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Scott Hands

New York,NY

Summary

Experienced with software testing and quality assurance methodologies, ensuring high product standards. Utilizes test plans and defect tracking to identify and resolve issues efficiently. Knowledge of industry best practices and commitment to continuous improvement.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Quality Assurance Engineer & Content Manager

Blue In Green Digital
01.2019 - Current
  • Assess software quality through manual testing. Responsible for detecting and reporting defects.
  • Competency in executing test cases with a keen eye for detail and excellent communications skills.
  • Ensure that products, applications, and systems work correctly. Create logs to document testing phases and defects.
  • Report defects and errors to development team with steps to reproduce. Help troubleshoot issues.
  • Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing. Effectively communicate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Handle high priority clients including Netflix and Young Living
  • Efficient testing streamlined operational costs by 33%, shortening production time
  • Successfully lead multiple testing projects using unit, integration, functional, end-to-end, acceptance, regression, and smoke tests.
  • Manage, build and maintain content for the partner, brand, and press sites for Netflix

Full Stack Software Engineer

MSA
01.2019 - 02.2019
  • Full Stack software development utilizing Visual Studio to create and update .NET applications, SQL databases, learn and use new technologies including Drupal, OISsoft PI to update UI and UX.
  • Develop solutions and maintain executable code for new and existing applications pertaining to meteorological instruments, maps, and temperature gauges.
  • Develop applications containing algorithms that return output from meteorological instruments every 15 minutes.
  • Attend sprints to gather requirements for developing solutions to client requests.

Full Stack Software Engineer

Prosper IT Consulting
04.2018 - 12.2018
  • Entity Framework: Build, test and debug dynamic web applications. Focus on MVC design patterns (Persistence Layer, Domain Layer, Presentation Layer) to solve common architectural problems, ensuring the presentation layer of applications so the concerns of development and maintenance are not more difficult. Separate each concern into its own layer in view model. Pull images from database and display them in view. Modify view model to include necessary properties and update overload constructor to contain properties. Modify constructor method being called in the controller to access to images in the view. Reconfigure layout of views being displayed.
  • OOP Design and Analysis: Gather requirements, describe the application, identify the main objects, describe the interactions, create a class diagram. Understand objects, classes, abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism to ensure development process.
  • Agile/Scrum Team: Responsible for completing user stories to incrementally increase the value of the product and self-organize to get necessary work done.
  • Project Lifecycle Management: Design, analysis, engineer, test, build, deployment, support, maintenance and product exit.
  • Scrum team member for multiple sprints. Utilized Visual Studio Team Services (Team Foundation Server)
  • Contributed to the www.Bewander.com social media website (.NET Framework)
  • Reconfigured layout of views being displayed using architectural paradigm components of MVC to enhance UI and UX
  • Modified view model to include necessary properties and updated overload constructor to contain properties
  • Modified constructor method being called in the controller in order to access images in the view
  • Used JQuery framework to enhance UX

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science & Writing

Columbia University
New York, NY
05.2026

AAOT - undefined

Portland Community College
12.2021

Skills

  • Technical
  • Programming/Development: C#, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Microsoft Word, Excel
  • Frameworks: ASPNET, Entity Framework, NET Framework, Bootstrap, KnockoutJS, LINQ to SQL
  • Databases: MS SQL Server 2014 Management Studio (T-SQL)
  • IDE: MS Visual Studio 2017
  • Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall
  • Testing Automation: Selenium WebDriver
  • Integration: Contentful Application Framework
  • Professional
  • Communications Skills
  • Teamwork skills
  • IT Skills
  • Ability to plan ahead
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Ability to motivate others
  • Ability to operate well under pressure
  • Ability to deal with unexpected changes
  • Logical reasoning
  • Problem solving skills
  • Software development lifecycle
  • Quality assurance strategy
  • API testing experience
  • User acceptance testing
  • Collaboration and communication
  • Quality processes
  • Cross-browser testing
  • Manual testing aptitude
  • Test plan development
  • Data validation
  • Test script writing
  • Mobile application testing
  • Agile methodology
  • Manual testing
  • Defect tracking and reporting
  • Bug tracking and resolution
  • Software development tools: JIRA, confluence
  • Software defect documentation
  • New feature testing
  • Scrum methodology
  • Results and Deadline-driven
  • Technical support
  • Collaborative team player
  • Client requirements

Certification

  • The Tech Academy
  • Degreed Skill Certification - Software Engineering | May 2018
  • Intensive bootcamp style education in: Software Development, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Version Control, Databases and SQL, Project Management (Scrum and Agile)
  • Coursework included a progression from basic computer science to working on a real world project as part of a Scrum team member.

Timeline

Quality Assurance Engineer & Content Manager

Blue In Green Digital
01.2019 - Current

Full Stack Software Engineer

MSA
01.2019 - 02.2019

Full Stack Software Engineer

Prosper IT Consulting
04.2018 - 12.2018

AAOT - undefined

Portland Community College

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science & Writing

Columbia University

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