Svend W.

About Me

• 15+ years' experience in Agile software development, QA & automated testing • Created testing frameworks from scratch & set up CI/CD pipelines • Managed remote/offshore resources. • Liaised with and authored deliverables for a wide variety of stakeholder types. • Authored 2 software testing-related patents.

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Database

QA & Testing

Workflow

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C#.NET Agile SpecFlow Visual Basic 6 (VB6) Appium SAS Unix Windows PowerShell Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Linux Behavior-driven development (BDD)

Work history

Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
QA Lead (Contract)
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
, Remote
  • Created a custom framework in C# for unit, integration, and sanity testing for a collection of 20+ daily batch processes. I also set up a CI/CD pipeline for them.

  • Built a custom framework in C# for unit, integration, and sanity testing for two web services that link a trading system to an e-banking application and set up a CI/CD pipeline for them.

  • Developed a custom framework in C# for unit, integration, functional (Selenium), and sanity testing for an ASP.NET web app and set up a CI/CD pipeline for it.

  • Performed extensive analysis and code reviews of 20+ mostly undocumented and orphaned legacy apps to determine their role and status. Documented them and determined which no longer needed to be supported by the team.

Subversion (SVN) Octopus DeployTeamCityNUnitSeleniumControl-M C#
CSG International
Senior Test Automation Engineer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
, Remote
  • Acted as a QA on a product team that was developing a set of core APIs. Worked closely with developers on all phases of agile SDLC, including testing, story planning, and estimation.

  • Expanded our integration test suite in C# and SpecFlow on an ongoing basis.

  • Created a custom WPF application to automate some labor-intensive testing activities, which involved parsing JSON and integrating various APIs for notifications (e.g., Teams, HipChat).

  • Created load tests in JMeter for our team's APIs, which were to be used by the whole organization.

  • Performed extensive manual API testing using Postman, testing features before the UI was available.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)BitbucketGitJIRAKibanaElasticsearch PostmanSpecFlowC#Visual Studio
Amdocs
Senior Testing Engineer
2014 - 2017 (3 years)
, Remote
  • Developed and maintained automated sanity tests using UFT/QTP and Selenium for web and desktop apps.

  • Performed custom app development in .NET in C# using MVC and WPF. Was a contributor on the team that developed the Ginger open-source automation framework.

  • Worked closely with several offshore teams on defect triage and resolution.

  • Authored two patents related to automated software testing.

  • Performed mobile testing (Android) of native apps using Appium and C#.

SeleniumAppiumC#Model View Controller (MVC) ASP.NETWindows Presentation Foundation (WPF)UFT QTP HP Quality Center (QC)
Amdocs
Data Analyst (Contract)
2013 - 2015 (2 years)
, Remote
  • Maintained reference data (e.g., price plans, offers) in a cell phone billing system, monitoring the system.

  • Managed data validation test suite to ensure data integrity after daily updates.

  • Performed regular data migrations using Oracle SQL*Loader on Unix.

  • Tracked change requests and support tickets in BMC Remedy and HP Quality Center.

  • Automated some of the manual office processes with VBA.

UnixHP Quality Center (QC) BMC Remedy OracleRedgate SQL Toolbelt Microsoft AccessVisual Basic for Applications (VBA) Microsoft ExcelToad
Koch Business Solutions
Senior Business Systems Analyst (Contract)
2011 - 2012 (1 year)
, Remote
  • Maintained back-office accounting systems, specifically BlackLine and GERS.

  • Troubleshot server issues, like WebSphere, IIS, and Tomcat, for apps maintained by our team.

  • Tracked and assigned trouble tickets inside BMC Remedy ITSM.

  • Liaised with ITIL change review board for change management.

  • Performed some custom app development in Visual Studio and Access.

Oklahoma State Department of Health
Data Quality Analyst
2009 - 2011 (2 years)
, Remote
  • Maintained and expanded web-based data query system for healthcare statistics, OK2Share.

  • Reduced development time by refactoring SAS 9.1 Macro reports into reusable SAS functions.

  • Liaised with internal clients on the development of new modules on Ok2share.

  • Geocoded healthcare data and produced maps with ESRI ArcGIS.

A Leading Company in the Mortgage Lending Space
QA Lead
Present (2025 years)
, Remote
  • Set up a test automation framework in Java for both API and web testing.

  • Designed, coded, and maintained BDD tests for key scenarios.

  • Conducted ongoing web accessibility or Section 508 testing.

  • Set up cross-browser and multi-device testing with BrowserStack.

CucumberBehavior-driven development (BDD)API TestingCross-browser Testing Section 508 Compliance Web Accessibility Test Automation Frameworks JavaSelenium
University of Chicago Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)
Test Automation Engineer (Contract)
Present (2025 years)
, Remote
  • Designed and developed the core of an abstraction library in C#, which encapsulated complex business logic for integration tests of stock operations.

  • Expanded test coverage using my framework, reducing time to create new tests.

  • Refactored existing tests with the framework, making them easier to maintain.

Agio Technology
Senior QA Analyst
Present (2025 years)
, Remote
  • Performed QA testing on enhancements to the fund the accounting system used by a major hedge fund.

  • Worked closely with hedge fund developers to test enhancements to the system and did complex queries of large datasets.

  • Created, maintained, and ran test plans in HP Quality Center.

HP Quality Center (QC) Microsoft SQL Server

Showcase

Ginger by Amdocs
  • Ginger by Amdocs is an open-source automation framework capable of testing various types of applications including browser-based, desktop, APIs, and mainframes.

  • During the development of Ginger's alpha version at Amdocs, the highlighted contributor predominantly worked on the Selenium wrapper and related web testing functionality.

  • Ginger by Amdocs provides comprehensive testing solutions with its core focus on web testing.

Education

Education
Master's Degree in Religious Studies
University of Georgia
2006 - 2008 (2 years)
Education
Bachelor's Degree in French
Goucher College
1990 - 1994 (4 years)