Test Automation Software Development

Rudy Regner

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SUMMARY

Over thirty years of computer software development experience. Member of Scrum Teams since 2018 as Senior SDET. Supervisory experience with teams of up to 15 people doing verification, integration and test of large scale communications, health-care and financial systems software. Extensive "hands-on" experience in design, preparation, and execution of system/software test plans. Experienced in CMS, DoD, NASA and FAA software specifications. Have also developed commercial software engineering standards, guidelines and training courses for company- and project- wide use. Specialist in setting up test automation frameworks, implementing test tools, environments and methodologies (Agile and Waterfall). While at COMSAT Labs developed and executed test plans for Army SatCom systems (COMSEC). While at Singer-Link developed training materials for the F-16 Flight simulator.

EXPERIENCE

RuggedReliableTech@ NYC Department of Education, Performance Test SME for Special Education Modernization project Mar 2024 - Present

Wrote the Performance Test Plan and Transaction Load Model. Used LoadRunner (DevWeb protocol - JavaScript) to verify busy hour performance. Tasks and Bugs were entered into Jira via Smart Bear’s Zephyr Scale. Tested up to 10k simultaneous users at Busy Hour.

RuggedReliableTech@The Prospective Group, Lead IVV Test Engineer Mar 2024 - Mar 2025

Contracted out as “surge resource” for Sharepoint Development at the Department of State and Office of Personnel Management. Was a member of the proposal writing teams with specific responsibilities for sections on Test Automation, Configuration Management Tools and Repositories. Worked on updating TPG’s proposal writing workflow using AI (CoPilot, ChatGPT, NotebookLM, Adobe AI.)

RuggedReliableTech@ US Department of Education, Sr. Test Automation/QA Engineer 09/2023 to 12/2023 For the G6 Grants Modernization Project: Senior SDET on agile scrum team, responsible for developing performance and functional automation tests using Jmeter and Selenium. Verified the API endpoints using Postman/Javascript prior to creating the Jmeter tests. Also responsible for Section 508 Accessibility testing using JAWS, WAVE, AXE, Andi and WCAG Colour Analyzer. Wrote the Automation Test Plan. The User Stories, Epics, Test Cases etc. were managed using Jira. RuggedReliableTech@Maryland Department of Health, Sr. Test Automation/QA Lead Engineer 11/2022 to 09/2023: For the Vital Statistics Administration was an Senior SDET member of agile scrum team that produced a major upgrade to VSA’s system for purchasing and printing birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates Responsible for developing test automation framework writing test scripts in Java/Groovy and using a proprietary software integration Test Toolkit from Bonitasoft. Newwave Telecom and Technologies, Sr. Test Automation Engineer Mar 2018 - Oct 2022

Developed regression tests using Cypress and Node.Js which were incorporated into Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipeline. I was an Embedded member of the agile scrum team. This included all agile ceremonies including Daily Standups, 2 week Sprints, retrospectives, Epics, User Stories, etc. This project’s SDLC framework was SaFE. Responsible for developing tests using Ruby, Watir and Selenium Webdriver. Automated tests were also developed for verifying the ETL (Oracle -> Postgres -> AWS redshift) and reports out of the data warehouse. Web application code was written in Node.js. Continuous Integration Tests were run using Jenkins and Sauce Labs.

R-Squared@FEI Systems, Inc, SDET Test Automation Engineer 3/2018 to 11/2019 for http://CMS.gov (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services). Embedded member of agile scrum team. This included all agile ceremonies including Daily Standups, 2 week Sprints, retrospectives, Epics, User Stories, etc. This project’s SDLC framework was SaFE. Responsible for developing tests using Ruby, Watir and Selenium Webdriver. Automated tests were also developed for verifying the ETL (Oracle

-> Postgres -> AWS redshift) and reports out of the data warehouse. Web application code was written in Node.js. Continuous Integration Tests were run using Jenkins and Sauce Labs. R-Squared@Office of Management and Budget, Lead QA/Test Engineer for team of 5 QA/test engineers Dec 2009 - Dec 2017

Developed enterprise-wide QA/Test strategies for Quality Metrics and Test Automation. . Functional Test script development and execution using Open Source Test Tools such as Selenium Webdriver, Watir and Cucumber. Used bash shell, Java, Ruby and Gherkin for scripting languages. Neoload was the Performance Testing Tool used for verifying functionality of various applications

under peak and busy hour loads. Test setups included using the tool’s load generators across US time zones. R-Squared@Viasat, Lead Test Engineer for Ground Based Beam Former (GBBF) Antenna Pointing and Electronic Beam Steering software Dec 2008 - Dec 2009

My responsibilities included test procedure review, test script development and execution using Linux Shell, LabView and Quick Test Professional.

R-Squared@Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Test Lead My responsibilities included functional and performance testing of the DTRA websites May 2008 - Nov 2008 Performance tests conducted using SilkPerformer. Wrote the Testing SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) based on IEEE-829-2008

R-Squared@US Mint Headquarters, Test Lead Managed team of 7 testers, Assigned Daily Duties, Developed Duty Rosters, Created Project Plans and regularly reported task assignment progress and status Mar 2007 - May 2008

Used MS-Project and spreadsheets to plan and track facility-wide software upgrades (IPV6) and vendor management transition. Wrote the Product Assurance Testing SOP (Standard Operating Procedures). Test Tools included WinRunner, Quick Test Professional, LoadRunner and Quality Center

R-Squared@Sprint, Lead Performance Test Consultant for Unified Billing Platform/Next Generation PrePaid (UBP/NGPP) May 2006 - Mar 2007

My responsibilities included writing the performance test strategy, establishing the load models, script development (LoadRunner Web and Tuxedo protocols), and test execution.

R-Squared@FannieMae, Test Data Coordinator for Restatement, Test Lead for e-Registration Jul 2002 - May 2006

I was directly responsible for scheduling, tasking and reporting status of over 15 full-time testers. Loadrunner SME. R-Squared@Titan, Test Lead for pb-ICE (Performance-Based Integrated Collaborative Environment) Mar 2002 - Dec 2002

I created test plans, scripts, data and procedures to test the web applications using SilkTest (QA Partner). R-Squared@RR Donnelley & Sons, Test Lead (Loadrunner SME) for ProFile Performance Improvement Dec 2001 - Feb 2002

R-Squared@Comsat Laboratories, Test Lead for New TDMA Initiative (NTI) Local Management System (LMS) Jun 1999 - Oct 2001

The LMS software was written in C++ and Java, and runs on Sun Solaris 2.7 (server) and NT 4.0 (client). My specific duties included preparation of test plans, test specifications and test procedures beginning with Subsystem Integration and working towards final Production Acceptance Tests. I was responsible for the test setups in the NTI lab, from equipment rack installation through network design and implementation.

R-Squared@Ultraprise Corporation, Performance Testing Consultant, (Loadrunner SME) concentrating in Web site Load and Stress Testing

Mar 2000 - Apr 2001

The majority of the work done at Ultraprise was NT 4.0, IIS, Visual Basic, C++, Java and JavaScript. Protocols included HTTP, TCP/IP, and SSL.

R-Squared@NASD, Inc., Performance Testing Consultant, (Loadrunner SME) concentrating in Web site Load and Stress Testing Oct 1998 - Jan 2000

A paper describing the methodologies used and approaches taken at NASD was presented at the 1999 Mercury User Conference in Orlando, Florida in October. The majority of the work done at NASD was NT 4.0, IIS, Visual Basic, C++, Java and JavaScript. Protocols included HTTP, TCP/IP, and SSL.

R-Squared@Comsat RSI, Test Lead for ACeS (Asia Cellular Satellite System) Feb 1996 - Oct 1998

Established test program from inception through Formal Qualification Test (FQT). Evaluated and procured commercially available testing tools for code coverage, GUI and performance testing. The GUI was developed using Ilog Views and tested using Mercury Interactive's X-Runner. Specified requirements for simulators used in call processing and network management. R-Squared@MCI Telecom, Technical lead over 4 test engineers May 1995 - Jan 1996

Responsible for performance evaluations and tests of various Unix platforms Worked with Unix, C, Oracle, Sybase, CICS, SQL, LoadRunner, and TPNS (Tele Processing Network Simulator). Developed Test Plans, Procedures, scripts, conducted tests and reviews.

R-Squared@COMSAT Labs, Independent Consultant for Software Integration and Test Aug 1985 - May 1994

My responsibilities included writing and maintaining the STP (Software Test Plan) for the project. This document was used for final acceptance testing. Test Equipment used included Ameritec Call Load Generators, Phoenix Bit Error Test Sets/Data Analyzers, Wavetek Arbitrary Waveform Generators, etc. Papers describing work performed presented at 1987 Winter Simulation Conference (Atlanta), 1987 National Conference on Software Testing (Orlando) and the 1992 International Conference on Digital Satellite Communications (ICDSC-9) in Copenhagen, Denmark MITRE Corporation, Member Technical Staff

Jul 1984 - Aug 1985

Performed verification and event simulation modeling of FAA’s Flight Services Automation System. Paper describing this model and its verification presented at the 1985 Winter Simulation Conference in San Francisco. Fairchild Industries, Member Technical Staff

May 1982 - Jul 1984

Oversaw four V&V engineers, and coordinated the activities of software developers during system test for software releases. Designed and implemented tests done for PQT/FQT, Category I acceptance test. EDUCATION

Hood College

Computer and Information Science • 1987 - 1987

University of the State of New York

Computer Science • 1984 - 1984

University of the State of New York

Chemistry • 1979 - 1979

Houghton College

General Science and Philosophy • 1977 - 1977

LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Test Professional

International Institute for Software Testing • Issued 2021 Certified Agile Tester

iCAgile • Issued 2015

Snowpro Training

Snowflake • Issued 2022

Appium Fundamentals

Headspin • Issued 2022

AccelQ Certified Automation Engineer

Issued 2024

LoadRunner 4.0

Mercury Interactive • Issued 1998

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