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Summary

Accomplished Quality Assurance Professional with a solid history of achievement in testing and test creation. Motivated to learn with strong organizational and prioritization abilities. Areas of expertise include communication, observation, and execution.

Skills

Web Testing
Regression Testing
Black Box Testing
Manual Testing
Bug Tracking
Test Plan creation
Scrum, Agile
Automated Testing
API Testing
Javascript Automation
Python coding

Work experience

Software Development Engineer Test (SDET)

May 2021Dec. 2023
Wizards of the Coast
  • Created automated tests to ensure Card Search Engine updates imported correctly:
    • Wrote JavaScript code to verify API calls, web page images, and website data.
    • Updated code to handle new scenarios in card search abilities.
    • Created and used tools to filter data from Card Search Engine.
  • Regularly maintained automation software:
    • Tracked down bugs in automation code.
    • Updated automation code to eliminate bugs.
    • Added new scenarios to automation code.

Quality Assurance Analyst

June 2009April-2
Wizards for the Coast
  • Coordinated testing effort for the entire project life cycle:
    • Participated in Elaboration meetings to determine the best course.
    • Collaborated with team in Sprint planning.
    • Performed User Acceptance Testing and regression testing.
  • Created Test documentation including Test Plans and Test Cases:
    • Test documentation for projects allowed management to clearly see which testing steps would occur and when.
  • Redesigned and created document templates to improve readability/usability:
    • Created a single page “short” Test Plan to be used with smaller projects that reduced the lead in time for a project.

    • Created a “QA Sign Off” template which put all relevant release information in an easy to see document for the team. Document let business owners know what had been tested and if the product was ready for release.

  • Advised managers on resource needs and useful vendor products to improve productivity:
    • Gave estimates on how many testers were needed, allowing managers to accurately staff for a project.
    • Attended video meetings by vendors to evaluate potential products and tools.
    • Coordinated resource allocation to support multiple projects running simultaneously:
      • Coordinated and performed User Acceptance Testing for 3 separate vendor developed website redesigns that all launched within a 3-month window.
      • Grew the Web QA team from 1 (self) to 6 over 3 years, allowing the team to support more projects.
      • Utilized managed services to maximize testing coverage on new and live operations projects.
  • Advised Project Managers and Producers of best practices early in the project lifecycle:
    • Catching problems early in a project reduced costs in the long run.
  • Guided junior testers in creating test plans, test cases, and testing in general:
    • Being available to assist helped some of the newer testers learn the ins and outs of software testing.
    • Stayed current with all tool knowledge in order to effectively coach newer testers.
  • Performed testing on many different platforms, browsers, and devices.
    • Manually tested on Mac and PC for any changes to websites to ensure users continued to have good experiences.
    • Verified website changes on the top web browsers, determined by analytics on company websites.
    • Verified website changes and new websites on mobile devices.
    • Utilized vendor mobile device labs in order to test a wide variety of devices.

Software Test Engineer

Sept 2008June 2009
TEKSystems
  • Created test plan:
    • Wrote a plan of action for testing of the project.
    • Collaborated with other QA and Developers to cover all test areas.
  • Created test sets and test cases:
    • Determined areas to be tested.
    • Wrote test cases to cover functionality in the testing area.
  • Manually tested websites
    • Followed test plans and executed test cases for the websites.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematical Economics

Sept 1996May 2000
Pomona College