Michael Malandra Email & Phone Number

Clearwater, Fl

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Architected custom automation framework built on Selenium in C#Led effort to create Sharepoint SQA siteAutomated 90% of functionality covering the in-house LMSLed several knowledge shares for entire SQA team regarding various automation topicsBuilt several Web APIs for use in automation, including an Android emulator API and an API to connect to our Salesforce environmentIntegrated automation framework with TestRail to post results using TestRail APIImplemented custom jobs in Jenkins for automation projectsAdded BVT automated tests to build pipeline for projectsCreated SQA Engineering wiki in VSTS documenting our framework functionalityUtilized backstopJS for visual regression testingContinuously refactored codebase looking for performance improvements and code readability using best practices and design principles

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Responsible for maintaining current scripts and developing newer tools to help in the development and testing of production software.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Create and maintain a test plan that outlines testing strategies and procedures for the team• Maintain and evolve sanity and smoke for the project• Lead a team of 7 testers in an extremely fast paced schedule on a live project using agile methodologies• Handle weekly 1 on 1 meetings with each team member • Hold weekly meetings to discuss improvements for tools and automation with QE and QA• Compile weekly reports for executive team that covered risks, issues, opportunities and accomplishments• Attend daily scrum meetings and lead a weekly QA sync meeting• Handle 15-30-60 day goals for new hires and track them using proprietary tool• Work with QE And QA leads to establish quarterly OKRs and track them for management• Handle yearly and quarterly reviews for team members• Identify risks associated with releases and alert key stakeholders• Develop QA roadmap for a rapid release cadence• Utilize knowledge of the product and past issues to quickly determine solutions to new problems• Involved with every phase of development from inception to completion while providing valuable feedback

Increased responsibilities, including attending weekly meetings with Devs and supplying the test lead with accurate reports regarding the status of different areas of the game

Work with other THQ Testers to achieve yearly team goalsParticipate in the training of the new hiresCommunicate with PD and CQA Report to QA Leads to communicate the previous weeks focus and to voice any concerns with the team or project

Document defects with the game related to functionality, stability and performance

Bachelor Of Arts, Game Design

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science