Jim Knowlton

About Jim Knowlton

SUMMARYI am a seasoned software professional experienced in executing and leading software testing efforts. I have particular expertise in test automation and agile development. I love to learn new technologies and am excited to take on a new challenge.HIGHLIGHTS- Test automation: Built multiple automation frameworks from scratch, in multiple programming languages, to automate testing both through the UI and via APIs- Project/team leadership: Led individual teams and, as a Principal Engineer/QA Architect, led organization-wide initiatives- Agile development: Certified ScrumMaster & Product Owner- Publications- Python: Create, Modify, Reuse, Wrox (Wiley) 2008 - “Web Security Testing With Ruby and Watir”, Presented at Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference - Portland, Oregon 2010 - “InnerSource in Test Automation”, Presented at Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference - Portland, Oregon 2016SKILLSProgramming Languages: Java, Groovy, C#, Python, JavaScript, SQLInfrastructure Tools: Docker, KubernetesTesting Tools: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, Testrail, ZephyrTest Frameworks: TestNG, JUnit, NUnit, Pytest, JasmineCloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, Azure Data Factory, SnowflakeBusiness Applications: Salesforce, Power BIDevOps/SDLC: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bitbucket Pipelines, Git, Jenkins, Splunk, New Relic

Experience

1. Senior Test Engineer

   Major League Baseball (MLB)

   Jul 2024 — Present · El Segundo, CA, US

   Performed manual testing on the Tickets.com Provenue ticketing platform, validating both consumer-facing and backend functionality- Built test plans/suites using Testrail, and documented and reported on test execution- Built automated tests in Playwright(JavaScript) to validate both UI features and API endpoints- Worked with offshore partners to augment testing and manage test projects.

Education

• University of Portland

  MBA, Operations and Technology Management

  2009 — 2012

• University of Phoenix

  BA, Management

  1992 — 1995

Skills

• Iphone
• Test Management
• Integration
• Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Software Quality Assurance
• Sdlc
• Mobile Devices
• Test Automation
• Android
• Cloud Computing
• Software Project Management
• Ios
• Mobile Applications
• Unix
• Software Engineering
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• Web Applications
• Sql
• Linux
• Ruby
• Quality Assurance
• Databases
• Test Planning
• Leadership
• Xml
• E-Commerce
• Perl