Alexander Mahler Resume

Senior Software Test Engineer

Contact

Email

asmahler@gmail.com

Phone

(480) 467-8424

Website

github.com/asmahler

About

From Los Angeles, but lives in Portland, Oregon. Hardworking, collaborative, with attention to detail. Very passionated not just about testing, but also UX/UI. I really enjoy anything Javascript related. Experienced writing test plans, test cases and working in/creating automation frameworks.

Work

Paylocity

– Present
Senior Software Test Engineer www.paylocity.com

Worked on the reporting product for the time and labor portion. Worked across multiple teams with automation that spaneed multiple teams to continue to deliver an amazing product for our customers

Highlights
  • A video thank you from our CFO from outstanding performance
  • Developed the first API testing Suite for the category
  • Helped automate every sprint to deliver an amazing product
  • Category quality leader to help teams hit their quality goals
  • Help configure the automation pipeline running on Team City
  • Taught Testing Workshops

Amazon

QA Engineer www.amazon.com

Worked with product owners, offshore and developers to help ship the latest amazon fire tablet

Highlights
  • Shipped the new table with at least 4.5 star reviews
  • Built out the testing structure with offshore and test rail
  • Helped shaped features based off prior exprience to help develop the best product possible

DriveTime

QA Engineer www.drivetime.com

Working with developers, devops and product owners in a sometimes kanban/scrume style. Responsive for helping flush out requirements, creating test plans and test cases, automation and manual/exploratory testing

Highlights
  • Built out the UI Automation Framework
  • Built out the API Autiomation Framework
  • Redesigned how test cases are structured
  • Work with QA Lead to help create a uniform QA Methodology across company
  • Assit in mentoring junior and manual testers
  • Helping launch the brand new mobile site and mobile applications

MeltMedia

QA Engineer www.meltmedia.com

A design and development agency. Worked and own multipled projects. Built internal tools used by BA's, PO's, and Dev's

Highlights
  • Creating test scripts using Selenium with Python
  • Reviewing UX/UI designs to try to find bugs before development
  • Mentoring Junior testesr
  • Built out tons of QA Documentation
  • Worked on open source software

Education

Arizona State University

Sociology www.asu.edu

Skills

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • SQL
  • API's
  • C#
  • Python
  • Web/App Testing
  • Accessibility Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Automation (Selenium/Cypress)