QA Engineer and Leader
Highly accomplished and experienced Software QA professional with a wide range of experience fostering and improving quality, ranging from early-stage startups to fortune 500 companies.
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Skills include: Manual testing, Automated testing, API testing, Performance testing, QA Leadership, QA Process design, CI/CD Pipeline integration, Mentorship, Test design, JIRA Administration, Selenium, Appium, Playwright, Maestro, WebdriverIO, BDD, TDD, Issue tracking, Issue reporting, DataDog, Documentation, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript.
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About Jeffrey Bird
Jeff is an accomplished QA Engineer with a strong history of successfully implementing quality at growing companies, specializing in early start-ups. With expertise in manual testing, automated testing, stakeholder communication, and team leadership, he consistently ensure project success. Jeff knows that every company is unique, and QA isn't a one-size-fits-all discipline. QA works best when it's part of the process and part of the team, fully integrated with Design, Product, and Engineering. In order to fully test something, you have to fully know something, in order to fully know something you have to communicate well with those who build and design it.
Previous Experience
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Skills Summary
Skills gained and exercised across 3 disciplines of QA
Manual QA
Web, Mobile Web, iOS, Android, Hardware, and Game Consoles
SDLC, Regression, Exploratory, Smoke, Integration, API, Hardware, Network, Performance, Accessibility, Charles Proxy, DataDog, Test case authoring, Test plan design, Test suite design, Mobile native apps(iOS, Android), Web apps, Mobile web, Flutter, React
Automated QA
Web, Mobile Web, iOS, Android
Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Maestro, WebDriverIO, BDD, TDD, Lettuce, Cucumber, Framework design, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, iOS, Android, Mobile web, Web, Browser Stack, Device farms, CI/CD integration
QA Leadership
QA Lead, QA Manager, Staff QA Engineer roles
Automation training, Manual tester training, Offshore team management, Local and remote team management, Mentoring, Hiring, Collaboration, Resource management, Process driving, QA governance, Defect lifecycle, Defect format design, Triage ownership, Backlog refinement, Agile, Kanban, Chaos