James Kulferst
Software Development Manager @Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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WORK HISTORY
Software Development Manager @Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, BC, CA
Leading 50+ teams through the certification process for Amazon Relational Database Service. Managing a team that owns the test framework and related tools to run tests, coordinate certifications and improve developer efficiencies. Cut time to release code to production by 50% for regular mainline changes and by 90% for urgent changes for the RDS shared services used by over 50 teams Speed up overnight testing by 50% to provide timely test results to teams Scaled out our framework and processes to support a 100% increase in testing over 3 years
EDUCATION
The University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering
Simon Fraser University
Graduate Diploma, Business Administration
SKILLS
ABOUT JAMES KULFERST
Quality Assurance Specialist with over 12 years of testing experience including 10 years in lead roles. Adept at leading all aspects of testing including using various testing methodologies, managing a test team, setting up test tools, implementing test automation, test reporting, and managing risksQuality Assurance & Software Processes• Reduced testing time by 20% while reducing risk and keeping regular updates flowing at Mojio by setting up a weekly release process for platform and mobile applications• Doubled the number cameras released into manufacturing by formalizing, streamlining and enforcing a staged engineering process at Point Grey Research that aligned the Marketing, Engineering, Manufacturing and Test teams• Maintained and improved a manufacturing quality control infrastructure and ISO compliant processes• PMP CertifiedLeadership• Build test teams with testers and developers at Mojio, Nokia and Pt Grey. Hired, trained, mentored and coached individuals to help them and the team succeed.• Led multidisciplinary teams in the timely resolution of production issues within a complex web ecosystem that supports over 15 million daily downloads• Led 12 local and remote test engineers through the SDLC resulting in the release of two different mobile phones on over 60 live networks in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific• Received a bonus for my usability reports generated from setting up and running a Beta Test that involved over 125 people from around the world Programming• Saved hours of wasted time downtime by setting up test automation with our CI (TeamCity) that checks and reports on problems as soon as developers changed any code• Built Android Test Automation framework that allowed offshore contractors to automation 80% of their manual tests (in areas targeted so far ) • Improved camera yields by 15% by stabilizing and improving the environmental test automation
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