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Rónán Keane

Oranmore,County Galway

Summary

With over 5 years of dedicated experience in designing, developing, and testing automation tests within Agile environments, Rónán excels in delivering robust and reliable automation solutions for highly complex applications. Leveraging his extensive background, Rónán's primary focus is on ensuring the quality and resilience of automation tests.

Beyond his proficiency in testing, Rónán harbours a keen interest in the design and development of back-end applications. Rónán's repertoire includes the creation of several back-end API projects, providing him with a profound understanding of the tools and techniques integral to the applications he meticulously tests and develops for. This dual expertise uniquely positions Rónán to contribute comprehensively to the quality and functionality of software solutions.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Software engineer in test

Hostelworld
Dublin, Dublin
06.2022 - Current
  • Spearheaded the development and implementation of UI automation framework, leveraging Playwright and Typescript, which has become the standard for UI testing within the company. Integrated with GitHub Workflows, this framework has significantly elevated the efficiency and reliability of UI testing processes.
  • Streamlined the integration of component test framework with reporting tools and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring comprehensive visibility into test results.
  • Upgraded core project component tests, achieving 100% automation coverage to enhance overall code quality and accelerate test creation. Collaborated closely with developers to promptly address and resolve bugs identified during testing phases.
  • Applied Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) principles in the creation of new product features. Component tests were crafted from business requirements prior to application development, resulting in a bug-free production release.
  • Defining the testing scope and requirements for specific features and products, ensuring a thorough and systematic approach to testing activities.
  • Demonstrated leadership by conducting training sessions for team members, imparting expertise in the utilisation of UI testing technologies and the component test framework.

Senior Technology Consultant(QA Automation)

Deloitte Ireland LLP
Dublin, Dublin
09.2018 - 05.2022
  • Designed and developed both web and API automation tests (using Java, Spring, Maven, Cucumber, Selenium, RestTemplate, TestNG/JUnit) to perform regression testing on client's applications.
  • Collaborated with manual testers and development team to understand the functionality of application and new feature introduced for testing and investigating bugs identified.
  • Trained junior members on the automation framework and supported in designing and automating test cases.
  • Delivered enhancements to automation framework to reduce manual and maintenance overhead of each automation project.
  • Slashed test data creation time by developing a spring boot application with an angular front end that's function is to create test data. Tech stack used for this application was Java, RestTemplate, Maven, Spring Boot, Angular, Typescript, HTML, CSS, Docker.
  • Worked on development and enhancements of several web applications. Working mostly in the back end, introducing new features and deploying applications using Docker, Jenkins pipeline.
  • Developed Automation training course with the goal of up-skilling manual testers in automation. Client was very impressed by this training course that they asked if their own employees could participate in the training course.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Information Systems

University of Galway
Galway, County Galway
09.2014 - 05.2018

Skills

  • Typescript
  • Java SE/EE
  • NestJS
  • Spring Boot/MVC/Core
  • RESTful API's
  • Docker
  • CI/CD(Jenkins, GitHub workflows)
  • Automation Tools (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress)
  • Cucumber(JVM, cucumber-js)
  • JUnit, TestNG, Jest
  • SQL
  • MySQL, MongoDB, Ingres, Firestore
  • Axios, RestTemplate, Retrofit
  • Swift, Xcode
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Agile methodologies

Timeline

Software engineer in test

Hostelworld
06.2022 - Current

Senior Technology Consultant(QA Automation)

Deloitte Ireland LLP
09.2018 - 05.2022

Bachelor of Science - Business Information Systems

University of Galway
09.2014 - 05.2018

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