Ian Mercer
Software Test Engineer at Hanover Displays
Greater Brighton and Hove Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Mercer is a seasoned Software Test Engineer with 15 years’ experience specialising in automated and manual testing across telecoms and medical domains. Over a decade at Nice Business Solutions he became a trusted Symbian partner, leading UAT for OS releases to manufacturers like Nokia and driving a company-wide migration of 35 teams into HP Quality Centre. Ian designs bespoke automated frameworks (C++, C#, Perl, Java) and has delivered solutions that won contracts from the Symbian Foundation and improved build reliability as a build engineer. More recently he has applied his test and development skills to healthcare systems—vital-sign monitoring, drug-dispensing and online optician tools—combining domain rigour with pragmatic automation. Based in Greater Brighton, he pairs early electronics apprenticeship roots with a Computer Science degree and ISTQB certification, giving him a hands-on systems perspective that spans hardware, emulators and cloud-enabled test infrastructures.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
HNC, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, HNC, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at GEC Senors LtdISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level, Software Testing, ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level, Software Testing at Pearson VueBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Brighton
Spanish
Github Skills (198)
airpods10
dotnet10
azure10
octopus10
linux9
azure-ad-b2c9
nuget9
microsoft-azure9
nunit9
cake-build9
bluetooth9
assemblyinfo9
microsoft9
usrp9
xunit9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
IanMercer/AboditNaturalLanguage
Apr 2017 - Feb 2021
This is the demonstration for the AboditNLP Natural Language Engine available on NuGet. You can read more about AboditNLP at nlp.abodit.com.
Contributions:5 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
nlpnatural-languagenaturalnatural-language-processingnuget
IanMercer/pi-sniffer
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Sniffer for Bluetooth LE on Raspberry Pi
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
raspberry-pibluetooth-leraspberrybluetoothble
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