Charlie Ashton
Senior Test Engineer at 2i
Shrewsbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorCharlie Ashton is a Senior Test Engineer with nine years of end-to-end QA and test automation experience, rising from an advanced apprentice at Capgemini to technical lead roles across Capgemini and 2i. He blends legacy systems knowledge (VME, Unix, PLSQL, Rational Robot) with modern tooling—Selenium WebDriver, OWASP ZAP, Gatling, BrowserStack, MongoDB, Jenkins and BDD with Gherkin/Cucumber—to deliver robust, CI-driven regression and performance test suites. Comfortable in agile teams, he has led test packs and environment health initiatives, contributing Scala code to test automation and building downstream CI jobs that gate deployments. Notable projects include high-profile public sector work such as the coronavirus job retention scheme and secure credential platform, reflecting experience with critical, high-stakes systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation, accessibility and security testing, and for turning complex integration challenges into repeatable, auditable processes.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developerProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/import-voluntary-disclosure-performance-tests
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:9 reviews, 52 PRs, 58 pushes in 8 months
hmrc/import-voluntary-disclosure-journey-tests
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:15 reviews, 108 PRs, 114 pushes in 8 months
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