Jan 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

Jan 2024 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

• Assisted in building product feature demos and answering customer questions for AI driven Test Automation
• Detected and reported product issues with screen captures and movies to ensure quickly resolve user issues.
• Suggested improvements for enhanced User Experience, leading to a smoother workflow and increased customer satisfaction.

Jan 2023 – Oct 2023 · 9 mos · Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States · Hybrid

• Managed Team of 13 SDETs on 1300+ Test Suite
• Reviewed & Approved GitLab Merge Requests
• Provided historical progress reports in Allure
• Tracked Projects and Issues in JIRA
• Performed Candidate Tech Interviews
• Quick Win: Nightly execution of Four Suites in Three Environments.

Jul 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Managed 5 automation projects with 7 SDET resources sharing a common JavaScript WebdriverIO test framework. Included scrum master duties tracking defects to resolution, daily standups and backlogs of coding feature requests in Jira.
• Optimized manual testers setup time by providing an RPA custom loan creation tool launched from Jenkins and reported to Slack. No install of VS Code or WebStorm required. Daily code commits into GitHub with automatic execution from Jenkins.
• Accelerated late night production release with testRigor. Wrote a test in plain English in one hour, detected a costly defect in the 2nd hour, linked to 600 validations and found 75 defects that were fixed in real time in the third hour.
• In my final week I set up 35 loan tests that executed 5 at a time in 15 minutes. They captured video of the environment grinding to a halt during CI/CD scheduled daily execution.

Oct 2020 – Jul 2021 · 9 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Scrum Master leading 3 team member daily standup meeting with live demos on Zoom
• Solutioned xPath to CSS locator conversion to support Shadow DOM elements in Salesforce
• Quick-Win: Developed 3-way color validation of aged tasks
• Wrote tests using RestAPIs to create and delete data, skipping manual data creation processes
• Automated existing test cases, performed triage on failures, wrote defects in Jira / iTrack
• Migrated dynamic date tags: $[today(+-days)] to eliminate data maintenance
• Daily commits, pull requests, merges and conflict resolutions with GitHub and GitHub Desktop
• Executed test cases with Jenkins using Docker for concurrent overnight test execution.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 · 0 mo

• Gave a 60-minute presentation on automation tips using Micro Focus’ UFT 14.02

Nov 2016 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Design TDD automation solutions in Cucumber / Gherkin for a variety of clients using Selenium, Serenity in Eclipse and IntelliJ in Java 8 and 11.
• Created a "Data Lake Sieve" utility to search 50,000 SKUs for parts selling for $0.00
• Also created automation frameworks designed in MicroFocus Unified Functional Testing (UFT), Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) and ported to Business Process Testing (BPT) witha variety of other tools as needed.

Feb 2016 – Oct 2016 · 8 mos

• Consulting with the team developing Test Automation scripts using BPT / ALM and Selenium.

Dec 2013 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Chicago, Illinois

• Maintain and expand Excel-based Keyword/Data-driven hybrid automation framework using Test Design Studio.
• Automated two Database migration validations of 50,000+ records.
• Convert framework from QTP 10 to UFT 12.53
• Automated application launch validation for 100+ users in Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
• Maintain AutoIT validation scripts for laptop image validations.
• Created SQL Server database validation script for processing 1000+ records against 13+ validation rules.
• Augment framework with AutoIT.
• Expand to Selenium testing.
• Led training class on TortoiseSVN.
• Led training class Regular Expressions.

Sep 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Oakbrook Terrace, Il

• Web Services testing
• Automation of Canadian tax validations
• Added embedded screen captures to Excel
• Internal tool support testing
• Lunch and Learn knowledge transfer

Apr 2012 – Sep 2012 · 5 mos

• Improved test automation with QTP and BPT for SAP.

Jan 2012 – Apr 2012 · 3 mos · Schaumburg, IL

• Assisted in upgrade to latest QC and QTP versions. Assisted in optimization of existing 500+ Action-based framework design with dynamic LoadAndRun calls.

Oct 2010 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs

• Executed Proof of Concepts. Joined multiple teams in test automation framework design and enhancement. Currently working in Business Process Testing (BPT) and SAP with Test Accelleration and Optimization (TAO) customization.

Feb 2010 – Feb 2019 · 9 yrs · Elgin, Illinois

• Capture steadycam 4K close ups and audience reactions to bands at Durty Nellie's live band bar. Keep four cameras stocked with fresh tapes and batteries.
• Edit master with Final Cut Pro X on high end Mac.
• Real-time edit of up to four multi-clip camera feeds.

Jul 2009 – Nov 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Provide robust stability and enhancements to an Access based test automation framework with Excel based data support. Added dynamic data replacement, automatic execution updates, color coded performance logging, custom error checking, programmatic object recognition with RegEx support and code optimization. Provided framework documentation for test designers, as well as code documentation for continued maintenance and by other test automation engineers.

Jan 2009 – Aug 2022 · 13 yrs 7 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Instructor of classes on QA Test Automation in several cities across the nation as well as online.

Jul 2006 – Sep 2009 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Client installation of HP Mercury Legacy products including Quality Center, QuickTest Professional, WinRunner and QC Dashboard.
• Design Test Automation Frameworks.
• Technical screenings of potential SQA Professionals.
• Conference Speaker
• Instructor

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr

• Winrunner. QTP test automation framework designer. Developed website crawler for L5 load balancing validation of data syncronization.