Christian Whiteside

Christian Whiteside is an experienced Principal Product Test Engineer Lead at Fortra, specializing in Cobalt Strike testing, security vulnerability testing with tools like Kali Linux and Burp Suite Professional, and test automation using Selenium and REST Assured frameworks. Prior to Fortra, Christian served as the Lead Storage Test Engineer at Cray Inc., where responsibilities included leading storage testing for the Lustre filesystem. Additionally, Christian worked at QLogic as a Test Engineer, focusing on large OEM customers, developing custom testing solutions, and ensuring hardware integrity through advanced testing methods. Earlier experience includes software engineering roles at I-TECH, where development of Fibre Channel analyzer software and participation in interoperability efforts took place, and desktop support/network engineering at US Bank. Christian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.