Ben Walker
Analyst Developer at Cantata
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Walker is an Analyst/Developer with nine years focused on MS Dynamics and a long software engineering pedigree stretching back to 1999, currently delivering reliable solutions at Cantata. He blends deep Dynamics expertise with a pragmatic focus on quality and process improvement, informed by a Distinction MSc in Computer Software Engineering from Oxford. Ben has contributed significant test and FetchXML enhancements to the popular fake-xrm-easy framework, improving Dynamics testing reliability as a back-end developer and QA engineer. His background includes senior analytic and programming roles at the University of Oxford and Elsevier, giving him strong domain experience in research and publishing systems. A certified Scrum Master, he pairs disciplined agile practice with hands-on implementation to drive measurable delivery improvements.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Distinction, Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Distinction at University of OxfordBryanston SchoolCertificate, Scrum Master, Certificate, Scrum Master at Scrum Alliance
French
Github Skills (7)
dynamics-crm10
csharp10
fakexrmeasy10
mocking10
dotnet-core10
testing10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jordimontana82/fake-xrm-easy
Oct 2017 - Dec 2018
The testing framework for Dynamics CRM and Dynamics 365 which runs on an In-Memory context and deals with mocks or fakes for you
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 58 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the `fake-xrm-easy` framework. They added an implementation for the `InsertStatusValueRequestExecutor` and associated tests, demonstrating the expansion of supported features. Further contributions included implementing tests for `this-year`, `this-month`, `last-month`, and `next-month` condition operators in FetchXML queries, alongside other FetchXML query enhancements. They addressed and fixed several issues, including those related to entity initialization and proxy type handling, improving the framework's reliability.
memoryfakexrmeasyc-sharpmockingcrm
bwmodular/fake-xrm-easy
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
The testing framework for Dynamics CRM and Dynamics 365 which runs on an In-Memory context and deals with mocks or fakes for you
Contributions:6 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 4 months
memorytesting-frameworkdynamics-crmtestingdeveloper-tools
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