Bob Small

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

adzgah@r.postjobfree.com

linkedin.com/in/bob-small-194a077

Summary

An accomplished and goal-driven professional in the software industry for over 24 years, Robert’s expertise goes across the entire SDLC, with an ongoing focus on Quality Assurance. As part of his responsibilities, Robert has helped Fortune 100 companies across multiple industries build test strategies, roadmaps, and execution plans. Focusing on design and implementing quality, Robert achieves optimal results while delivering business value, increasing velocity and quality for his clients. The built-in quality approach is key to sustaining any test strategy. Robert brings his experience in continuous testing to improve testing strategy and architecture within an organization.

Experience

Data Scientist in Test

TEKsystems

Apr 2023 - Present (5 months)

Build Data Architecture for Test Automation

Build AI ML Classification model for predicting Application weaknesses Using DataRobot build Test Data Model

Using Snowflake and New Relic build Observability into the Model Drift and effectiveness Provide Application weakness metrics for the AI model using the following: Confusion Matrix, Classification Accuracy, Error Rate, ROC, PR, AUC, Recall, Precision, F1 score Lead Practice Architect

TEKsystems

Apr 2022 - Present (1 year 5 months)

As a Servant Leader in the Continuous Delivery space within the TEKSystems Global Services Continuous Testing I am responsible for setting Learning, career path, and provide support for QA and Testing within the Continuous Delivery methodology QA Architect

TEKsystems

Oct 2021 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Lead 2 teams in Up Skilling in Test Automation Framework creation, and Testing Techniques Tech Stack: Splunk, SauceLabs, Katalon, Selenium WebDriver, GIT, Github, and Bash Increased Test Automation Deployment Pipeline execution by 500% Interim Director of QA

TEKsystems

Feb 2022 - Jun 2022 (5 months)

Create a RoadMap for Test Automation to Modernize within an Agile Transformation organization Bob Small - page 1

Build the QA Test Strategy which supports DevOps implementation of Continuous Delivery push button deployment capabilities

Plan and Lead the adoption of the Software Development Industry best practices for QA and Testing efforts.

Skytouch QA Automation Architect

TEKsystems

Jan 2021 - Feb 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Hire new Team of SDETs

Build Test Plan, Communication Plan, Ways of Working Agreement Design Test Automation Framework for AWS API Gateway, Lambda, Kinesis, AuroraDB, Glue, Firehose, RedShift, and S3

Review Design and Architecture for existing GUI Test Automation Framework Lead Test Automation Team in testing Strategy and Design Work with Automation Test Engineers (ATE) to build API functional test cases Lead ATE team in implementing V.A.D.E.R. framework for test case design Lead team of 5 automation engineers to audit 164 Hospitality Reports Coordinated and participated in test automation creation of 17 reports and execution of 133 automated test cases

Created and lead to completion 180 stories in 20 Sprints Built Dashboards and Confluence documentation

Lead and participated in 42 API tests for an AWS Serverless solution (including AWS Lambda functions and API Gateway)

Amazon Game Studios - QA Architect

TEKsystems

Nov 2020 - Sep 2021 (11 months)

Build Metrics KPIs for Amazon Augmented employment team Lead team in Clean Code, SOLID, and Design Patterns Learning and Implementation into Code Reviews

Lead teams in Test Automation Framework Design for Mobile Games Work with Amazon Game Studios on Game Testing

Work with AGS Game Testing team on increasing delivery throughput. Lead AGS NW Testing through skill development and implementation Tools: Perforce(Helix/Swarm), Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, esayBI), AWS (Lumberyard), Unreal Engine 5,

Comcast - QA Test Automation Architect

TEKsystems

Jun 2020 - Oct 2020 (5 months)

Built a QA and Test Automation team of SDETs to build out a Test Automation framework on AWS, with Rest-Assured, Splunk, Slack, Github, and Jenkins tools. Built Framework and Architecture Design of Test Automation Framework to support Terraform deployments for a Microservices Media Ingest of Streaming Audio and Video content Built Framework to support CI/CD and real time reporting of API Gateway, Step Functions, and AWS Lambda functions. In preparation for Sky Network content through Comcast Bob Small - page 2

Ally Bank - Practice Architect

TEKsystems

Jan 2020 - Jun 2020 (6 months)

Established a Continuous Testing model for Test Automation Leading the team structure design, processes, procedures, SDLC, and DLC. Established API Test design, and framework

Built Test cases for multiple APIs

Established Ways of Working and Working Agreements Established Branching and Merging Strategy

Established API Testing framework VADER model

AmFam - Test Automation Architect

TEKsystems

Jun 2019 - Dec 2019 (7 months)

Established a Continuous Testing model for Test Automation Lead the Test Automation Architecture design and POC Leveraged, InfuxDB, Grafana, Rest-Assured, BitBucket, Git, IntelliJ, JenkinsCI, VADER, & AWS EC2 Nike - Sr. SDET

TEKsystems

Apr 2019 - Jun 2019 (3 months)

Assisted a new innovation project to plugin Software Gauntlet into a Selenium WebDriver based test automation framework

Applied an OOP framework which queried or created test data as needed Researched an approach to creating new Selenium based Linux containers on an AWS EC2 Dockerized instance using Jenkins Scanner files

First Bank of Hawaii - Practice Architect

TEKsystems

Apr 2019 - May 2019 (2 months)

Established a Continuous Testing model for Test Automation Leading the team structure design, processes, procedures, SDLC, and DLC. Established API Test design, and framework

Built Test cases for multiple APIs

Established Ways of Working and Working Agreements Established Branching and Merging Strategy

Established API Testing framework VADER model

BWI - QA Lead

TEKsystems

Oct 2018 - Mar 2019 (6 months)

Responsible for establishing a Continuous Testing approach using SOAP UI's Test Runner at the CLI Built a CI practice for a Legacy SOA based Direct Connection application Built a CD pipeline for a new API RESTful service, on Jenkins with Docker containers in AWS EC2 Established a best practices branching and merging strategy for Test Automation framework Bob Small - page 3

Established a CD and CT (Continuous Testing) approach for the API services Sr. SDET

Blackboard

May 2017 - Oct 2018 (1 year 6 months)

Responsible for Manual, Functional Automation, Performance Automation and API testing of Web, Mobile, and transaction systems and applications

Responsible for SQL DB verification

Responsible for API testing using Postman and JMeter Responsible for MVC verification using Katalon, Selenium WebDriver 3.13 Responsible for Performance/Load testing Using JMeter Responsible for UX, Localization, Security, and Destructive testing Using CrossBrowserTesting As a QA Lead my responsibilities include; Creating test cases, building Test Plans, building Automation, delivering tests to CI using Jenkins and CBT.

QA Anchor (Contract)

PDS

Nov 2015 - May 2017 (1 year 7 months)

Testing automation and manually of an online application with 250,000+ registrations and over 104,000 active monthly users

Exploratory testing of Mobile App, and Web Portal

Mentor developers in TDD and BDD

Lead team in QA and Testing approaches and techniques Responsible for leading the Functional, UX, Non-Functional, Destructive, and Non-Destructive testing effort

Responsible for leading team on BDD effort using Cucumber/Gherkin, with Selenium/Java Step Definitions

Responsible for functional automation of GUI and API Responsible for testing framework build up on 5 projects Responsible for StatusPage.io updates

Responsible for Jenkins builds and jobs

Responsible for creating RunScope tests of the API Sr. Quality Engineer

Live Nation Entertainment

Mar 2015 - Nov 2015 (9 months)

Mentor team members in adoption of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Testing approaches Build a platform for real-time monitoring and notification of test results in all environments Champion quality improvement through better practices in software development Create Docker images and containers

Build Deployment pipeline using Jenkins, and RunDeck Create performance tests using Gatling with Scala

Quality Engineer (SDET)

CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer

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Jan 2014 - Mar 2015 (1 year 3 months)

Responsible for designing Test Automation Framework (Selenium) for SalesForce CRM Designed and implement the QA/Testing responsibilities in the SDLC in a Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration environment.

Build out a Scalable, low maintenance, Easy to Use, Reliable, process for our testing and integrations Working with XStudio, Ready! API, JIRA, VersionOne, CentOS, Mac, Windows, SalesForce.com, SalesForce CTI, Boomi, Aria, Webpage (PHP), Acquia, LoadUI Web Pro, LoadUI Pro, Jenkins, CHEF Automation, Selenium, and TestNG.

Built a real time system monitoring web based application to support Continuous Delivery (a HealthPage).

Sr. SDET (Contract)

Modis

Jan 2013 - Jan 2014 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for test automation on MAK-Systems application Responsible for coding best practices using HP's QTP, BPT, ALM 10 QA Software Engineer

GoDaddy

Apr 2004 - Nov 2013 (9 years 8 months)

Responsible for the Quality Assurance of several of our software products and services Job duties included Black box (functional) testing, and some small degree of white box testing. Creation of Automation tests scripts in Quick Test Pro Edited Automated test scripts using VB Script

Tested application built using C# and VB.NET

Responsible for configuration testing, stress testing, and load testing. Responsible for defect verifications of fixed bugs Education

W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University Business Admin, Business

2003 - 2005

Miniored in Computer Information Systems

Licenses & Certifications

Certified Ethical Hacker - GoDaddy

RS773241072006 4530A

Security Code Review - Security Innovation Inc.

SOAP UI Pro - SmartBear

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Testing with Use Cases - SQE Training

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Issued Jan 2020 - Expires Jan 2023

VBNE2B11H1F41550

REST-Assured Fundamentals - Udemy

UC-89f88327-f3a5-4f2b-ba2d-f3bb87fbc4e9

Modern Artificial Intelligence with Zero Coding - Udemy UC-c1d326f6-fe75-452b-ab80-5f3850a6e88c

No-Code Machine Learning: Practical Guide to Modern ML Tools - Udemy ChatGPT - The Complete Guide to ChatGPT & OpenAI APIs - Udemy UC-682acc6d-1283-4058-9f82-1fc61b0b09ee

Skills

Test Automation • Agile Methodologies • Test Planning • Scrum • Testing • SDLC • Quality Assurance • User Acceptance Testing • Test Cases • Software Quality Assurance Honors & Awards

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams Jun 2008

Contributor of this book for review.

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