I’m not going to put my full CV here, but will limit the page to a summary of what I am working on at the moment.
My current contract is with a government agency (not allowed to say precisely which one) where I am writing automated tests in Ruby for apps and services in a micro-service environment.
The tools of choice are:
- RubyMine for scripted tests in Cucumber
- Capybara for GUI testing in Ruby
- Ruby with HTTParty for service-level testing in Ruby
- Soap UI for ad hoc and interactive service tests
- Burp Suite for security testing of web apps
- Gatling
The key architecture features which I have had to understand and work with are:
- CQRS model
- Event Sourcing (using Event Store)
- ELK stack
- Amazon AWS for RESTful web micro-services
- Mongo for document-oriented NoSQL databases
- Kibana over Elasticsearch for service level log inspection
Some of this technology is quite new, and all of it is interesting. For example, here’s Martin Fowler on CQRS:
CQRS stands for Command Query Responsibility Segregation. It’s a pattern that I first heard described by Greg Young. At its heart is the notion that you can use a different model to update information than the model you use to read information