Hi, I’m
Gaylene Scholes
Salt Lake City,UT
Summary
Focused individual with experience in testing software, diagnosing issues and documenting program development. A confident Programmer Analyst with exemplary math, analysis and troubleshooting skills.
Overview
25
years of professional experience
1
Certificate
Work History
InComm Payments, Inc
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
03.2019 - 09.2023
Job overview
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers of the Customer Care Application to resolve technical issues.
- Practiced and encouraged respectful and transparent communication in interactions.
- Provided guidance and mentored less-experienced staff members to increase developer-created unit and integration tests.
- Coordinated efficient bi-weekly software deployments.
- Updated job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools and programming techniques and participating in educational opportunities.
- Conducted regression testing and submitted observations to development team.
- Collaborated with management, internal and development partners regarding software application design status and project progress.
- Applied Agile Delivery methods to simplify testing process decisions through iterative development
USANA Health Sciences
Senior Software Engineer
09.2017 - 02.2019
Job overview
- Worked with development teams to correct problems and run test scenarios.
- Test multi-currency payments
- Simulate payment processes in test environment
- Perform integration tests for monthly release
- Advise team on automation test techniques
- Design and implement test strategy and plans
- Test browser-based features using exploratory, regression and automated methodologies
- Develop prototype test structure in Cucumber and Serenity
- Data quality and process validation using PL/SQL
- Participate in Scrum meetings
Overstock.com
Senior Software Engineer
06.2014 - 07.2017
Job overview
- Design and implement test strategy and plans
- Manage multi-team integration testing effort for major site enhancements
- Execute user emulation tests written in Java and Selenium
- Simulate payment processes in test environment
- Test browser-based features using exploratory, regression and automated methodologies
- Data quality and process validation using PL/SQL
- Increased Unit and Integration tests in Java, JUnit, TestNG
- Participate in Scrum meetings
FamilySearch.org
Software Engineer
01.2009 - 06.2014
Job overview
- Increased automated test coverage for RESTful Web services using Java, Jersey, TestNG and other testing libraries.
- Analyze and track requirements, perform risk analysis, lead test management.
- Design and create automated tests for Authorities Management System
- Execute automated and manual tests, analyze test results, and drive root cause analysis
- Participate in product planning, code reviews, product reviews, release process
- Automate software build process using Jenkins for Standards and Authorities team
- Automate integration tests and gathering of quality measurements for Standards and Authorities team using Jenkins and Sonar
- Using TestNG and Jersey, Design and create testing harness for backend processes of primary website application.
- Teach testing techniques and theory to fellow engineers during in-house seminars
- Provide mentorship to newly hired engineers.
FamilySearch.org
Quality Assurance Analyst
01.2002 - 12.2008
Job overview
- Analyzed and tracked requirements
- Designed and executed tests
- Performed root cause analysis on discovered defects
- Led test team designing user acceptance tests
- Participated in designing and developing Fitnesse of testing harness, creating over 50 user story based tests
- Designed and executed automated functional and integration tests of internal Java API familysearch.org
- Monitored nightly build of system software and provided information about problems prior to release.
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints
Programmer Analyst
03.1999 - 12.2001
Job overview
- Maintained main database for Family History Library Catalog
- Provided software support and problem resolution for acquisitions system
- Worked in Oracle SQL to write queries, provide data analysis tool to library catalog personnel
- Prepared test plan and analysis for Y2K conversion
- Participated in initial design of familysearch.org
- Assisted in writing data conversion software moving data from legacy catalog to commercial library catalog.
Education
University of WyomingLaramie, WY
Bachelor of Arts from Computer Science
1989
Certification
- ASTQB - Certified Software Test Engineer
Skills
- Programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Groovy, SQL, TestNG, JUnit, Maven
- Problem Diagnosis and Troubleshooting
- Unit, Integration and System Testing
- Test Automation: Cypress, Selenium, Spock, Cucumber, Jenkins, JMeter, Jest
- Managing Testing
- Developing Tests
- Software Development Tools: IntelliJ, GitHub, Sonar, Subversion, Chrome Developer Tools
- Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Management Software: Jira, Confluence, TestLink
- Techniques: Test Driven Design, Agile, Continuous Delivery, Behavior Driven Design, Kanban, RESTful architecture
- Technical support escalations
- Testing and maintenance
Timeline
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
InComm Payments, Inc
03.2019 - 09.2023
Senior Software Engineer
USANA Health Sciences
09.2017 - 02.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Overstock.com
06.2014 - 07.2017
Software Engineer
FamilySearch.org
01.2009 - 06.2014
Quality Assurance Analyst
FamilySearch.org
01.2002 - 12.2008
Programmer Analyst
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints
03.1999 - 12.2001
University of Wyoming
Bachelor of Arts from Computer Science
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