John Mcgrail
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Mcgrail is a veteran Software QA Automation Engineer with over 32 years of experience specializing in back-end system test automation for complex, multi-threaded distributed systems. He has designed and maintained robust automated test harnesses and environments across industries, with recent deep focus on cloud-native platforms—Google Cloud, AWS, Kubernetes and containers—over the past decade. His career spans high-impact roles at VoltDB, NuoDB, Verizon and Cisco where he combined hands-on automation coding (Java, TestNG, Bash) with leadership, mentoring and product-owner responsibilities. Known for building data-driven, multi-host integration test frameworks and improving release quality, he also brings low-level systems experience from early C and real-time VxWorks work. Based in Burlington, MA, he blends decades of legacy systems knowledge with modern cloud practices, making him adept at testing large-scale, stateful backend services.
7 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (3)
voltdb9
python3
jepsen1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
VoltDB/voltdb
Sep 2019 - May 2022
Volt Active Data
Contributions:33 commits, 43 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 8 months
voltdb
VoltDB/jepsen
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Fork of jepsen-io/voltdb
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 comment in 5 days
voltdbjepsen
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