Experience

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  Peek

  • QA Engineer

    • Oct 2021 - Sep 2023

    • Made significant contributions to building and improving a world-class online booking management software product as a member of the Expansion Pod• Developed thorough test plans for numerous complex features, including special ‘one-o’ features for high profile partners, utilizing TestRail and Google Sheets• Tested new features, documented issues/bugs in Jira, and worked with Development/Product to ensure that they were correctly prioritized and resolved• Created release tickets, and updated them throughout the release process, to track and document progress through resolution • Used GitHub and Codefresh to create epic branches, merged into them, and deployed to test environments for testing purposes. Then created new PRs in order to merge with master branches, deployed back to test environment for automation/manual smoke testing, and released to production• Utilized custom automated test framework for both UI (using Cypress), and API (using Postman) to run smoke test suite during both initial testing phase, and again before final push to production• Did pager duty in case any fires occurred, and if they did, then acted as Fire Marshall, managed Zoom call, and wrote up incident report later to document the issue(s) and their resolution• Ran the evening release train, to verify that any low risk (RA1) PRs for the next day were safe to release using automation suites, checking Sentry for new errors, getting necessary reviews/approvals, etc.• Used Sentry and Web Developer browser tools to get more specific error messaging, and shared that information with developers in order to help them more accurately and specifically define what was causing issues• Did extensive cross browser testing of product on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, on both OSX and iOS mobile • Wrote, and updated/expanded upon, documentation using Notion, Confluence, and Google Docs

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  ART19, Inc.

  • QA Engineer

    • Oct 2018 - Sep 2020

    • Played a key role in ensuring the quality of a first-in-class podcast hosting platform utilizing dynamic ad insertion, giving customers state-of-the-art features in order to best monetize their podcast content• Worked closely with front-end, back-end, platform, product, and design teams to develop, test,and deliver numerous new features on time. Worked with support team to resolve customer reported issues• Developed numerous test plans and test cases for many intricate features, using Confluence and TestRail• Developed many automated tests with Ghost inspector, as well as assisted in the development of a custom test automation framework using Ruby, Selenium, Web Driver, and Cucumber. Located unique XPath and CSS selectors for use in test automation • Created a standard smoke test, verifying the functionality of the most essential aspects of the system, to be executed for each release in order to ensure that those elements were working as expected

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  Candi Controls, Inc.

  • Oakland, CA

  • QA Analyst/QA Engineer

    • Aug 2016 - Jan 2018
    • Oakland, CA

    • Worked closely with front-end, cloud and gateway teams to develop and test a complex IOT building management solution product• Defined use cases based on various customers needs, and developed numerous test cases around those• Played a vital role in implementing and maintaining test automation, writing front-end automated tests usingGhost Inspector, and API-based automated tests using Runscope• Worked with various brands of IOT Gateways, including Advantech with Intel BMP, Logic Supply CC150, NUC, Systech and many dierent IOT device protocols, including Z-Wave, ZigBee, Insteon, IP, CBW, Z3 NetMeters, eGauge, BACnet

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  Self-Employed

  • Entry Level QA Engineer

    • 2015 - 2016

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  Dig Deeper

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Musician (Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter), Bandleader, Audio/Video Engineer/Producer, Manager/Promoter

    • 2011 - 2015
    • San Francisco Bay Area

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  Self-Employed

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Independent/Freelance Musician, Audio/Video Recording Engineer/Producer, Archivist

    • 1999 - 2010
    • San Francisco Bay Area

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  Abstract Audio

  • San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento Area

  • Live Recording Engineer, Assistant Live Sound Engineer

    • 1995 - 1998
    • San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento Area