Marcus Allen

Background

About Marcus Allen

Senior Manual QA tester with 11 years of testing experience across education, government, and vendor management industries with a wide range of testing and project management methodologies – Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall. • Takes on a hands-on leadership role in creating detailed test plans, test cases, and scenarios for applications according to functional requirements and business specifications. • Fosters robust collaboration with QA Analysts and Software Developers across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). • Undertakes a pivotal role in the deployment of applications onto the staging server, adhering to guidelines provided in the confluence documentation. • Recruited and trained junior software testers to become valuable QA team members. • Pioneered and streamlined process definition, workflow optimization, and standardization across project teams. Technical Skills • Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, BrowerStack, TestCafe, Postman • Frameworks: Mocha • Language: Javascript, CSS, HTML • Web Server: Jenkins • Defect Tracking Tool: Jira, YouTrack • Documentation Tool: Confluence • Test Management Tools: Datadog Synthetic Monitoring • Database: SQL Server, MySQL Workbench, Postgres, PGAdmin • Source Code Management Tool: Git, Github, Bitbucket, MKS Integrity, LaunchDarkly • Collaboration Tools: Notion, Slack • Virtual Machines: Parallels