Experience

Kaleidescape

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager, Test Engineering

  • Apr 2023 - Present

  Oversee the qualification and release of projects/coordinated software releases:• Provide project updates, priorities, and direction to QA team.• Communicate status updates and qualification progress to management.• Triage issues by using available log data to assess risk and mitigate unnecessary churn and scope creep during a release.• Create targeted regression plans for software releases.• Coordinate and manage Alpha testing.• Create software release notes to update marketing/support/management.• Monitor reports for released software to detect issues in the field.Contribute individually to qualification tasks:• Pose questions during product planning to help define scope.• Develop test plans and test suites for large and small projects/software releases, covering integration between multiple software applications. • Create issues in Jira to track defects found during testing.• Verify and close issues relating to newly developed features, and new/old defects.• Perform duties as SCRUM master• Manage recruitment of co-op and full-time team members Show less

• Software Test Engineer - Team Lead

  • Jun 2021 - Apr 2023

  Part of the engineering team, Software Test Engineer Team Lead coordinates with managers, team leads and product owners to effectively translate product/marketing requirements into testing requirements. • Oversee the release process through the planning of test scope, managing of testing resources and deadlines, contribution and review of testing, and deployment oversight.• Provide team with direction, prioritizing testing tasks, and remove roadblocks.• Verify and close issues relating to newly developed features, and new/old defects.• Develop test plans and test suites for large and small projects/software releases covering integration between multiple software applications and/or systems. • Coordinate with product owners and scrum teams to ensure features are tested in a timely manner. • Manage co-op recruitment, training, and performance. Show less



Code Yoga Consulting

• Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Software Quality Assurance Consultant

  • Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

  "Bringing mindfulness and flexibility to product quality" "Bringing mindfulness and flexibility to product quality"



Kaleidescape

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regional Sales Manager - Canada

  • Nov 2019 - Feb 2020

• Test Engineer

  • Sep 2013 - Nov 2019

  A part of the Engineering Services department, which is responsible for developing the test automation infrastructure and test suites for all aspects of the system including a custom on-screen display, media playback, database sub-system, web portal configuration utility, custom RAID content management system and more.My personal responsibilities included:• Developing test suites for new features/functionality across all areas of the product suite (embedded software, ETL hosts, mobile devices, web front and back-end)• Writing automated tests in Python using specialized test automation APIs• Enhancing or extending test framework to enable automated testing of various parts of the Kaleidescape system• Designing/executing large-scale playback/performance tests• Reporting and tracking defects Show less



Innosphere

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Quality Analyst Co-Op

  • Jul 2013 - Sep 2013

  In my short time at Innosphere SDG Ltd, I was part of the QA team which was responsible for designing and executing test coverage for new features on both the desktop and web portal application for the BNA Fixed Asset Depreciation Software project. As a Software Quality Analyst, some of my responsibilities included: • Creating and executing test coverage for new features • Managing deadlines during agile sprints • Defect management In my short time at Innosphere SDG Ltd, I was part of the QA team which was responsible for designing and executing test coverage for new features on both the desktop and web portal application for the BNA Fixed Asset Depreciation Software project. As a Software Quality Analyst, some of my responsibilities included: • Creating and executing test coverage for new features • Managing deadlines during agile sprints • Defect management