Gard Engen
Senior Consultant at Webstep
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolGard Engen is a Senior Consultant based in Oslo with 11 years of software engineering experience and a Master's in Software Engineering from UiB. He combines consultancy experience at Webstep and Bekk with hands-on engineering at Highsoft and BagID, delivering robust front-end behavior through careful QA and test automation. His open-source work includes targeted testing contributions to the widely used Highcharts JS project, where he implemented interaction and gesture tests to harden chart functionality. Known for bridging consultancy delivery with deep technical testing skills, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and user interaction edge cases that often go unnoticed until production.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software Engineering, Master's degree, Software Engineering at Universitetet i Bergen (UiB)Bachelor, Data- og informasjonsvitenskap, Bachelor, Data- og informasjonsvitenskap at NTNU Aalesund
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
javascript10
qunit10
highcharts10
test-automation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
highcharts/highcharts
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Highcharts JS, the JavaScript charting framework
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 9 days
Contributions summary:Gard primarily contributed to the testing of the Highcharts JavaScript charting library. Their commits involve adding and modifying unit tests, specifically focusing on emulating user interactions such as mouse clicks, moves, and touch gestures within chart interactions, and verifying the correct behavior of chart features after specific actions. They tested various scenarios, including drilldown functionalities, data updates, and tooltip display, to ensure the library's robustness and correct functionality.
chartinghighchartsjavascriptjs
GardEngen/Blackjack
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:18 PRs, 40 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
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