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Michael Salvia
New York City, United States

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” – Bill Gates

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JW Player
6 years 4 months
Remote
Senior Software Engineer in Test
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023 (4 years)
✓ Extended, reused, and grew iOS & Android tests apps to be used in tvOS and FireOS (Android TV/Google TV)
✓ Extended testing framework to allow for testing on iOS, Android, tvOS, and FireOS devices to maximize code re-used
✓ Integrated web socket service into the testing ecosystem which enabled the ability to perform long-running actions faster (in native code) in order to decrease testing time, execution times were decreased by more than half with no sacrifice to the testing quality
✓ Maintained the 6 SDK test apps in both Swift and Java
✓ Built a test execution timing strategy to get early warnings for breakdowns in product viability day-to-day
✓ Championed modifications to release flow to allow for full staging release pipeline to mirror production release pipeline (including pushes to Maven and Cocoapods)
✓ Managed a test suite of 200+ tests which run across 30+ device platform/version/form factor combinations across all SDK products
✓ Developed a manual reporting front end to be used with ReportPortal
✓ Provided technical leadership to 4 nearshore remote resources
✓ Mentored fellow test engineer
✓ Created interesting solutions for Lock Screen, Picture-in-Picture automation, the ability to detect audio playback, network traffic collection in application, caption positioning and style, and detecting visually that an ad break has started and ended
✓ Developed a suite of UI comparison tests in order to verify player states and lock screen views in different versions of operating systems
✓ Active open-source community member (see Open-source Contributions)
Android ios Java Swift
Software Development Engineer in Test
Sep 2016 - Jan 2019 (2 years 4 months)
✓ Served as mobile automation expert for web player
✓ Integrated mobile browser web testing via Appium for Capybara-based automated framework 
✓ Built ground-up mobile automation framework in Groovy using Cucumber, Appium, and Allure reports for Mobile SDK
✓ Maintained iOS (Objective-C) and Android (Android Java) apps for automation which implemented updated SDKs
✓ Maintained both a Selenium/Appium Grid as well as a Docker Selenium Grid
✓ Contributed issues and code to the Appium community to improve Appium bindings for Ruby and Capybara
✓ Proposed several fixes to Allure reports projects for Ruby integration
✓ Integrated automated testing into PR and release build pipelines in Jenkins
✓ Implemented sprint-by-sprint PR build shaping
✓ Maintained several in-house build test tools and products
Android Docker Ruby
The Walt Disney Studios
2 years 8 months
Glendale, CA
Senior QA Engineer
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016 (1 year 1 month)
[Converted to Cast Member from Contractor]

✓ Championed integration with SauceLabs
✓ Developed and deployed standardized test bed library (compatible with SauceLabs)
✓ Managed Jenkins instance and setup continuous delivery pipelines using automation test plans
✓ Built secure API endpoints into application in order to improve overall testability
QA Engineer
Jan 2014 - Aug 2015 (1 year 7 months)
✓ Developed and maintained automated test suites for 7 different systems, 4 internal to team and 3 external
✓ All automation suites built with Maven, Groovy, Selenium, and Cucumber to be executed within a Bamboo (continuous integration) environment
✓ Utilized and deployed projects and frameworks based on both Selenium server and Appium server
✓ Maintained virtual machine infrastructure for Selenium Grid
✓ Maintenance of plans and analysis of test results in Bamboo
✓ Implemented QA process to a team where previously none existed
✓ Championed change and adherence to process within team
✓ Educated team on benefits of BDD acceptance criteria as well as what automated testing can do
Sirius XM Radio Inc.
Jun 2012 - Jan 2014 (1 year 7 months)
Lawrenceville, NJ
Contractor in Information Technology
✓ Developed base code for content aggregator as part of SiriusXM personalization service launch;
✓ Designed and developed web-based asset tracking system used for asset resolution; Consisting of data aggregators (middle-tier) as well as API data extraction;
✓ Developed data analysis tool to compare episode programming data across multiple endpoints for inconsistencies;
✓ Developed Ranorex scripts to test and perform data validation on Flash-based media player.
✓ Resolved and drove resolution for problematic assets; consulted with partners in cross-partner resolution efforts.

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