Xavier Pigeon

Chrysocode (chrysocode.io) is an IT strategy consulting firm (enhancing organizations' operational capabilities) and a software engineering change management firm. Its ambition is to restore the nobility of Code Engineering by unlocking human potential and know-how. Chrysocode's mission is to change and improve...

- the flexibility of your organizations and software,

- the time-to-market for your products,

- the quality perceived by your users.

🔍 SOFTWARE QUALITY EXPERT to support and train your teams of testers and developers on the path to excellence and performance

🚀 Change Management in Software Engineering ✨

🚀 Visual and Collaborative Quality Management ✨

🚀 Synergy of Quality Levers between Testing & Craftsmanship ✨

➡️ QA / TESTING / AUTOMATION

✅ Test Automation Frameworks (methodological frameworks)

✅ Automation Tools (implementations): Robot Framework, Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, etc.

✅ Test Best Practices

✅ Test Automation Solution Architecture

✅ Risk-Based Testing

✅ Test Strategy

✅ Test Policy

➡️ ITERATIVE & INCREMENTAL METHODS

✅ Test-Driven Development - TDD

✅ Acceptance Test-Driven Development - ATDD

✅ Behavior-Driven Development - BDD

➡️ SOFTWARE DESIGN

✅ Clean Code

✅ Hexagonal Architecture

✅ Legacy Code Refactoring Techniques

✅ Object-Oriented Design / Development Principles

➡️ REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING

✅ Product Backlog Management

✅ Specification and Planning Workshops: Impact Mapping, User Story Mapping, Example Mapping

➡️ IT PROCESSES

✅ Self-Organization and Quality in Agility

✅ Team Skill Management

✅ Versioning and Delivery Workflows (with Git)

✅ Software Factory Architecture

✅ Maturity Audit

➡️ TRAINING (non-exhaustive)

✅ Testing Fundamentals

✅ TDD / ATDD / BDD Methods

✅ Team Profile Qualification

✅ Advanced Versioning with Git

To form a benevolent symbiotic community of enthusiastic and proud product developers, and to elevate the level of software quality to the pinnacle of art, for an impeccable user experience.

- Software Craftsmanship Coaching

- Adaptive Test Automation Strategies

- Continuous Improvement of Business Processes

NB: QA (Quality Assurance to prevent bugs) != QC (Quality Control to find bugs)

Scope of intervention:

- Technical Leader & Application Architect

- Test Leader

- Full Stack Java and JavaScript Developer

- Trainer and Training Designer

- Recruitment Referent

My key achievements:

- [Supervision] Design and implement a supervision platform based on the Elastic stack (https://www.elastic.co) processing over 250 million events per day: a complex platform due to the management of composite events and distributed across multiple virtual machines. #BigData #DataViz

- [Testing] Design an enterprise agile testing methodological framework to implement a test automation strategy at an organizational scale.

- [Architecture + Quality/Method] Design and implement the architecture of a new front-end and back-end application system centered on the business domain. #Scrum #BDD

- [Industrialization] Redesign the user experience of the development environment for agile teams.

- [Recruitment] Reinvent the candidate selection process for developer positions through a paradigm shift.

My unique achievements:

- [Training] Create and deliver training on Git, Test-Driven Development, Automated Tests with JUnit, Test Doubles and Mocks in Java, along with their economic model.

- [Business Vision] Create an audit model for the culture of IT service companies or consulting firms.

- [Consulting] Develop an approach and a presentation guide for the key consultant cards in client meetings.

- [Industrialization] Create a body of knowledge for software industrialization.

- [Serious Games] Create and facilitate the "Moving Motivators for Team" workshop, a team-scale adaptation of the "Moving Motivators" serious game from Management 3.0.