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Aug. 2025Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico
ADTRAV Travel ManagementLead SDET
Jan. 2024 - Aug. 2025Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Premera Blue CrossSoftware Development Engineer IV
Dec. 2020 - Oct. 2023Mountlake Terrace, Washington, United StatesBuilt both on premise and cloud C# worker services hosted in Kubernetes. Built out the Kafka event streaming architecture leveraging containers and orchestration. Built C# REST APIs to serve data from MongoDB. Created and executed performance tests using JMeter.
Premera Blue CrossPrinciple SDET Lead
Mar. 2013 - Dec. 2020Mountlake Terrace, Washington, United States~ Lead team of SDETs across multiple Scrum teams, providing technical direction in the greenfield DataHub project.
~ Responsible for design and architecture of Premera Test Management RESTful API (with MongoDb backend) which enables execution of C# test automation runs via Azure DevOps self-hosted agents within the final step in the uDeploy deployment process as part of the Continuous Integration (CI) process, ensuring that deployments of new production code to test environments are successful and ready for full regression tests.
~ Responsible for creation of automated testing tools, test automation frameworks, harnesses, and test scripts for the MDM (Master Data Management) team.
~ Responsible for test planning, test case design and execution, test case management, defect management, metrics collection and reporting. Focus is on increasing the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the software testing teams, increasing the technical depth of tests performed, and decreasing the effort required to perform repetitive testing activities.
~ Create and maintain Azure DevOps build and release pipelines. Create and maintain gated builds as gates within GIT pull requests. Create and maintain releases which execute test automation in nightly test runs.
~ Utilize a variety of relevant programming languages, development and testing tools and methodologies to analyze, design, develop, modify and maintain automated software testing solutions and frameworks to ensure a quality product is built and delivered. Design and develop automated solutions to emulate production workloads and activities and assesses performance and scalability of software systems under load. Analyze results, identifies trend, troubleshoot, identify root cause of performance problems and recommend solutions to performance issues to cross-functional project technical staff.
Microsoft (via Design Laboratory)Senior Consultant (Web Developer)
Feb. 2012 - Feb. 2013Bellevue, Washington, United States~ Develop data driven Interactive Rich Media web applications.
MercentSoftware Development Engineer, Platform Support
Mar. 2011 - Feb. 2012Seattle, Washington, United States~ Determine the best approach for resolving technical issues that will yield the desired turn-around time and optimal customer solution while minimizing the impact to the customer. ~ Provide accurate problem descriptions, with all necessary support documentation for inter-department triage of client issues. ~ Analyze problems and develop solutions to meet customer needs; review and debug XML files, minor code changes, debug stored procedures, and SQL scripts. ~ Assist in patch creation. ~ Learn and understand new features for effective sustained engineering support of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) platform upon release.
Microsoft (via TekSystems)Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Oct. 2010 - Mar. 2011Redmond, Washington, United States• Create, deploy and report on automated testing cases for desktop application developed by the Global Criminal Compliance team.
• Open, validate and close resolved bug using Product Studio.
MicrosoftSoftware Development Engineer in Test II
Dec. 2007 - Oct. 2010Redmond, Washington, United StatesActed as an IC on a Scrum team within MSN - US Global Market Delivery, testing Health, Lifestyle, Local Edition, Weather, Tech, and Autos channels. Key Achievements and Contributions:
~ Acted as Performance Champ for MSN Global Market Delivery. Performed server perf testing of new CF services using Ocracoke, and client-side PLT testing of new Bedrock features.
~ Acted as one of GMD's three Online Services Security Champs. ~ Performed several security reviews, including one necessary to provide the on-time release of the Bing header within MSN channels. ~ Coded GMD's Web Crawler automation tool, which improved both the stability and accuracy of the tool, as well as added additional functionality to display the broken link text/image and send notification emails about broken links.
~ Implemented daily automation runs of GMD's Web Crawler on MSN channel sites.
~ Assisted fellow team members in learning KAFXml.
~ Worked with Devs to create an automated means of refreshing the Virtual Bedrock content management system environments.
Microsoft (via TEKsystems)Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Oct. 2007 - Dec. 2007Redmond, Washington, United States~ Create, deploy and report on automated testing cases for all tools, websites and web services the XBOX AWE team develops. ~ Develop, deploy, and run test automation stress and performance tests using C# and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Load Agent. ~ Open, validate and close resolved bug using Product Studio.
Fox CorporationSenior Quality Assurance Analyst
Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2007Seattle, Washington, United StatesCreated and maintained automated tests to help implement and augment the test infrastructure for Scout.com's V1 AJAX message board system. Automation was developed in C# using Visual Studio 2005 Test Team edition, and was supplemented with custom C# console applications. Scout.com one of the top sports recruiting websites in the United States, and was the supplier to all the content on Sports.mySpace.com. Key Achievements and Contributions:
~ Lead the implementation of a new Visual Studio 2005 test environment.
~ Trained testers on how to use SQL tracing to identify potential coding issues.
~ Developed a web service used within Visual Studio 2005 test automation for website stress testing.
~ Actively participated in the design, development, and testing of the code used for launching Sports.mySpace.com, allowing this product to launch on time and within budget.
Microsoft (via Volt)Software Development Engineer in Test II
Mar. 2006 - Oct. 2006Redmond, Washington, United StatesCreated and maintained automated tests to help implement and augment the test infrastructure for Real Time Communications ECommerce team. Developed automated website deployment scripts to be used both in lab and production environments. Developed windows test automation test tools using C#. Open, validate and close resolved bug using Product Studio. Key Achievements and Contributions:
~ Designed and built out BVT and Stress test environments for a V1 product test team.
~ Designed and implemented daily BVT test runs and reporting tools.
~ Designed and co-authored website deployment scripts and deployment guide.
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