Don Gottschalk

About Don Gottschalk

Is your software product in need of a quality makeover? Let me use my passion for optimal software quality to help you produce better software and retain happier customers!As a Quality Assurance Engineer, I use my expert understanding of the Software Development Life-cycle, Security Development Life-cycle, QA methodologies, practices, and procedures, keen attention to detail, and years of hands on automated and manual testing experience to analyze products, isolate defects in a reproducible manner, and transform software quality. A short synopses of recent accomplishments includes- Built a QA team from the ground up implementing modern QA practices and methodologies, introduced bug tracking, automated testing, code coverage, and security testing making the group one of the most proficient and successful in the company- Reduced the number of defects found in the field 12% by creating an architecture and system which would build a virtual environment of several systems, deploy the latest software package, execute the automated tests, report the results of the tests, and tear down the environment based upon the availability of a new build of the product to be tested. This led to the creation of a whole new team in the company designed to do interoperability testing- Led a team of QA engineers for the first ever integration of mobile devices into the company\'s flagship enterprise product ePO. The integration was completely successful and raised revenue for the overall product- Slashed test cycle time 5 hours by consolidating tests, finding a creative way to execute them in parallel, and optimize the use of the required resources.If you are wanting happier, more satisfied customers, reach out to me, your quality makeover artist, at u••••••••@gmail.com.

Experience

1. Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

   Surescripts

   Jun 2020 — Present · Hillsboro, OR, US

   Wrote automated tests to cover 80% of the current products supported by the Revenue Redesign team in a Hadoop/Coudera/Linux/Impala environment- Migrated all of the automated test work to a BigQuery/GCP/AirFlow environment- Fixed defects in production product code freeing up developers to concentrate on new functionality- Eliminated the need for month-end manual validation by creating appropriate automated tests in conjunction with comparison of output files- Used Postman to execute API’s and validate the returned JSON.

Education

• University of Southern California

  BS, Computer Science

• University of Southern California

  MS, Software Engineering

Skills

• Windows
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Quality
• Selenium
• Test Automation
• Mobile Applications
• Software Design
• Software Quality Assurance
• Testing
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Enterprise Software
• Perl
• Automation
• Quality Assurance
• Digital Forensics
• Unix
• Mobile Devices
• Software Engineering
• Nunit
• Agile
• Linux
• Web Applications