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Franklin Park, Illinois, United States

• Serve as key resource on R&D team for development, deployment, and testing of products, spanning exercise equipment, apps, and associated software engineering projects.
• Test various devices against mobile tablet and recorded bugs accordingly. Devices include smart watches, Bluetooth headsets, ANT+ device, mobile apps, and polar heart rates.
• Create test cases based on user stories and bugs discovered during testing and regression. Reorganized test repository to improve maintainability and traceability.
• Serve as go-to QA resource for new engineering projects due to competence and eagerness to learn.
• Coach team on how to use various testing tools. Create/shaped automation framework utilizing object-oriented principles in python to aid manual team with regression efforts.
• Create documentation for various tools and procedures required to test specific functionalities of fitness equipment or recover fitness consoles.

Homewood, IL

• As part of back office, led team of four resources working on applications for interconnectivity and testing of trains, tracks, stations, and associated systems.
• Performed enterprise level manual testing which involved multiple sub systems responsible for Positive Train Controls (PTC) technology while building documentation to help and refine the process.
• Executed and analyzed automated test scripts between dispatching application and back-office server.
• Drove project for implementation of automatic breaking mechanism for trains to reduce accidents and comply with federal safety standards.
• Made improvements to workflow by organizing QA assignments according to the territory the business was piloting in.