Mark Light
Senior Software QA Analyst at Intercontinental Exchange
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMark Light is a Senior Software QA Analyst with over a decade of experience ensuring reliability and performance for high-volume, mission-critical systems in finance and healthcare. He specializes in end-to-end testing and automation for API-driven platforms, including real-time trading systems using FIX and binary protocols, and has built resilient automated suites that support regression, certification, and production readiness. Comfortable across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid lifecycles, he combines hands-on scripting (Python, SQL, FIX) with deep manual testing expertise (GUI, usability, functional, acceptance). As an escalation point at Intercontinental Exchange, he routinely performs root cause analysis on systems processing millions of messages daily and helps onboard clients to complex APIs. He also brings leadership experience mentoring QA teams, improving SDLC workflows, and creating internal knowledge bases and technical documentation. His background in mechanical engineering and early roles in business analysis and sales give him a practical, systems-oriented view that helps bridge technical and stakeholder needs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering at National University of Food TechnologiesAssociate's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Associate's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Kyiv industrial collegeSoftware Quality Assurance, Software Quality Assurance at Portnov Computer school
Ukrainian, Russian, English
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Github Skills (66)
dashboard10
grafana10
node-red10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
datasource10
monitoring10
data-visualization10
mysql10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
composable10
zigbee10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MrLight/pytebis
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Python Connector for Steinhaus Tebis
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 29 commits in 1 year 5 months
connectorsympypython
MrLight/snowflake-grafana-datasource
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Snowflake grafana datasource plugin allows Snowflake data to be visually represented in Grafana dashboards.
Contributions:2 releases, 23 PRs, 54 pushes in 9 months
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