Kieran Duggan
System Analyst at Cognizant
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKieran Duggan is a systems analyst and test professional with nine years of experience, currently working as a System Analyst at Pfizer while also holding a Test Analyst role at Cognizant in New York. A Computer Science graduate from City College of New York, he brings a strong QA and test automation background demonstrated by contributions to the widely used pygame open-source project, where he added focused tests that improved surface handling and threading reliability. He combines practical enterprise testing experience with a developer's attention to detail, routinely turning subtle edge cases into reproducible test coverage. Known for improving library stability through targeted unit tests, he bridges engineering and quality assurance to deliver reliable software in regulated and fast-moving environments.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The City College of New YorkAssociate of Science - AS, Liberal Arts in Math and Science, Associate of Science - AS, Liberal Arts in Math and Science at Rockland Community College
Github Skills (7)
pygame10
python10
sdl10
testing10
game-dev9
game-development9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pygame/pygame
May 2020 - Jun 2020
🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 5 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Kieran's contributions primarily focus on testing the functionality of the Pygame library. Their work includes adding test cases for `surface.mustlock()`, specifically addressing scenarios with subsurfaces, RLEACCEL flags, and nested subsurfaces. The user also added a test for the `Surface.get_height` method and the `threadloop` functionality, demonstrating a commitment to comprehensive testing of various aspects of the library. These tests contribute to the reliability and stability of the Pygame library.
pythongamemultimediaon-topprogramming-language
kduggan15/Quintrix-Training
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Training
Contributions:1 review, 15 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 month
machine-learningtraining
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