Don Tate Email & Phone Number

Tualatin, Oregon, United States

Scrum leader for development team:* Run Daily standup, sprint retro, and sprint planning meetings* Create new stories from Epic's* Assign Jira Stories to team* Evaluate and re-assign tasks as priorities change within a given sprintWork closely with Dev's, and project management from PRD review to Deployment of completed projectsCreate project test.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Create and maintain Postman Tests and Collections across multiple API's
• Created a template for Test Plans using Confluence
• Created Automated test suit for Vacasa.com website using Ghost Inspector
• Provided manual front end and back end testing
• In addition to normal QA responsibilities QA Engineers at Vacasa also performed A Release Management roll.
• Using Semantic Versioning and Github Flow to size releases

Portland, Oregon Area

• Create, review, and approve test plans and test case development the ensure high quality deliverables to customer
• Improved standards for the test case creation process
• Utilized REST clients with JSON payloads to ensure end to end functionality of our product
• Manage an offshore QA team and act as the primary liaison for the project team and on shore development
• QA product expert for YesMail’s proprietary Email Marketing Platform
• Utilize Developer tools, firebug. and GREP to create detailed bug reports in Jira

• Develop and maintain detailed standard operation processes
• Ensure proper and timely incident handling, troubleshooting, communication, and escalation for our proprietary Email Marketing Platform
• Duplicate reported issues and document them with the software development team for resolution
• Pull server logs and provide data to appropriate teams
• Provide 24-7 on-call support for clients

Wilsonville OR

• Moved from a contractor position to full time employee and promoted to lead QA test engineer
• Assumed administrative responsibilities of our test suit tools Mercury Test director (AKA HP Quality Center)
• Worked closely with the project managers and development teams to assure thorough testing of new POS and system enhancements
• Used requirement documentation to create test plans and test cases for each release cycle
• Managed other QA Test Engineers to ensure testing was complete and we met our deadlines for the release cycle
• Established new acceptance criteria for build handoffs to QA to ensure build quality