David Parham – Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Summary: Test Automation, Thorough Test Coverage Across Environments, Clear Written Instructions

  • Multiple-environment testing - Unit, Integration, Functional, and Regression testing.

  • Active participation in SDLC process – estimation, test planning, developer/manager collaboration.

  • Documenting test Instructions – clear and detailed steps recreating issues, highlighting root causes.

  • Routine ticket management on a daily basis throughout QA/Integration, and Stage environment testing.

  • Maintaining contact with Support team indicating development, testing, and deployment of issue fixes during User Acceptance Testing and post-Production deployment.

  • Participation in Production code deployment, Functional testing and Regression testing.

  • Designing and maintaining automated test suites for middle-tier and UI using Selenium Java on IntelliJ IDE with GitHub Copilot; also ran Ghost Inspector test suites for smoke-test Regression.

  • Running CIDE Pipeline smoke and regression tests during sprints, and production-deploy releases.

  • Additional automated test experience with Postman API testing, Robot Framework, Playwright, Cucumber, Selenium IDE, Cypress, Ghost Inspector, in an Agile/Scrum environment.

  • Regular testing after code merges for application health feedback.

  • Providing automated test result reporting and metrics indicating success of systems testing coverage.

  • Experience as Back-end and Front-end Development.

  • Section 508 Compliance experience as a web developer.

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Skills: Multiple Test Automation platforms, Back/Front End languages, various Operating Systems.

  • Testing Frameworks: Selenium Java by Maven, GitHub Copilot AI, Postman API testing, Robot Framework, Playwright, Cucumber, Selenium IDE, Cypress, Ghost Inspector.

  • Languages: PHP, Magento2 theming JavaScript, Python, HTML-5, XHTML, CSS3, XML, XSLT, Perl, SAS; legacy languages: C, VB6 Classic, classic ASP, 6502 Assembly(Apple); scripting Languages: VueJS, PHP7, JavaScript, JSON, JQuery, NodeJS, VBScript, Perl, Windows Power Shell

  • Web Technologies: jQuery, AJAX, JSON, LAMP stack, SOAP API’s, Postman

  • Web Servers: Apache, IIS, IBM WebSphere, NodeJS

  • Databases: MySQL, SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedures, MS Access

  • Design/Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visio, Balsamiq wireframe, Wireframe Sketcher, Photoshop, GIMP, Visual Studio Express, Miro diagrams

  • Source Control: Bitbucket, GitHub, SVN, CMVC, Atlassian, JIRA, Sourcetree

  • Bug Tracking System: Jira, Testrail, Confluence, Axosoft using Scrum

  • Operating Systems: Linux/Ubuntu, CentOS7, RedHat, Fedora 23; Windows, Windows Server, Mac OS

  • Content Management Systems: Craft, CKEditor; WordPress; Joomla

  • ISTQB Certification– studying Foundation Level 2023 ? 151 modules. Progress 36% finished.


Professional Experience:

Relias 07/2019 to Present

Software Test Engineer – Test Automation, Thorough Manual Testing, and clear Test Instructions.

  • Writing automated end-to-end tests for web applications using Selenium Java by Maven, GitHub Copilot AI, Postman (APIs), Robot Framework, Playwright, Cucumber, Selenium IDE, Cypress, Ghost Inspector.

  • Manual testing during 2-week sprints on QA, stage environments, with Releases 2 per month on production server.

  • Documenting processes on Confluence, making training videos to help others learn/train.

  • Worked as Software Developer writing Front and Back-end modules using PHP7 within Magento2 framework, JavaScript, and HTML; then after 6 months until 12/2023 worked as QA Test Engineer.

  • Python project scraping web pages for HTTPS redirect erroneous characters.


Smart Start and NC Partnership for Children 10/2016 to 07/2019

Web Developer – PHP, Joomla, Back/Front-End development, DB queries, as per Client specifications.

  • Wrote PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, and SQL queries and Stored Procedures for Front and Back-end features, for statewide “Fabrik” application serving 100 NC counties.

  • Wrote web applications according to Product Owner specifications, filtered bad characters from data using SQL scripts, created dynamic select dropdowns using MySQL, within a Joomla environment.


Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog LLP 10/2015 to 10/2016

Web Application / DevOps Specialist

  • Wrote Windows Power Shell automation for user accounts.

  • Created HTML custom signatures for users via Mimecast application portal.

  • Patched 40 Windows local, VM, and Cloud servers monthly.

  • Created Group Policy Objects for user and workstation policies.

  • Provided technical support via email, phone, Skype chat, TeamViewer remote connection.

  • Production Support and resource management for client applications.

  • Wrote instructional documenting of Processes and Procedures for users, and IT department.


AT&T 7/2014 to 10/2015

Web Applications Developer

  • Designed testing application using Perl, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS.

  • Worked with Selenium IDE in Firefox to test click through scenarios in an Agile setting with daily standup.


Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions 5/2013 to 6/2014

Technical Sales Solutions Developer

  • Modified User Interfaces of Point of Sale Retail Applications.

  • Designed, developed and tested web application code.

  • Presented solutions to clients with various technical backgrounds.

  • Modified POS and mobile UI for various phone platforms.


Prognosis Health Information Systems 9/2011 to 12/2012

Web Applications Developer

  • Wrote SQL and MySQL queries in an Model View Controller(MVC) environment.

  • Created HTML5 Signature Pad enabling users to save and recall their signatures on a signature page.

  • Maintained code base using subversion SVN via Cornerstone and Tortoise client on CentOS.

  • Worked on an Agile Development team in using Scrum methodology to accomplish projects in a timely and efficient manner, over the entire Software Development Life Cycle [SDLC].

  • Wrote web services using resource URI's, including AJAX and JSON in a a Cake MVC environment.

  • Served as Production Support and resource manager for main hospital client application.

  • Interim manager 3 months of 20 developers running Scrum team in an agile development environment.


Other previous professional positions available upon request.


Special Projects:

  • Server Down/Up times, project named “Goliath” using Perl, and Front-End languages including Cron jobs, log file parsing to determine # of critical errors during time span.

  • Medical Alert Application: helping receptionists quickly dispatch a team of qualified CPR respondents directly to the scene of the medical emergency. (Visual Basic 6)

  • Mobile Development: Android native app solving Chord length calculations. This real world use case finds desired number of equal-length pieces of glass within a given defined arc. A curved wall[arc] is defined with chord length and distance from chord to curved wall arc, and equal length segments of glass are installed within the arc of the curved wall. Input: height and width of arc, number of segments desired, the function computes equal-length glass segments using combination of trigonometric equations. The result is x-segments of equal length.


Education: BS in Computer Science, Western Carolina University; continued education various computer languages at Durham Technical Institute, and Wake Technical Institute.