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Kevin L. - Remote front-end developer

Kevin L.

Front-end Engineer
Based in: 🇺🇸 United States
Timezone: Central Time (US & Canada) (UTC-5)

Summary

Howdy Folks!

I'm a Senior Front-end Engineer & Tester with over 15 years professional experience, both at large companies and small. I've worked on a variety of websites, including both small-business sites and large, enterprise-level domains.

I'm a member of the Technical Steering Committee for WebdriverIO, and open-source test automation framework. I've also written a book on Web App Testing that's available here: https://leanpub.com/webapp-testing-guidebook

I also run a YouTube channel covering Front-end Testing: https://www.youtube.com/user/medigerati/

In my free-time, when I'm not playing with my kids, I dabble in tabletop gaming, piano and gardening. And I'm addicted to disc golf.

Work Experience

Front-end Engineer and Tester
N/A | Sep 2016 - Present
HTML/CSS
jQuery
React
WebdriverIO
Vue.js
Consultant working with various companies, including: • Week-long on-sites to help teams build custom WebdriverIO based test automation frameworks • Building out and maintaining WebdriverIO based test suites • Resolving long-standing issues in legacy codebases, including jQuery and Express. • Implementation of Front-end Components using React/VueJS • One on one mentoring with QA leads to troubleshoot issues and teach best practices in terms of test automation
Senior Front End Engineer
InVisionApp Inc | Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
Mocha
React
Eslint
Member of the front-end infrastructure team, including the following responsibilities: • Promoted code quality throughout the engineering department through the implementation of ESLint, JavaScript unit tests, and other improvements to the developer workflow. • Creation of a functional test framework using WebdriverIO, allowing developers and QA leads the ability to write and run test automation both locally and through Jenkins. • Migration of API service functionality to NodeJS microservices

Education

The University of Texas at Dallas
Bachelor's degree・Arts & Technology
Aug 2003 - May 2006

Personal Projects

Learn WebdriverIOIconOpenNewWindows
2017
Online video course teaching essentials of WebdriverIO test framework, featuring 50+ "bite-sized" videos detailing the various aspects of the tool.
VisualRegressionTesting.comIconOpenNewWindows
2016
Testing
Collection of links to articles, videos and tools related to visual regression testing. Includes a free 5-day email course on teaching WebdriverCSS usage.

Certifications & Awards

"Best of CSS Dev Conf 2015" Speaker Award
CSS Dev Conf | Oct 2015