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== Vincent Dirks - Software Quality Engineer ==
== Vincent Dirks - Software Quality Engineer ==
I am a generalist Software Quality Engineer, always keen to learn the product, team, technology, and organisational contexts, to adapt myself to them, and then use my skills and knowledge to perform the role required from me. I am able to test solutions and processes directly, and also love to help engineer the whole interconnected ecosystem necessary to efficiently determine and monitor the quality of a software solution. Automating the product itself, as well as preparing the product to be ready for testing, version control and branching strategy, CI/CD pipelines, creating test environments and infrastructure, preparing test data, capture and aggregation of (test) environment logging and monitoring data, and many more, all of these tasks lend themselves to degrees of automation.
As a versatile Software Quality Engineer, I aim to understand the nuances of the product, team dynamics, technological landscapes, and organizational structures so that I can adapt and contribute effectively. My approach extends beyond traditional testing methodologies; I consider the design of the whole ecosystem that facilitates excellence and efficiency in software development.


I really like testing things, as well as developing tools that help us do it efficiently.
I specialize in adapting to diverse contexts to deliver high-quality software solutions efficiently.
 
I am passionate about testing and tool development, they are both critical to driving software excellence and maintaining delivery speed.


==Skills==
==Skills==

Revision as of 20:48, 1 May 2024

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Vincent Dirks - Software Quality Engineer

As a versatile Software Quality Engineer, I aim to understand the nuances of the product, team dynamics, technological landscapes, and organizational structures so that I can adapt and contribute effectively. My approach extends beyond traditional testing methodologies; I consider the design of the whole ecosystem that facilitates excellence and efficiency in software development.

I specialize in adapting to diverse contexts to deliver high-quality software solutions efficiently.

I am passionate about testing and tool development, they are both critical to driving software excellence and maintaining delivery speed.

Skills

Testing

API Testing, Context Driven Testing, Risk Based Testing, Tool Assisted Exploratory Testing, Test Planning, Visual Modelling, Session and Thread Based Testing, Gherkin, Behaviour Driven Development, Metrics Driven Development, AB Testing, Mobile Testing, Mentoring & Induction, UAT, Firmware Testing.

Automation

Westpac(2.5yr): REST Assured ... XXX TBD
Fiserv (3.3yr): Postman & Newman, JavaScript(Node.js, Express.js, Pug), TFS, Powershell, SpecFlow & C#, SoapUI, SQL.
Trade Me (2yr): SoapUI/Groovy scripting, SQL, Protractor, XPATH & CSS locators.
LeasePlan (2yr): VBA/Access, SQL.

Programming

Javascript (Node.js, Express.js, Pug, Cypress.io, Webdriver.io), Java (Selenium, GWT, Robotics, JUnit), SQL, C#, Powershell, C, C++

Other

Splunk, Squad master, CI/CD, Deploy lead, Product demo's, Training, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Logistics, External Relationships, Radars, Lasers, Fibre-optics, Physics, Robotics, Statistics

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Related wiki pages

References

Volunteering

Professional Development

Education

Presentations, Posts, and blogs

What I'm reading, watching, listening, learning, and trying out in 2024

Interesting Reads

Interesting alternative to the "test automation pyramid". There are testing problems to consider at every level, Quality above requires quality below.

My Observability Project

I want to learn the difference between these technologies to see how it might apply to my Observability Project


Archive of pre-2024 entries

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