QA Automation Test Lead

WADE BURTON

**********@*****.*** 801-***-**** Lehi, Utah 84043

Summary

QA Automation Test Lead with more than two decades experience in software development, automated test creation, performance testing and test team management in an agile environment related to public safety software and 3D geometric design metrology software.

Selected Skills

● JMeter, TeamCity, Grafana

● Fluent in C#, C++, Basic

● Knowledge of Java, Python

● Knowledge of XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS,

JSON, JUnit, Postman

● Visual Studio, Coded UI, .NET, Eclipse

● TestPartner, SmartUITesting

● Selenium Webdriver and IDE

● Jira, Jenkins

● Git, Mercurial

● Agile methodology

● PC-DMIS metrology software

● Unix

● CAD, openGL, GD&T

Experience

QA Test Automation Lead Sep 2017 to Current

Motorola Solutions/Spillman Technologies – Salt Lake City, Utah

● Design, develop, maintain, and monitor execution of various automation test frameworks for public safety software supporting police and fire departments.

● Design, develop, and manage the execution of scheduled performance tests using JMeter, TeamCity, and Grafana, which reduced average response time by 50%.

● Work closely with Quality Analysts and Developers to assess test coverage and triage test failures in API and JUnit tests.

● Postman, JUnit, JSON

● Git

● Jira

Automated Testing Manager Feb 2008 to Aug 2017

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence – Lehi, Utah

● Managed automated testing group of 7 members in India and China to test PC-DMIS, a leading software for coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) in a manufacturing environment.

● Created automated test framework and test plans with TestPartner and Jenkins.

● Directed test creation as product owner.

● Created and groomed backlog for new tests.

● Identified areas for UI, performance, smoke, and regression tests.

● Directed environment and maintenance of 2300+ scheduled automated tests, log problems, and follow up with software fixes.

● Programmed in C# using Visual Studio’s Unit, Coded UI, and Ordered Tests.

● Agile environment

● Mercurial

● Jira

Software Testing Engineer Mar 2006 to Mar 2008

Wilcox Associates, Inc. – Lehi, Utah

● Created 500+ automated tests for PC-DMIS using TestPartner, QACenter, and Visual Basic.

● Created an automated test framework to run on a daily schedule.

● Created individual test plans.

● Performed manual testing to regularly execute a test plan. Software Engineer, Developer Jan 1995 to Mar 2006

Wilcox Associates, Inc. – Lehi, Utah

● Responsible for lead development of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T ASME and ISO standards), AnalysisView, Comment, Statistics, Trace Field, and External Object commands and toolbars.

● Code development in C++

● Object-oriented programming

● MFC

● Numerical Analysis, Linear Algebra, Surface Geometry

● CAD, openGL

● Mercurial, Jira, SQL

Education

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering 1997

Brigham Young University – Provo, Utah

● Emphasis on computer-aided-engineering and computer-aided geometric design.

● Thesis: “Reverse Engineering of Planar and Quadric Surfaces Within Tolerance Specifications” to recreate a subset of tolerances for CAD files by reverse engineering stock parts.

● Code development in C

● Surface geometry algorithms

● Numerical methods

● Linear algebra

● Unix

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