Dale Fixter
Lead Software Engineer in Test @DoiT
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WORK HISTORY
Lead Software Engineer in Test @DoiT
London, GB
Successfully designed, and implemented various continuously integrated automated test frameworks from scratch- Cypress E2E Testing- Typescript / Javascript- Cucumber / BDD- Utilising all best practices such as Page Object Model, Custom Reusable Commands- GitHub Actions / Continuous Integration - Established from scratch automated E2E testing and Restful-API testing- Built & led a team of 3 individuals- achieved an 80% reduction in Continuous Integration costs via Self-Hosted GCP CE test runners - Cloud Build / Compute Engine / Cloud-init / Docker / Container optimized OS- Cypress-Firebase, Faker, Mailosaur, Enhanced Logging, cypress-wait-until, testing-library/cypress- Visual Testing - Argos CI- Accessibility Testing - axe-core, cypress-axe- Custom Slack app notifications- Performance Testing - Github Actions CI - Puppeteer - Unlighthouse - LightHouse- Pulumi - Infrastructure as code (IaC)- for test infrastructure- SonarQube - used for improving unit/component test coverage- Setting & improving Code Standards across Engineering- Cypress -> Playwright migration- Optimising the use of LLMs in software development through agent rules & prompt optimisation- Setup Pagertree alerting for Prod Incidents - detection via E2E production tests
EDUCATION
Sheffield Hallam University
MSc Leisure Events and Facilities Management, Leisure and Recreational Activities
Sheffield Hallam University
BSc (Hons) Management, Communication & Technology, Management Information Systems, General
SKILLS
ABOUT DALE FIXTER
IT Software Testing consultant - Senior Software Developer in Test, Test Lead/Manager.Lead Software Developer in Test. years of professional testing experience, proactive hands-on automation rst Software Developer in Test, with 8 years in Test/QA Lead / Management positions.Functional, Integration, and Regression automated testing of API, web, and mobile apps. I place importance upon the thorough design of test cases, using all test techniques, accompanied by a clear, concise, easy-to-understand test strategy.Advocate for Agile Methodologies & DevOps culture, linked with Continuous Automated TestingCertied Software Testing Professional (ISTQB). Certied in IT Service Management (ITIL V3)Procient with: Cypress, Robot Framework, Appium, Docker, Gauge, TestNG, Squish, SOAPUI, Tricentis Tosca, JIRA, Zephyr, Confluence, HP QC, TFS, HP UFT / QTP, Katalon Studio, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Virtuoso, IBM Rational Functional Tester, JMeter, JConsole, SoapUI, Postman, JUnit, Jenkins, Cucumber, Protractor, Loadrunner much more.• Project experience includes: Database migrations, Identity & Access Management, Oracle BSS OSS, Oracle ERP (SaaS), Microsoft Dynamics 365, Office 365, BPM, Fusion Middleware, ATG eCommerce, Mobile Device Management, Two Factor Authentication, BizTalk, SAP, Process Simplification, Digital Transformation, System Migration, Clearing & Settlement, Payment Authorisation, Mobile Payments, Fraud Detection, Real Time Scoring, Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), SWIFT, GDPR, PSD2, Open Banking, PCI Compliance, Business Intelligence, Hardware Refresh
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