Principal Test Automation Engineer at JUST EAT

Working with the mobile app teams at Just Eat. Coaching the QA team members in the teams and working on the test strategy and test suites for those teams. Automating UI tests for iOS with swift and XCUITest and automating UI tests for Android with kotlin and Espresso. Heavy involvement with the recruitment process for our QA roles and leading company wide quality related initiatives like Sonarqube, contract testing with Pact, visual regression testing and performance testing.

JUST EAT

Principal Test Automation Engineer

Working on the iOS apps for all countries.  Automating tests with XCUITest and swift.

Automation Consultant

Automating tests on The Times apps using calabash and XCUITest in ruby and swift.

News UK

Senior Dev in Test (Contract)

I founded Regolith Ltd. to operate as an independent consultant and provide expertise for app development.

Regolith Ltd.

Director

Automating functional tests for web, iOS and Android Xamarin apps and api's. Protractor, Calabash, Ruby, node.js and C#.

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Working on a rebrand for <a href="http://columbusdirect.com">columbusdirect.com</a> with difficult requirements to a challenging timeframe.  Tests were automated in cucumber/ruby, CI was run in TeamCity.

Collinson Group - Technology

Developer in Test

Working as the sole tester on an agile team, writing automated regression tests using Cucumber and Ruby for a site written in C# and javascript and maintaining our existing automated regression suite.  Other tools used include git, github, Visual Studio, TeamCity, Kanbannery, Jira, Confluence, RubyMine and SpecFlow.  I also work closely with our BA and PO to create user stories and acceptance criteria and with the whole team in the creation of usage scenarios for automation.

Wiggle.co.uk

Automation Tester

Working as a Test Lead on projects centered around data quality.  Have lead many projects and have had up to 5 people working in my team split between our UK and KL offices.  More recently I've been working on a SaaS framework and have written unit and integration tests in C# and regression suites using Selenium.  I have experience being Test Lead on a Scrum project and steering departmental process during transition to Scrum.  I am also a certified Scrum Master.

Alan Nichols

Alan Nichols