Aaron Artis

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Automation, QA, Agile, SA, Scrum

SUMMARY

Aaron is a skilled professional when it comes to translating/developing test cases/test plans/test scripts. He has experience with running fiddler, and other loggers to find instances of error/bug related scenarios along with documentation using Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Manager, along with Mercury Quality Center, and Cucumber Frameworks/IDE’s, Selenium. Also, being well versed in other applications. As a Senior Software Engineer, He is proficient in automation; hitting the ground sprinting(no pun intended). Aaron is thorough with his scripts, documentation, reports, and communications with developers to express bug finds, and defects of a given application. Aaron works hand in hand with other testers and developers to get to the root end of bugs/defects/errors. Aaron has aided in the assistance of testing and editing scripts as well as executing scripts throughout his experience in deploying and smoke testing builds with the use of VMware. Aaron has more than 15+ years in Information Technology; 6 years being in QA; 4 years being Automation. His professionalism in Systems Analytics, coding insight, and quality assurance in application development proves savvy. He possesses great verbal communications in areas of team leadership, analytical, and decision-making skills, testing, troubleshooting, while also motivating his surrounding team. Having a keen ability to easily interact with co-workers and improve the mood of the workplace. Aaron directly support business goals and strategic planning by service level agreements and communicates effectively with diverse cultural backgrounds, executive management, administrators and end-users.

SKILL SET

Systems: Linux, Windows 98/Vista/7/XP, Mac

Languages: C++, Python, SQL, HTML/CSS, Java, Ruby, Cucumber, Selenium, JavaScript Software: MS Office, Outlook, Microsoft visual, Microsoft Lync, JES, Microsoft Access, VMware, Word press, OpenGL, Rubymine, Dreamweaver, XAMP, Apache, MySQL, Notepad++, Fiddler 2, V-Sphere, Visual Studios, Auto Hotkey, Microsoft Test Manager, RTC, Accurev, Jira, Moba-Xterm, Quality Center, Jenkins, Splunk, SoATest. Git/GitBash, MQ Exlporer, SWL Developer, DBeaver. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fidelity Investments, Durham, North Carolina Jan 2019 to present Senior QA Automation Engineer in Test(Contract)

Write and Maintain Automation Test Scripts via Selenium, Cucumber, Java, Jenkins. Fast Pace and High Volume. End to End Scripting and QA. Supporting Fidelity’s new health care group initiative HCG. Providing Single, Subsequent, and Concurrent Life and Work Event processing. Breaking new technology. Changing how we provide benefits to well known clients & growing!

Selected Achievements:

● Implemented automation which served to refine the cornerstone highlight of the system. Which handles oncurrent events processing.

Implemented automation, which is geared to support the integrity of the current systems which are used by 9 well known companies; 6 of which are fortune 500. Volvo/Mack(Trucks) Greensboro, North Carolina July 2017 to Jan 2019 Senior QA Automation/Fullstack Engineer(Contract)

Write automation scripts (Ruby), maintain regression via Jenkins for CI, TDD implementations, Agile/Waterfall Hybrid. The connected solution team provides QA over telematics. The communication between the health of the trucks straight to us. Building reports based on how we collect the data deriving from over 200 sensors spread and located across the truck. Gathering data points for a proper assessment in accordance to the clients needs. Selected Achievements:

● Aided in building to handle newly implemented REST protocols in replacement of old queue management servicing.

Created REST protocols library/methods that reduced, if not eliminated metadata delivery to not be randomized in the order it was received.

Verscend Technologies, Morrisville, North Carolina July 2016 to June 2017 Software Quality Assurance Engineer(Contract)

Automate, maintain, and upgrade cutting-edge financial-industry software services. Coordinate script flow and implementation of service calls and operations. Collaborating with system analysts, business analysts, scrum masters, project managers, and developers to ensure timelines and sprint/iterations are successful deliveries. Supporting/executing production releases to clients/consumers through our services. Selected Achievements:

● Aided in building/adding test scripts to the automation suite for regression purposes using gradle, git, bamboo.

Lessened the amount of hours each sprint put into regression testing at each feature completion. Increased Sprint velocity.

Fidelity Investments, Durham, North Carolina Sep 2015 to June 2016 Software Quality Engineer in Test(Contract)

Automate, maintain, and upgrade cutting-edge financial-industry software services. Coordinate script flow and implementation of service calls and operations. Collaborating with system analysts, business analysts, scrum masters, project managers, and developers to ensure timelines and sprint/iterations are successful deliveries. Supporting/executing production releases to clients/consumers through our services. Selected Achievements:

● Automated test scripts and supported the middleware consumed by the financial calculating application following the classic SDLC approach.

Developed parasoft test scripts in JavaScript to test components and supported the middleware consumed by Fidelity; Writing scripts/code to serve an 825,000+ and growing user base. Project estimated worth in the multi-millions.

● Supported unit testing of services and operations geared towards gauging account positions, and income, retirement analysis, savings goals, education goals, unique flagging for measurements for investment strategies.

Implemented automated REST/SOAP service components for the planning and guidance; Increased coverage of stable services across the PGC platform managing 68.9 million accounts. Toshiba, RTP, North Carolina Oct 2014 to Sep 2015

Associate Software Engineer(Full-Hire)

Tested and analyzed usability, serviceability of the smart designed retail web app. Constructed repositories, test 2

flows; for common UI, data, and business logic. Issued maintenance through extensive toolkits; Using IBM® Sterling Commerce® Order Management. Engineered prod environments to mock scenarios in virtual environments & peripheral devices.

Selected Achievements:

● Provided cloud based solution testing for a point of sales. Cross browser implementations, Relational Databases DB2/Oracle Admin. Coordinated sandbox testing during automation using cucumber and/or selenium in either python or java.

Designed function calls to test components deployed in GIT/Jenkins jobs. Using ANT/MAVEN projects for cucumber test scripts in Selenium; Cut down the amount of manual dependency for UI testing. Decreased from 1,436 tests down to 49.

Fujifilm, Morrisville, North Carolina Sep 2013 to Jun 2014 Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Contract)

Tested and analyzed the functionality the UI of a state of the art web based medical app. The imaging information management system stores vast amounts of images considering all modalities. Provided admin support for VMs across multiple teams. Debugged deployment scripts, and managed deployments of builds. Selected Achievements:

● Used black-box testing in an agile methodology to perform unit testing. Assigned to different teams responsible for different components of the UI; including scrum, developer, and database admin collaborations. Used VMware’s V-sphere for installations on clusters, and deployment on workstations.

Maintained power user the role of Ad-hoc space in V-sphere; As a result, freeing up 30% on the server.

Revamped antique repositories from Quality Center. Improved outdated test cases with enhancements to test flow. Saving the company considerable future man hours due to scalability and readability.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Lexington Park, Maryland September 2008 to January 2012 Network System Analyst

Part of a team developing systems for the Department of Defense. Developed network designs and provided management consulting for the US Navy and US Airforce using Cisco and VMware technologies. Selected Achievements:

● Managed large VMware ESX infrastructure.

● Installed and configured VOIP for large military facility, upgrading 20% of existing POTS lines. EDUCATION

North Carolina Central University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, May 2013

CLEARANCES

Secret Clearance(valid till. 2020)

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