Egill Egilson

Experience

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  Prentsmiðja Morgunblaðsins

  May 1996 - Aug 2000

  Offset printer

  Working as an offset printer on a KBA computer controlled newspaper press.

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  Nema ehf

  Jun 2004 - Dec 2004

  Programmer and tester

  Managing projects for the internet. Planning, design, testing and programming web applications using PHP.

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  National Audit Office in Iceland

  Feb 2005 - Sept 2006

  Specialist

  Working on a pilot project on an appraisal of the maintenance and operation of government information systems. Evaluate the processes used for maintaining the systems according to CMMI and recommend improvements. Audit contracts on maintenance and operation.

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  Libra

  Sept 2006 - May 2011

  Software Tester

  Testing the Libra Securities suite; a system for settling and clearing of securities, and related systems e.g. system for Corporate Actions, Order Management, and Reporting. The Libra Securities systems are in use in most of the financial institutions in Iceland.

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  Handpoint

  May 2011 - Jun 2014

  Software tester

  Manual and automatic testing of payment card transaction processing system. Testing web applications, mobile applications, and SDKs for WinCE/Mobile, Android, and iOS and software for POS devices. Installing and administering systems and databases in test environments on Red Hat Linux servers.

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  Sabre Airline Solutions

  Jul 2014 - Nov 2016

  Software Tester

  Manual and automatic testing of the Intelligence Exchange platform. Deploying the platform and managing test environments on Linux servers. A member of a build management team. As member of test working group, visited and assisted customer doing performance testing of the platform.

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  NOVOMATIC Lottery Solutions

  Nov 2016 - Mar 2019

  Software Tester

  Manual testing and deployment of client and server applications for lottery terminals. Created and managed test environments using Docker and Qstack.Manual testing of web services for lottery platform: Access, Admin, Communication, Player and Games service.Created a prototype of an integrated test framework in Java using Rest Assured that could be used for automatic and manual tests.

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  Pósturinn

  Mar 2019 - May 2020

  Scrum Master

  Working with 3 development teams to help define their projects, organize their work, and clear impediments. As an administrator, restructuring/-organizing projects in Jira and Confluence. Helped in identifying the feasibility of continuing a long-running project.Built a test framework in Java for automated testing of APIs.

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  Marel

  May 2020 - now

  Quality Assurance Analyst

  Manual testing of Innova, food processing software, and supporting the development team and service. One of the first QAs to be embedded in a team that has the responsibility for the core functionality of the system.Built a test framework in C# for easily creating automated tests for APIs.