Kevin Earls

Developed automated tests for new Jenkins features

Committer on Apache ActiveMQ

Skills: Software Testing · Jenkins · PostgreSQL · Test Automation

I'm a member of the Identity Management Group of the Nokia Account Server team, currently working on identity federation. • Rewrote significant parts of the server to work with Nokia’s NoSQL database rather than Oracle. • Currently working on implementing identity federation for Facebook and other third party providers.

• Designed, developed, and enhanced components for iSites, Harvard’s J2EE based Learning Management Platform. • Developed and enhanced JavaScript/Ext-JS controls for iSites users and administrators. • Served as lead developer and technical lead for creation and enhancement of web applications for the FAS Financial office. • Developed J2EE based web applications for Office of Student Life.

• Designed and developed components for Nellymoser’s mobile media applications platform. • Developed complex J2EE applications for large media and telecom customers, including Sony, Viacom, and Virgin Mobile. This covered all aspects of the mobile applications, from the initial ingestion of text, images, and audio and video content from customers, converting content into formats suitable for mobile devices, through delivering content to J2ME and BREW devices. • Developed web services client and server code to enable billing and vendor support. • Set up continuous integration environment, wrote JUnit, HttpUnit, JMeter tests • Served as technical lead on several projects, coordinating work done by offshore resources in South Africa, Belarus, and Croatia. • Worked with IT to deploy client applications and provide production support for live sites.

• Created continuous integration environment, maintained and enhanced ANT build for Web Logic Enterprise Security (WLES) product. • Wrote JUnit and HttpUnit tests of product functions.

• Managed group of seven QA engineers in India doing manual and automated testing. • Ran bug triage process and conducted regular triage meetings. • Created continuous integration environment, and developed ANT build. • Developed and maintained J2EE based reporting system to supplement BugZilla.

• Developed J2EE applications to enable automated and manual product testing by both QA and development engineers. • Developed Perl Modules to allow alternative access to testing applications.

• Designed and implemented a variety of new server features including enhanced database support, system management, application deployment, and email features. Wrote code enabling use of the Cloudscape DBMS (Apache Derby) as a J2EE data source. • Enhanced various existing features as needed • Worked on port of J2EE server to SCO Unix. • Served as QA project lead for the initial release of SilverStream’s Portal product. • Designed and implemented automated tests in Java to cover both server functionality and compliance with J2EE specification for the EJB, Servlet, and JSP APIs. • Developed automated and manual tests for SilverStream’s proprietary (pre J2EE ) Java APIs for forms, business objects, email, JavaBeans and CORBA.

• Ported test framework and tests for ClearCase and MultiSite software configuration management products from Unix to Windows NT. • Maintained test framework and added additional capabilities, including remote testing. • Wrote automated tests in bourne shell for ClearCase and MultiSite.