Kelly Butz
Software Quality Assurance Specialist with solid manual QA foundation. Have experience as a QA Consultant at Web Design Agency, a Software Company, and an Ecommerce Company. Worked in both waterfall and agile environments. Continuing to increase my technical skill set to launch into automation or development role.
Senior QA Software Test Engineer for a live streaming platform for concerts and musicians! Leading QA efforts of development projects writing test cases, manual testing, defect tracking. Backend testing using Python in shell. Shared responsibility of maintaining test servers and keeping track of staging PRs. Building an automation suite using Cypress from the ground up.
Senior QA Specialist building up QA program in Chicago for Ecommerce company that provides checkout experience with 30 languages, 60 currencies, 48 payment methods. Work within development team with offices split between Chicago and Germany. Perform cross browser, cross device QA on custom solutions for multiple global clients in an agile Kanban workflow. Working on building out test automation suite for ecommerce checkout with Cypress.
Experienced QA Specialist for complex suite of SaaS applications continuing the proficient practice of software testing life cycle including requirements analysis, test case creation, test execution, and defect tracking. Gaining management experience as QA lead for full product redesign including delegating test assignments, overseeing scheduling, and long term planning over a year and a half long project. Maintain leadership role in QA team by conducting weekly defect meetings, act as point of contact for communicating defect and feature releases cross departments, and contribute to analyzing, designing, implementing QA processes.
Junior Quality Assurance Specialist crafting the art of consistently evaluating and communicating code bugs, requirements gaps, user experience weaknesses, and logic flaws of digital applications. Worked in an agile environment with onsite and off-shore teams. Executed System, End-to-end, Smoke, Exploratory, and Regression testing of CMS and responsive websites paralleled across browsers, tablet, and mobile devices. Managed defects by writing and tracking tickets in Jira. Formed and delivered feedback on project stability to manager as well as directly to client to help ensure projects stay on time and on budget.
Collaborated with Co-founders for rapid development of website to meet beta launch deadline. Valuable contributor in determining creative direction, user-experience and website requirements. Interpreted and converted PSD mockups to HTML and CSS, integrating with Bootstrap. Frequent interaction with Javascript.