Jody Reed Email & Phone Number

Marietta, GA, US

Atlanta, GA

Toolbox is small company growing larger, thanks to the high demand for their top-of-the-line products. As the company grows past the point where everyone can be involved with everything, they need help knowing how best to leverage automation and a new quality assurance team.My role is to investigate labor and cost-effective technologies to assist in.

Gather customer requirements and determine how to modify our core product to best suit those needs. Produce Request-For-Change documents for sign-off. Produce functional specifications outlining basic architecture of solutions.My focus is on user experience, robustness, supportability, and value for effort.

Assess architecture of solutions for impact on existing product. Determine test strategies - breadth and depth as well as technologies to use. Hire and mentor junior QA on test technologies and methodologies. Estimate test efforts for feature pricing.

Create tools and champion process changes which assist in the support of our massively complex systems.Design, implement and maintain automated tests against a complex point of sale application. I use both SilkTest and I've written a custom SOAP test application to test our Retail Transaction Services product.Design, implement and maintain a database that.

Used a large variety of languages (from IBM 4690 BASIC to C to C++ to VB to Javascript and ASP, along with scripting languages) to develop new features for point of sale customers. Wrote scripts to aid in deployment of very complex software installations. Went to customer sites to help with installation/configuration of systems - up to 150 terminals per.