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Daniel Newman

Daniel Newman

Nashville,TN

Summary

Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Quality Engineer III

SUSE
02.2022 - Current
  • With tools like Terraform and Ansible, manage infrastructure (Servers, Load Balancers, IAM, Storage) in AWS, GCP, Linode, VMWare, and Digital Ocean
  • Measured performance impact of updates to Rancher
  • Used Terraform to decrease time it takes to build large Kubernetes clusters size of 200 – 300 clusters so can collect performance metrics in hours rather than days
  • Analyze performance metrics of large clusters with Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Designed and implemented quality control processes to facilitate customer satisfaction.

Test Lead

Equinox Media, LLC
04.2021 - 08.2021
  • Increased automated testing of APIs by 100% by hiring and leading a team of three Automation Test Engineers.
  • Recommended tools for API testing for teams to use and carried out proof of concept evaluations
  • Assisted with defining a strategy to implement embedding test engineers on development teams and creating the cohesive structure to share information between groups
  • Integrated Postman with GitHub, Slack, and TravisCI to continuously run tests and communicate results with the Newman NodeJS library
  • Created test plans for business systems software such as Shopify, Zuora, and logistics programs
  • Monitored and administered infrastructure in AWS with New Relic and Terraform
  • Analyzed Functional requirements to identify the most effective test cases to be evaluated
  • Wrote detailed requirements to create robust test plans and realistic work estimates for testing phases.

Automation Engineer

XOi Technologies
02.2020 - 03.2021
  • Increased test automation by 100% by creating a test framework using Webdriver.io (NodeJS), Cucumber, Selenium, and Appium
  • Trained developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes.
  • Increased testing frequency by 100% by creating Jenkins build pipelines that included automated functional testing and reporting, reducing regressions, and catching bugs before reaching production.
  • Implemented writing test scenarios in Cucumber syntax to align developers, product managers, and testers on acceptance criteria.

Automation Engineer

GoNoodle
06.2019 - 01.2020
  • Rewrote tests from RSpec to Cucumber to follow a BDD format and increase collaboration between product designers, developers, and QA.
  • Implemented automated reporting of test results in test case management software.
  • Trained developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes.
  • Set up Jenkins server in Docker to facilitate running tests and dashboards to communicate results of code changes better.
  • Used Postman and Charles to test REST APIs.

Senior Test Analyst

HCA
02.2019 - 05.2019
  • Evaluated ETL processes for various accounting functions
  • Created an automation framework to start implementing test-driven development with other developers
  • Connected testing with the deployment process to verify the software is working as expected with each deployment.
  • Tailored testing procedures to obtain data most relevant to understanding underlying causes of production limitations.
  • Worked closely with different departments to develop innovative solutions to functionality issues.

Senior Software Engineer

TopDevz
12.2018 - 05.2019
  • Consulted with companies to increase their automation coverage, starting with zero coverage
  • Worked with QA to identify the most effective tests to automate
  • Worked with DevOps to set up running and reporting of tests
  • Learned all aspects of the system under test
  • Built a test automation framework in Golang.
  • Worked with development teams to correct problems and run test scenarios.
  • Practiced and encouraged respectful and transparent communication in interactions.

Software Test Engineer

Digital Reasoning
01.2017 - 10.2018
  • Trained colleagues new to programming in writing automation tests and codifying infrastructure.
  • Helped coworkers automate provisioning and setup of new servers for testing
  • Introduced topics like API testing and other backend testing tasks, which increased the repeatability and consistency of testing
  • This reduced the testing time from two weeks to one day and reduced human errors
  • In addition, I tutored them on programming basics
  • Established a framework for automated UI testing using Selenium to constantly increase test coverage by educating all teams on automation best practices
  • Automated complex installation and configurations of products, significantly reducing configuration issues due to human error
  • This included provisioning Hadoop clusters in AWS, transferring and extracting Java artifacts on remote servers, and managing complex configuration settings
  • Measured and monitored the performance of different Hadoop distributions
  • Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing,
  • Automated other complex setup tasks such as LDAP and Kerberos configuration.

Test Engineer

InVivoLink
10.2016 - 12.2016
  • Created an automation framework to begin automating manual test cases.
  • Implemented automated systems to improve accuracy and efficiency of engineering processes.
  • Developed and maintained test and evaluation strategies for testing to show operational readiness and suitability with planned project decision points.

Performance Test Engineer

Premise Health
12.2015 - 10.2016
  • Developed and deployed test load scripts with Soasta Cloudtest, Loadrunner, and JMeter.
  • Developed functional tests using Selenium and Docker images to run multi-browser headless environments designed to run through Continuous Integration servers like Jenkins
  • Created API Tests with Postman to run with NodeJS and the Newman Library
  • Mentored other testers in programming and automation best practices
  • Used configuration management tools such as Vagrant, Terraform, and Ansible to set up and manage test environments
  • Analyzed performance metrics of backend services hosted in AWS
  • Used monitoring tools like New Relic and DataDogHQ tools on frequent basis.
  • Maintained a mixed server environment of Windows (Server 2012) and Linux Servers (Ubuntu, CentOS, Arch).

Test Engineer

UBS
06.2015 - 12.2015
  • Setup continuous integration environments to get instant feedback from their code changes
  • Implemented automated systems to improve accuracy and efficiency of engineering processes.
  • Developed an automatic delivery system for deploying project artifacts to mainframe resources
  • Implemented automated UI testing using Selenium, ensuring new development didn't break existing functionality
  • Managed testing data integrity, decreasing defects when converting programs from COBOL to Java
  • Utilized and Extended Robot Framework to provide quick and practical testing of NodeJS web applications.

Performance Test Engineer

Wipro
01.2011 - 06.2015
  • Developed and deployed test load scripts with Loadrunner.
  • Decreasing testing cycles from one month to one week
  • Setup new testing environments for clients, including setting up the web, application, and database servers with .Net and MSSQL
  • Utilized complex SQL queries in MSSQL and Oracle to diagnose configuration issues and gather performance metrics from the database backend
  • Performed statistical analysis on test results using Excel spreadsheets and VBA to produce detailed results on performance improvements and reduce the time necessary to perform repeated analysis
  • Assist with configuration of client environments.

Manager of Computer User Services

Middle Tennessee State University
01.2005 - 01.2011
  • Managed a computer help desk of 30 employees
  • Facilitated borrowing of laptops and other technology for a large body of students
  • Assisted students with printing issues on a large base of networked printers
  • Identified and automated an inefficient manual process of contacting hundreds of professors at the end of each term, reducing turnaround time and improving efficiency by 75-85%
  • Transformed 100+ page policy and procedure manual into an online manual by creating a Drupal-based website
  • This enabled all staff to find instructions more efficiently, saving 10 hours per day in labor and increasing efficiency, collaboration, and customer service.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN

Skills

  • JavaScript/Python/Go/Java
  • Jenkins CI
  • Performance Testing
  • Task Prioritization
  • Mentoring
  • AWS/GCP/DO/Linode
  • Monitoring
  • UNIX Shell Scripting
  • Oracle / MySQL
  • Docker/Kubernetes
  • DevOps Principles
  • SOAP and Restful Web Services
  • Root Cause Identification

Certification

  • Certified Cloud Practioner, AWS - 2023

Work Availability

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Quote

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Timeline

Quality Engineer III

SUSE
02.2022 - Current

Test Lead

Equinox Media, LLC
04.2021 - 08.2021

Automation Engineer

XOi Technologies
02.2020 - 03.2021

Automation Engineer

GoNoodle
06.2019 - 01.2020

Senior Test Analyst

HCA
02.2019 - 05.2019

Senior Software Engineer

TopDevz
12.2018 - 05.2019

Software Test Engineer

Digital Reasoning
01.2017 - 10.2018

Test Engineer

InVivoLink
10.2016 - 12.2016

Performance Test Engineer

Premise Health
12.2015 - 10.2016

Test Engineer

UBS
06.2015 - 12.2015

Performance Test Engineer

Wipro
01.2011 - 06.2015

Manager of Computer User Services

Middle Tennessee State University
01.2005 - 01.2011

Bachelor of Science -

Middle Tennessee State University

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