Steven M.

About Steven M.

Senior professional QA engineer, senior QA automation engineer and automation innovator with 25 years experience in all types of software/web development and software/hardware testing. My specialty is test automation architecture with a focus on designing and implementing automation frameworks. Areas of interest include full test system custom development, Selenium, Coded UI, C#, Java, Python with Visual Studio Code, NetBeans, Cypress with JavaScript and Visual Studio Code, and Playwright with Typescript and/or JavaScript. I am efficient at developing automated test systems to increase the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the team. I am an advocate of automating as many functions as possible and I always drive the team to utilize automation and achieve continuous integration across the software development process. I\'m always willing to learn new technologies, frameworks, and programming languages to improve my skills as well as improve existing software solutions on which I\'m working.“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”~ Maya Angelou

Experience

1. Senior Qa Automation Engineer Automation Innovator

   Certus

   May 2025 — Present · Orlando, FL, US

   Develop, manage, and maintain Certus QA test automation frameworks including automated UI regression and functionality tests using Playwright, C#.NET, and Visual Studio. Develop.NET classes for automating testing such as cookie testing and management, accessibility, and other functions as needed.Develop API tests and class objects for Certus micro-service testing.Develop automated accessibility tests.Develop end to end automated tests for education software.Assist with Integrating automated tests into Azure Devops automated test plans. Maintain Azure Automated test plans and deployment pipeline for automated tests. These tests are either triggered by QA analysts or scheduled to run at specific times.Maintain automated test build pipelines and settings in Azure DevOps.Develop and maintain test automation metrics in Azure DevOps dashboards and Confluence.Develop and maintain any tooling for QA and test automation as required.Utilize Azure DevOps for build maintenance and source code control via GIT.Act as senior subject matter expert for automation, Azure devops (testing), stress/load testing, and QA tooling.Provide technical expertise for test automation and lead workshops with developers on automation best practices.Lead code reviews for QA automation and manage the automation code repository along with acting as required approval engineer for code pull requests.Maintain automation code and test solutions in Azure Devops.Maintain confluence page documentation for developing Playwright/.NET/C# tests and provide best practices.

Education

• Community College of Rhode Island

  ASSOCIATE DEGREE, Electronics Engineering with computer science

  1998 — 2001

• IBEW electrician trade school

  Diploma, Electrical: Temperature and motor controls

  1992 — 1996

• ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY Bristol, Rhode Island

  CERTIFICATE, Computer Information Systems

  2004 — 2005

• New England Institute of Technology

  BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE, Electronics Engineering and computer science

  2001 — 2004

Skills

• Microcontroller Programming
• Visual C#
• Selenium Grid
• Android Programming Using Eclipse
• Sourcegear Vault
• Test Protocol Development
• Hp Loadrunner
• Atlassian Jira Bug Tracking
• Bugzilla & Mingle Bug Tracking
• Electronics Circuit Design
• Vmware Workstation
• Test Automation
• Javascript
• Mobile .netcf Application Testing
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Analog Circuit Design
• Nunit & Junit
• .net Database Programming with C#
• Test Preparation
• QA Software Testing
• Sql Ce for Mobile Devices
• Electronics Repair Component Level
• Sql Server and Sql Scripting Programming
• Java Programming
• Quality Assurance
• Visual Basic 6 & .net
• Qtp
• Power Shell Scripting
• Ni Labview
• Black/White Box Testing
• Xilinx Cpld Programming
• Basic Test Complete
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Circuit & Pcb Repair
• Sql Server 2000-2008
• Data Acquisition
• Sql Server Performance Tuning
• Software Load and Performance Testing
• C#