John Gaff
Automation Engineer
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Gaff is an experienced Automation Engineer with 9 years in software quality, currently driving test automation efforts at Cisco from Raleigh, NC. He brings deep hands-on expertise in UI and non-UI automation, building frameworks with Java and Selenium, RESTful service testing, CI pipelines (Jenkins/TeamCity), and bespoke command-line and health-check tooling. His background in computational chemistry (Ph.D.) and years of research give him uncommon strengths in experimental design, data-driven validation, and scientific scripting—skills he’s translated into rigorous test strategy and automation for regulated and complex systems. Previously he accelerated release velocity and reliability at BIOVIA and Clinipace by converting manual OQ/functional tests into repeatable automated suites across multiple browsers and platforms. Known for bridging deep technical rigor with practical process improvements, he often surfaces subtle data/phase mismatches that evade conventional testing.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computational Chemistry, Ph.D., Computational Chemistry at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (16)
forge10
toolbox9
python8
common-data-format7
etl6
extensible4
metadata3
risk-assessment2
bioinformatics2
csv2
machine-learning1
sdk1
json-schema1
collaboration1
data-science1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
materials-data-facility/toolbox
Nov 2017 - Nov 2020
Toolbox is a collection of the Materials Data Facility tools and utilities.
Contributions:43 releases, 91 commits, 98 PRs in 3 years
toolboxmaterials-datafacility
fair-research/deriva-action-provider
Aug 2019 - Aug 2020
Globus Automate action provider for DERIVA
Contributions:15 PRs, 55 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
globusprovider
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