Will Skinner Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Global Specialty Fulfillment's Labor Scheduling team, supporting services for associate scheduling and labor planning for disparate business units.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Joined the response team that rapidly developed Amazon's in-house testing programs in response to the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Building, operating, and maintaining web services for "post-flight" data capture, management, and analysis.Subsequently joined initiative to build retail and fulfillment integrations enabling launch of delivery via drone to live customer population.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Working at the intersection of hardware and software to ensure complex behaviors in an ecosystem spanning myriad domains.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Manager of performance test lab of software development and quality assurance engineers for FireOS-based devices; driving testing and test tool development for consumer products including Fire Tablets, Fire Phone.Responsible for program-wide measurement and enforcement of user-facing performance benchmarks across multiple ship vehicles for engineering, program management, and executive teams.Lead development of new test assets, frameworks, and systems for analysis and reporting.Developed performance test guidelines and practices within a highly matrixed organization for independent teams delivering software on devices.Established market positioning objectives through competitor product benchmarking.

Liquidnet is the premier global institutional investment community and operates an electronic marketplace providing equity trading services in 40+ markets globally.Member of team that developed proprietary, enterprise-level automation framework in Java, Jython/Python and Python; as Director, managed team of five engineers responsible for enhancements to the framework and providing test management and reporting systems and automation testing services for all releases of front-, middle- and back-office productsAs member of grassroots agile adoption effort, implemented agile QA practices and helped to start corporate agile adoption team, leading to implementation of agile development practices within organization; spearheaded initiative to bring Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) practices to the technology teamsAs test lead, responsible for product planning/inception; release scheduling; developing, implementing and enforcing test strategies for functional, installer, performance, capacity and load testing; reporting project and product status; developing test metrics; mentoring and managing testing team

Outerforce provided an enterprise-level, web-enabled supply chain management solution to publishing, advertising and media clients.Founded and expanded department, trained and supervised testing staff, worked with senior management to develop financial and institutional buy-in for QA role within organizationImplemented performance testing procedures, providing quantifiable data in place of subjective observationDeveloped process improvement programs, improving interaction between product and technology departmentsApplied requirements-oriented methodology to existing ad hoc validation process, shortening test cycles while improving test coverageDeveloped internal and client-facing quality assurance documentation

Parsippany, Nj, Us

Rapid applications development company providing customized decision-support software and business process consulting to pharmaceutical clients.Responsible for product and services delivery; performed domain analysis, authored business requirements, defined project scope and production schedules for distributed, web-delivered systems and then oversaw all aspects of delivery life-cycle, including direction of internal and outsourced, offshore technical teams and final system configurationServed as primary business and technical point-of-contact for clients and vendors; integrated contributions from client’s other strategic partners for integrated service deliveryConducted user training, observation and feedback sessionsImplemented documentation of specification and acceptance criteria, improving what had been a word-of-mouth process, reducing cost via shortened development cycles and elimination of unnecessary scope expansionDefined quality assurance standards, reviewed and test system modules during development

Software development and technology provider supplying institutional investors with trade order management systems, integrating pre-trade compliance, portfolio rebalancing and modeling, and order routing.Member of committee that redefined the SDLC, developing department- and company-wide procedures that resulted in a more efficient and nimble workflowProvided direct support to in-house and client users during development, client implementation, and production phasesTest lead for the re-engineering and redesign of the Portfolio Modeling systemTrained junior department members in development and execution of test procedures, improving department performance and boosting reputation for on-time delivery of quality product

Software services company providing outsourced software design and development for diverse clients and industries.As founding member of department, defined and implemented QA policies, documentation and data management proceduresExecuted black- and white-box tests, ensuring fulfillment of contractual obligations; responsible for production of non-software deliverable itemsMentored new employees, from corporate policy and procedure through introduction to QA methodology and testing practices

Academic primary research organization that also operates a school-based intervention program targeting elementary-age children exhibiting early signs of maladjustment.Managed data collection procedures and client-facing documentation used for evaluation and monitoring of in-school intervention programs at 500+ schools nationwideCollected complete data metrics, maintained database, generated seasonal and yearly analyses of data, directly assisted school district personnel in interpreting data reportsSupported primary scholarly research