Dag Nygaard

Dag Nygaard

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  • About me

    Staff+ / Senior Test Engineer at Testify AS

  • Education

    • ISTQB TTA kurs

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    • ISTQB TTA kurs

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    • Neil Cummins Elementary School

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    • Persbråten vgs

      1983 - 1986
    • American International School of Lagos, Nigeria

      1977 - 1979
    • University of Oslo

      1986 - 2006
      Cand. scient. Computer Science

      Cand.Scient Databehandling

  • Experience

    • Sysdeco

      Jan 1996 - Jan 1998
      Consultant

      Worked as consultant at CCAS, Alcatel/Telenor joint-venture project. Developing, maintaining code and third line support for the customer support part of telephone centrals - code for updating customer data, extracting telephone usage for billing purposes, etc.

    • Genera

      Jan 1998 - Jan 2001
      Consultant

      Worked as a consultant, coding and maintaining development environment, using Systemator and shellscripts. Projects: PULS at Postbanken, TVIST at TAD, and several smaller projects.

    • Objectnet

      Jan 2001 - Feb 2005
      Consultant

      Worked as a consultant at COS (Telenor Mobile) building the middleware for COS, developer at VegSak (Vegdirektoratet), developer at EØS-notatbasen (UD), and developer/lead developer at smaller projects.

    • BBS

      Jan 2005 - Jan 2008
      External Consultant

      Several Java based projects:developed software for minibankterminals, migration projects mainframe to Java. Tools used: Java, Websphere, Oracle database/SQL, Hibernate, Spring, etc.

    • Colibria

      Apr 2009 - May 2009
      External Consultant

      Development in Java on the Colibria hub, voip-, messaging-, social networking central. Tuning of the buildscripts using Maven and Hudson.

    • Rubberduck Media Lab

      Aug 2009 - Mar 2010
      External consultant

      Development and maintenance of Java Servlet based middleware. Development in Grails of web based configuration tool for the middleware. The said middleware connects mobile device clients to live video streams (TV) and video on demand streams on one side and subscription/authentication modules on the other side.

    • ErgoGroup

      Apr 2010 - Sept 2010
      External Consultant

      POJO programmer, implementing code mainly in the mid layers, merging two existing systems.

    • Nets (formerly BBS)

      Oct 2010 - Apr 2013
      External Consultant

      BKAD-project: refactor/recode batchapplications in order to convert applications runtime environment from Websphere/EJB based platform to Jetty platform. Blankett/Korreksjoner-project: implement web based customer support application, developing in all layers using Oracle database, Hibernate, Jetty, Freemarker (Java template engine), JavaScript, Fitnesse, POJO.

    • Tele2

      Apr 2013 - Jun 2014
      External Consultant

      Java/JEE developer on Tele2 Norway's CRM, development and maintenance coding. Develop webservices for Tele2 app. Tools:Java, Geronimo, JEE, Gradle ,Oracle, Jira, RestFixture.

    • Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK)

      Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
      External Consultant

      Split time between two projects. Focus on first project was to implement continous integration using Teamcity and Octopus Deploy for a middleware product used by NRK Sportsdepartment. Highly timecritical middleware providing input to journalists as well as to live webpages. Time from codechange to production went down to minutes and triggering by the push of a button on a webpage. Have also added Smoketests and integration teststeps into Teamcity.Tools: Teamcity, Octopus Deploy, Fitnesse with RestFixture plugin (Java/wiki), powershell scripts, .Net technology.Second project: implement requirement specification tests in Cucumber (Ruby) for a inter-project project for NRK Media. Stress test using JMeter.Tools: Cucumber with Selenium, JMeter. Show less

    • Systek AS

      Jun 2015 - Aug 2017

      Develop a resultwebpage and the settings for a CSS-coding competition arranged by Systek AS. The competition was held at the Norwegian Developers conference. The competitors competed on time used to create a webpage with a clock and other details, using only CSS-code. The competition environment was using CodePen and the actual competitors work was done live on a big screen.The resultwebpage and backend was coded using the MEAN stack - MongdoDB, Express, AngularJS and NodeJS.A running version of the resultpage and server is hosted on the community server OpenShift: http://cserver-systek.rhcloud.com/The code is maintained in a public repository on GitHub:https://github.com/dnygaard/challengeserver(Note: the project is a hack, but an excellent foundation for extension or as the foundation of a prototyping/testserver project.) Show less

      • Senior Technical Test Developer

        Mar 2005 - Aug 2017
      • Project Lead

        Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
    • Hafslund Nett AS

      Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
      External Consultant/Technical Tester

      Hafslund Nett AS will deploy 600000-700000 AMS meters in the coming years. I was hired as Technical Tester for a part of this project.My involvement is testing AMS/smart meters with backend systems from Aidon: Physically test different types of meters, read metering values from backend services, verify RF and GSM communications with meters, trigger alarms and events catching these in backend services, test interface between meters and backend system, test backend systems and it's GUI, volumetest, stresstest.Develop and maintain tools for testing and monitoring these system including indexing/splunkifying logfiles to catch events and audit tests and meter- and/or system-changes. Generate Splunk reports and dashboards to monitor system activities.Tools: Aidon software, Splunk, Jenkins, SoapUI, Bourne scripts, SQL, TFS, Ruby scripts, Aidon AMS meters. Show less

    • Skatteetaten

      Sept 2017 - now
      External Consultant/Technical Test Developer

      Develop end-to-end integrationtests in Java for Skatteetatens external APIs. Use tests to continuously smoketest and test performance.Stresstest infrastructure using Gatling.

    • Testify AS

      Sept 2017 - now
      Senior Test Engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ISTQB® -BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level

      BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
      Jun 2014
    • ISTQB® Certified Tester – Advanced Level, Test Manager

      ISQI GmbH
      Feb 2017
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    • ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Technical Test Analyst

      ISQI GmbH
      Aug 2015
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Dag Nygaard
      Speaker at EUROSTAR 2017 - Nov 2017 Speaker at Eurostar 2017 - "Extracting Hidden Information From Logfiles"https://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/event/2017/extracting-hidden-information-from-logfiles/
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Oppmann/coach for young teams

      Issued by Persbråten Basketball Klubb
      Persbråten Basketball KlubbAssociated with Dag Nygaard