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Tara Bradley

Charlotte,NC

Summary

Agile leader of systems automation with team-oriented mindset, collaborating with staff from all departments to streamline productivity with technology-based solutions. Flexible producer of effective code tailored to organizational needs. Authority on technical process automation with strong base of knowledge of evolving solutions to uncharted problems. Proactive Automation Engineer possessing in-depth knowledge of various programming languages and best practices for development. Solutions-based collaborator well-versed in testing and simulating automated machinery, developing, and implementing automated testing methodologies and supervising testing activities. Offering 10 years of experience creating and applying technology to monitor and control production and delivery of software.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. QE Automation Engineer

TekSystems
01.2022 - Current
  • Company Overview: (CarMax)
  • Developed and implemented an automation testing framework for CarMax auto finance applications using C#, Selenium, SpecFlow, Azure DevOps, and integrated with Postman and GitHub for CI/CD pipelines
  • Developed a performance testing framework using Locust and Python, enhancing software scalability and efficiency
  • Create and maintain test cases, test plans, and test scripts to ensure comprehensive test coverage
  • Execute and manage automated test suites to identify software defects and ensure adherence to quality standards
  • Collaborate with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into effective test strategies
  • Perform API testing using RESTful API principles, including request and response validation, endpoint testing, and error handling
  • Utilize Postman or similar tools to design and execute API test cases and manage test data
  • Collaborate with the development team to integrate automated tests into the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using Azure DevOps and GitHub
  • Analyze test results, identify trends, and provide detailed reports on quality metrics to stakeholders
  • Participate in code reviews, provide technical guidance, and mentor junior team members
  • Continuously enhance and optimize test automation frameworks and processes to improve efficiency and reliability
  • Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in automation testing technologies and methodologies
  • (CarMax)
  • Maintain, debug and optimize automation programs.

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

AvidXchange
01.2019 - 01.2022
  • Serve as the Lead Automation Test Engineer for AvidSuite and AvidConnect applications
  • Assisted with the implementation and deployment of Azure continuous integration pipelines
  • Assisted with implementing automation best practices, standards and guidelines
  • Extensive experience in writing complex test modules in C#, Visual Studio using Specflow with Selenium
  • Provides coaching and mentoring to QA manual testers to learn C# language, automation tools, automation best practices and testing REST API services
  • Work closely with QA manual testers to translate manual regression test cases into automated test scripts and to determine the best value of automating a test case
  • Work closely with Development team to ensure automation testability across applications
  • Work closely with Dev Ops to ensure automated tests across platforms are executed after deployments
  • Experience in working with Agile Scrum methodologies
  • Experience with REST API service testing using tools such as Postman, SOAPUI and RestSharp
  • Knowledge of working in a continuous integration environment
  • Extensive experience in T-SQL, writing complex SQL & Testing scripts for backend testing, data validation and data integrity

QA Manager

AmWins Insurance
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Serves as the QA Manager of AmWins AmLink applications, leading a team of 7 manual and 3 automated testers
  • Lead the effort of implementing automation standards, code reviews and guidelines
  • Provides coaching and mentoring to QA manual testers to learn C# language, automation tools, automation best practices and testing REST API services
  • Works cross-functionally with other team managers to reduce escaped defects
  • Plans and coordinates testing resources needed to implement new projects and test strategies
  • Reviews team reports, bugs on regular basis and provides regular feedback to reduce bugs and improve test cases
  • Participates in periodic team sessions to highlight team's accomplished goals and to review areas of improvement
  • Coordinates team building activities to promote team work and balanced work environment
  • Work with business and development teams to coordinate UAT testing
  • Manage work of offsite QA consultants and vendors
  • Design, develop and execute automation scripts using Selenium in Visual Studio and C# language

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

AmWins Insurance
01.2015 - 01.2018
  • Serve as the Lead Automation Test Engineer for AmWins AmLink applications
  • Assisted with the implementation and deployment of TFS Continuous Integration and Coded UI testing framework
  • Assisted with the implementation and deployment of TFS Continuous Integration and Selenium Web Driver testing framework
  • Assisted with implementing automation best practices, standards and guidelines
  • Extensive experience in writing complex test modules in C# which are reusable across all testing platforms
  • Work closely with QA manual testers to translate manual regression test cases into automated test scripts and to determine the best value of automating a test case
  • Work closely with Development team to ensure automation testability across applications
  • Work closely with Dev Ops to ensure automated tests across platforms are executed after deployments
  • Working knowledge of GIT, HTML 5 and CSS
  • Experience in working with Agile Scrum methodologies
  • Experience with REST API service testing using tools such as Postman, SOAPUI and RestSharp
  • Knowledge of working in a continuous integration environment and using tools like Team City and TFS CI Build
  • Experience with manual test planning and execution:
  • Reviews and provides input on project requirements and test cases
  • Develops testing estimates and timelines for testing activities
  • Creates test plans and test cases to ensure the overall quality of software delivered
  • Executes manual and automated test cases /scripts
  • Logs, tracks, and validates identified defects, escalating quality concerns to management

Sr. Automation Test Engineer

Diligent Boardbooks
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • Serve as the Sr. Automation Test Engineer for Windows 8 Desktop, Windows Store Application and IOS platforms
  • Assisted with the implementation and deployment of Ranorex 5.3 automation testing framework
  • Assisted with implementing Automation best practices, standards and guidelines
  • Extensive experience in writing complex test modules in C# which are reusable across all testing platforms
  • Work closely with QA manual testers to translate manual regression test cases into automated test scripts and to determine the best value of automating a test case
  • Work closely with Development team to ensure automation testability across applications
  • Working knowledge of GITHub, HTML 5 and CSS
  • Experience in working with Agile Scrum methodologies
  • Knowledge of working in a continuous integration environment and using tools like Jenkins
  • Experience with test planning and execution:
  • Reviews and provides input on project requirements and test cases
  • Develops testing estimates and timelines for testing activities
  • Creates test plans and test cases to ensure the overall quality of software delivered
  • Executes manual and automated test cases /scripts
  • Logs, tracks, and validates identified defects, escalating quality concerns to management

Sr. QA/BA Analyst

Coca Cola Bottling
01.2011 - 01.2014
  • Served as the QA project lead on all testing initiatives
  • Clarify and document requirements to plan and execute functional and technical testing to ensure system and process quality
  • Serve as a liaison between executives, the client services team, and the technical services team to drive collaboration and issue resolution for system changes; seeks clarification when requirements or goals are ambiguous
  • Build awareness of testing tasks and testing ‘best practices’ throughout the organization
  • Worked in ALM Quality center to document test results and validate test scripts
  • Used ALM Quality Center in routing defects, defect resolution and assigning test cases to team users
  • Extensive experience in data inspection/analysis testing in backend databases
  • Extensive experience in T-SQL, writing complex SQL & Testing scripts for backend testing, data validation and data integrity against relational databases including data warehouse systems
  • Test planning and execution:
  • Reviews and provides input on project requirements and test cases
  • Develops testing estimates and timelines for testing activities
  • Creates test plans and test cases to ensure the overall quality of software delivered
  • Executes manual and automated test cases /scripts
  • Logs, tracks, and validates identified defects, escalating quality concerns to management
  • Contribute to planning and implementing improvements in test methods and strategies
  • Assist with the definition, implementation, and enforcement of company-wide methodologies and practices
  • Work independently with users and across business and IT teams to clarify, gather and document requirements
  • Obtain a detailed knowledge of the system architecture and core business processes to create realistic test cases
  • Understand the principles, theories, practices, and techniques involved in planning, managing, and implementing projects:
  • Manages own work well
  • Makes deadlines
  • Communicates clearly about requirements and deadline changes
  • Regularly reports status verbally and using team collaboration tools
  • Can estimate time and activities for own work and provide clear, timely feedback on issues, dependencies and interaction with others
  • Able to construct comprehensive test plans independently and in collaboration with other resources
  • Able to completely verify manual work and conduct unit tests/integration tests for small and large projects
  • Imparts confidence that a product/solution fulfills expectations
  • Assist with requirements gathering for SharePoint upgrade from 2010 to 2013

Quality Assurance Engineer

Optcapital, LLC
01.2007 - 01.2011
  • Test planning and execution
  • Reviews and provides input on project requirements and test cases
  • Develops testing estimates and timelines for testing activities
  • Creates test plans and test cases to ensure the overall quality of software delivered
  • Executes manual and automated test cases /scripts
  • Logs, tracks, and validates identified defects, escalating quality concerns to management
  • Construct comprehensive test plans independently and in collaboration with team members
  • Able to completely verify manual work and conduct unit tests/integration tests for small and large projects
  • Imparts confidence that a product/solution fulfills expectations

Education

Associates Degree - Computer Information Systems

Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, NC

Skills

  • MS SQL Server
  • Splunk
  • Microsoft Access
  • T-SQL
  • HTML
  • C#
  • NetCore
  • JavaScript
  • Windows 11
  • Windows Server
  • SAP
  • IOS
  • Microsoft Azure Dev Ops
  • MS Office 365
  • SQL Server Reporting
  • SQL Profiler
  • Tableau Reporting
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022
  • Github
  • Ranorex

Timeline

Sr. QE Automation Engineer

TekSystems
01.2022 - Current

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

AvidXchange
01.2019 - 01.2022

QA Manager

AmWins Insurance
01.2018 - 01.2019

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

AmWins Insurance
01.2015 - 01.2018

Sr. Automation Test Engineer

Diligent Boardbooks
01.2014 - 01.2015

Sr. QA/BA Analyst

Coca Cola Bottling
01.2011 - 01.2014

Quality Assurance Engineer

Optcapital, LLC
01.2007 - 01.2011

Associates Degree - Computer Information Systems

Central Piedmont Community College

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