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Nicolas Paul

Lapeer,MI

Summary

Passionate and experienced quality champion seeking next adventure. With a diverse background, I’ve mastered various types of testing including UI, API, integration, performance, and security. Advocate for the user, I love working with a team to determine that not only our code works, but that our solution solves our stakeholder's needs.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Citi

Specialty Developer-Analyst
09.2024 - 12.2024
  • As a member of the strategy team, I was creating best practices that would then be adopted enterprise -wide.
  • Created new Cypress test project and Page Object Modeled the application.
  • Created E2E flow tests that automated the major business flows that we ran nightly.
  • Created functional tests for all new stories that also ran nightly.
  • In small amount of time I was able to turn the team from all manual testing to all automated testing.

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

X By 2
10.2022 - 07.2024

AI Model, UI, and Integrations Project:

  • Created DBT generic and singular tests that were used as a gate on the model pipeline.
  • Created Cypress project to navigate through the UI and executed functional/visual checks.
  • Added visual assert library to UI tests which allowed us to test more of the page without having an over saturation of tests.
  • Created a Python test project for the integration tests that consisted of API functional tests and mocked incoming third-party integrations.
  • Tests were validated by asserting on the database as it was source of truth (also automated).
  • All tests were automated and I created all test pipelines and defined all build-specs.
  • Started the Simulation Data project to replace our test data with simulative population data.
  • Led the QA SIG (Special Interest Group) to spread QA best practices to others at the company.

UI Conversion and ETL Project:

  • Tested the UI to ensure that it rendered mostly the same as the old application.
  • Tested that all use-cases that worked in the old application were also passing in the new application.
  • Created a suite of SQL queries that would return non-conforming records based on migration and translation logic.
  • These tests would be executed in a way that we could regression test the ETL project quickly after a change.

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Emerge
04.2022 - 08.2022
  • Created an automated test project that would send test CSVs to the engine (via API) and validated results returned.
  • Created tool that generated random test files (CSVs) that can be configured to generate different types of test data.
  • Created a UI test project to automate tests to ensure that the UI renders correctly and the app functions correctly.
  • Moved to the DevOps team to help design and implement the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Created all the quality gates for the pipeline as well as best practices for the IT team to use enterprise wide.

SDET

Vroom
09.2020 - 04.2022
  • Worked with business to understand how user will use app to really see through the eyes of the user.
  • Created documentation to describe design of project as well as support testing documentation.
  • Created test strategy that defined how testing validations and metrics will be collected.
  • Extended python test project to include tests from my micro-service.
  • Created tests to validate integrations between our microservice, Kafka, and the database.
  • Created Cypress test suite for UI testing.
  • Created test builds in Jenkins and maintained builds using Jenkinsfile.
  • Worked on project to put all viable tests into the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Mentored multiple QAs that were in turn able to mentor others.
  • Created dashboards to visualize all test metrics.

DevOps Engineer

United Wholesale Mortgage
03.2019 - 08.2020
  • Created pipelines and automated test suites for teams on an enterprise level.
  • Assisted on planning of enterprise-wide changes for QA team.
  • Created and setup build-specs and builds for teams.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Amrock
02.2015 - 03.2019
  • Extended automation test suite and monitored builds.
  • Working with Dev teams when issues arise.
  • Wrote and executed any manual tests that were needed.

Test Technician

Autoliv
01.2011 - 02.2015
  • Drove test vehicle in specified ways to capture data from laptop connected to vehicles CAN system.
  • Analyzed video files for engineers.
  • Maintained the test vehicles and created test schedule for all cars.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems

University of Michigan
Flint, MI
05-2015

Skills

  • Python
  • C#
  • SQL
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • API Testing
  • ETL Testing
  • UI Testing
  • Load Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Cypress
  • Selenium
  • SCRUM
  • Postman
  • GIT
  • AWS Cloud Services
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins

Timeline

Citi

Specialty Developer-Analyst
09.2024 - 12.2024

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

X By 2
10.2022 - 07.2024

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Emerge
04.2022 - 08.2022

SDET

Vroom
09.2020 - 04.2022

DevOps Engineer

United Wholesale Mortgage
03.2019 - 08.2020

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Amrock
02.2015 - 03.2019

Test Technician

Autoliv
01.2011 - 02.2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems

University of Michigan
Nicolas Paul