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August has been a busy month.

• Currently, I am searching for new automation development opportunities. 
• I've spent much of my free time preparing for whiteboard coding interviews, and juggling many, many on-site interviews. 
• I've been working on a new TechBeacon.com article, "How To Pass A Coding Interview As An Automation Developer". It should be published by the end of September. 

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Happy Testing!

-T.J. Maher
Sr. QA Engineer

// Software Quality Assurance Engineer since 1996.
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Looking for an automation developer in the Boston, MA area?

Anybody looking for an automation developer in the Boston, MA area? With less of a reliance on Selenium WebDriver / Java for automation, I soon will be out of job!

I have some experience setting up Automated Test Frameworks:

• Setting up a development environment with IntelliJ / Maven, then with IntelliJ / Gradle, then Eclipse / Gradle. 
• Taking a deeper dive into Gradle, exploring Groovy, using it to run simple tests.
• Using both TestNG and JUnit4 ways of making assertions and Hamcrest.
• Abstracting the page using the Page Object model.
• Using CSS Selectors to find and manipulate web elements on the page.
• How to organize the web element selectors: first in enums, then in By statements.
• Wrapping Selenium calls, placing them in a CommonUtils library.
• Doing away with wrapping Selenium calls and just using Page Factory.
• Performing API testing with Apache's HTTP Components.
• Passing data to tests using pojos and builder patterns,
• Showing examples of good logging for tests.
• Experiments with setting up a virtual dev environment with VirtualBox, Vagrant, and Docker.
• Installing, setup, and learning Docker with the Docker Toolbox and Docker's setup docs.
• Setting up Selenium Grid (for beginners).
• Setting up Selenium Grid in a Docker Container.

I published an article on TechBeacon, how I switched from manual to automated testing.

My LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjmaher1
My GitHub account: https://github.com/tjmaher


Thank you very much, and Happy Testing!

-T.J. Maher
Sr. QA Engineer,
Fitbit-Boston

// BSCS, MSE, and QA Engineer since Aug. 1996
// Automation developer for [ 1.5 ] years and still counting!
// Check out Adventures in Automation and Like us on Facebook!

Fitbit-Boston is looking for Senior Software Engineer for new Software Test Engineering dept

Fitbit-Boston is looking for Senior Software Engineer for their new Software Test Engineering department.

Taken from Fitbit's job posting:

"Effective Automated testing is essential to agile software development. All software developers write tests, but some kinds of testing present unique challenges. Fitbit is looking for people with the skills of a good Software Engineering  and the mindset of a tester to solve testing challenges for our teams and raise the bar for test automation at Fitbit".

"As a Senior Software Engineer on the Software Test Engineering Team at Fitbit you will work as part of a product Scrum team on a sprint-by sprint basis to identify appropriate testing strategies, help integrate testing frameworks, and solve testing challenges. Your goal will be to enable the other members of the team to improve automated test coverage."

Note: Fitbit is not looking for automation developers. Fitbit-Boston is looking for Senior Software Engineers who have five years experience in languages such as Java, Scala, and Groovy. See https://www.fitbit.com/jobs/search#jobs/oJ801fwC for more information.

... In other news, does any company in Boston need an automation developer familiar with writing automated test frameworks in Selenium WebDriver / Java? See the Table of Contents of this site to see my skill set.

-T.J. Maher
Sr. QA Engineer,
Fitbit-Boston

// BSCS, MSE, and QA Engineer since Aug. 1996
// Automation developer for [ 1.5 ] years and still counting!
// Check out Adventures in Automation and Like us on Facebook!