Bill Claytor
Cloud Applications Test Engineer
Bel Air, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Claytor is a seasoned Cloud Applications Test Engineer with over two decades of experience in software development, test automation, and QA, currently focused on Microsoft-centered Generative AI applications. He brings deep hands-on expertise across Ruby/Rails, Java, C#, JavaScript, and a wide automation toolset (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Appium, JMeter/Gatling) along with solid DevOps experience in Jenkins, Docker, and AWS. Bill has repeatedly built QA organizations and automation frameworks from the ground up—migrating legacy test suites into Jira/Xray, automating release verification, and cutting reporting times from minutes to seconds. He blends technical leadership with pragmatic process design, having coordinated globally distributed teams and led disaster recovery and performance testing initiatives. Notably, he pioneered AI-assisted QA workflows that converted legacy training media into searchable learning assets, reflecting an appetite for practical automation of mundane work. Based in Bel Air, MD, he combines a developer’s fluency with long-term QA stewardship to deliver reliable, scalable testing for complex systems.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English Language and Literature, General, English Language and Literature, General at St. Mary's College of MarylandEnglish, General, English, General at Towson UniversityBusiness, English, General, Business, English, General at Harford Community College
Github Skills (33)
javascript10
css10
nodejs10
ruby9
ruby-on-rails9
web-development9
html9
pcf8
deployment-automation8
puppet8
release-management8
bolt8
architecture7
puppet-enterprise7
activemq7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
billclaytor/gatling-puppet-load-test
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:124 pushes, 64 branches in 8 months
puppetlabs/ref_arch_setup
May 2018 - Dec 2018
Tools for setting up reference architectures
Contributions:235 commits, 36 PRs, 116 pushes in 6 months
architecturesarchitectureevent-sourcingsetting
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