MELINA LAIRD
VANCOUVER,BC
Summary
Software-savvy quality assurance professional committed to confirming proper functionality and usability of software products and websites before release.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Assurance Analyst
BREAD & BUTTER IO
2020.04 - 2022.12
- Extensively used JIRA for test management to create, assign, prioritize, test, return, and close cases
- Provided overall guidance and supervision for a QA group tasked with closing JIRA cases, regression testing, and general testing
- Designed, developed, and maintained customizable internal UI that was used by the QA team to extensively test and demo features of our JS library using ASP.NET
- Validated UI cases in Safari, Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Firefox, using both Windows and Mac OS
- Main analyst for large API cases, testing high priority use cases and edge cases using postman and Studio 3T
- Ensured that webapp, API, JS library, wordpress plugin, and other integration regression was fully tested every sprint, creating bug cases and prioritizing as needed
- Communicated between development team and design team to set attainable goals and ensure proper implementation
- Provided troubleshooting assistance to clients over video calls and screen sharing
- Generated and maintained how-to documentation for our website
Software Development Intern
JSONAR
2018.05 - 2018.07
- Designed interactive web app to create a more customer friendly user experience (UI/UX)
- Updated bash shell setup script by converting it into Python code
- Created and setup VirtualBoxs to minimize use and cost of Amazon EC2 instances
Education
Bachelor of Science - Specialization in Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
London, ON2019
Skills
- SCRUM/Agile
- Manual Testing
- Documentation
- Atlassian JIRA
- Bug Tracking
- Functional Testing
- Regression Testing
- Test Case Development
- Testing Plans
Platforms
- Languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, C#, Python, nodeJS, PHP
- OS: Windows and Mac
- Platforms: Microsoft Visual Studio, Postman, Atlassian Tools (JIRA, Bitbucket) Quickbooks, Wordpress, Slack, Studio 3T
Timeline
Quality Assurance Analyst
BREAD & BUTTER IO
2020.04 - 2022.12
Software Development Intern
JSONAR
2018.05 - 2018.07
Bachelor of Science - Specialization in Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
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