Maximilian Chaplin is a Head of Test Management with nine years of focused experience leading global QA and release programs across multi-site, enterprise environments. He blends hands-on coding in C#, C++, .NET and T-SQL with pragmatic test automation and CI/CD design—having built cloud-native automation frameworks for reporting and underwriting platforms using Azure, Selenium, NUnit/XUnit and CosmosDB. Known for reducing release overheads through automation and strong release governance, he has driven SOC II contributions, cross-geography release coordination, and mentoring programs that uplift QA teams. An active contributor to Microsoft test platform projects (vstest and testfx), he has improved test suites and static analysis in widely used open-source testing tools. Based in Copenhagen, he pairs practical database and PowerBI analytics skills with a track record of translating complex financial and enterprise requirements into reliable, auditable delivery.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Robert May's Secondary School
2:2 BSc Computer Games (programming), 2:2 BSc Computer Games (programming) at University of Portsmouth
A Level Maths Physics Computing Critical Thinking and General Studies, A Level Maths Physics Computing Critical Thinking and General Studies at HSDC Alton
Visual Studio Test Platform is the runner and engine that powers test explorer and vstest.console.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:16 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Maximilian focused on refactoring and adjusting existing unit tests within the `vstest` repository. Their contributions involved modifying assertion arguments in multiple tests, correcting spelling and grammar errors in code and documentation, and removing unused usings to improve code readability. Further contributions involved code analysis and static analyzer fixes, including addressing warnings and errors.
This repository holds the source code of Microsoft.Testing.Platform (MTP), a lightweight alternative to VSTest, as well as MSTest adapter and framework.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Maximilian primarily focused on improving the test suite for the Microsoft.Testing.Platform repository. Their contributions include fixing existing tests, updating assertions, and implementing new tests for the `TestContext` class. These changes involved adding methods and tests related to the write functionality and ensuring correct behavior with string writers. Additionally, the user addressed code cleanup tasks by removing unused usings and streamlining the code.
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