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Staff Software Engineer in Test
GitLab
2022 - Present (2 years)

• Implemented Test Strategy, Test Coverage, coached other SETs and engineers across the org on effective strategies and implementations.
• Identified and designed new testing practices and tools to improve the quality of the GitLab. Provided risk analysis and security assessments during code reviews and during code authorship.
• Lead test automation infrastructure implementations across multiple product areas.
• Performed pipeline on-call duties, including incident response and resolution, often in collaboration with SREs.
• Leveraged various provisioning technologies (Kubernetes, GCP) to create and maintain test environments and tools.
• Lead a Working Group to implement a new Demo data seeding strategy for Solution Architects and Test Platform teams.
• Worked on and managed complex department initiatives.
• Assisted with a departmental transition from a "Quality" department to a "Test Platform" department.
• Defined and independently manage multiple projects within the Test Platform department.
• Perform regular code reviews and maintainership responsibilities for the gitlab-org/gitlab project.
• Contribute to, and maintain technical documentation.
• Participate in customer calls and takes part in Engineering outreach.
• Performed dozens of solo technical, and team peer interviews, leading to the hires of many Engineering Managers and SETs.
• Mentored other engineers, including Intermediate and Senior SETs.
• Recorded demos.
• Wrote and owned OKRs in alignment with higher-level org goals.

Senior Software Engineer in Test
GitLab
2018 - 2022 (4 years)

• First Quality Engineering Team member hired to GitLab.
• Established processes for the Quality team, such as documentation and onboarding processes.
• Established first iteration of test Quarantining and reporting processes.
• Regularly reviewed code and performed maintainership responsibilities for the gitlab-org/gitlab project.
• Participated in pipeline on-call duties.
• Wrote and owned OKRs.
• Mentored other engineers, including Intermediate SETs.
• Lead test automation infrastructure implementations across multiple product areas.

Solutions Architect II
Ericsson
2017 - 2018 (1 year)

• Helped author T-Mobile's Electronic Product Catalog, Order Management, and Order Negotiation Software Development Lifecycles, using GitLab as the backbone.
• Used Ansible and Rundeck to manage site infrastructure.
• Performed on-call SRE duties.
• Met with, and performed demos to clients.
• Wrote tools in Python, Bash, and Ruby to plug various tooling together.
• Authored a Ruby on Rails build tool from scratch to manage client builds and releases.
• Led regular update meetings with clients.
• Leveraged Azure to provision instances, manage CIDRs, and supply VPN gateways to client VPNs.
• Managed login, OpenSSH, and firewall security in RHEL machines.
• Designed and maintained a linux infrastructure a team in Chile.
• Mentored and led a Chile-based team to maintain their infrastructure.
• Provisioned and used Rancher (Cattle) to manage a fleet of Docker containers.
• Set up reverse-proxies.

QA Test Automation Architect
Ericsson
2016 - 2017 (1 year)

• Provisioned test pipelines from scratch using GitLab, Rundeck, and Jenkins.
• Authored a Containerized version of SoapUI.
• Created end-to-end test beds written in Python.
• Wrote custom SonarQube code-quality rules.
• Created an XML Extractor tool in Python for use in Continuous Integration.
• Designed and implemented entire software development pipelines including test automation.

Software Test Engineer
ProQuest
2011 - 2016 (5 years)

• Designed and implemented test automation architectures.
• Wrote end-to-end tests using Java and TestNG.
• Created a one-stop website for all things "Quality", written in PHP.
• Authored Jenkins pipelines to run continuous tests.
• Created a greenfield Ruby on Rails project to track test performance, and display graphs of the current infrastructure.
• Made a web-based subscription system to regularly email test reports to key personnel.
• Leveraged Rundeck and Ansible to provision virtual instances in AWS.
• Mentored other Test Engineers and engineers.
• Led regular brown-bag meetings to coach team members on test design and processes.
• Attended and represented the org at open-source conferences.
• Led an open-source initiative, inviting engineers around the area to the office, to discuss test automation and showcase ProQuest's testing paradigm.