- melo.nicolas@gmail.com
- (954) 701-2330
I love solving problems with software.
- Doubled team with high quality test automation engineers in 6 months.
- Worked cross functionally with constituent teams to cover the full project’s testing needs.
- Updated the continuous integration and release test plan to maintain quick and high quality production deploys.
- Architected company’s QA strategy with an emphasis on automation, tools, stress testing, and beta programs.
- Created the end-to-end process and tools to quickly and efficiently localize our app into 18 languages.
- Manage relationships and processes with our contracting services of developers and translators.
- Built an automation team from a demo project aimed to enhance the testability of iOS radio technologies (BT, WiFi, Location, and Baseband) for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
- Lead recruiting efforts that helped grow a team from 8 engineers to 100+. Recruited and built a team of 10 direct reports.
- Built and maintained a continuous integration system with 50+ machines and 400+ devices.
- Designed and implemented web tools to aggregate test reports, analytics, and project status.
- Evangelized new features and tools to drive software quality and client team use, or measure and eliminate unneeded cruft.
- Coded high-quality features aimed at increasing interoperability, performance, and maintenance for Bluetooth software on iOS 1.0.2 - 3.0.
- Re-architected phonebook transfer for efficiency and maintainability.
- Focused on the testability of the BT software project, increasing this metric whenever possible.
- Took a custom self-diagnosing solution to market as a key feature.
- Designed tools aimed to collect system health and error information.
- Collaborated on automation framework to run regression tests in a distributed environment.
- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - MS Computer & Information Science & Engineering, 2004
- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - BS Computer & Information Science & Engineering, 2003
- Experience in the full project/product life cycle from conception to prototyping to implementation to maintenance
- Excellent at project scheduling and road-mapping
- Operating Systems: iOS, OS X, Linux/Unix