Nigel Brookes-thomas
Principal Quality Engineer at Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)
Greater Swansea Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNigel Brookes-thomas is a Principal Quality Engineer with 11 years in software roles and over two decades of hands-on engineering leadership across public sector and enterprise technology. Based in the Greater Swansea Area, he currently drives quality and test automation at the DVLA after progressing through head and leader of software engineering roles there. Nigel blends deep systems experience—from patented mobile-content delivery and mission-critical telemetry to large-scale government services—with a practical focus on test automation and reliable delivery. He holds advanced computing qualifications and a BSc in Computation, and is an open-source library author, reflecting a habit of sharing tools and techniques beyond his day job. A less obvious strength is his background spanning both R&D and operational support, giving him a rare perspective on building for resilience as well as innovation.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Natural Sciences, Bsc, Natural Sciences at The Open UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Computation, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computation, 2:1 at The University of Manchester
English
Github Skills (51)
cucumber10
reportportal9
test-data9
dynamodb9
gherkin8
dataverse8
ruby8
abstraction-layer8
driver7
rspec7
orm7
modeling6
linter6
lint6
capybara6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BillyRuffian/faker_maker
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
FakerMaker is a simple factory builder so you can throw away your fixtures and generate test data instead.
Contributions:16 releases, 3 reviews, 142 commits in 3 years 5 months
test-data
dvla/dvla-lint-ruby
Dec 2023 - Jun 2025
The Rubocop rules used by the DVLA
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
rubocop
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