Personal Profile

Experienced automation engineer with 13 years of expertise in Agile (Scrum) environments, specializing in OOP, the SDLC, and CI/CD processes. Proven track record in optimizing workflows, reducing operational costs, and ensuring high system reliability across projects in education, aviation, and financial software. Successfully led initiatives that resulted in a 30% reduction in server and manpower costs while maintaining 99.9% system uptime.

Technical Skills

Containers, IaC & CI/CD

Docker Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins Fastlane Bitbucket Github Actions

Programming & Scripting

Java Python Swift C# Bash Batch Groovy

Cloud, DBs & Servers

AWS WildFly MySQL Postgres Cassandra dynamoDB

Testing

Postman ReadyAPI Selenium Jmeter Cucumber

Project Management

Agile (Scrum) JIRA Rally VersionOne NewRelic ServiceNow

Work Experience

Xpanxion L.L.C.

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test - Elavon/US Bank (Remote)

June 2018 to Present

Streamlined Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for deployments, testing, and release report generation.

Maintained 99.9% uptime in 24/7 support rotation for WildFly/Cassandra production environments.

Led the migration of data center services from on-prem to AWS, reducing server and manpower costs by 30%.

Resolved critical production issues by responding to incidents in ServiceNow, analyzing logs in Kibana and Splunk, and facilitating communication across multiple teams and product owners.

Developed API tests in Java/Cucumber and ReadyAPI frameworks for Elavon's payment gateway solution.

Enhanced UI Selenium test automation for Elavon's gift card processor, Fanfare.

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test - The Weather Company (Hybrid)

October 2016 to June 2018

Consulted TWC's manual and automation QA teams regarding their mobile aviation application, PilotBrief (iOS).

Orchestrated and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Xcode Server and Jenkins, and Fastlane to improve app deployments.

Collected analytics using Crashlytics(Firebase), providing actionable insights into application crashes.

Pearson Education

Full Stack Software Developer (On-site)

April 2015 to October 2016

Developed new features for Pearson's ePEN2 scoring platform in a Java/JavaScript framework

Wrote and executed stored procedures in SQL Server, resolving DB issues or implementing improvements.

Audited server logs to diagnose error root causes using Splunk to assist the team in fixing application issues.

Software Quality Assurance Analyst (On-site)

June 2012 to April 2015

Designed automation tools to simulate student test taking using Selenium, Sikuli, UFT(QTP) and TestPlant.

Performed automated UAT validation against Pearson's PearsonAccess site before releases.

Optimized publishing and authoring tools for Pearson’s TestHear and TestNav technologies which reduced daily runtimes from ~10 minutes to ~30 seconds.

Maintained lab equipment and configurations for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS systems.

Software Tester Intern (On-site)

Jan 2012 to June 2012

Automated online test taking to improve efficiency with human software testing.

Set up a version control system for multiple Linux hosts utilizing Perforce and bash scripting.

Tested Pearson's online testing software to find bugs and vulnerabilities.

Infrastructure Management Intern (On-site)

May 2011 to Jul 2011

Configured and audited linux servers.

Created backups and managed storage.

Worked with penetration testing and vulnerability scanners.

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

In Progress - ETA August 2024

ISTQB Foundation Level

Completed August 2017

Education

The University of Iowa

Completed May 2012

B.B.A., Bachelor of Business Administration
Major in Management Information Systems

Kirkwood Community College

Completed December 2010

A.A., Associate of the Arts Degree
Emphasis in Business Administration

Andrew Walser

Senior Automation Engineer

Loveland CO, US