Jonathan Sloman
Software Development Team Lead at BBC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Sloman is a seasoned Software Development Team Lead based in London, with three decades of hands-on experience in web technologies and a quarter-century of commercial Java expertise. He has led large-scale, multilingual projects at the BBC—spanning content management, forums, and media asset management—and previously built social web platforms and templated forum systems in startup and agency environments. Technically fluent across Unix/Linux stacks, HTTP/REST, XML/JSON, and an array of languages from C/C++ to Python and PHP, he pairs deep legacy knowledge with modern Agile/Scrum delivery. An advocate for robust testing and automation, he has contributed QA improvements to prominent open-source tooling such as the Codeception testing framework. Known for solving localisation and large-content challenges, he combines pragmatic architecture with a knack for improving testability and operational reliability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computation (Computer Science), -, Master of Science (MSc), Computation (Computer Science), - at The University of ManchesterBSC, Mathematics, BSC, Mathematics at University of Warwick
Stackoverflow
748reputation
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safari
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Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
codeception10
testing10
acceptance-testing10
phpunit10
php10
unit-test10
safari9
integration-testing9
html7
aws-apigateway6
aws-lambda6
amazon-web-services6
if-statement6
ldap6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Codeception/Codeception
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
Full-stack testing PHP framework
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to improving the test suite within the Codeception framework. They addressed bugs related to test failures and implemented enhancements, such as resetting failures during test end. The user also updated the test signatures, integrating unique identifiers based on environment and examples, and they adapted the HTML result printer to leverage those improved signatures. Their work resulted in refinements to the test execution and reporting capabilities of the framework.
acceptance-testingend-to-endtestingphpbdd
Tenzian/Codeception
Aug 2017 - May 2020
Full-stack testing PHP framework
Contributions:47 pushes, 19 branches, 12 tags in 2 years 9 months
testingphpfull-stackframeworkphpunit
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