Quality Assurance Software Development

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER IN TEST

Trent Himes

PROFILE

I have over 30 years working experience in the software development industry, working in the fields of Quality Assurance, Product Management and Project Management. I have an MBA from BYU and have personally developed multiple test automation frameworks in multiple scripting languages. EXPERIENCE

TEKsystems – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints December 2023 - November 2024

SDET

• Worked on the backend for the team that makes the Membership Tools App for iOS and Android.

• Built a new test framework from scratch using Spring WebTestClient. I made recent improvements to the framework that increased running speeds of tests by 66%.

• Worked with the team on three-week sprints, verifying Jira tickets as they were resolved.

• Technologies Used: Kotlin, WebTestClient, Java, GitHub, AWS. TEKsystems – Corteva

January 2023 - October 2023

SDET

• Maintained a Python/Appium test framework and used it to create automated test cases for Corteva’s Granular Insights application on both iOS and Android environments.

• Launched a new test framework for the iOS version of the app using XCUITest. Tests were integrated into the team’s GitLab pipeline and ran automatically whenever code was checked in.

• Technologies Used: Python, Appium, SauceLabs, Swift, XCUITest, GitLab. TEKsystems – Bitt (converted to direct employee April 2022) October 2021- December 2022

SDET

• Wrote tests for back-end API interactions as they were in development for sprints

• Contributed to the ground up re-write of a shared Python testing framework used by the team

• Technologies used: Python, Pytest, Xray test tracker, CodeFresh, Bitbucket TEKsystems – Zions Bancorp

April 2021 – September 2021

SDET

• Wrote UI centered tests for the team.

• Improved test standards for the automation team by focusing on principles of BBD tests.

• Technologies used: Java, JBehave, Selenium, SQL

TEKsystems – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Senior Quality Engineer

April 2019 – April 2021

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• Built suites of tests for API endpoints using SoapUI

• Created a test framework from scratch using Python to improve speed, maintainability and reliability of tests.

• Technologies used: SoapUI, Python, Jenkins with test reports sent to Teams Alianza

Senior Quality Engineer

Sept 2016 – April 2019

•Built a UI Automation framework using Cypress.

•Wrote and maintained repository of automated end-to-end test suites.

•Technologies used: Java, JavaScript, AWS, Cassandra, Wercker. DealerTrack

Software Development Engineer in Test

Jan 2014 – Sept 2016

• Worked on several test frameworks used by others within the company.

• Wrote automated test suites for features in development. This was very helpful in completing testing requirements and delivering sprint stories on time.

• Technologies used: Python, C#, Soap UI, Jenkins, Git, SQL. Venafi

Senior Quality Engineer

Jan 2013 – Nov 2013

• Created an automated test harness from scratch for Venafi’s Aperture product.

• Technologies used: C#, Selenium Webdriver and SQL. Tynt (33Across)

Quality Assurance Manager

2010 – 2012

• Wrote and executed tests for weekly sprint releases

• Developed and maintained automated testing suites

• Technologies used: Ruby, Rails, Jenkins, Hadoop, SQL, Mechanize, Nokogiri and in-house API tools.

Marketecture

Product Manager

2009 – 2010

• Product designer for the new Marketecture Site Builder product.

• Developed and administrated a project/issue tracking web site using Intuit’s QuickBase and Bugzilla.

• Performed the role of the on-site customer for agile projects. Bloosky Interactive

Quality Assurance Manager

2008 – 2009

• Created automated testing process

• Set up Task Management tool for company-wide rollout. Included restructuring of process, training, change management and support for entire development team. FranklinCovey & Yahoo!

Contract QA Consultant

2007 – 2008

• Managed Quality Assurance process for SEO projects.

• Wrote and ran test plans to assure quality product releases. Microsoft Corporation

Test Team Lead

2002 – 2005

• Created detailed test plans and lead a multi-national quality assurance team for Top Spin, the best selling console tennis game.

• Served as assistant Project Manager while lead PM was on site with development team in Paris.

• Established communication plan to coordinate efforts between team members in Salt Lake City, Paris, Dublin and Tokyo.

Perot Systems, Inc.

Project Manager

1999 – 2002

• Lead teams of 10-20 members though the entire development process.

• Gathered client requirements through the process of Contextual Inquiry.

• Helped reach delivery timeline goals by working on UI bug fixes, QA testing and help file technical writing.

• Completed Perot Systems Project Management training course. Sterling Wentworth, Inc.

Director of Quality Assurance

1998 – 1999

• Expanded the Quality Assurance team from two to ten full time employees.

• Implemented defect-tracking system and automated testing routines. The automated testing program increased the number of test cases typically run prior to release from 3 to 1000.

• Increased level of professionalism of team members through education and active participation in the full development cycle. Corel, Inc.

Localization Engineer

1996 – 1998

• Localized WordPerfect Suite 8 for Japan and other double-byte markets.

• Helped establish new localization processes that cut production time by 6-12 months.

• Eliminated bugs in the interface code for WordPerfect Suite products. WordPerfect/Novell, Inc.

Software Quality Engineer

1992 – 1996

• Managed QA efforts for all international versions of WordPerfect for Macintosh.

• Increased productivity of the development team through testing automation.

• Collaborated in feature design with the US and Japan development teams. EDUCATION

1996-1998 MBA, Marriot School of Management (BYU)

1988-1992 BA (Major: Japanese, Minor, Computer Linguistics), Brigham Young University (Graduated with University Honors)

SKILLS

• Test Automation & Frameworks:

Selenium, Cypress, Appium, XCUITest, SoapUI, Behave, Pytest, Spring WebTestClient

• Coding languages:

Python, Kotlin, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, C#

• CI/CD & Version Control:

Jenkins, Git, GitHub, GitLab, CodeFresh, Bitbucket, Wercker

• Cloud & DevOps Tools:

AWS, SauceLabs

• Project & Test Management Tools:

Jira, Xray test tracker, Bugzilla, QuickBase

• Databases & Data Management:

SQL, Cassandra, Hadoop

• Other Tools & Technologies:

Mechanize, Nokogiri, Teams, Faker

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