Paul Buxton
Senior QA Engineer at The Access Group
Greater Ipswich Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Buxton is a Senior QA Engineer with over a decade of experience building robust test automation and bespoke web testing frameworks for manufacturing and finance sectors. He combines deep practical skills in Selenium, WinForms and messaging protocols with a component-based, Page Object Model approach to deliver maintainable, cross-platform test suites. Paul has a strong engineering foundation from The Open University and a track record of moving between manual testing, C# tool development and full-stack automation. He contributed to the well-known Subsurface divelog project, improving Windows build compatibility and mobile dark-mode rendering, showing an ability to tackle platform-specific build and UI issues. Comfortable in agile teams, he often bridges gaps between API and UI testing so a single test can exercise both layers seamlessly.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Open), Computer Engineering and Science, Unspecified (module grades available on request), Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Open), Computer Engineering and Science, Unspecified (module grades available on request) at The Open University
Github Skills (12)
windows10
build-system10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt9
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
qml8
mobile-development7
docker6
dockers6
git5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
subsurface/subsurface
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
This is the official upstream of the Subsurface divelog program
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 52 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on enhancing the Subsurface application's cross-platform compatibility and build process. They addressed Windows build issues by refactoring code to avoid conflicts with Windows-specific definitions and by integrating MXE-based dependencies. Additionally, they made UI adjustments and corrected text rendering in the mobile app's dark mode. The user also made infrastructure improvements, including updating build tools and container images.
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buxtonpaul/raytrace_challenge
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
Raytracer development working through the book The Ray Tracer Challenge
Contributions:2 PRs, 75 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
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