Mark Labonte
Senior Software Engineer In Test at Red Hat
Milford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarMark Labonte is a veteran software QA and automation engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience in testing and quality assurance, currently a Senior Software Engineer in Test at Red Hat and also holding a long-term automation role at NetApp. Based in Milford, Massachusetts, he has been part of multiple acquisitions (Revivio by Symantec, StorageApps by HP) and brings deep institutional knowledge of storage and enterprise software systems. Mark’s career traces back to foundational QA roles in the late 1990s, giving him rare continuity across evolving testing practices and tools. He excels at building reliable test automation frameworks that scale in complex, acquisition-driven environments and often operates at the intersection of legacy systems and modern CI/CD pipelines. Known for steady stewardship rather than flash, he leverages institutional memory to prevent regressions and streamline verification across large product lines.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
utility10
pattern10
infrastructure8
gitops8
ansible-automation-platform7
openshift7
validation5
retail5
php5
gitops-framework1
ansible1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mlabonte-rh/industrial-edge
May 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:12 PRs, 457 pushes, 124 branches in 7 months
mlabonte-rh/ansible-edge-gitops
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Validated Pattern featuring the use of Ansible Automation Platform to operate and lifecycle a container-native application on Edge
Contributions:61 pushes, 652 branches in 7 months
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