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Monica Standifer

Full Stack Software Test Engineer

Introduction

I am a Full Stack Software Test Engineer with a passion for creating high-quality software. I have experience in both manual and automated testing, and I am always looking for new challenges to improve my skills.

Senior Software Test Engineer

Paylocity

Test Automation
Programming
Quality Assurance
Testing
API
Mentoring
DevOps
Tools
Dec 2019
to current

Highlights:

  • Company wide Playwright adoption. working with Playwright for 2 years prior and providing the necessary information to get the approval of decision makers.
  • Had gained a reputation for being a go to person for Playwright and test automation in general.
  • Coined the term "UI" unit testing. Showing developers a much easier way of testing single components and pages as a UI unit test

Responsibilities

Providing all aspects of software testing, including test automation ( building and maintaining), process improvement, performance testing, mentoring, PR Reviews, and more.

  • Automating the process of software testing using tools and scripts. Tests run as part of the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Supporting a team of 5 developers in 2 weeks sprint cycles. Providing the necessary testing as required to meet the needs test coverage requirements and providing the team with quality feedback on the product being developed and assisting them in addressing quality concerns.
  • Working with product managers, developers, to review stories and ensure testable stories are being created. Fill in the gaps for acceptance criteria, to assist development in building the expected product, by asking the questions that are often overlooked.

QA Lead for Web Products

Tessitura Network

Cloud Services
Quality Assurance
Leadership
DevOps
Backend Web Development
Jan 2019
to Jan 2020

Highlights:

  • Created a quality department from the ground up, establishing processes, building out a test environment and building out test automation.
  • Learned AWS in a week to be able to standup and establish a test environment for the team to use.

Responsibilities

Worked on the frontend of a large e-commerce platform.

  • Automating the process of software testing using tools and scripts. Tests run as part of the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Testing web applications using various testing tools and frameworks.
  • working with the team to create processes that improve product quality and reduce defects.

System Performance Engineer

IBM

Quality Assurance
Testing
Jan 2019
to Jan 2020

Responsibilities

Installing and configuring Enterprise Storage Systems for performance testing, such as v7000, XIV (Gen2 and 3), DS8 and various other smaller servers and appliances.Performing performance tests to validate performance specs and identify issues.

  • Automating the process of software testing using tools and scripts. Tests run as part of the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Testing web applications using various testing tools and frameworks.
  • working with the team to create processes that improve product quality and reduce defects.
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Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance
Programming
Programming
Frontend Web Development
Frontend Web Development
API
API
AI
AI
Testing
Testing
Tools
Tools
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Education

Master of Science in Computer Information Systems
2003| University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science Business Information Systems
2001| University of Phoenix