Lance Robson
East Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarLance Robson is an experienced software tester with 11 years focused on cloud-native and large-scale testing across AWS, GCE, Azure and private clouds. He builds automated functional and massive performance test frameworks, deploys Kubernetes test rigs with Terraform/EKS/GKE/AKS, and is comfortable scripting in Python, Bash and Go. Known as a meticulous “evil” tester, he works closely with developers to tighten specifications, spot edge cases, and improve reliability before release. Lance contributes to well-known open-source projects like Project Calico, enhancing test suites for parallel execution, artifact validation and CLI robustness. Based in East Hertfordshire, he combines hands-on automation with networking expertise to validate complex, distributed systems at scale.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
testing10
net10
kubernetes-networking10
cni10
kubernetes10
python10
networking10
kubernetes-pods10
calico10
test-automation10
dockers9
cicd9
yaml9
docker9
go8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/calico
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Cloud native networking and network security
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:233 reviews, 227 commits, 171 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lance primarily contributed to the test suite by adding and modifying test configurations and behaviors. They added batch labels to existing tests, enabling parallel test execution. They also modified existing tests to wipe etcd before starting and enabled JUnit reports. Furthermore, the user added tests for release artifacts and added spoof tests, indicating contributions to test coverage and overall quality assurance.
multi-clustersecuritynetworkingsdnvirtual-network
projectcalico/calicoctl
Jul 2016 - Jun 2019
Calico CLI tool
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:33 commits, 38 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Lance focused on improving the testing framework for the calicoctl CLI tool. Their commits involved creating and modifying test cases, specifically addressing invalid configuration acceptance, profile testing, and general calicoctl functionality. The changes involved updating existing tests and creating new test scenarios. These additions and modifications directly contributed to ensuring the reliability of the Calico CLI tool.
calicocli-toolcli
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