department.- Appointed acting manager manager during periods of prolonged absence of the QA Manager.

Reston, Va

- Member of a team of 50 engineers responsible for the development and testing of the pricing software of the largest owner of mortgages in the nation.- Coordinated with Business Analyst to create testing scope for all new features.- Wrote Gherkin tests that were used by both manual and automation testers.- Designed, implemented, and maintained automation tests based on business criteria provided by stakeholders using SQL, Selenium, and Java.- Started a system of peer code review to increase code quality of the automated tests.

Greater New York City Area

- Member of a team of 20 engineers responsible for developing software used in thousands of hospitals and by 40 state governments. - Coordinated with Level 2 support to investigate and triage production bugs across all product areas.- Developed Cache code and SQL queries to fix production bugs that directly interfered with patient care at hospitals.- Developed and tested both the front-end and back-end of net new product features using Cache and SQL.- Automated manual workflow processes to increase efficiency.- Achieved the highest code quality score as the newest member of the team.

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Senator for Association for Computing Machinery, Engineering Learning Community, Computer Science Learning.

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