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Ron Thibault
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Software Development Engineer in Test
QA professional with 19 years of experience - 5 years as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) ensuring customer applications are effective and reliable.
Caterpillar Financial Services
Udemy
Mt. Juliet, TN, USA

Skills

C#
SQL Server
Git
Selenium WebDriver
Chrome Dev Tool
XPath
HTML
XML
Test Automation
Test Planning
QA Testing
SQL Server Management Studio

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Beginner

Work experiences

Application Engineer - Quality Assurance

Caterpillar Financial Services
Full-time

Jun 2023 ~ Present
Nashville, TN, USA
Update and create automated Micro Focus Unified Functional Tests written in VBScript using GitHub.

Software Development Engineer in Test

ClickFunnels
Full-time

Feb 2023 ~ Mar 2023
2 mos
Eagle, ID, USA
Updated automated tests written in JavaScript (TestCafe) using VS Code/Github. Laid off March 15th due to Reduction in Force

Software Development Engineer in Test

Scentsy

Mar 2018 ~ Feb 2023
5 yrs 0 mos
Meridian, ID, USA
Created new C#/Selenium automated functional and integration tests of ASP.NET MVC e-commerce web app with multiple shopping carts using Visual Studio 2017/2022; utilized Page Object Model (POM) and XPath in Agile/Scrum environment; utilized Git/Stash for version control. Code reviewed other SDET’s code and provided feedback on logic, maintainability and readability. Created T-SQL queries using SSMS to integrate into automated tests to populate class properties, research potential application bugs and verify backend data not present on the UI. Consistently reviewed daily automated test runs for application bugs and wrote defects in Jira. Closely tracked the changes being made to the app and maintaining the existing 800+ automated tests. Skilled at uncovering elusive bugs; determined to understand how to reproduce them and making sure the team understands the impact, writing up detailed bug reports that are accurate and easy to follow. Created manual test plans and test cases on desktop/mobile when the need arose and trained/mentored new QA techs

Senior Software QA Lead & Engineer

Telestream, Inc
Full-time

Sep 2010 ~ Nov 2017
7 yrs 3 mos
Nevada City, CA 95959, USA
QA Lead of 3 Enterprise video encoding products. Consistently enhanced communication between QA, product management and software development teams as well as worked closely with product managers to identify gaps in, clarify and improve product requirements & expectations. Skilled at balancing roles as both a manual tester & QA Lead in a fast-paced development environment. Developed test plans, allocated resources, estimated QA effort/created schedules as well as test case creation. Adept at uncovering elusive bugs and documenting them so they can be consistently reproduced.
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Senior Software QA Lead & Engineer

NetApp
Full-time

May 2009 ~ Aug 2010
1 yr 4 mos
Developed QA test strategy, QA project plan & timeline in MS Project, detailed functional and system integration test cases for web application STOR Report with Data Warehouse (utilizing custom ETL). Executed functional, regression, and system integration test cases of web applications and audit report accuracy, identified and logged defects, and verified defect fixes. Managed User Acceptance Test cycles with global Professional Services Engineers
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Software QA Engineer

NetApp
Full-time

Jul 2004 ~ May 2009
4 yrs 11 mos
Created Ruby scripts to automatically verify hundreds of REST URI requests & responses (XML). QA Subject Matter Expert to cross-functional QA team, created & executed all integration testing, defect identification, logging and verification of Remote Support Diagnostic Tool which was loaded on storage controller's Remote LAN Module (RLM) card. Improved and maintained HTTP proxy configuration PERL scripts in Perforce. Created test plan, created/executed end-to-end testing, logged defects and verified fixes for several projects (one saved department $50k/mo)
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Software QA Technician

NetApp
Full-time

Mar 2002 ~ Jul 2004
2 yrs 5 mos
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Executed integration tests between Support Console client (Linux OS) & web-based front end, etc.
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A few other positions starting as a Customer Support Representative

NetApp

May 1997 ~ Mar 2002
4 yrs 11 mos
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Educations

Udemy

Other
Computer Science

2018 - 2023
Description
Extensive online training of MVC ASP.NET, HTML 5, and CSS as well as some Bootstrap and JavaScript.
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California Polytechnic State University

Bachelor of Science (BS)
Environmental Engineering

1993 - 1996

Cuesta College

Other
Environmental Engineering

1990 - 1993