Alexander O'mahoney
Lead Software Developer In Test at Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)
Greater Swansea Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlexander O'mahoney is a Lead Software Developer in Test with over a decade of experience delivering high-volume systems at the DVLA, blending hands‑on engineering with test strategy and CI. A Ruby enthusiast and author of popular gems (e.g., simple_symbolize), he builds and maintains automation suites for frontend and backend services while driving BDD practices, performance testing, and SDET community growth. He mentors and hires SDETs, runs knowledge‑sharing sessions, and consistently experiments with new tools to raise test coverage and efficiency. Known for breaking complex problems into simple, testable parts, he pairs a first‑class Computer Science degree with a pragmatic, lead-by-example approach and a continual appetite for learning.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 1st Class w/ honours, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 1st Class w/ honours at Swansea University
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Github Skills (11)
portal6
throw3
automation3
seeding3
cucumber3
ruby3
factory2
java2
testing2
test-data2
faker1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dvla/simple-symbolize
Jun 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:17 PRs, 26 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 6 months
dvla/hash_miner
Jul 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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