John McKay

Background

About John McKay

Sr. software quality assurance specialist with a programming education background and over 10 years of experience working within different approaches to the SDLC. Hard working and problem solving individual with a love of knowledge. Logical thinker and detail oriented tester who strives for improvement at all times. Experienced in: • Release Planning/Organization/Estimation • Writing test documentation including test plans/cases, feature documentation, defect reports, etc. • Manual testing of legacy desktop applications as well as web apps, integrations, web services, EDI • Working in various SDLC methodologies (waterfall, agile, hybrid) • Test data and environment management • Regression testing/hardening • Post-release smoke testing • Defect reporting and workflows • Building and expanding a QA department in a quickly growing company • Working within interconnected teams to accomplish a common goal A well spoken individual with a talent for clearly defining and explaining technical processes in an easy to understand way. Always trying to expand my IT knowledge throughout the development life-cycle.