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Dan Young

Dan Young

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Dan Young is the Lead Automation Engineer for Schwab Performance Technologies, a part of Charles Schwab, Inc. Schwab Performance Technologies develops and supports a Portfolio Management Software that Investment Advisors use to track their clients investments. Dan holds a degree from West Virginia University Institute of Technology. In addition, he is a Segue Certified SilkTest Engineer, a Segue Certified SilkPerformer Engineer and has training and experience with Mercury Interactive’s QuickTestProfessional and LoadRunner. Before moving to a software company, Dan gained experience building and installing computers and did a stint in sales and purchasing for a hardware reseller. Dan’s software experience includes technical support, teaching training classes, on-site consulting, manual testing, automated testing (planning, architecture, coding and test case entry) and most recently load testing.

Company
Charles Schwab
Industry
Business Services - Consulting - Non-profit
Interests
Measurement and Estimating
Process Improvement
Requirements
Software Testing
Country
United States
Dan Young

Dan Young is the Lead Automation Engineer for Schwab Performance Technologies, a part of Charles Schwab, Inc. Schwab Performance Technologies develops and supports a Portfolio Management Software that Investment Advisors use to track their clients investments. Dan holds a degree from West Virginia University Institute of Technology. In addition, he is a Segue Certified SilkTest Engineer, a Segue Certified SilkPerformer Engineer and has training and experience with Mercury Interactive’s QuickTestProfessional and LoadRunner. Before moving to a software company, Dan gained experience building and installing computers and did a stint in sales and purchasing for a hardware reseller. Dan’s software experience includes technical support, teaching training classes, on-site consulting, manual testing, automated testing (planning, architecture, coding and test case entry) and most recently load testing.

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Test Automation: An Architected Approach

The test automation architecture championed here is based on the idea of automation code as an application in its own right. Code reuse, encapsulation (on many levels), recursion, object-oriented concepts, testing maturity and usability (of automation by non-technical business analysts) are covered.