Colt Thompson
Dublin,OH
Summary
As a Quality Engineer, I sit between many disciplines; engineering, management, design. Understanding the relationship between these roles and how they affect the quality of a software product is where I shine. I pride myself on having the technical background to both implement quality at the lowest levels, to the highest ones. The end result of my ability to do this is always clear: a higher quality product and the smooth, continuous delivery of software.
My goal is to further develop my quality engineering skills with a cutting edge company and to continue working on software that I'm passionate about!
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Engineer, Specialist
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
01.2020 - Current
- Innovation - Quality Engineer Specialist
- Contributed as both a testing resource and/or test lead for a multitude of both internal and externally facing products: Anew, ThreeSixZero, Smart Home, Vet Helpline, Hail No, Home Protection, Chat with your Data
- Oversaw and developed the testing strategy for a team of 20+ people. This included the delegation of testing duties to offshore members of our team.
- Responsible for weekly release activities including regression testing, code deployment via AWS CI/CD pipeline, release notes communication, and smoke testing in the production environment to ensure stability.
- Utilized the Cypress.io automation platform to develop a range of automated regression tests written in Javascript.
- Generative AI testing, including the exploration and development of strategies to test the developing field of AI.
- Mobile device testing via Kobiton and XCode virtual device simulation.
- API testing with Postman; Database (PostgreSQL) testing.
3D Modeler
Sidewinder Studio
01.2020 - 08.2020
- Joined with a small team of indie developers to assist with development of a concept game. Collaborated with additional developers to flesh out concepts, visuals, and design elements.
- Created relatively simple, low poly models via Blender 3D. This includes all UV unwrapping, texturing, animating, and asset exporting.
- Built scenes within Unity using these custom made assets as part of this concept development.
Software Development Consultant, Associate
HMB
06.2018 - 01.2020
- Utilized the .NET Core Framework to help develop a custom back-end solution written in C# for a client over the course of 3 months.
- Developed within the Spring Framework to contribute on the back-end of a SPA written in Java, Javascript, HTML/CSS.
- Gained invaluable testing experience by writing everything from unit tests to performing manual QA testing at various stages of the software's development. Authored a proposal to automate certain aspects of test process.
Web Developer, Intern
Owens Corning
05.2017 - 04.2018
- Worked alongside the digital team to help develop, review, and deploy features and change requests to various Owens Corning web domains such as http://www.owenscorning.com and http://www.cavitycomplete.com
- Gained experience in back-end systems through the writing of data migrations and data bindings using technology such as postgresSQL and the ruby on rails framework.
- Gained experience in front-end systems through the building of dynamic web pages using technology such as ruby on rails, HTML/CSS/ES6, and React.
- Learned a great deal about the software development workflow and became much more familiar with the Agile Development methodology within a professional setting.
Education
Bachelors of Science - Computer Science, Science
Bowling Green State University | College of Art and Science
Bowling Green, OHSkills
- Javascript
- UAT Automation (Cypressio)
- API Testing (Postman)
- Mobile Testing (Kobiton, XCode)
- Generative AI Testing (RAG, non-RAG)
- Black, White, Grey box Testing
- Regressing Testing
- Defect Reporting and analysis
- Production software deployment
- Blender3D
- Unity
Timeline
Quality Engineer, Specialist
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
01.2020 - Current
3D Modeler
Sidewinder Studio
01.2020 - 08.2020
Software Development Consultant, Associate
HMB
06.2018 - 01.2020
Web Developer, Intern
Owens Corning
05.2017 - 04.2018
Bachelors of Science - Computer Science, Science
Bowling Green State University | College of Art and Science
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