Harold Martel

Harold Martel has extensive experience in software quality assurance. Harold started their career at Transparent Language in 2008 as an SQA Engineer, where they worked until 2012. In this role, they likely performed manual and automated testing of software products.

From 2012 to 2018, Harold Martel worked at Toluna as an SQA Engineer. Here, they were responsible for both manual and automated testing of software products, including internal and external business systems. Harold participated in sprint planning, budget management, and project completion events. Harold also created and managed automated testing scripts and groovy scripts for testing REST and SOAP APIs using Smartbear's ReadyAPI/SOAPUI testing suite. Additionally, they utilized load testing tools to determine maximum load capacities of API calls. Harold also created and maintained SQL scripts using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio for database utilization.

Since 2018, Harold Martel has been working at TSD Rental as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer. In this position, they have been responsible for manual UI testing and creation, maintenance, and testing of automated API tests for both internal and external software systems. Harold has been actively involved in sprint planning and design, sprint and project monitoring, and project completion events. Additionally, they have implemented and led various initiatives such as test case review events with the QA team and intermediate and advanced API test creation and execution training events. Harold has also worked on improving sprint processes, including user story reviews, dev to QA handoffs, and QA to dev reviews. Harold has coordinated with the DevOps and IT teams for the setup and monitoring of Jenkins jobs related to nightly automated API test runs. Harold has also directly communicated with support teams and individual customers for production defect tracking and diagnosis. Furthermore, they have been responsible for the creation, maintenance, and management of automated API testing scripts and Groovy scripts in Smartbear's ReadyAPI/SOAPUI testing suite. Harold has utilized load testing tools to determine maximum load capacities of API calls, and has monitored stackify, Kibana, and database error logs for both QA and production server load and error responses. Harold has also been involved in the creation and maintenance of SQL scripts for database utilization, as well as regression testing of software applications. Harold has used tools such as Microsoft's Team Foundation Server for test case management, defect reporting, and defect validation in project tracking throughout the sprint cycle.

Harold Martel received their Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Management Information Systems, General from Daniel Webster College between the years 2008 and 2012. In addition, they obtained a SoapUI Pro Certification from SmartBear Software in November 2014.