Catherine Freel Email & Phone Number

Catherine Freel is a Senior Product Experience Executive at Firefish Software®. She possess expertise in career management, cucumber, software testing life cycle, agile testing, behavior driven development and 31 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "I am very pleased and immensely proud to recommend Catherine. She joined our team just over 2 years ago as a UAT tester. To say she is a "quick study" is the understatement of the year. Within less than a fortnight she had picked up the rudiments of the software components we work on and was productive right away. (I pause to point out that these software components are some of the most complex I have ever worked on, in nearly 30 years as a software developer.) Catherine is a very pleasant and engaging young lady, who is lovely to work with. She is a consummate professional with an inquisitive nature and an eagle eye for detail. She has a forensic approach to problem solving and is excellent at documenting software issues. Her bug reports and test exit documents are, quite frankly, a pleasure to read. During Catherine's time on our team, she has shown herself to be a real self-starter, always able to work very well with minimal input from development staff; but when called for, she works very well with all of our developers. For someone relatively young, she is also very at ease running software demonstrations for some very senior people in our organisation. She never gets flustered and always answers questions put to her, clearly and respectfully. Over the last 2 years, our testing function progressed from using manual tools like Quality Center and Zephyr, to using automated test tools, specifically SmartBear's TestComplete suite. Catherine made the transition to using TestComplete without any difficulty whatsoever. In the process, she taught herself Python, and took to scripting tests like a natural. Bear in mind, her degree is not in an IT-related field! Catherine brought to our team an encyclopaedic knowledge of ACCA and the student journey from her previous post, and this proved beneficial to us many occasions. To sum up, Catherine is a very highly esteemed colleague, one who made an immense contribution to easing the test- and technical debt that had built up around our products. She is, quite frankly, one of the best testers I have EVER worked with, and I count myself lucky to have worked with her!" and "Catherine Freel is one of the best testers that I have ever worked with. She is always positive, but at the same time excellent at finding any flaws in the design or implementation. She is not scared to ask the difficult questions. When she raises a bug it was always well described, allowing me to get straight onto the fix, not spend ages trying to work out what the actual issue was. At the same time she took on extra projects relating to test automation. It was always an extra feeling of confidence if Catherine had done the testing, because then I knew that everything was working correctly."

Listed skills include Career Management, Cucumber, Software Testing Life Cycle, Agile Testing, and 32 others.

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  Glasgow Caledonian University

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