William Hood
Test Strategy Engineer
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Hood is a seasoned Test Strategy Engineer with 9 years of experience driving back-end focused test automation and SDET leadership across diverse software organizations. He is currently at Red Oak / Boston Technology Corporation as a Test Strategy Engineer (since July 2025), shaping robust QA strategies and scalable automation. Proficient in Java, Kotlin, and Go, he specializes in building reliable back-end test frameworks and end-to-end automation pipelines. In a recent In Transition stint, he created Go and Rust versions of a direct-to-HTML logging system, illustrating his ability to spin up multi-language tooling quickly. His career spans senior SDET and QA roles at Source, Act-On Software, Akamai, Microsoft, Steelcase, ARRIS, and others, reflecting broad industry exposure. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he maps a passion for coding with a quirky personal touch—his GitHub bio mentions cartooning and wandering, signaling a creative, curious mindset.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of WashingtonComputer Science, Computer Science at Washington State UniversityBachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at University at AlbanyAlbion Class of 1990Avon Jr/Sr High SchoolAssociate of Science, Computer Science, Associate of Science, Computer Science at Finger Lakes Community College
Github Skills (18)
intellij-idea9
intellij-plugin8
kotlin-jvm8
intellij7
kotlin6
java6
jvm4
csharp4
snap2
angular2
angularjs2
podcast2
tablet2
linux1
typescript1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
william-hood/Hoodland-Open-Source-Projects
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
Kotlin version (with Java wrappers) of my HTML Logging System, Test Framework and other C#/Java legacy projects. (for IntelliJ IDEA CE environment)
Contributions:5 releases, 130 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 10 months
intellij-ideakotlinjvmintellij-pluginjava
william-hood/Rockabilly_CSharp
Oct 2016 - Jun 2020
Port of Java Rockabilly Common back into C#
Contributions:3 PRs, 39 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 8 months
javacsharp
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