Kerrel McCarthy
Brooklyn
Summary
Detail-oriented software development engineer in test (SDET) with over 4 years of experience in manual and automated testing for web and mobile applications. Expertise in executing functional, UI, smoke, and regression testing, ensuring high-quality deliverables through effective cross-functional collaboration. Currently spearheading automation initiatives for Salesforce CRM, enhancing release cycles across various user roles. Skilled in identifying test coverage gaps, streamlining QA workflows, and mentoring outsourced teams to optimize testing processes.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Developer In Test(SDET)/ QA Lead(CRM)/ Salesforce Admin Support
BTIG
New York
01.2022 - Current
- Led QA efforts for Salesforce CRM platform, executing test strategies that supported quality assurance across monthly releases.
- Managed outsourced QA team of 3 to ensure comprehensive test coverage and timely completion of regression, smoke, ad-hoc, and exploratory testing.
- Integrated automation pipelines with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins and Airflow to facilitate rapid deployments.
- Designed and maintained scalable Playwright automation frameworks for UI and API testing across web and mobile platforms.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams including engineering, finance, and product to validate features for over 50 major releases.
- Provided Salesforce admin support by configuring users, validating permissions and licensing, and conducting user acceptance testing for new features.
- Created and maintained test cases and executions in Jira, delivering monthly metrics reports through Power BI integrations for performance tracking.
- Conducted weekly smoke tests in test environments while rotating as QA Scrum Master within the team.
Software QA
Skelia
New York
02.2020 - 01.2022
- Developing test cases in TestRail by analyzing design and business requirement documents
- Reported defects in Jira, monitoring status to ensure timely resolution
- Coordinated with IT leads and developers to resolve issues related to bug fixing, enhancing overall software quality
- Performed smoke and regression testing to validate critical functionalities and ensure system reliability
- Performing black-box testing for web and mobile application
- Performing API testing, creating collections and running different calls using Postman
- Tested user interfaces to ensure design consistency and proper functionality across the application.
- Performing browser compatibility testing across Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer
Education
BA - Forensic Psychology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New York, NYSkills
- Salesforce Admin/CLI
- Automation Frameworks
- Playwright
- Mobile Testing
- JavaScript
- Typescript
- C#
- REST API
- Postman
- Chrome DevTools
- BrowserStack
- Xcode
- Android Studio
- TestFlight
- Jira
- TestRail
- Confluence
- Scrum Master
- MySQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MongoDB
- Visual Studio
- VSCode
- Windows 7/8/10/11
- Mac OS X
- Linux
- IOS
- Android OS
- Charles Proxy
- SwaggerAPI
References
Available upon request
Languages
English
Timeline
Software Developer In Test(SDET)/ QA Lead(CRM)/ Salesforce Admin Support
BTIG
01.2022 - Current
Software QA
Skelia
02.2020 - 01.2022
BA - Forensic Psychology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice