Chris Sasarman Email & Phone Number

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Continue work on mission-critical project at USDA, as the contract rolled over to a new company.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Scrum Master in an enterprise cloud-based Government IT project at USDA. Lead multiple teams in parallel, using Scrum and Kanban. Coached team members in lean agile principles and mindset. Established and evolved agile practices in the project. Facilitated coordination between teams at PI Planning events.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Software Test engineer for newly created Digital Solutions Program at Nutrien chartered with building a cloud platform for agriculture retail business. Contributed to test strategy for delivering software solutions in AWS cloud following a CI/CD model, implemented test automation, quality KPI metrics.• Defined technology stack for test automation following the agile testing pyramid concept• Implemented test automation for API integrations (Ruby on Rails with Rspec, Node.js with Mocha/Chai and Jasmine) and acceptance testing (webdriver with Jasmine and Cucumber)• Paired with developers to promote test-oriented development through TDD and BDD• Defined and implemented dashboards with KPI metrics for software quality across the Digital Program

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Progressed from QA Engineer into a full-time Scrum Master role for the CA UIM product. Scrum Master for multiple teams in parallel, driving development based on agile methodologies of Scrum and Kanban. Scrum Master for first major data analytics and machine learning solution on site based on the Elastic stack and Apache Spark.• Maintained technical presence in teams where I was Scrum Master• Promoted within my teams a culture of modern software development techniques, team collaboration, Github adoption, TDD, Continuous Integration and test automation• Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies: Daily Standup, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning and Review, Retrospectives• Drove continuous improvements in team’s maturity with agile processes• Coordinated with Scrum Masters and other project stakeholders to remove impediments and make progress• Represented team in all Agile Release activities. Ensured timely delivery of all commitments set at PI Planning.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

QA Lead engineer for backend services team in UIM product, an IT monitoring solution for the enterprise. Technical responsibilities included end-to-end testing of server-side components (functional, integration, scale, performance, automation). Member of product team that brought to market a SaaS version of its enterprise product running in AWS cloud.• Built end-to-end QA for server-side components of a recently transitioned software product. Created test cases for regression, integration, performance and scale testing of multiple components. Planned and executed testing to ensure proper test coverage for quarterly product releases. Augmented test plans based on issues found in production• Automated critical functional and integration tests of backend services using frameworks based on Java/Groovy, Maven/Gradle and JUnit/Spock. Implementated continuous integration for regression tests with Jenkins.• Built and maintained a large pool of shared database servers (MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, ElasticSearch) to support testing across multiple teams. Performed ongoing tuning, DBA tasks and health monitoring on this pool • Customized and maintained Windows and Linux VMware templates for test environments• Contributed to the dockerization of our product. Used docker containers for scalability testing• Drove development of a BDD acceptance suite for backend provisioning service, based on JBehave and Serenity• Performed testing of REST APIs using Postman and JMeter with JSON

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Team lead of a software service project tasked with the delivery of critical PLM solutions for the life sciences industry. Responsible with planning and conducting software validation in an FDA regulated environment, and supporting final acceptance testing by customer. Worked with project managers and customer stakeholders to prioritize deliverables, and coordinated effort in development and test teams onsite and offshore.• QA Lead and Scrum Master for a team of up to 10 testers and engineers, on-site and offshore.• Built and maintained Jenkins jobs for automatic software deployment on test environments• Interfaced directly with customer to clarify and prioritize requirements, and coordinate releases. • Provided on-site customer support for product training and user acceptance testing (UAT)

Boulder, Colorado Area

Software integration and verification engineer part of R&D teams working on design and development of real-time telecommunication systems. Responsibilities included software integration on telecom nodes, test planning and execution, test automation, project estimation and planning. Main expertise and projects contributions have been the introduction of a 10 Gbps ethernet layer 2 switching board and the development of an LDAP based client service for HLR in a blade cluster architecture.• Developed automated testing of SNMP and C++ interfaces in a blade cluster system using Tcl and Expect• Planned and performed testing of RSTP, VLANs, QoS prioritization, traffic counters for a layer 2 switching board• Lead testing of client implementation, error handling, notifications, IP redundancy and failover for a layered LDAP service

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Contributed to the establishment of the QA team of a new GIS product for Remote Sensing and automated image processing. Worked in a distributed Scrum team with outsourced development to ensure production quality at the end of the Sprint. • Performed feature acceptance and integration testing • Developed build automation tool in Perl to deploy product in test environments and send notifications• Automated UI workflows using Selenium

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

End-to-end software testing and QA engineering for telecom OSS projects targeting network monitoring and service assurance for wireline and wireless service providers.Lead small teams towards project deadlines. Developed test automation, testing framework and infrastructure tools using Perl, shell scripting, relational databases (MySql, Oracle). Integration testing of Agilent OSS solutions.• Authored test cases and created test plans for product releases• Developed test case automation and system administration tools using Perl and shell scripting• Owned and monitored the system level stability and soak testing as final quality gateways for product releases• Performed DBA functions on Oracle databases to support development efforts• Lead small teams of junior engineers across multiple deliverables

Masters Of Science (Ms), Computer Information Systems, 4.0

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law

Romanian Law

Masters Of Science (Ms), Physics

Activities and Societies: AEGEE Cluj-NapocaDissertation titled “Magnetic properties of MnO-B2O3-CdO glasses”, 1995. Published in Balkan.

Mathematics