Visitor Count

You are visitor number:

Ater Akrofi

Ater Akrofi

(C) 973-849-5414 | aterakrofi@gmail.com

Professional Experience

Software Engineer – Picatinny Arsenal - Armament Software Engineering Center

WisEngineering | Nov. 2023 – PRESENT

  • Set up automated test framework - Playwright from scratch to replace manual testing. Translated manual tests into automated test scripts for development. This reduced testing time and productivity by 95%.
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins to run automated tests that synchronize with daily project builds.
  • Integrated Azure devops test plans with testing framework to report test results and track test runs.
  • Trained and provided technical support to QA on how to use Azure devops for manual testing instead of using excel. About 150 manual test cases were migrated into Azure test plans. Improved efficiency and productivity by 50%.
  • Wrote documentation on how to use automated testing framework and best practices for the project.
  • Participated in code reviews and supported team mates to complete Merge requests.
  • Participated in manual testing events and troubleshooting.

NOC Engineer - PART TIME

Valley National Bank | September 2021 – PRESENT

  • Provided 24x7 monitoring of critical banking software and network infrastructure across over 250 bank locations.
  • Troubleshooted network issues by logging into routers and switches and performing analysis. Also troubleshooted multiple critical banking software to ensure high availability.
  • Automated filtering of NOC alerts for team by building scripts in UiPath and Power Automate. This increased the team’s response time by 80%.
  • Collaborated with different vendors to resolve time sensitive incidents in accordance with SLA’s. Took ownership of the escalation process and setting up of call bridges between stakeholders to resolve incidents.
  • Developed custom dashboards in ServiceNow to track tickets and tickets across different teams. This improved ticket tracking by team and reduced overhead in tracking and searching for tickets.
  • Complete batch processing automation jobs for critical banking operations using OPICS, CIBAR, GFT, Zena, SQL Management Studio, Control-M and Moveit.

Software Developer – ASC Rock Island Arsenal, IL

Katmai | April 2023 – November 2023

  • Customized the Army Sustainment Command’s SharePoint site using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

System Architect – NETC, PENSACOLA, FL

Advantech GS ES | March 2021 – April 2023

  • Collaborated with technical teams across the Navy to troubleshoot and provide Enterprise Support during deployment of learning Management applications on AWS.
  • Led a 13-member software testing team conducted User acceptance testing of the NAVY’s learning. management software. I wrote technical documentation and provided guidance on test plans, test scripts and test cases.
  • Built sandbox testing environment from scratch on AWS to help our team prototype and test solutions for the NAVY Ready Relevant Learning project.
  • Wrote custom code to integrated third-party applications such as Microsoft O365 and AWS S3 with NAVY’s Learning Systems.
  • Efficiently managed, configured, and deployed various AWS resources, including IAM, EC2 instances, S3, RDS databases, VPC, and Route53 and CloudWatch.
  • Conducted demos and technical training to educate team members on testing processes, automations, and application prototypes.

System Administrator – 299 NOSS ANG Wichita-KS

Insight Global | September 2020 – March 2021

  • Provided Active Directory Services support to Air National Guard (ANG) users across the country.
  • Wrote PowerShell scripts to automate deployment of windows 2019 servers for about 140 ANG sites.
  • Used PowerShell scripts to monitor and run compliance reports on across ANG sites.

System Analyst – FORT DIX, NJ

General Dynamics | March 2020 – September 2020

  • Identified and documented security vulnerabilities within the Army’s IT systems and applications.
  • Used STIG tools such as STIG Viewer to perform assessments and audits on Army Systems.
  • Monitored over 200 networked printers located on the Army base to ensure high availability.

I.T. Specialist

ORI | November 2017 – March 2020

  • Automated customer support and user metrics tracking on the SAAS platform using HubSpot.
  • Managed, configured, and performed System Administration of the SaaS platform.
  • Provided technical support to about 700 end users of Oneder’s SaaS software suite.
  • Developed and maintained test plans, test cases and test scripts using Visual Studio Team services (VSTS)
  • Identified bugs in the company products and collaborated with developers to provide resolution to them. Worked with the Developers to follow up on defects and issues.
  • Performed regression and sanity testing during development cycles.
  • Documented test plan results and reported testing activity statuses to Testing Lead.
  • Participated in technical review of software requirements specification and design documents.

Education

Certifications

Technical Skills

Personal Projects

Visitor Counter with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB

Deploying a Static Website to S3 Using Github CI/CD

User Authentication with Lambda, CloudFront, and API Gateway