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Julie Coleman, MBA
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER IN TEST
Profile
Automation engineer with experience implementing frameworks in multiple programming languages and utilizing CI/CD tools. Previous experience in network operations, IT management and product management.
Address
Austin, TX
United States, 78739
Contact
Phone
512-203-4590
Email
julielaursen1@gmail.com
Skills
Cypress

Selenium

SQL

HTML

CSS

TS

JS

Java

Python

PHP

AWS

Git

Docker

CI/CD

Linux

Volunteering
Austin Automation Professionals Co-Organizer:
Helped create a meetup focused on sharing new ideas, frameworks, and practices from the thought leaders in the automation space. Through advocacy, public speaking, event planning, and social media, helped grow our automation local meetup to almost 2,000 automation professionals.

DevOpsDays Austin Co-Organizer:
Reponsible for Marketing including content creation, scheduling, and analysis.

Open Austin Project Manager:
Reponsible for Project Management and Stakeholder Collaboration between Austin Public Library and Open Austin.

JULIE COLEMAN
SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN TEST
Experience
2022 - 2025

Updater, New York, NY (Remote)

Software Engineer In Test

Responsible for CI/CD improvements through Github Actions. Reduced unit test workflow duration from ~16m to ~3.5m, improving developer experience. • Increased jest coverage on all repos from under 40% to 80% unit test coverage by increasing jest tests from 2k to ~ 6k. • Drove culture change around testing/testability with coverage change reporting and persistent feedback on progress. Analyzed and optimized code quality, reducing complexity and improving maintainability scores to an A or B on CodeClimate's grading system.

2020 - 2021

Lawnstarter, Austin TX

Sr. QA Engineer

  • UI/API testing in Codeception, Selenium, PHP, MySQL, Docker, AWS, CircleCI • Update backend (PHP) dev repositories to add APIs for data management • Update front end (Vue) dev repositories with locators to improve testability of elements • Performance testing in Javascript/Go
2019 - 2020

Keller Williams, Austin TX

Sr. QA Engineer

Mobile, UI, and API testing using Selenium, Rest Assured, Java, Cucumber, CircleCI, Appium • Performance testing in Jmeter, k6 and Gatling • Automated chatbot testing through Botium, utilized GCP Dialogflow for chatbot ML training • Participated in SLO/ SLI and Error Budget implementation on microservices

2018 - 2019

Keller Williams, Austin TX

Technical Product Manager

Review high level business and systems requirement documents, wire frames, and mockups • Assist in grooming the product backlog and bringing stories into Sprints • Deliver well documented, comprehensive requirements in Cucumber feature files

2016 - 2017

IBM Austin TX,

Enterprise Cloud Solutions Specialist

• Web automation testing in Java, Selenium, Protractor/Jasmine • Manual testing on Cloud Brokerage dashboard that integrates with cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, IBM. • Subject matter expert on customized configuration involving cloud provider simulator.

2013 - 2016

AT&T, Austin TX,

Quality Engineer

Create automated tests utilizing Python, RobotFramework and Selenium • Develop and utilize SQL queries • Manage the communication and verification of change requests between engineering and IT • Involved in all aspects of QA lifecycle including test case design, execution and regression • Manage the test environment including set up and maintenance of hardware regression lab

2010-2013

AT&T, Austin TX,

Network Operation Center Manager

Develop incident response, incident prioritization, and escalation procedure to meet SLAs • Communicate exception/outage reports to Management • Enable cross team communication between NOC and Engineering • Create employee goals and objectives and ensure they are met • Create monitoring dashboards in Sharepoint • Create and manage schedules, hiring, and training for employees

2008-2010

AT&T, Austin TX,

Network Operations Center Associate

Identify problems through monitoring. Analyze the duration and potential impact to customers, and proactively ensure they are consistent with service levels (SLAs) • Troubleshoot network elements including servers, routers, switches, access points, printers and controllers using Linux and Cisco CLI tools • Recommend bandwidth upgrades and process improvements• Understand and respond properly to escalation procedures

Education
2020

SANS Women's Cyberacademy, Dallas, TX

Selected to join a cohort of 25 women for the 2020 SANS Women's Immersion Academy from a pool of over 700 applicants. Over the course of six months, I took 3 SANS courses and achieved 3 accompanying GIAC certifications:

  • SEC401 Security Essentials
  • SEC504 Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling
  • SEC542 Web Application Penetration Testing
2016 - 2019

Austin Community College, Austin TX

Associates in Computer Programming.

2013 - 2015

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL

Masters in Business Administration

2004 - 2006

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL

Bachelors in Information Systems Technologies

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master Certified ScrumMaster

ASTQB ISTQB Foundations of Testing

Association for Software Testing BBST Test Design