Larry Rupert

• Developed and maintained automation plans and roadmaps, suggested test strategies, and helped build automation framework while diagnosing and mitigating complex software issues.
• Led the team in continuous improvement of test design and automation practices through maintaining and monitoring service incident operations metrics, shift-left planning and execution, reviewing test coverage and proposed solutions to increase test scope.
• Collaborate with multiple teams within UI/UX, Data Engineering, and Mobile/Web Development to develop new features, bug fixes, and strategies to test and optimize priority projects.
• Serve as the lead SDET for large React, Cloud, and Front End Web Development Team
• Lead end of Sprint summaries and review sessions with upper management and senior developers in an Advanced Development team.
• Setup and maintain build scripts for automated Jenkins jobs.
• Develop end-to-end testing strategies for React applications, including functional testing, integration testing, and

UI testing.

• Configure Jenkins CI and CD pipelines for automated deployment processes.

• Wrote functional and performance automation in Bash, batch, TCL, and Perl, covering several functional and vendor integration tests and certifications.
• Led the team to implement continuous test coverage improvement through test-plan reviews and release postmortem analysis.
• Created, verified, and led manual and automated tests for fixed wireless loop project for 4G/LTE Broadband, and wireless mesh networks to rural areas.
• Lead senior and junior level QA Engineers on high level and highly visible multi-million-dollar projects for Tier 1 customers.
• Served as a direct technical contact (onsite AT&T Labs) creating Automated, Integration, and Manual test cases against multi-vendor equipment and software.
• Lead internal and offshore team in Network automation test creation.

• Served as a Lead Engineer in developing and testing automation and manual tests using scripts and multi-vendor equipment (Spirent, IXIA, Akamai, Anritsu, CD Router, etc)
• Performed high level software/hardware testing on multiple vendor Gateways and Set Top Boxes utilizing Whit and Black Box testing.
• Developed automated testing scripts to identify and report application defects utilizing Python, Perl, Bash, TCL, Batch, etc.

• Provided high level software tests utilizing automated and manual methods for Audio and Video transcoding and packaging.
• Created and ran multiple automation scripts to clear video cache for VOD files in a mock CDN scenario utilizing Python, Perl, and bash scripts.
• Worked directly with Build Engineer to verify and test pre-release software functionality for new features.

• Lead Network Operations Center staff and operations supporting SIP and Open source servers.
• Performed pre-release software verification on lab automation environment and placed in production when complete.
• Performed shell scripting and xml changes to allow least cost routing automation resulting in several thousand dollar cost reduction.
• Attended and provided technical expertise for internal project planning and execution meetings with C-level executives.

• Served as a Lead Project/Product Support and Test Engineer on multi-vendor product lines in an Agile environment.
• Tested security protocols and network functionality using automated and manual test procedures.
• Performed as a key member of the AT&T project staff for lab and FOA deployments to integrate Access and Backbone equipment.