Test Engineer C#

Software Design Engineer in Test

Professional Experience

Owens & Minor July 2020 to January 2024

Lead SDET/Automation Test Engineer

QSight medical inventory and billing management cloud application. Re-design and construction of Selenium Webdriver automation framework for UI and functional testing of core application. Conversion of Selenium to Microsoft Playwright open source tool with Specflow/Cucumber BDD. During architecture revision of QSight app code, converted ASP.Net/MVC architecture to React (Javascript) framework. Designed and built microservice API test suite in Postman from Swagger published API requirement. For UI and functional testing extensive iterative testing of React components and features for UI changes and database CRUD operations particularly. CI/CD: Helped to develop a daily automated scheduled regression run via Microsoft Azure DevOps pipeline with MS Teams reporting and notification. Primarily used DevOps GUI pipeline building tool; some additional configuration scripting with YAML for regression pipeline artifact. Agile scrum SDLC.

Tools: C#, Visual Studio .NET Enterprise 2022, .NET Framework 4.5, .NET Core 6, Specflow, Microsoft Azure, Selenium WebDriver, Telerik/Progress Test Studio, Microsoft Playwright, Postman, Swagger.

Accelered (formerly Univ. of Maryland Global College, UMGC) October 2019 to March 2020

Lead SDET (Contract) - Adelphi, MD

Lead test automation on-shore QA group. Collaborated daily off-shore staff on deliverables. Application: UMGC student portal written in Microsoft Dynamics. Ad-hoc performance testing with JMeter. Mentoring of junior QA testers at corporate office on high-level tools and platform. Testing involved both web UI as well as REST API services and performance. Mobile platform testing of registration app with Appium. Tools: Java Selenium, Cucumber, JMeter, Eclipse, Postman, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Microsoft Dynamics, Swagger, Appium.

CVS Health (formerly Aetna Healthcare) October 2018 to October 2019

SDET (Contract) - Chantilly, VA

Consulting project on healthcare wellness portal and back-end REST API services. REST API services automation framework developed. Selenium/Specflow test suites for web UI and business services layer. Automated data testing

Collaboration with development team. Tools: C#, Selenium WebDriver, BDD, SpecFlow, NUnit, SQL Server 2017, Oracle 12c, VMWare, SoapUI, Postman, Restlet, Groovy (script), Rally, TFS, Git. SaFE agile, scrum.

Creative Information Technology Inc. July 2018 to October 2018

SDET (Contract) - Falls Church, VA

Consulting project involving test automation of custom web application for corporate identity and credential

management. Green field development of automation test framework and functional test regression suite of test scripts. Tools: Selenium WebDriver, C#, Visual Studio 2017. NUnit, SQL Server 2017.

GMAC April 2018 to June 2018

SDET (Contract) - Reston, VA

Consulting engagement to for test automation of online web applications for MBA.com and GMAC.com sites. API, service layer test automation framework Mobile device functional testing. Collaboration with developers. Scrum/Agile multi-vendor team local and remote. Tools: Postman, VSTS, PractiTest, Selenium WebDriver, NUnit, C#, Azure.

Fulcrum IT July 2017 to March 2018

SDET - Centreville, VA

Assisted with architecture and QA automation new code and re-factoring for test suite for digitally-based

assessments application. Assessments for K12 students through Department of Education (NAEP) contract (https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard). Code reviews and performance tuning for execution of suite of 3,000+ test cases. Automation Mentoring. Continuous learning environment: knowledge sharing sessions, code reviews.

Tools: Selenium WebDriver, C#, NUnit, Visual Studio.NET, Powershell, SQL Server 2017, AppliTools, BDD.

Federal Reserve Board January 2017 to July 2017

SDET (Contract) - Washington, D.C.

Designed and built QA automation framework and scripts for smoke, functional and regression test suites. Test automation of file transfer and management web application. Built logging reporting framework. Mentored junior SDET.

Performance tuning, maintenance of automation suite. Collaboration with development team. Tools: Selenium WebDriver, MSTest, TFS, Visual Studio 2015, SQL Server 2016, C#, Javascript, Angular, Scrum/Kanban

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts November 2015 to January 2017

SDET/Performance Tester - Washington, D.C.

Built out green field QA infrastructure and test suite for regression and smoke testing of the core, flagship main

website (www.kennedy-center.org). Regression automation, load/performance testing, framework, and reporting, 508 certification, web API, compatibility and extensive data validation. Developed automation framework and methodology. Extensive reporting, and direct interactions cross-organization with senior organization stakeholders. Tools: Ranorex Studio, Selenium, C#, MySQL, Protractor, HP UFT, SQL Server 2012, JMeter, BlazeMeter, JAWS, Powershell.

GE Transportation Optimization Solutions April 2015 to September 2015

Web Developer (Contract) - Atlanta, GA

Agile SDLC environment web development and maintenance of software as a service (SAS) railyard logistics and supply chain application. Maintenance and re-factoring of core code on Windows platform.

Tools: .Net 4.5 framework, C#, ASP.Net, MVC 4, jQuery, Javascript, Bootstrap, web services, TSQL, LINQ, Entity Framework, SpecFlow/Cucumber, TFS, JIRA, TDD, BDD.

Geico August 2014 to April 2015

.Net Web Developer - Chevy Chase, MD

Web application development for auto insurance internal applications. Agile/Scrum SDLC. Code reviews. Transitioning mainframe interfaces and back-end code to service interfaces interfacing to mainframe to new, optimized architecture and design patterns for multi-systems initiative for Client data applications (Sales, Customer Service, Claims, Policy Management and Underwriting). Unit and integration tests written. Code reviews performed. TDD, static code analysis.

Tools: .Net 4.5, Visual Studio.NET 2013, SQL Server 2013, C#, Sonar Code Metrics Analyzer, IOC, TFS, JIRA.

Certifications

MCP -70-444: Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administration Solution Using Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005

CompTIA Security+

(Both 2010)

Education

University of Connecticut: B.A. Business Administration

University of Georgia, Athens: 16 credit hours. M.Ed program/Instructional Technology, 3.7 GPA 2007-2010

Harvard University Extension

Coursework: computer science, computer architecture, higher mathematics, and software engineering.

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