Nick Ward Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Driving Fortune Global 500 mobile phone testing engineers. Working for the Drive Test Unit of 3S.

Bellevue, Washington

Driving regular and hybrid vehicles (cars, pickups, SUVs, vans) and EVs (Tesla, Leaf, Polestar, KIA) from the rental fleet to different locations around Seattle/Eastside including Tacoma and Bellingham. Using Google Maps for navigation.

San Diego Metropolitan Area

WFH using Windows 10, Slack, Salesforce, Zoom, and Google Office.

Seattle, Washington

Worked the entire Seattle and Eastside shopping zones as a part time personal shopper and delivery driver. No accidents or infractions. Beta tested many versions of the InstaShopper app on an iPhone. Used Google Maps for navigation.

Bellevue, WA

Black-box testing and reviewing English and localized apps, on various Windows handsets and tablets, in the Universal Store at Microsoft. Apps tested included games, social media, music, video, news, security, shopping, productivity, and utilities. Tools used included Windows 8 & 10, Office 2013, TFS, MovieMaker, OneDrive, Skype, OneNote, PowerShell.

Bellevue/Kirkland WA

Was a contract worker at INTEL Corp running automated tests for WiFi network device drivers. Performed Windows 8 certification tests on prototype Surface Pro tablets. Used Microsoft WinHCK server/client, WinDbg debugger, UEFI Shell, DOS Shell, TeraTerm, Verifier, Symbols, WiFi routers and MS Office 2010.

Redmond, WA

Worked on contract in the Office Mobile OMSS group testing Microsoft applications on a variety of pre-production Nokia smartphones. Tools used included: MS Office 14, OneNote, Lync, SkyDrive, SharePoint, Product Studio, TFS, Visual Studio 2010, MTM, Windows 7, FastTrace, and ScreenCaster.

Greater Seattle Area

Tested mobile shopping apps on several major smart phones and tablets at Amazon in Seattle. Devices included: iPhone, iPad, WP7, Blackberry, and Android. Test Methods included: end-to-end, regression, latency, smoke, and exploratory. Tools used included: TestLink, BugTracker and JIRA.

Bellevue WA

Fulltime manual testing position on a cloud project for AT&T Mobile using Microsoft tools. Lab duties included: writing test cases, running manual test cases, ad hoc testing, writing bug reports, and configuring Windows PCs and Macs in the lab. Tested with various software and hardware firewalls. Used VS 2010, Microsoft TLM aka “Camano”, TFS, RDC and Ghost.

Redmond WA

Fulltime contract testing at Microsoft on Expression Media v2.0 SP1 and SP2 software for Windows and Mac OSX. Ran manual tests and did ad hoc testing. Wrote test cases including end-to-end cases. Used Product Studio, WTT, OSX, VS, ASI, and RAS.

Greater Seattle Area

Performed groundwork for a new internet project at Worktank. Wrote detailed test plans and preliminary test cases for the team.

Redmond WA

Contract testing at Microsoft in Redmond on Expression Media* v1.x and v2.0 software for Windows and Macintosh OSX. In addition to entering a large number of bugs found with manual tests, I wrote a test plan and many test cases. Also ran automation, contributed to spec reviews, and ran end-to-tests for English and localized versions on two platforms. Used.

Redmond WA

Worked for a full year as a contractor on the Microsoft campus in the Windows Office marketing group. Manually tested internal and external web pages for the Solution Showcase, tested Flash demos for each scenario, tested MSI installers, proofread PowerPoint slides and Word documents before RTW. Tested web links using automated tools and through.

Greater Seattle Area

Completed all aspects of processing audio media to various digital formats, converted music from CD to WAV format, scanned and adjusted album cover art, performed data entry and quality control of the content.

Redmond WA

Performed software QA for Microsoft Word and Office programs on Windows and Macintosh including OSX. Was working for Mac Business Unit in Redmond when I left the company.

Bellevue WA

Accomplished Microsoft's phone support for Windows and Office for Windows with an emphasis on the Word application. Wrote knowledgebase articles and corporate letters to customers.

Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology

Activities and Societies: snowshoeingContinuing education in databases and coding including C# and MS Access DBMS.

Ba, Social Science, 3.5

Activities and Societies: on campus Work-Study employment part-timeAs a senior I was an IT intern with the State of Oregon in Salem.

Diploma, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, A-

Activities and Societies: Computer ClubCollege Prep, AP Classes