Karen Joyce Lowe

About Karen Joyce Lowe

A dynamic, team-oriented software quality professional with broad experience in automated and exploratory test engineering at the system, thread, and component levels, with a focus on test and integration of complex systems throughout the software development life cycle.Specialties: Automated integration, performance, and regression testing, design of test experiments, requirements analysis, system integration

Experience

1. Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

   Ancestry

   Oct 2022 — Present · Santa Fe, NM, US

   Plan and execute testing for the Ancestry Hints® user interface. Create automated tests in Java using TestNG and JUnit. Demonstrate product and work to resolve questions at RootsTech and other conferences. Observe user research interviews.Create learning content for international audience. Serve as subject matter expert for guided discoveries, collaborating across teams to ensure quality of delivered features.

Education

• Purdue University

  Biology

  1988 — 1989

• Regis University

  BS, Computer Science

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Automation
• User Acceptance Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• Database Queries
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Software Quality Assurance
• Requirements Analysis
• Waterfall
• Regression Testing
• Sql
• Visio
• Linux
• Quality Center
• Business Analysis
• Agile Project Management
• Web Applications
• C#
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Tfs
• Java
• Quality Assurance
• Integration
• Program Management
• Sharepoint
• Testing
• Data Quality Assurance
• Test Automation
• Process Development
• Agile
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Test Planning
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Analysis
• Perl
• System Testing
• Html
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server
• Windows