Brandon Faloona
Architect, Quality Engineering at Slalom Consulting
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Faloona is an Architect in Quality Engineering with 16 years of experience designing and delivering pragmatic QA strategies and test automation for enterprise and greenfield products. Based in Seattle and currently at Slalom, he architects QA frameworks, leads teams through agile delivery, and stays hands-on with tooling and systems integration. His background spans SDET work, scrum leadership, and teaching—ranging from Microsoft browser automation to building Ruby/Cucumber suites that supported predictive analytics and BI applications. An active contributor to open-source projects, he has improved documentation for the OpenAPS community and reinforced cross-platform test robustness in the widely used cucumber-ruby project. Colleagues know him as a maker and breaker of software who pairs listening and mentorship with deep practical engineering judgment. He brings a rare blend of technical craftsmanship, process leadership, and educator’s clarity to complex quality challenges.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
San Francisco State UniversityTLG LearningRuby Programming Certificate, Ruby Programming Certificate at University of Washington, PCE
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Github Skills (9)
ruby10
cucumber10
test-framework10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
test-automation10
testing10
sphinx8
git7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openaps/docs
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Documentation for setting up OpenAPS
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:14 commits, 8 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on improving and updating the documentation for the OpenAPS project. The commits reflect efforts to fix formatting issues, correct hyperlinks, remove outdated content like the "openaps-guide," and reorganize documentation pages. The changes also involve updating indexes and adding content to existing sections.
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cucumber/cucumber-ruby
Dec 2009 - Feb 2011
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brandon focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and ensuring the accuracy of the Cucumber-Ruby project. Their commits included restoring and testing embedded methods, implementing tests for features related to snapshot embedding, and adapting the testing framework to properly handle file paths on Windows systems. The changes indicate a focus on improving the robustness of the testing suite, ensuring cross-platform compatibility, and verifying the expected behavior of features.
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