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Software Quality Assurance and Automation Engineer

Location:
San Jose, Costa Rica
Posted:
November 09, 2020

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Everard Anthony Hamm Gamboa

San Jose, Costa Rica +506-****-**** adhn1e@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Machine Learning Enthusiast and Senior Automation Engineer with demonstrated 10 years history working in the IT industry. I have been exposed to a variety of different technologies, cultures and group sizes environments. Highly motivated and looking forward to developing my skills in QA, Automation and Machine Learning (ML). Strong analytical thinking, customer and objectives oriented, easy going team player with good communication and interpersonal skills who is attentive to detail and able to work in a fast pace environment. Highlights

- Smoke, Regression, Black Box, White Box, Cross Browser, Mobile, Functional, UI, Compatibility, Automation and API testing.

- Test Plans, Test Cases, Testing Lifecycle and Defect/Bug Tracking.

- Selenium Suite, Protractor, Operations Orchestration (OO), WebDriverIO, Cucumber, Docker, Page Object Pattern, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Python, PowerShell, Batch, DB, Postman.

- ITIL - Scrum - Agile - GIT - Jira - Workflow Planning - Network - Cloud

- Motivated to take charge of both customer engagement and problem resolution.

- Capable of being self-managed - Team player - Mentor. Education

- Texas Tech University, TTU (Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 2019)

- Tecnológico de Costa Rica, TEC (Machine Learning 2019)

- ULACIT (System Engineer Bachelor’s Degree, 2012 – 2017 )

- Universidad de Costa Rica, UCR (Network and Communications Technician 2010 - 2012) Certifications

- Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

- Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)

- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

- Cisco Certified Network Associate Voice (CCNA Voice)

- ITIL® Foundation IT Service Management V.3

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-hamm

Experience

Automation & Software Quality Assurance Lead (SDET) at AutoFi USA (January 2020 – Currently)

- Head of QA team (5 members). One client with multiple dev teams requiring global QA support.

- Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities for QA Team. Attend to initial refinement meetings and review the requirements, specifications and technical designs documents for the different projects to provide timely and meaningful feedback.

- Setup automation framework from scratch (WebDriverIO - Selenium, Cucumber, Chai, JS, Docker, Circle CI and Newman to call postman collections).

- Design, develop and execute automation scripts

- Face of QA Team during daily Production Release Call to provide green or red light to deploy. Helped to perform successful releases of code from Engineering to Production by proactively & reactively working with executives, product management, development, QA & Ops.

- Created a detailed, well-structured and comprehensive transitioning plan to migrate from Pivotal Tracker to Jira.

- Developed a team Knowledge Matrix. As a result, I created a Knowledge Transitioning Plan to leverage the overall knowledge of the Team.

- Attend to daily stand-ups and retrospective meetings to provide timely and accurate status of the project.

- Identify, record and document software defects using bug tracking tool (Pivotal Tracker and QMetry in Jira) and report defects to the corresponding team. Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases (manual/automation). Also, usual QA dutties tasks as Smoke, Regression, Black Box, White Box, Cross Browser, Mobile, Functional, UI, Compatibility, Automation and API testing.

- Training and mentoring.

Software as a Service Automation Engineer at Hewlett-Packard (December 2016 – December 2019)

- Plan, design and implement automation workflows in multiple technologies like but not limited to Windows, Linux, Databases, VSphere, Monitoring tools, Network components, APIs and more.

- Currently working on Machine Learning pilot plan for virtual machines pool forecasting, enabling AWS automation support to the team and new automation requests.

- Develop and maintain SaaS Automation Infrastructure of teams like Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Business Service Management (BSM), Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), Research and Development

(R&D) and other internal Micro Focus teams.

- Besides the coding part done mostly with Python and Javascript, I also use the following tools to handle the code release/versioning, orchestrate, manage the cloud environment, and publish the automations: Git, Operations Orchestration (OO), Hybrid-Cloud Management (HCM), Infrastructure on Demand (IoD) and Cloud Service Automation (CSA).

- Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate automation activities. Attend to initial grooming meetings to review the requirements, specifications and technical aspects of the flows to be automate.

- Effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate automation strategies with the product owner and customers.

- Cloud deployment and scheduling of automated flows.

- Adapting into a scrum-oriented methodology.

- Working in a multicultural team (Israel, Germany, USA and India). Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Analyst at Janeiro Digital (June 2013 – December 2016)

- Attend to initial grooming meetings and review the requirements, specifications and technical designs documents of the assigned projects to provide timely and meaningful feedback.

- Attend to daily stand-ups and retrospective meetings to provide timely and accurate status of the project.

- Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases

- Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities.

- Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools (Protractor - Selenium JS - Grunt).

- Identify, record and document software defects using bug tracking tool (JIRA) and report defects specifying the steps, output, media and content to the Developer's Team.

- Assist with User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect tracking for multiple new software releases and multitask between multiple projects and in the different project phases.

- Helped to perform successful Releases of Code from Engineering to Production by proactively & reactively working with executives, product management, development, QA and operations (technologies used: Ruby on Rails, IOS, Java).

- Training and mentor the new members of the team in the functional testing area. Network Break&Fix Tech Lead in Bank of America GNS at HP (March 2011 – June 2013)

- Quality Assurance Reports: Research, run reports and improve processes to guarantee deployments quality.

- Operational Change Management: Review and provide Admin and Tech approval from the HP side on Bank of America (BoA) IT projects.

- Break and Fix: Full coordination of Network changes related to critical Incidents.

- Queue Manager: Queue management and tasks assigning according to resource availability.

- Tech Lead: Escalation point for the Change Management and Break&Fix team, mentoring, training, team guidance, coaching and team representation.

- CAB Voter: Represent HP in the Bank of America.

Technical Support Specialist / Internet Solutions at Convergys (April 2010 – March 2011)

- Floor Support. Provisioning, activation and troubleshoot of Internet and telephone services to US citizens. Recommendations

- Mr. Richard Dean, Lawyer, +506-****-**** (CR).

- Ing. Francisco Rojas, Team Lead, +49-151*-***-**** (Germany).

- Ing. Merav Meizler, Manager, +972-**-***-**** (Israel).

- Ing. Camilo Martinez, SDET, +506-****-**** (CR).



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