Bryan Nahrwold

Experience

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  Idaho State University

  Dec 1985 - Jul 1987

  Lab Assistant, Instructor and Consultant

  -Designed and taught computers classes for word processing, spreadsheet and database programs.-Supported student lab network-Developed procedures, documentation and scripting to automate connection to state vocational mainframe on disparate platforms across the state.-Contracted Basic software conversion for Race Timing Marathon application converting from proprietary HP to Microsoft Basic.

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  American Stores

  Jul 1987 - Sept 1989

  Desktop Support and Database Design

  -Setup, installed and maintained IBM and Macintosh computers-Designed and coded aircraft scheduling system in Clipper database

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  Geneva Steel

  Sept 1989 - Aug 1995

  Manager of Microcomputer Support

  +Manager of Microcomputer Services-Manager of six member team-LAN Administrator on OS/2 and Novell networks-Purchased hardware, supervised installation and support of desktop applications-Designed and directed corporate training of Davinci e-mail, WordPerfect and Excel products

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  Novell, Inc

  Aug 1995 - Oct 2007

  Software Engineer

  ZENworks, Quality Assurance - 2004 - 2007 Novell Licensing, Quality Assurance - 2000-2004Novell Premium Services , Technical Support– 1995-2000Black & White box testing, some pair programmingComputer Information Model (CIM), PywebmWindows, NetWare and Linux platformsScrum method of Agile DevelopmentBug Tracking: Remedy and BugzillaVersion Control: Continuus and SubversionTest Harnesses: STAFActive languages: Python and BashPrevious: Winrunner, Perl BasicEducation: C, Cobol, CISC, RPG II, Fortran, Assembler and Pascal.Testing: Browser-Based, MS and Novell Client and proprietary Novell interfacesVMware Products: Server, Workstation and ESX products. Developed test cases from PRD, executed tests, created and regressed bugsWrote beta scenarios and developed, documented and trained interns in VMware imaged environmentPublished Novell Application Note on Licensing Services: http://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/ana20010102.html(Article is no longer available online, a manually scanned PDF is available upon request) Show less

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  Avocent Corporation

  Dec 2007 - Jun 2010

  Software Test Engineer III

  Software Quality Assurance Tester creating python test automation Avocent Licensing+ Platform testing of Servicemix environment with Flex frontend.+ XP Agile environment+ Create and Execute test case suites and develop WSDL and database automation.Tools:+ Python, Pyunit, Java, JUnit, soapUI, AutoIt+ Subversion, Maven and Eclipse development environment+ VMWare Workstation

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  Verio, Inc

  Jul 2010 - Jul 2010

  Software Quality Assurance Engineer

  Consultant (via Robert Half International) testing Python based Cloud project written in Python. Python and Perl test code development

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  Fidelity Investments

  Aug 2010 - Jun 2021

  Senior Software Engineer

  Background automation in Typescript with AWS Step Functions and Camunda open-source BPMN applications utilizing Postman for supplemental automated and manual testing. Previous automation efforts in Java with Junit and SOAtest.

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  Unify Consulting

  Jul 2021 - Jan 2024

  Senior Consultant

  Amazon Global Real Estate and Facilities 1/3/2023 – 12:22/2023Coached multiple teams within GREF DART to promote quality engineering standards and agile practices. Administered user onboarding and training of multiple teams with the TestRail test management platform. Assisted with the development of Gherkin and procedural, step-based test cases targeted for these groupsT-Mobile 3/1/2022 – 12/17/2022Front-end and back-end automated testing in React/MobX, Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL and AirflowService Now 10/12/2021 – 12/17/2021Compliance control validation, information gathering and reviewing of controls with subject matter experts.Service Now 7/19/2021 – 10/11/2021Development of Python/Pandas scripts validating Splunk queries and audit of controls Show less

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  BambooHR

  Mar 2024 - now

  Quality Engineer

  Serving more than 34,000 customers and 3 million employees, BambooHR is the leading software provider powering the strategic evolution of HR in small and medium businesses.BambooHR's cloud-based system is an intuitive, affordable way for growing companies to manage essential employee information in a personalized Human Resources Information System (HRIS). Its software sets HR free to do great work and be more strategic, which helps the entire organization do the same. BambooHR's clients include innovators like SoundCloud, Foursquare, Freshbooks, Stance, Reddit, Magnolia Homes, and others in more than 100 countries and 8 languages worldwide. To find out more, visit bamboohr.com or follow on Twitter at @bamboohr. Show less