Engineering Manager @ Manage a team of 11 QA engineers including systems (backend/automation) QA engineers and applications (frontend/manual) QA engineers supporting over 100 developers. Testing coverage includes the Ads and Media teams as well as automation for the general mobile client. Responsibilities include guiding and mentoring team members in QA best practices and developing/maintaining test frameworks, ensuring the successful release of mobile clients and advertiser platform, and hiring for the entire QA organization. From April 2015 to Present (8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Platform QA Engineer @ Expanded the QA team to work with the Ads team and was named a tech lead after successfully leading testing efforts for Twitter’s professional video platform. Led a team of 3 QA engineers to work with a team of developers not previously working with QA. From March 2014 to April 2015 (1 year 2 months) Platform QA Engineer @ Continued work testing Bluefin features as they were integrated into the Twitter Ads platform. Established backend video testing for a new professional video platform which launched successfully on time. Mentored junior team members as the QA team grew. Provided guidance during integration into Twitter systems to maximize testability and led bug triage and standups for video features. From February 2013 to March 2014 (1 year 2 months) Platform QA Engineer @ Bluefin Labs linked what was on TV with what people were saying in social media allowing advertisers and networks to get instant feedback on their shows or ads. As the primary Systems QA Engineer working closely with the development team I was responsible for testing the API connecting the backend and frontend, hadoop based social media ingest mechanism, TV stream ingest, and advertisement detection. From August 2012 to February 2013 (7 months) QA Manager @ CloudLock is a cloud security company that primarily focuses on securing Google Drive data for businesses. In charge of both QA and operations with responsibilities for testing, automating, releasing, and monitoring production servers running on Google App Engine as well as hiring and managing the team as it grew. From February 2010 to August 2012 (2 years 7 months) Technical Support Engineer Tier 2 @ Gomez was a web performance and monitoring company. There I was responsible for Tier 2 support for their Active Web Monitoring Services by creating and repairing javascript based transaction scripts for customers. From June 2009 to February 2010 (9 months)
BS, Computer Science @ Syracuse University From 2005 to 2009 Matt Atwater is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Software Development, JavaScript, Quality Assurance, Linux, User Experience, Java, SQL, Python, Test Automation, SaaS, HTML, Software Engineering