Sebastian Faull

PPL - Lead SDET

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Led a team of 6 engineers, mentoring and coaching, weekly 1:1's,
performance reviews, creating show & tells and a QA club, resulting in
higher engagement, knowledge sharing, and improved crossfunctional
visibility of QA efforts.

Designing test strategies and test plans working closely with QA manager
and stakeholders, resulting in improved test coverage, faster feedback
loops, and increased stakeholder confidence in release quality.

Built two robust, maintainable test automation frameworks from scratch,
enabling shift-left testing and seamless CI/CD integration -
significantly increasing test coverage and early defect detection.

Supported the development of two additional automation frameworks,
including one for a large scale data migration to a new Analytics Data
Platform using DBT and Snowflake - ensuring end-to-end data quality,
integrity, and trust across pipelines.

Spearheaded the QA strategy for a complex AI-driven matching platform,
partnering with stakeholders for continuous feedback, enabling team-wide testing best practices, and deploying Zephyr to streamline documentation and traceability.

Implemented parallel test execution in Jenkins reducing the time of the
CI/CD pipeline by more than 50%.

Worked closely with DevOps and engineering teams to integrate testing
into every stage of the delivery pipeline, adopting a shift-left mindset
that improved code quality and accelerated release cycles.

Technologies:
⚡ Java
⚡ Cucumber
⚡ Jenkins
⚡ AWS
⚡ Postman
⚡ Snowflake
⚡ DBT
⚡ Spring

• Employer: PPL
• Date: May 2021 - Present

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Zaizi - Senior SDET

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Working on a particular government project with Innovate UK, carrying out all QA activities and leading the QA function in my team. Performing tasks that vary from manual testing to contributing to and maintaining the integration CI/CD pipeline, performance and migration testing.

Agile and Kanban utilising Jira.

Technologies:
⚡ Python
⚡ Robot Framework
⚡ AWS
⚡ JQuery
⚡ MySQL
⚡ Bamboo Server
⚡ Docker
⚡ Openshift
⚡ GPG
⚡ Git
⚡ Gradle
⚡ Flyway

• Employer: Zaizi
• Client: UKRI
• Date: September 2020 - April 2021
• Service: Innovation Funding Service (IFS)

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PPL - Senior SDET

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Starting a brand new test automation project using Cucumber & Java in order to test a non-UI based service for Music Licensing Companies, in a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins.

This project will help rationalise a new service being implemented that will permit Music Rights-holders to use a globally-recognised format, namely Repertoire Data Exchange (RDx), and to integrate this with legacy systems.

Implementing a test automation framework to support a micro-services architecture in an AWS Amazon Cloud setup with a very large database of Music Records.

Having delivered the Repertoire Hub project on budget and on time here at PPL, I became the Lead SDET. I am responsible for the automated integration testing within the Qualtiy Assurance (QA) team. As the sole SDET in the team, working in an agile BDD environment, we ensure the quality and robustness of the software we build benefiting the wider Music industry on an international scale through: end-to-end, component, integration, API, load, performance and concurrency testing.

Technologies:
⚡ Java
⚡ Cucumber
⚡ Micro-services
⚡ SQL
⚡ XML
⚡ DDEX
⚡ AWS Services
⚡ AWS SDK
⚡ AWS CLI
⚡ Jenkins
⚡ Postman
⚡ Git source control (enforcing GIT reflow best practices)
⚡ REST APIs
⚡ Hip Test
⚡ Jira

• Employer: PPL
• Date: June 2019 - August 2020
• Service: Repertoire Integration

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Sparta Global - Technical Consultant

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After having trained in Sparta Global's academy as an SDET, I worked for various clients on site in London over the duration of two years. I worked on numerous projects consulting companies in the finance, music and specialist consultancy sectors.

Technologies:
⚡ Command Line
⚡ Git
⚡ HTML
⚡ CSS
⚡ Javascript
⚡ JQuery
⚡ Object Oriented Programming
⚡ Ruby
⚡ Agile Methodologies

• Employer: Sparta Global
• Date: September 2017 - September 2019
• Tech Stream: SDET

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Accelerate QA - Functional Tester

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I was contracted in to help on a project for Imagination LTD - a creative agency that works on ground breaking innovative projects. I worked on the QA process, manually testing their Jaguar Formula E Virtual Reality App and Tech Window, in time for the Shanghai showcase.

• Employer: Sparta Global
• Client: Accelerate QA
• Date: March 2019 - April 2019
• Service: Formula E

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Raymond James Investment Services - Full Stack Software Developer (SDET)

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Object Oriented PHP Full Stack LAMP Development (Centos 7)

Zend & Custom Framework

Agile TDD environment (utilising JIRA)

Git source control (enforcing GIT reflow best practices)

Maintenance and further development of a number of back office and client facing systems

Supporting with maintenance and further development of Ruby test suite framework.

BDD front end headless testing, utilising Selenium and Cucumber

Technologies:
⚡ Custom MVC
⚡ PHP
⚡ Javascript
⚡ JQuery
⚡ AJAX
⚡ T-SQL
⚡ MySQL
⚡ Bash scripting

• Employer: Sparta Global
• Client: Raymond James Investment Services
• Date: November 2017 - February 2019
• Service: AOE and portfolio management

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