Leonard Schroath

Experience

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  HP

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2019

  Responsible for testing performance and reliability of LaserJet enterprise printers and solutions at scale, modeling customer environments, assessment of deployment readiness, and development of software automation.• Planned, built and operated world-class enterprise test lab comprised of 450+ enterprise class printing devices, data center, simulated corporate infrastructure, virtual users and devices, and data collection mechanisms.• Managed team of 20 software developers, test engineers, and infrastructure personnel to develop elaborate large-scale automated workflow-oriented test scenarios, setup and execute them over 1 to 3 days, collect and analyze millions of rows of data, and report the results and trends, exposing difficult-to-find scalability and interoperability bugs while measuring and improving overall reliability of the entire ecosystem.• Received prestigious 2013 Hewlett Packard President’s Quality Award along with other team members. Show less Responsible for software, system, localization, and accessibility testing for all LaserJet products, including test planning, test development, test execution, defect characterization, and reporting.• Streamlined testing by removing redundancy and championing a risk-based testing strategy, which cut overall testing costs by more than 50% while still maintaining high product quality.• Expanded test coverage for one major release while reducing test execution costs from $1.3M to $200k.• Drove strategy for use case development and testing based on real-world usage scenarios. Created initial enterprise-level test suite for high-end LaserJet products, and proposed creation of an enterprise test lab.• Chaired a cross-division software test council to leverage ideas, share tools, reduce duplication of work, and drive testing consistency across 8 printer divisions, resulting in shorter product qualification times and improved test efficiency.Other Professional Experience:Hewlett-Packard Company: Test Engineer / ScientistHewlett-Packard Company: Project ManagerHewlett-Packard Company: Software Engineer Show less

  • Manager, Enterprise Test Lab

    Jan 2009 - Jan 2019

  • Software and System Test Manager

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2009
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  Truckstop.com

  Jan 2019 - Jan 2022

  Responsible for overall strategies for testing and quality of newest generation of Truckstop’s cloud-based freight-matching products, driving productivity, and ensuring quality standards are met for software deployments.• Grew quality and agile team to over 100 full-time employees and contractors, including 5 managers, software quality analysts, software development engineers in test (SDETs), manual testers, and scrum masters. Budget: ~ $10M.• Championed quality standards, which led to finding over 90% of defects for new products prior to their release. • Developed targeted test suites for legacy products, reducing qualification time from several days to 1-2 hours.• Led strategy and effort to overhaul tools for measuring quality and throughput, which improved productivity and predictability across 25 agile teams. Show less Responsible for quality of all Truckstop product deployments through manual and automated testing, as well as instilling a quality culture throughout the company.• Defined new strategy and approach for automated user interface testing, which increased end-to-end test passing percentage from 30% to over 90% on nightly test runs.• Spearheaded effort to define and create 285 component-level UI tests that executed as part of the UI continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.• Orchestrated 4 teams of software quality analysts, manual testers, and SDETs to ensure high-quality, on-time web user interface deployments using a mixture of both automated and manual testing.• Reviewed and organized over 1000 end-to-end manual regression test cases for the web user interface into lite and full regression test suites while stratifying tests into component, integration, and end-to-end layers that followed test pyramid strategy. Show less Responsible for application programming interface (API) test automation, including test automation framework, test standards, and ensuring test coverage across each API.• Formed team of 6 SDETs and led development of a test automation framework for back end micro-services that enabled test execution as part of each service’s CI/CD pipeline.• Replaced manual back-end testing with several thousand fully automated tests for over 60 micro-services, reducing time to deploy from 1-2 days to minutes.• Employed a variety of test techniques to ensure appropriate test coverage, which became the foundation of Truckstop’s quality strategy and enabled team to find over 99% of API bugs prior to release. Show less

  • Senior Director of Quality and Agile Strategies

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

  • Director Of Quality

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2021

  • Senior Manager, Quality Assurance

    Jan 2019 - Jan 2021