Kevin Washington
Quality Staff Software Engineer at Babylon- Claim this Profile
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Shawn Benham
Lots of folks have, or can develop, skills. However, not everyone knows how to put in the time and effort to build skills so as to get jobs done in a timely fashion and while also getting them done properly. Kevin does, bringing a pleasant, thorough, and relentless drive to get his work across the finish line with quality despite challenges along the way. I also want to point out his flexibility. Software development and clients bring plenty of variables to the table. Kevin demonstrated, multiple times, the ability to pivot gracefully between demanding priorities as needed and, again, to do so in a pleasant and thorough manner.
Shawn Benham
Lots of folks have, or can develop, skills. However, not everyone knows how to put in the time and effort to build skills so as to get jobs done in a timely fashion and while also getting them done properly. Kevin does, bringing a pleasant, thorough, and relentless drive to get his work across the finish line with quality despite challenges along the way. I also want to point out his flexibility. Software development and clients bring plenty of variables to the table. Kevin demonstrated, multiple times, the ability to pivot gracefully between demanding priorities as needed and, again, to do so in a pleasant and thorough manner.
Shawn Benham
Lots of folks have, or can develop, skills. However, not everyone knows how to put in the time and effort to build skills so as to get jobs done in a timely fashion and while also getting them done properly. Kevin does, bringing a pleasant, thorough, and relentless drive to get his work across the finish line with quality despite challenges along the way. I also want to point out his flexibility. Software development and clients bring plenty of variables to the table. Kevin demonstrated, multiple times, the ability to pivot gracefully between demanding priorities as needed and, again, to do so in a pleasant and thorough manner.
Shawn Benham
Lots of folks have, or can develop, skills. However, not everyone knows how to put in the time and effort to build skills so as to get jobs done in a timely fashion and while also getting them done properly. Kevin does, bringing a pleasant, thorough, and relentless drive to get his work across the finish line with quality despite challenges along the way. I also want to point out his flexibility. Software development and clients bring plenty of variables to the table. Kevin demonstrated, multiple times, the ability to pivot gracefully between demanding priorities as needed and, again, to do so in a pleasant and thorough manner.
Experience
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Babylon
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United Kingdom
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Hospitals and Health Care
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400 - 500 Employee
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Quality Staff Software Engineer
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Nov 2021 - Present
- Mentored and provided guidance to engineers, fostering their professional career growth and development within the team. - Collaborated with senior engineering leadership to scale microservice testing strategies companywide. Led planning and implementation of behavior-driven development (BDD) framework that boosted automation coverage by 75%, reducing deployment times. - Spearheaded initiative to migrate microservice CI/CD pipeline from CircleCI to Microsoft Azure. Developed yaml templates to unify pipeline processes across services, automatically transmitting test results to product monitoring dashboards. - Led end-to-end automation for cross-platform mobile application using Node.js and maestro reducing release time by 33%. Show less
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Apple
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United States
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Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Development Engineer - Quality
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Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
- Designed and developed features and requirements to support end-to-end automation of backend REST API transactions. - Implemented and designed data-driven framework for backend testing of payment APIs. Features included support for database operations, synchronous and asynchronous testing, logging, mocking, and incorporating design patterns. - Integrated analytics dashboard into automation framework to support continuous test and push test execution results to online web portal to provide real time build status. - Certified quality of release for multiple build versions of services within microservice architecture to ensure code stability before release to production environments. Show less
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IBM
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Quality Assurance Product Lead
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May 2017 - Aug 2020
- Supervised planning, generation, and execution of test strategies and test plans for IBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition, mid-tier server product encapsulating calling z/OS target applications using REST calls.- Directed frontend and backend quality automation team in all phases of testing, including acceptance, edge, error, security, and performance.- Led customer-focused engagements and improved customer product confidence by providing analytics prior to release.- Guided team to use agile methodologies and standards for product management activities including resourcing, scheduling, planning, leading scrums, sprints, and retrospectives.- Responsible for working with stakeholders to determine product readiness for beta and GA releases. Show less
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Customer Advocate/Developer
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Jun 2008 - May 2017
- Engineered IBM Watson proof of concept to conversationally train users and execute workflows against a System z hierarchical database. Watson services include Watson Natural Language Understanding (Alchemy API), Speech to Text, and Text to Speech.- Drove customer adoption by performing environmental deep dives, orchestrating on-site technical discussions, and delivering product recommendations. - Delivered code samples, video tutorials, in-depth articles, and technical consulting to customers, streamlining product onboarding. Show less
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Education
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Grambling State University
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science
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