Fred Dalle
About Fred Dalle
Fred Dalle is a Senior Test Engineer at SWIFT in Mechelen, Belgium, with extensive experience in software quality assurance and testing. He has worked in various roles since 1992, utilizing a range of tools and methodologies, including agile practices.
Work at SWIFT
Fred Dalle has been employed at SWIFT as a Senior Test Engineer since 2014. His role involves site management for one of the regional SWIFT offices located in Mechelen, Belgium. He engages in agile and scrum methodologies, focusing on financial messaging systems. Dalle utilizes a variety of tools and environments in his work, including Jenkins, Selenium, and Docker, to ensure the quality and reliability of software products.
Previous Experience
Before joining SWIFT, Fred Dalle worked at several organizations. He served as a Software QA & Test Engineer at Progress Software from 2008 to 2010. Prior to that, he held the position of QA Engineer at Arkelis from 2011 to 2014. His career began at TechGnosis, where he worked in Technical Support and R&D from 1992 to 1996. Dalle also spent 16 years at Progress Software as a Software Engineer from 1992 to 2008.
Education and Expertise
Fred Dalle studied at Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege Malle from 1980 to 1986. He later attended Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he earned a Lic. Informatica degree from 1985 to 1991. His expertise encompasses financial messaging, unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, and general DevOps practices. He has developed and managed automatic installation and integration test scripts for the AMH Financial Messaging Hub.
Technical Skills and Tools
Fred Dalle possesses a diverse skill set that includes proficiency in various tools and environments. He works with Linux/AIX, shell scripts, Oracle DBMS, Oracle Weblogic, SoapUI, Git, XML, SQL, and XRay. His experience with automation tools includes Jenkins and Hudson, and he has utilized Docker for containerization in his testing processes.