Gary Stone
Redcliffe,Bristol
Summary
With an established career in QA spanning over 3 and a half years, as well as 5 years in the general IT Industry I've developed a keen eye for software quality, comprehensive testing strategies, and effective customer service. My contributions have significantly reduced bugs leading to a more robust product offering for my employers. I also have a strong understanding of the SDLC and have experience with manual testing, writing and maintaining test cases as well as automated testing with Selenium Web Driver & Postman.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Software Tester
MaginCut Software Ltd
Bristol
06.2024 - 08.2025
- Manual and automated testing of desktop optimisation software, including the Nesting Optimiser module for CNC routers and nesting machines.
- Built custom tools in Python and Excel to generate bulk test data (e.g. large volumes of shaped and rectangular parts), easily importable into MaginCut for regression testing.
- Automated performance benchmarking across multiple software versions, capturing metrics such as optimisation time, nesting efficiency (material yield and waste), toolnpath structure, routing method options (e.g. stayndown, commonnedge), and CNC output data like DXF/MPR files.
- Detected, raised, and tracked bugs by replicating issues, documenting reproduction steps, assigning them to the appropriate developer, and verifying fixes.
- Contributed to internal documentation efforts, improving clarity around software behaviour and edgencase handling for both technical and nonntechnical users.
- Collaborate daily with developers and product specialists to align test findings with realnworld workflows and optimisation objectives, improving reliability of releases.
Test Engineer
Wealth Club
01.2022 - 04.2024
- Created and refined automation test scripts with Selenium to facilitate quality assurance for web-based applications.
- Worked with 3rd party companies such as cobalt.io to write a scope for pentesting and assisted with fixing some of the web-based vulnerabilities reported.
- Identified and logged bugs.
- Created and implemented Agile-Enabling tools, such as Trello, and Slack, in order to streamline development process and improve team communication.
- Maintained test records and reports.
- Regularly communicated with developers to ensure that all test objectives were being met during software development.
- General IT Support from email issues, VPN, Phishing, access requests, managing bitlocker keys, onboarding new starters and leavers, to working with directors, phone operators and the marketing team in easing workflow.
- Networking on-prem & cloud: AWS VPC, DNS, FortiGate, DHCP, SIP telephony.
- Configuring staging environments to match production for security and testing purposes.
- Monitoring AWS & Azure Billing to ensure money is being saved where possible.
- SQL support
IT Engineer
Paymentsense / Dojo
02.2020 - 01.2022
- Networking on-prem & cloud: AWS VPC, DNS, FortiGate, DHCP, SIP telephony.
- AWS & Azure (Active directory) for user management.
- Played a key role in capacity planning, resource allocation, and forecasting for IT infrastructure needs supporting business growth and seasonal peaks.
- Spearheaded the rollout of a scalable IT infrastructure to support a rapidly growing user base, peaking at 800 users internally.
- Delivered comprehensive technical support for over 300 company users, ensuring a 99.5% uptime for critical systems.
- Led a team of 3 to successfully migrate company data to a hybrid cloud environment, reducing costs by 14%.
- Solely responsible for the Bristol office for the first 6- months until I was able to hire a small team to assist with the responsibilities.
- Ensuring all company equipment is documented and covered in the asset management system.
- Working with 3rd parties to order new stock and ensure an uninterrupted flow of new hires who were being onboarded other teams.
- SQL support
Education
Level 2 IT Diploma -
Weston College
01.2015 - 01.2017
Level 3 IT Diploma - undefined
Weston College
01.2015 - 01.2017
BTEC(s) - English, Science, Engineering, IT, Math
Bridge Learning Campus
Skills
- Windows & Linux based Operating Systems
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Web services examination
- On-prem Infrastructure
- Networking
- Automation
- Web Scraping
- IT Security
- OWASP Top 10
- Privilege Escalation
- User interface testing
- Integration validation
- Automated testing tools expertise
- Understanding of databases
- APIs testing
Languages
English
Hobbies
- Bouldering
- Hiking
- IT Security
- Reading
Timeline
Software Tester
MaginCut Software Ltd
06.2024 - 08.2025
Test Engineer
Wealth Club
01.2022 - 04.2024
IT Engineer
Paymentsense / Dojo
02.2020 - 01.2022
Level 2 IT Diploma -
Weston College
01.2015 - 01.2017
Level 3 IT Diploma - undefined
Weston College
01.2015 - 01.2017
BTEC(s) - English, Science, Engineering, IT, Math
Bridge Learning Campus
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