Dan Kirk Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, California, US

Building and testing the mobile apps for Honda's upcoming EVs.

London, London, GB

Completed:- Wordpress for Beginners - Master Wordpress Quickly | Udemy - April 2024- Understanding APIs and RESTful APIs Crash Course | Udemy - Jan 2024- Testing Test Accessibility of Your Design with WAVE | Coursera - Oct 2023

San Jose, California, US

• Successfully managed firmware testing and on-time shipping for a complex, revenue-generating, high-visibility feature (Sports Zone) with an unmovable deadline and multiple external dependencies
• Grew (from 9 to 15) and managed a distributed team of QA engineers located in San Jose, Austin, and Ukraine
• Tracked and managed feature testing status for 30+ features to successfully ship two major (and 20+ minor) versions of the Roku OS firmware, on time and with high quality, delivered in two-week release cycles
• Developed individual plans to advance team members along their desired career trajectory, such as creating lead positions, mentoring individuals, and delegating tasks to help them grow
• Assigned more complex projects to those seeking a challenge to grow their QA experience and product knowledge
• Managed an intern through two summer seasons that resulted in an offer of full-time employment in QA at Roku

San Jose, California, US

• Trained QA engineers to review test cases per Roku’s policies::
• ️ Improved consistency and accuracy of test cases across all QA groups at Roku
• ️ Reduced the turnaround time of test case review from multiple weeks to 24 hours
• Authored detailed test plans, each reviewed and approved by all stakeholders
• Authored/executed test cases and provided alpha, beta, and release candidates for continued regression testing

San Francisco, California, US

• Automated the testing of 700+ airport pages in 50+ languages to detect a site-wide defect of mixed language content, saving weeks of manual testing and automatically setting up the pages for regression testing
• Established QA processes that were adopted into Uber’s Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• ️ Set up a bi-weekly release schedule that enabled Dev and QA to more accurately estimate the amount of work that could be accomplished for a release cycle
• ️ Formalized the bug triage process with a regular cadence that reduced the large backlog of untriaged bugs, resulting in important issues being found and addressed sooner
• ️ Created testing templates for consistent testing of core functionality, and testing ideas were available for new features as a list of “things to try/consider”
• ️ Formalized mobile device support by analyzing website traffic data every six months to determine the optimal mobile hardware/browser combinations for testing

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Facilitated kick-off and requirements-gathering meetings with clients:
• ️ Made clients feel confident as they started working with TestLauncher
• ️ Developed initial test plan ideas in the clients’ presence as they described their requirements
• Maintained client relationships
• ️ Incorporated client feedback to improve TestLauncher’s services
• ️ Assessed workload and determined if the project required more or fewer resources, as on-demand flexibility was one of TestLauncher’s bedrocks

Mountain View, CA, US

• Mentored contractors on career growth, leading two of them to full-time employment
• Managed the testing of the original Chromecast from inception to release
• Scaled the Chromecast QA team domestically before the initial release
• ️ This allowed the QA team to test more US partners as adoption of the platform grew
• ️ The larger team consisted of contractors from e-Touch Systems in San Jose
• Scaled the Chromecast QA team internationally after the initial release

San Francisco, CA, US

• Led a 5-person gray-box testing team
• Responsible for overall quality of Slide’s highest revenue product: SuperPoke! Pets
• Responsible for enforcing QA processes
• Tested rapidly developed features for daily releases

Barcelona, Barcelona, ES

• Developed and maintained web-based internal company performance reports
• Developed reports for internal metrics with mySQL using Eclipse’s BIRT plug-in
• Wrote a web-based program to allow company to assess strength of song resolutions
• Wrote a Python-based HTML scraper to collect and sort online music playlists

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Responsible for installer code promotion to global build stream
• Created/ran/maintained manual and automated smoke tests to determine quality of installer code
• Created and maintained QE group website to track progress of several projects
• Functionally tested 46 new installer features in large release
• Performed independent gray-box testing of the Rational common installer
• Ensured proper installation, launch, and integration of Rational products with 3rd party products

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Provided classroom and one-on-one training in QA procedures
• Created and maintained an online QA procedures manual
• Black-box tested 10-20 Pro/E electro-mechanical projects per cycle
• Black-box tested 5-10 Pro/E surface and 3D interface projects per cycle
• Created and reviewed functional/design specifications for use in QA testing
• Created detailed test plans from functional and design specifications

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

M.S., Mechanical Engineering