Robert Seaman

My years of experience in high tech have allowed me to hone a wide range of testing skills from purely manual to entirely automated testing of low-level hardware to purely software and web products. I am a persistent, creative and diligent tester, dedicated to finding, replicating and clearly documenting bugs, as well as concisely reporting test results. I have automated tests using a variety of languages including perl and python.

Ross Video, Ottawa, ON

AUTOMATED TEST SPECIALIST (Robotics) September 2019 - August 2023

• Developed API tests using Robot Framework and Python
• Developed UI tests using Robot Framework and Swing
• Monitored daily test results
• Automated ZAP security scans for Ross robotics web interfaces
• Created, modified and monitored Jenkins tasks
• Wrote bug reports and documented tasks in Jira, while participating in an Agile team
• Created action plan for test automation development 
• Built a skeleton robot for automated test
• Programmed Arduino to use as test jig for testing skeleton robot

• Developed and executed manual test plans for Ross robots and cameras
• Used Testopia to store test plans
• Did mechanical work configuring robots

• Developed performance tests using Selenium Web Developer
• Followed Agile methodology, successfully completing sprint tasks with tight deadlines
• Developed automated tests for web applications using Sikuli
• Responsible for creating, maintaining and supervising the execution of an automated test plan for a web product, including cross-browser testing
• Prepared and communicated accurate and concise test metrics reports

• Responsible for all OEM product verification: planning, scheduling and executing 
• Reproduced bugs with minimal steps to report to OEM partners
• Developed test strategies and plans
• Liaised with OEM partners to resolve design bugs 
• Developed automated tests using Rational Functional Test

AUTOMATED TEST SPECIALIST

• Contributed to a team of 8 developers, developing a framework for running and collecting results of automated tests
• Developed automated tests for testing the Blackberry Maps and Media Sync Applications, using TestQuest
• Developed automated tests using RIM's internal testing tools, using Java
• Evaluated new test automation technologies and mentored colleagues on the new software
• Wrote scripts using bash
• Conformed to the RIM development process

AUTOMATED TEST SPECIALIST

• Championed the development of performance testing of the company’s SIP product
• Responsible for the development of automated testing of all performance testing and a portion of the regression testing
• Developed test plans 
• Designed and coded in Perl all automated tests 
• Researched and integrated test tools such as SIPp into the performance tests
• Analyzed and reported on the results of the performance tests
• Published results from all testing on internal web

PRODUCT VERIFICATION SPECIALIST / MANUFACTURING TEST DESIGNER

• Designed and programmed an automated test system that managed several pieces of equipment
• Automated engineering performance tests and documented the results
• Worked with the engineering team to find and resolve design bugs
• Developed test plans for Network Management Software and verified proper functionality
• Developed and maintained software that communicated to equipment though SNMP
• Tested Optical Networks for functionality and design specification
• Trained and mentored new employees
• Developed and executed hardware and firmware test plans
• Designed test fixtures that tested company specific products
• Performed board-level troubleshooting from schematics
• Designed, did the schematic entry, built and tested a small test fixture

Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology - Sudbury, Ontario

Instrumentation Engineering Technology, 1992

Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology - Sudbury, Ontario

Electronics Engineering Technology, 1990