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.
• 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.
• 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

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.
• 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.
• 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

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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..
• 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