Kevin Kestner
QA Analyst II at AmpliFund- Claim this Profile
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AmpliFund
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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QA Analyst II
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May 2023 - Present
Generate and execute thorough test cases to ensure output aligns with product requirements and acceptance criteria. Create automated tests in the test automation platform Mabl and perform maintenance on the regression suite. Work with the Support Developers and Product owners to isolate issues by collecting and analyzing detailed process steps, log files, and other relevant data. Evaluate problems identified in the Production environment and assist with resolution strategies. Adhere, participate, and contribute to SAFe processes. Ensure the software product deployed to Production is of high quality with minimal defect escape rate. Participates in daily stand ups with the Support team, reporting what cards in JIRA will be tested or cards that will need test cases written for. Attends bi-weekly QA team meetings discussing issues found during a sprint and lessons learned to help QA team stay up to date with other teams within AmpliFund. Show less
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Hyland
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Developer II - R&D Test Automation
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Sep 2021 - Apr 2023
Developed, tested, documented, and supported a system of dynamic test environments using a combination of Vagrant, Packer, Bash, PowerShell, C#, Ruby, Yaml, SQL, Chocolatey, NuGet/PowerShellGet, and go-task. Developed code using Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, SQL Management Studio, and DBeaver. Standard responsibilities: writing automated unit tests to test code integrity, utilizing mock data testing methods, providing mentorship to teammates, contributing to documentation, and overseeing the JIRA dashboard for our team. Contributed to the organization-wide set of standards, practices and policies as they applied to Code Analysis and Linting. Including research of linting tools such as yamllint, SQLFluff, & Roslyn Analyzers within Visual Studio. Documentation through the use of RFCs, and assisting external teams with adoption. Setup projects with SQLFluff and yamllint to keep code standardized. Also helped with discovering syntax errors before creating a pull request on GitHub. Created JIRA tasks with ideas of providing maintenance on in-house test automation tools. Helped with running releases and builds using GitHub Actions. Created pull requests in GitHub and Bitbucket developing or maintaining in-house test automation tools. Refactoring code and maintenance on team projects and pipeline. Provided support to outside teams within Hyland on their projects. Wrote automated unit tests for a project that utilized an API that would talk to a database - Postgres. Troubleshoot Virtual Machines using Vagrant for Operating Systems - Ubuntu Server, Windows 10/11, and Windows Server Core 2022, 2019, and 2016. Show less
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Bravo Wellness
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United States
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Wellness and Fitness Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer I
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Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Developing tasks assigned through JIRA.Write Tech Specs and estimate time for future development tasks.Check daily in JIRA for new tech specs to write.Develop tasks for Incentisoft in Visual Studio utilizing VB.NET.JIRA tasks all developed in a Dev environment.Perform Unit Testing once development is finished.Code review other developers work before pushing code.Write documentation for the team.Assist team members running automated regression test scripts.Mark automated test scripts as passing or failing in qTest during regression.Regression testing done in a Beta environment.Assist team members with Smoke Testing.Assist with Installs after hours providing support.Training courses on C# and Ruby/Ruby on Rails.Working in an Agile environment with Developers & QA team members along with Scrum Master.Report for daily Incentisoft stand up meetings with team and Scrum Master.Report for Bi-Weekly Company update meetings.Bi-Weekly one on one meetings with Team Lead.Provided support to teammates testing APIs with Postman. Show less
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Test Automation Engineer
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Dec 2017 - Oct 2020
Write automated scripts using JavaScript in TestComplete for Bravo's database (LAN)Perform regression testing for both database and web systems.Contact clients to discover testing scenarios for projects.Utilize keyword and scripting tests in TestComplete.Perform testing after hours.Research web development and programming languages.Provide support for software installs during sprints.Web testing on tablets: Apple, Android and Windows.Support other Automation Engineers with coding in TestComplete.Working in an Agile environment with developers and other QA team members.Write documentation for Smoke testing in Bravo’s database.Perform Smoke testing on Bravo’s database and web portal after an install or hotfix.Write Test Cases based on assigned tasks in JIRA.Run Update & Delete SQL statements for resetting data for automated testing.Report for daily Back End stand up meetings with team and Scrum Master. Show less
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Cisco
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Tier II Technical Support Specialist
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Jun 2015 - Oct 2017
Fixed expired user accounts, escalated to Tier III if necessary. Back-end testing using phpMyAdmin utilizing SQL. Edited information on an education website using in-house application “Adminer”. Utilize SQL queries searching for courses to edit. Reported defects through Rally to the Team Lead. Worked with Tech support for QA Cisco Learning Library educational courses. Performed end to end functional testing on Cisco Learning Library daily. Gave Tech Support to customers. Provided demos of the Cisco Learning Library website weekly. Worked along with eLearning portal specialists to do updates using Adminer & FileZilla. Show less
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AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.
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United States
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Insurance
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700 & Above Employee
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QA Analyst
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Mar 2013 - Jan 2015
Created and edited test scripts in QTP using VB Script. Created and edited test scripts in Microsoft Visual Studio as well using VB.NET. Used in-home application Test Runner to write test scripts in VB.NET. Self-taught advanced VB scripting through research for alternative programming methods - HTML DOM. Utilized Test Runner to create tests that will properly test web applications more efficiently and quicker than QTP. Followed test requirements made by the Business Analyst to properly test applications. Reported to management, Business Analyst and development for defects or bugs in web applications. Performed Load testing on Insurance Web Applications using Selenium. Performed cross browser testing before writing automated scripts. Utilized SQL Server to add and edit Usernames and Passwords in the database. Researched new programming methods and languages. Attended weekly meetings to learn about new issues or new builds/updates. Trained new QA Analysts of their responsibilities. Utilized HTML, XML, MS SQL, & SourceSafe daily. Show less
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Education
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North Central State College
Associate's degree, Web Technology Communications - Programming -
Pioneer Career and Technology Center
Web Design & Programming, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia, Video Game programming -
Crestview High School
High School Diploma, General Studies