Your Next Software Engineering Lead /Asst Exec Director of Self/Chief of Outplacement/Builder of Things/Personal Barista
Redmond, Washington
Microsoft
Software Design Engineer in Test
July 2000 to May 2008
USAF
C-141 Airlift Commander/T-38 Instructor Pilot
August 1988 to June 1999
USAF, Vance AFB
T-38 Instructor Pilot/Ground Training Flight Commander
1993 to 1996
How come 'UN' isn't an employment type?
Your Next Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United States
Instructure
Test Lead -- Software Engineering at Instructure
May 2019 to May 2020
Greater Seattle Area
Instructure
Senior Software Engineer in Test
July 2017 to May 2020
Seattle
Groupon
Software Engineer
January 2017 to July 2017
Groupon
Software Design Engineer in Test
June 2013 to July 2017
Greater Seattle Area
Microsoft
Software Design Engineer in Test
November 2010 to June 2013
Redmond
US Air Force Reserve
Major/C-17 Pilot/Flight Commander
July 1999 to October 2012
What company does Jay Trent work for?
Jay Trent works for Microsoft
What is Jay Trent's role at Microsoft?
Jay Trent is Software Design Engineer in Test
What industry does Jay Trent work in?
Jay Trent works in the Computer Software industry.
Who are Jay Trent's colleagues?
Jay Trent's colleagues are Steven Burnett, Josh Coates, Eric Jacobs, Philip Hallstrom, Krisztián Gacsal, Jozsef Pengo, Marisa Burkhart, Laura Sellers, Encarni Lopez, and Oxana Barth
📖 Summary
Software Design Engineer in Test @ Microsoft From July 2000 to May 2008 (7 years 11 months) C-141 Airlift Commander/T-38 Instructor Pilot @ USAF Operate jet aircraft in the National airspace system, perform worldwide airlift missions, instruct pilot candidates in contact, instrument, formation, and navigation flying From August 1988 to June 1999 (10 years 11 months) T-38 Instructor Pilot/Ground Training Flight Commander @ USAF, Vance AFB Led team of 17 T-37 & T-38 flight instructors providing academic instructionTaught pilot students to fly the T-38 Talon in Contact, Formation, Instrument, and Navigation phases of training From 1993 to 1996 (3 years) Your Next Engineer @ How come 'UN' isn't an employment type? Listing my status as 'Available' should be for Tinder, not LinkedInNevertheless: -- recently disemployed-- Once and Future Software Engineer, frequently in Test, also building Tools --- performance testing (throughput, latency) --- API --- Frontend automation-- Team Lead --- coach, mentor --- organizer of priorities, enabler of action Redmond, Washington, United StatesTest Lead -- Software Engineering at Instructure @ Instructure - Led QA teams for Pandalytics, Sistemic, and Canvas Studio projects- Steadied the ship in turbulent times, focusing teams through corporate surprises in 2019: restructuring into Line Of Business (LOB); sending Sistemic offshore to Budapest team; coaching up my replacement to be prepared to take the reins, building into a solid focused leader; achieved Canvas Studio 2019 annual QA goal for test time reduction- Successful v1 launch of Canvas Analytics 2, on-time roll out at InstructureCon 2019- Reorganized to single QA team after January layoffs, supporting 5 development teams; QA engineers moved as required to swarm on test engineering priorities; focused emphasis on data analysis, monitoring metrics for ETL quality; standardized teams on TestCafe for E2E/UI test- Data analysis output discovered many bugs, driving fixes in ETL and upstream services- ETL metrics dashboards stood up, providing quick view data health From May 2019 to May 2020 (1 year 1 month) Greater Seattle AreaSenior Software Engineer in Test @ Instructure - Initial test engineer for Canvas Analytics 2 project- Created test frameworks using Docker/Testcafe/Jenkins, running 100% E2E automated test suite on each code push- Developed dockerized build of Grinder 3.0 load test tool, created and executed multiple load test experiments, identified significant performance bottlenecks, driving rearchitecture of data store system to meet performance requirements; results used by Product managers to establish supported course sizes- Interviewed candidates, expanded test team From July 2017 to May 2020 (2 years 11 months) SeattleSoftware Engineer @ Groupon Drove evaluation and company-wide adoption of BlazemeterPerformed analysis of several COTS/Open Source load testing systems, validated approach with company-wide load test; refactored several teams' tests to run on Blazemeter; wrote training guide to enable teams' ability to own their performance testing; led expansion of team to support 24-hr performance test ops for worldwide Groupon development teams From January 2017 to July 2017 (7 months) Software Design Engineer in Test @ Groupon Beat Black Friday! Specialized in load testing individual services, coordinating with development teams, and orchestrating a massive company-wide performance testServer-cluster load testing with Python/GrinderSupporting teams across the company in testing and analysis of their load capabilitiesDesigned and built node.js-based distributed load-test execution system, enabled driving large-scale load tests utilizing our constellation of 150 test hosts in US and EMEA datacenters; provided runtime test throttling, response monitoring, and test summary reporting toolsBuilt front-end web testing automation using Java/Selenium, supported the Subscriptions teamInterviewed many new candidates to join our teams From June 2013 to July 2017 (4 years 2 months) Greater Seattle AreaSoftware Design Engineer in Test @ Microsoft - Led Independent Hardware Vendor (IHV) test kit development project for Cluster In a Box (CIB) OEM/ODMs; wrote requirement and design specifications; developed major portions in C++; provided cluster continuous availability validation for manufacturers- Project leader for Windows 8 iSCSI protocol security scrub: used RFC to guide design of network packet fuzzing goals, defined metrics; coordinated vendor and machine usage--11 Important and Critical issues discovered and fixed- Test development: Windows 8 Server File Classification Infrastructure, writing E2E test cases in C#, utilizing TAEF/WTT test automation infrastructure- Network security test development: created network protocol fuzzing/intrusion tests for iSCSI, WebDAV- Windows 8 Servicing Transition Project: built group-wide transition tracking tools in Sharepoint 2010- WebDAV interop troubleshooting: developed automated network packet intercept tests to simulate custom server behavior- Designed Product Group new-hire onboarding program; part of group effort to streamline onboarding and improve 'tribal knowledge' of business and technologies- Co-author, Thinkweek 2012 paper: “New Hire Onboarding at Microsoft: How Teams do it, What Works and What’s Next” Awarded Best of Thinkweek 2012 From November 2010 to June 2013 (2 years 8 months) RedmondMajor/C-17 Pilot/Flight Commander @ US Air Force Reserve - Flight Commander, led team of 16 pilots- OPSEC/COMSEC coordinator/trainer- Chief Aircrew Scheduler, expeditionary airlift squadron, Andrews AFB (2004 election cycle)- Deputy Operations Officer, deployed operations, March ARB- Led aircrews to accomplish worldwide contingency airlift missions; performed combat delivery in Iraq and Afghanistan; emergency MedEvac services, evacuating injured personnel across continents and oceans to receive emergency medical care; commanded emergency inflight actions leading to 100% safe recovery of passengers, crew, and jet From July 1999 to October 2012 (13 years 4 months)
Introversion (I), Intuition (N), Thinking (T), Judging (J)
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