Gil Novak

Current

• Sr. QA Engineer at Carbon Design Systems

Past

• Sr. QA Engineer at BMC Software
• Test Automation Engineer at Attivio, Inc
• QA Lead at RuleStream Corporation

• Sr. Automation Engineer at Monster Worldwide
• QA Lead at Choicestream
• Senior QA Engineer at Open Market, Inc.

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Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Industry

Computer Software

Gil Novak’s Summary

Software Tester by vocation. I enjoy taking a new software product out for a "test drive" and finding the bugs. I also enjoy automating regression test suites in Java or C#, as well developing performance tests and frameworks. My goal is to help development teams build higher quality products.

Gil Novak’s Specialties:

My strengths are in testing for API, SDK, and Web Service based products, but I also delve into UI automation with Selenium and other custom Java/JUnit tools. I've also done some work with framework implementation and continuous integration using Ant, CruiseControl.Net and Bamboo.

Gil Novak’s Experience

• Sr. QA Engineer

  Carbon Design Systems

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  July 2009 — Present (1 month)

• Sr. QA Engineer

  BMC Software

  (Public Company; BMC; Computer Software industry)

  February 2009 — July 2009 (6 months)

  Testing BladeLogic, data center automation product.Developing GUI automation tests in Java/JUnit.

• Test Automation Engineer

  Attivio, Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 2008 — November 2008 (10 months)

  Tested enterprise search SDK product with Java & Junit.

• QA Lead

  RuleStream Corporation

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — January 2008 (8 months)

  Created QA group & test lab. Tested a rules management app for 2-D and 3-D design applications, such as SolidWorks, PTC's Pro/Engineer, and Microsoft Visio.

• Sr. Automation Engineer

  Monster Worldwide

  (Public Company; MWW; Internet industry)

  August 2006 — June 2007 (11 months)

  Tested a job ad server. Automated tests using Visual Studio 2005 Team System edition for Testers, LogParser, and MS SQL Server Reporting Services.

• QA Lead

  Choicestream

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  March 2002 — March 2006 (4 years 1 month)

  First in QA. Tested recommendation engine web service products for music, movies, & retail products. Developed automation for functional and load tests in Visual Studio .Net (C#) and JMeter.

• Senior QA Engineer

  Open Market, Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 1997 — October 2000 (3 years 8 months)

  Tested Transact 4.0 API's by developing tests in C++ on Solaris. Additional tours of duty in Sustaining team and Professional Services.

Gil Novak’s Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  B.S. , Computer Science , 1986 — 1993

  4 co-op assignments: 1 at IBM, 3 at DEC.

  Activities and Societies:

  IPAC