Tim Gallagher
Senior Quality Assurance Test Engineer at ASM Research
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTim Gallagher is a Senior Quality Assurance Test Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience delivering performance-focused QA for hardware, software, and Linux systems. Based in Fuquay-Varina, NC, he designs and executes large-scale load tests using tools like HP LoadRunner, Micro Focus ALM, and Performance Center while capturing and reporting key performance metrics and defects. His background includes low-level Linux and IBM server platform testing, giving him a rare blend of hardware troubleshooting and performance engineering expertise. An active contributor to open-source Java tooling, he enhanced the widely used JCommander parsing library by enabling runtime- pluggable parameter parsing and added test coverage to support it. Outside engineering he’s also a filmmaker, bringing creativity and storytelling to technical problem solving and test communications.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Appalachian State University
Github Skills (7)
javas10
api-design10
java10
software-design9
reflection9
reflections9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cbeust/jcommander
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Command line parsing framework for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 12 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tim focused on enhancing the JCommander library by introducing a mechanism to replace the Parameterized parsing at runtime. They implemented an `IParameterizedParser` interface and a `DefaultParameterizedParser` class to enable this. The user's work involved modifications to the core `JCommander` class and the creation of supporting interfaces and classes to facilitate the runtime replacement of the parameter parsing logic. They also added a testing module.
parsingargument-parsingcommand-line-parserjavacommand-line
tgallagher2017/jcommander
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Command line parsing framework for Java
Contributions:12 pushes in 9 months
parsingargument-parsingcommand-line-parserjavacommand-line
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