Hi, my name is

Steph.

I break things to improve them

I’m a QA Engineer (and my services are available at this time). Finding subtle and/or difficult to reproduce bugs is something that brings me joy. Trying to understand each issue in a way that makes them reproducible and understandable for the development team is my goal. This is my way of improving products and making the world a better place through better software.

Resume

About Me

Growing up in French speaking Canada and having moved with my sailboat, to the U.S. in my mid twenties, I’m fluent in French and English. Yes, this means that I do speak with a funny accent, but it also means that I can offer localization services if you or someone you know needs them ;) My background is varied, it includes lots of travels, lifeguarding, nursing school, CNA work, tour guiding on bikes, commercial construction, web development and now QA related work for the past several years. I just had to try it all before I found something that worked for me!

Outside of work, you might find me playing improv games, rock climbing, playing guitar, rowing on the water, riding my bike and maybe even bicycle touring at times. Teamwork is something that I enjoy like social bike rides, and as they say, it makes the dream work. Please reach out if you would like to discuss your QA needs!

Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:

Experience

QA Analyst
Jan 2021 - present
  • Conducting manual QA on web projects including Intel Gamer Days, Fort George Brewery and Pacific Trail (apparel brand owned by Columbia Sportswear) and performing ad hoc/exploratory testing across many devices.
  • Check in with the development team to define the scope of testing for each project and ensure adequate test coverage.
  • Filing bugs in various ticket tracking software (Jira, Shortcut, Basecamp) and maintaining tickets throughout their life cycle to ensure fixes are working and to prevent bugs from affecting users.
QA Analyst
Oct 2019 - present
  • Conducted manual QA on various projects to ensure the clients’ sites and apps are working as expected between updates and before launches.
  • Executed test cases and performed ad hoc/exploratory styles testing, depending on the clients’ needs, across testing devices (Android phone, iPhone, iPad, Windows and Mac laptop) for complete test coverage.
  • Projects included some continuity testing work on the Airbnb apps via Plus QA through April 2020 and a few other contracts for smaller companies, including one via Harmonic Northwest (current employer).
QA Lead
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
  • Communicated with the Airbnb development team practicing Agile/Scrum methodology on the client side (remotely) to define the scope of testing and stay up to date regarding changes on the product.
  • Wrote and updated regression test cases to ensure the quality of the product remained excellent and extended the test coverage to a newer area of the product that I was assigned to.
  • Assisted testers with questions and helped them troubleshoot issues that arose while running those test cases to resolve them and keep the testing efforts going smoothly.
  • Filed bugs in Jira and maintained them throughout their life cycle by testing fixes and following up as needed.

QA Analyst
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
  • Conducted manual QA on the Airbnb apps and website by performing test cases (for regressions, new features and smoke tests) in project management tools including qTest to ensure quality between the weekly builds.
  • Tested using different browsers and devices as stated in test cases to match testing requirements and scope.
  • Filed bugs in Jira and maintained them throughout their life cycle by testing fixes and following up as needed.
Web Developer
Feb 2018 2017 - Mar 2019
  • Contributed to the front-end rebuild of the non-profit’s website using HTML, CSS, JS, Hugo SSG and Git.
  • Selected the theme that was used for the redesign (which is still on the current live site) and adapted it by personalizing the Static Site Generator (Hugo)/CSS to match the organization’s colors and purpose.
  • Wrote documentation using markdown to explain how the theme works and how to edit each part as requested in a feature ticket.
QA Tester
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
  • Conducted manual software QA and linguistics QA for companies that support international product and cross-border commercial operations, including: Apple, Square and Ikea.
  • Executed test cases using project management tools (TestRail) across devices to ensure desired test coverage.
  • Assured the quality of existing translations on projects aimed at the French-Canadian locale.
  • Filed bugs using the client’s preferred ticket tracking system and followed up as needed.
Web Developer
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
  • Built a website for a talent booking agency from scratch and developed it to match a predetermined design.
  • Developed the site using the client’s requested technologies: HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap and Modx CMS.
  • Learned SCSS and Modx CMS in order to develop this site per client’s request.
QA Tester
Mar 2-17 - Nov 2017
  • Wrote a test plan after discussing the testing scope with the developers to ensure that each feature that needed to be tested would be covered.
  • Executed the tests and reported bugs to assure the quality of a web app I worked on.

Education

Sep 2022 - Sec 2022
Software QA
DevMountain
  • Bootcamp to learn the essentials of QA automation, API Testing and more
  • Click here to see my final solo project
2018 - 2019
Improvisation classes (101, 201, 301)
ComedySportz
2016 - 2019
Web Development Training
Online classes
Attended online courses with CodeCademy and Treehouse learning platforms.
2007 - 2011
College
Cégep de Sainte-Foy - Canada
Coursework towards a nursing degree, including in-hospital training.

Projects

Automated tests - solo project
Automated QA Selenium Jest TypeScript POM
Automated tests - solo project
This is my final solo project for the DevMountain Software QA bootcamp. Testing was done on the vansaircraft.com website.
View video
Automated tests - group project
Automated QA Selenium Jest TypeScript POM
Automated tests - group project
This was a project for the DevMountain Software QA bootcamp. Testing was done on a test website. My contribution can be found under “stephPageObject.ts” and “stephTest.test.ts”.
Shift 2 Bikes
Web Dev Hugo Bootstrap HTML JavaScript
Shift 2 Bikes
Particiaped in the front end redesign of this open source project. The old PHP site was outdated and didn’t work on mobile, this new site was primarely to resovle that. I learned Hugo SSG and came up with a theme to start and edited it to fit the site’s needs.
View site
SQL Practice with 2020 Census database
SQL SQLite Jupyter Notebook
SQL Practice with 2020 Census database
Using the data from the 2020 Census, I ran several SQL queries. I used Jupyter Notebook to be able to view the results of each queries directly in the same file where I wrote them.
Daimler Truck - QA Practice
Automated QA Continuous Integration Selenium Jest TypeScript POM
Daimler Truck - QA Practice
This is a test project that I created to practice my QA skills. Testing was done on the daimler-trucksnorthamerica.com website.
While testing, I found one bug a created a report, view here. Follow the steps in the README.md to view the latest test results.
Travel blog
Web Dev HTML CSS Bootstrap Facebook API Google Analytics API Google MyMaps API
Travel blog
A blog that I created during a two and a half month sailing trip. I played with a few different APIs for this site.
View site
My (This) Personal Site
Web Dev Hugo HTML JavaScript
My (This) Personal Site
A site created using a Hugo theme as a portfolio site for my QA work. I altered some of the source code to fit my need for this project.
Selling my boat
Web Dev HTML CSS Bootstrap
Selling my boat
This is a site that I created when I was in the process of selling my sailboat.
View site (but the boat was sold)

Achievements

SQL Hands-On Introduction
A LinkedIn Learning course to learn and practice the basics of SQL
GitHub Arctic Code Vault Contributor
Contributed to one of the one open source projects in the 2020 GitHub Archive Program (Shift 2 Bikes).
Scrum - The Basics
A LinkedIn Learning course to refresh my knowledge of the Scrum principles

Get in Touch

My inbox is always open. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, I’ll try my best to get back to you!
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