Matt Long
Senior Consultant at Trifork
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Long is a senior consultant and software engineer with 11 years of experience helping organisations—from payments and banking to government and retail—build cloud-native platforms, test automation and resilient infrastructure. He blends hands-on platform engineering, QA and developer experience work, having built test frameworks, performance tooling and platform tooling across Java, Go, Python, Ruby and JavaScript. Regular conference speaker and occasional testing blogger, he brings practical judgment around observability, CI/CD and testing programmable/serverless infrastructure and holds an AWS Associate Solutions Architect certification. Notably, he has redesigned high-scale performance samplers and contributed test automation patterns (including email adaptor integrations) that bridge API, UI and performance testing. Based in London, he’s strong at translating cutting-edge tooling into pragmatic, team-level practices that speed delivery while improving quality.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at Imperial College LondonThe King's (The Cathedral) SchoolUniversity College London
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Github Skills (13)
cucumber10
javas10
java10
test-automation10
api-testing9
cucumber-junit6
selenium-webdriver6
specflow6
siteprism6
capybara6
cucumber-java6
ruby6
bdd6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opencredo/test-automation-quickstart
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018
Quickstart project for test automation, covering performance, ui acceptance and api acceptance testing
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 12 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on implementing and integrating test automation capabilities within the project. They added support for email sending and checking, introducing the `EmailAdaptor` class for interacting with email services. Additionally, the user created step definitions for API tests that check for the presence of test emails, demonstrating a focus on functional testing of email-related functionalities and a general test framework.
acceptance-testingapiselenium-javatest-automationautomation-testing
burythehammer/parkrun-scrape
Oct 2019 - Mar 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
data-mininggolangparkrun
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