Qa Engineer Senior

David R. Moody

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Career Overview:

Senior QA Engineer with twenty years’ experience in Quality Assurance and Version control, working for both internet and traditional software companies.

Qualifications:

●Strong analytical, collaborative, communication, and problem-solving skills

●Web content management

●Patch management

●Lead on many mission-critical projects

●Training/mentoring new employees

●Documentation—test plans, procedures, release notes

●Experienced with Agile methodology

●Able to test complicated scenarios with precision

●Able to interpret business requirements and translate them into effective validating tests

●End to End software testing experience

●Passion for high-quality output

Skills:

●UNIX/LINUX

●Windows

●Solaris

●MAC-OS

●iOS

●Java

●Selenium WebDriver

●Subversion

●SQL

Work Experience:

Streetlight Data, San Francisco, CA December 2017—March 2025

Senior QA Engineer

Responsible for manual testing of frontend on QA team for startup in SoMa area of San Francisco. Served as QA lead on many projects vital to business, also as lead and mentor to junior team members. Wrote test plans and test cases in TestRail. Did sanity testing and bug regression for releases. Used JIRA for issue tracking. Created and updated QA and Engineering wiki pages in Confluence. Worked with project managers on requirements documents. Ran performance tests. Automation of some test cases with Selenium and TestCafe.

Technologies used: Git, Chrome, TestCafe

Fluxx Labs, San Francisco, CA November 2016 to September 2017

Senior QA Engineer

Senior member of small QA team in fastpaced startup environment. Mentored junior QA engineers, assisted them in projects. Worked on new Grantseeker product, writing test plans, test cases, participating in sprint planning, scrums, logging and resolving issues. Team lead in planning and coding automation framework for Grantseeker using Ruby (Watir). Helped to test Grantmaker product, running automation scripts, regression, logging and resolving issues, post-release verification. Web and mobile testing including iPhone, Android, iPad. Web services testing, frontend and backend.

Technologies used: MacOS, Linux, Ruby, Watir, Git

Verizon Wireless, Walnut Creek, CA October 2015 to November 2016

Senior QA Engineer (Contractor)

Hired as part of reorganization of QA company wide. One of primary testers on Remedy software, Verizon’s internal tracking system for trouble tickets (both from customers and internal users). Part of major effort to automate testing, using Ruby in conjunction with Selenium. Assisted other QA Engineers less experienced with tools such as Jira, Git, and Selenium. Led effort to implement Agile methodology; led scrums.

Technologies/tools used: Selenium, Windows, Ruby, Jira, Git

SL Corporation, Corte Madera, CA April 2006 to October 2015

Senior QA Engineer

Lead of QA Team of small, family-owned software company that produces dashboard software. Designed, developed and executed software test plans to identify software problems and their causes. Worked on all aspects of product, planning and executing tests, doing patch builds, creating documentation, version control, end to end software testing. Lead QA team on projects, such as Mac OS integration, Splunk compatibility, and heatmaps; acted as scrum master during development sprints. Trained and mentored new hires and coordinated the work of remote teams to complete the required testing and ensure quality for end users. Acted as liaison between Japanese division and main office. Created and executed Selenium scripts to regression test served web application component of software, and UNIX shell scripts to exercise backend functions. Tested in Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox on Windows, UNIX, iMac, and iPad. Tested in SQL, DB2, Oracle, and Sybase using SquirrelSQL. Wrote release notes and other documentation.

Technologies/tools used: Selenium, Windows, UNIX, Shell Scripting, Java, Jira, Salesforce, SVN, iPad, iMac, SQL

San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate, San Francisco, CA November 2002 to March 2006

QA Engineer

Worked as QA Engineer for third most visited daily newspaper website in the United States, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle. Heavily involved in creating, maintaining, and verifying content on site--wrote articles for Chronicle history page, Giants and 49ers blogs, coded schedules for local sports teams. Conducted daily checks of content on site, including occasional weekend duty. Lead on several projects, including web ads and sports pages. Trained staff in use of blog software; helped maintain blogs.

Technologies/tools used: HTML, Microsoft Office, Windows

LookSmart, Ltd., San Francisco, CA April 1998 to April 2001

QA Engineer

Second person hired for large QA department of web search engine; ended as lead of search site QA team. Worked on all aspects of site--test planning, documentation, weather feed, backend of search engine. Wrote plan used to regression test whole site. Trained and mentored new employees. Created UNIX shell scripts for load and regression testing.

Technologies/tools used: HTML, UNIX, Shell Scripting, Windows

Education:

B.A., Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 1991, cum laude--Phi Beta Kappa

M.A, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 1993

Unix Made Easy, UC Berkeley Extension, 1998

Testing Computer Software, LogiGear University, San Mateo, CA April 2007

Professional Organizations:

Vice President, Education, Talk of the Town Toastmasters, San Rafael, CA, 2012-2015

References available upon request.

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