Michael Callihan Email & Phone Number

North Liberty, IA, US

Austin, Texas, United States

• Senior manual tester for Web app, including a Google Chrome Extension
• Designed, wrote, and edited test cases using Jira
• Helped create the products and test planning suite and workflow
• Ran testing for full release of product every other week
• Worked closely with the developers on 3 separate teams to keep quality up
• Trained up new manual QA as they onboarded to help as teams expanded

Austin, Texas Area

• Manual tester for Mobile devices, including iPhones and Android.
• Designed, wrote, and edited test cases for 11 mobile applications on 2 platforms.
• Executed Test Suites ensuring quality products go out to over 200k customers.
• Learned to create, run and debug automation tests through Appium, reducing manual testing time by over 10%.
• Managed daily Scrum meetings in keeping with Agile practices.
• Ran Triage meetings every two weeks to meet customer needs were prioritized correctly.

Houston, Texas Area

• One of a small team of testers who made sure that the Servers and the Web client worked well together without any issues.
• Ran manual tests daily and wrote up detailed defects when found.
• Managed server hardware and product software for tracking and reporting purposes.
• Maintained and upgraded server 10+ clusters meeting daily testing needs

Greater Seattle Area

• An SQE on the Digital Publishing team at Adobe through The Judge Group.
• Designed, Authored and Implemented over 100 Test Cases and Test Plans ensuring product functioned as designed for end user.
• Cooperated with the Engineering team to ensure issues were resolved quickly and efficiently.
• Identified, tracked and performed regression testing on defects found during testing.
• Managed manual testing for both web and tablet based versions of application.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Software Test Engineer level 1 on the Xbox Integration Team (XIT) team at Microsoft through Volt.
• Executed test cases for all supported software and hardware verifying all performed as documented when integrated with the Xbox Dashboard.
• Coordinated closely with other teams to ensure thorough testing of products.
• Created and updated test cases and suites for new feature integration on both the Xbox 360 and Kinect products.
• Created defect reports, regressed and tracked bugs found during testing.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• A Compliance Tester verifying that the games met all TCR standards Microsoft set out before they were released
• Tested for issues such as graphical bugs, memory leaks, incorrect data usage and crashes.
• Guaranteed games were in line with TCR standards set down by management.
• Ran through over 100 test cases to insure smooth and final products were of quality.

• Instructed high school and junior high students the use of C++ and the Project FUN Editor.
• Taught Junior High and High School students basics of programming to build simple application.
• Instructed high school students in mathematical fundamentals for games.
• Devised and executed lesson plans for 2 week summer courses for students.