Andrew_Orange
Profile - Andrew Orange 🧑🏼💻
Contents
- About 🎙
- Professional Activity 🤺
- Achievements 🎬
- Education 📚
- What is important to me 💁
- Skills/Expertise/Tools 🍳
- Certificates and Testimonials 📝
- More information about me 🌐
- House of Test Contact 🤙🏽
About 🎙
- A quality-driven, highly collaborative IT professional with 28 years of experience in Testing, Test Management, Project Management and Development Work in the Reinsurance, Financial and Software industries.
- Owner and Organizer of Swiss Trading & Investing Meetup
- Creation of Test Automation Frameworks for IAM system & Hybrid Crypto Exchange
- Implemented Testing Service and Strategy for a large SAP FICO programme in Swiss Re Finance
- Transformed the testing strategy for ServiceNow releases in Swiss Re to cater for a rapid agile release model rather than a bi-annual waterfall model
- Delivery of compliance accounting migration project (Multifonds, Charles River Investment Management Solution) in Credit Suisse Asset Management.
- Creation of a test automation framework within Credit Suisse Private Banking using Canoo Webtest, HP QTP and in-house developed tools
- Bitcoin and Lightning expert
Professional Activity 🤺
Feel free to also check out my LinkedIn profile
| 2019 - Present | House of Test GmbH |
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| Software Engineer in Test | |
| Assignment 6 (2024-2024): | Test Engineer - Test Engineer for a 2nd layer blockchain solution. TechStack: TypeScript, Playwright, Mocha, Ethereum |
| Assignment 5 (2023-2023): | Test Engineer - Main health insurance portal for a large Swiss health insurer. TechStack: TypeScript, Python, Pytest, Cucumber, Postman, Selenium |
| Assignment 4 (2022-2023): | Head of QA - Helping to build a hybrid cryptocurrency exchange. DevOps and Context Driven Testing practices. TechStack: Ubuntu, Python, Pytest, REST API, Selenium, Postgres, Dfinity, Ethereum |
| Assignment 3 (2021-2023): | Test Automation Engineer - Digitization of a Loans platform for a small Swiss bank using Context Driven Testing practices. TechStack: Tosca, Postman, Javascript |
| Assignment 2 (2021-2022): | Test Automation Engineer - Ticketing system for a government organization. TechStack: Katalon, Groovy, GitLab |
| Assignment 1 (2019-2021): | Test Automation Engineer - Working on a IAM system for a large grocery. TechStack: Katalon, Groovy, GitLab |
| 2024 - Present | 21 Lectures |
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| Ambassador | |
| Activities: | Helping people who are looking to learn about bitcoin and lightning find the right education |
| 2017 - 2019 | Startups including Crypto Banks |
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| Various Roles | |
| Business Development: | Introduction of Investors, Business Model Canvas, Executive Summary and Business Plan, Implementation of a crypto payment system, Ethereum Based Futures Platform |
| 2012 - 2017 | Swiss Re Ltd |
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| Test Lead | |
| SAP S/4HANA Finance programme: | building and implementation of offshore team and strategy |
| ServiceNow SaaS Platform: | building and implementation of offshore team and strategy |
| Swiss Re Mobile: | Delivery of Swiss Re Mobile Testing Strategy |
| Swiss Re Testing: | Increased transparency and reporting capabilities through JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Mind Maps, defined and delivered processes where required, management of offshore and nearshore testing teams with offshore and nearshore vendor visits |
| 2001 - 2012 | Credit Suisse |
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| Various Roles | |
| Credit Suisse Asset Management (2007-2012): | Project Manager/Test Manager - Solaris migration project for an accounting system. Test Manager for multiple Asset Management agile projects. |
| Credit Suisse Private Banking (2003-2007): | Test Manager/Test Automation - Java based External Asset Manager platform. TechStack: XML, ANT, XSLT, XPath, Java, Groovy, SQL, CI (CruiseControl) |
| Credit Suisse Private Banking (2001-2003): | Tech Lead/Developer - External Asset Manager platform. TechStack: VB, C++ |
| 1999 - 2007 | IT Works Sàrl |
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| Various Roles | |
| Responsibilities: | Customers and day to day running of the company |
| Core Activities: | Development, Testing, Management |
| 1995 - 1999 | Micro Focus |
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| Developer and Software Tester | |
| Responsibilities: | GUI data tools, Rebuild, FHUTILS, MFSort, Extsm, C++ MFC and Testing |
| Core Activities: | Development and maintainance of responsible applications and testing for Windows based IDE for COBOL |
Achievements 🎬
- Personensicherheitsprüfung (PSP), Swiss Federal Administration, October 2024
- Advanced Playwright, TestAutomationU, March 2024
- Introduction to Playwright, TestAutomationU, March 2024
- Mocha JavaScript Test Framework, TestAutomationU, March 2024
- Cucumber with JavaScript, TestAutomationU, March 2023
- Cypress with TypeScript, TestAutomationU, March 2023
- Python Programming, TestAutomationU, October 2022
- API Testing in Python, TestAutomationU, September 2022
- Deutsch mündlich B1 schriftlich B1, Swiss Federal Administration, August 2022
- Robot Framework - Paul Merrill, TestAutomationU, 2021
- Introduction to Blockchain Testing - Rafaela Azevedo, TestAutomationU, 2021
- B2 Deutsch - VOX-Sprachschule, 2021
- Selenium WebDriver with Python - Andrew Knight, TestAutomationU, 2020
- Source Control for Test Automation with Git - Simon Berner, TestAutomationU, 2020
- Bitcoin Advanced Course – James Chiang, Kaspar Etter, Marko Bencun, Jonas Schnelli, Christian Decker, 21Lectures, Zürich, Switzerland, 2019
- Bitcoin Fundamentals – Henrik Jonsson, 21Lectures, Zürich, Switzerland, 2019
- Selenium WebDriver Bootcamp – Michael Palotas, House of Test, Zürich, Switzerland, 2018
- Business Model Canvas 101 – Masterclass, Udemy, 2018
- Automation in Testing – Richard Bradshaw & Mark Winteringham, House of Test, Zürich, Switzerland, 2018
- The Python Masterclass, Web-Based Training, 2018
- Ethereum Blockchain Developer: Build Projects Using Solidity, Udemy, 2018
- Value Investing Workshop, Rule #1 Investing, Phil Town, Atlanta GA, USA, 2017
- openSAP SAP S/4HANA in a Nutshell, Swiss Re, Adliswil, Switzerland, 2017
- Driving Performance through Effective Leadership Communication & Feedback, Hercules Coaching GmbH, Adliswil, Switzerland, 2016
- ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management, Swiss Re, Adliswil, Switzerland, 2015
- Rapid Software Testing – James Bach, Swiss Re, Rüschlikon, Switzerland, 2013
- Swiss German, Swissing, Zürich, Switzerland, Evening Course 3 months, 2001
- High German, Klubschule Migros, Zürich, Switzerland, 10 weeks 1999
- Visual C++, MFC, COM and OLE: A Comprehensive Overview, Learning Tree, London, England, 1997
- Hands-On UNIX Programming, Learning Tree, London, England, 1997
- Object COBOL, Micro Focus, Newbury, England, 1997
- Object-Oriented Analysis and Design With UML, Learning Tree, Newbury, England, 1996
- COM and ActiveX Programming with C++: Hands-On, Learning Tree, London, England, 1996
Education 📚
Bachelor of Engineering Degree with Honours in Electronic & Information Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, England, 1991 - 1995
OND Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Kitson College, Leeds, England, 1989 – 1991
What is important to me 💁
- I like to work in fun and challenging environments that promote innovation, design, learning and free thinking.
- Over the years, I’ve come to learn that my character suits innovative environments where I also have the abillity to code and give constructive input.
- I prefer to work with open source technology, technology that’s constantly improving and that that’s likely to outlive stagnant companies.
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For me, programming languages are a specific sort of syntax, the fact that I know a few already, means that I’m not frightened of picking up another one and learning it from scratch, …in fact, I welcome this type of environment
- I like to work with people that are also open to innovation, who enjoy their work and also like to code.
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I like it when people like to share their experiences and when they’re open to hearing about experiences from other people.
- I enjoy working for companies that have the same ethos and values as House of Test.
- It’s fantastic when companies do not lock down their systems and allow their creative employees to express themselves through code or design.
- It’s nice to work for companies who see people as individuals and understand different traits that ultimately allows each individual to be as expressive and efficient as possible.
Skills/Expertise/Tools 🍳
| Tech Stack |
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| Bash, Blockchain, CSS, C, C++, COBOL, Groovy, Gherkin, HTML, Javascript, Java, LaTeX, LDAP, Oracle, Playwright, Pascal, PHP, Python, PowerShell, Pascal, Solidity, React, Pearl, Ruby, RegEx, Solidity, SQL, Typescript, Visual Basic, XPath, XSLT |
| Tools | |
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| API Development | curl, OpenAPI, Postman, Swagger, requests, SOAP, Splunk |
| Authentication and Security | Bitwarden, KeePass, IAM Systems, LDAP |
| Build and Deployment | ANT, AWS, Jenkins, Make, npm, yarn |
| CI/CD | Bamboo, Jenkins, Github Actions |
| Cloud | AWS, Azure, Docker |
| Collaboration | Confluence, Jira, Miro, Slack |
| Databases | MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgresSQL |
| Dependency and Package Management | homebrew, npm, pip |
| Documentation | Confluence, Markdown, LaTex, Obsidian |
| IDEs | Eclipse, IntelliJ, Micro Focus IDEs, PyCharm, Sublime Text, VSCode, Vim |
| Operating Systems | All MS Windows, macOS and other Unix-based systems like Ubuntu, Linux, etc |
| Operations | JIRA, XRay, Zephyr |
| Testing | Canoo Webtest, Katalon, All Micro Focus Tools, mocha, Playwright, Postman, pytest, Robot Framework, Robot Process Automation, Selenium, Tosca, webdriverIO |
| web3 Systems | Bitcoin, Ethereum |
| Version Control | All Git tech |
| Frameworks |
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| Burp Suite, Kibana, ReadyAPI, SoapUI, TeamCity, Testcomplete, Testrail, Tosca, UIPath, ZAP |
| Testing Skills |
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| Agile Testing, BDD, Black Box, Context Driven Testing, Crowd Testing, Exploratory Testing, Nearshore, Non-Functional Testing, Offshore, Release Management, Reverse Engineering, Risk Analysis, Session Based Testing, TDD, Test Design, Test Management, Test Modelling, UAT, White Box, Load Testing, Mobile Testing, Non-Functional Testing, Pen Testing |
| Human Languages |
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| English (Native), German (B2) |
Certificates and Testimonials 📝
If you need any proof of certificates/testimonials in paper form of my passed education or older employers, please get in touch with me.
More information about me 🌐
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In my spare time, I’m the owner and organizer of the Swiss Trading & Investing Meetup. At the time of writing, the Meetup group has 769 member and the related Telegram group has 216 members. We mainly discuss trading and investing strategies over a drink once every 2 weeks in Zürich. Approximately 4 times per year, we have more formal presentation events in Swissquote’s Lounge on Löwenstrasse.
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Additionally, my interests of finance and technology are a natural fit for Bitcoin. I’ve been attending bitcoin conferences since 2017 and I’m fascinated by the technology and economics of the system. It will be really interesting to see where bitcoin will be in 2030 as it develops as a value transfer protocol for bitcoin and other assets.
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At home I spend a lot of time learning and experimenting with the topics above.
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In Switzerland I live with my life parner and our dogs in the middle of the city where I can be exposed to social activity in bars and restaurants. 🙂
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