Past Roles

Technical Test Specialist, Sunsuper | August 2021 – October 2021

Responsibilities:

  • Maintained extensive test automation framework assets
  • Improved the automated test case quality through refactoring and stability measures
  • Provided test automation leadership and coaching

Technologies:

  • C#, Appium, TeamCity, Selenium, Postman

Senior Test Analyst, WorkCover Queensland | February 2019 – August 2021

Responsibilities:

  • Supported the Solutions Delivery Team as they worked through important QA strategic initiatives, key system upgrades, and technical debt clean-up
  • Improved the automated test case quality through refactoring and stability measures
  • Prepared for future QA initiatives including cloud service relocation
  • Lead engineer maintaining extensive UI and API test automation framework assets
  • Provided test automation leadership and coaching

Achievements:

  • Implementation of CI/CD pipeline executing API test suites against various test environments
  • Real-time test data generation of system entities for use in automated test cases
  • Real-time dynamic value replacement framework allowing removal of hard coded data values
  • Cloud enablement of the ‘web test’ database through applying data obfuscation process
  • Nightly test coverage statistics and reports based on Team City test runs

Technologies:

  • Ruby, Cucumber, TeamCity, Selenium, Watir, Postman, TestRail, Postman, Swagger

Senior Test Engineer, Tabcorp (Formerly TattsGroup) | November 2012 – January 2019

Responsibilities:

  • Provided quality assurance support to all lotteries cross-functional teams, including planning, strategy, technical expertise, mentoring and test case development activities
  • Implemented the automation test framework and infrastructure underlying the lotteries host functional and acceptance test cases
  • Developed and maintained tools supporting tester activities

Achievements:

  • Planned the lotteries host system test automation strategy
  • Implemented fully automated CI/CD pipelines with supporting test infrastructure
  • Implemented the automated process and supporting infrastructure for generating lotteries system seeded test data

Technologies:

  • C#, Selenium, Gherkin (SpecFlow), Powershell, Ruby, tSQL, SQLServer, GitHub, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Chef

EARLIER EMPLOYMENT:

  • .NET Software Engineer, TNS Payment Technologies | April 2008 – November 2012
  • Ellipse Winview Developer, Mincom Ltd | January 2006 – April 2008
  • Analyst/Programmer, AkerKvaerner Group Finance | April 2003 – November 2005
  • Contract Analyst/Programmer, various companies in London, UK | October 2002 – March 2003
  • IT Consultant, Bullet Couriers | May 2001 – September 2002
  • Web Developer, Adacel Technologies Ltd | October 1999 – June 2002
  • Analyst/Programmer, Synergy SA Pty Ltd | December 1998 – September 1999