Hey! I'm Brendan, a product-minded QA & software engineer with a variety of technical experiences in the software space, including roles as QA Automation Engineer, DevOps Engineer, QA Analyst, and Product Manager. I have worked with SaaS startups of all sizes, early pre-seed, post-seed, and post-acquisition, as well as I have worked with a handful of software consulting firms. I have been living nomadically around the world, mostly in Latin America, while working remotely since June 2019.
I am offering services as a QA and Web Engineer for web and mobile applications, as a QA Engineer writing automated suites and performing manual testing, as well as full-stack web development building custom web applications or websites. In addition, I offer services as an Accessibility Specialist regarding WCAG compliance, auditing, and remediation.
I love helping people create high-quality, value-driven products for their businesses or side projects. I hope to be able to help you create something special!
Web services offered:
🔸 Custom web applications using React & various SQL databases
🔸 Small business Wordpress websites & blogs -- design, hosting & maintenance
🔸 Shopify e-commerce sites
QA Automation & Testing services:
🔸 Automated testing - automated test suite creation & management using Playwright, implementing various automated features such as user e2e testing, visual difference testing, sms testing, & custom product-specific test scripts/logic
🔸 API testing - API automation using Postman collection in CI/CD
🔸 Manual testing - test case creation, management, and execution
🔸 End-to-End, Regression, Feature, API, and Database testing
🔸 Consultant/Architect: consult & design how to build & implement QA processes, tools, and philosophies into an existing product development workflow or project
🔸 Multi-device and multi-browser testing available: Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, and iPad
🔸 Tools: Playwright, Postman, TestRails, Jenkins/CircleCI/GH Pipelines, Axe, BrowserStack/SauceLabs, Jira/Asana/Trello/Monday, GitHub/BitBucket
Accessibility services:
🔹 Accessibility audit of entire website or application using a mixture of manual and automated technologies
🔹 Remediation breakdown of how to fix every accessibility violation, with User Experience recommendations
🔹 WCAG 2.0 or 2.1 AA compliance
🔹 VPAT creation (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template)
🔹 Consultation on how to maintain accessibility compliance and how to integrate accessibility testing processes into everyday QA processes
🔹 Testing technologies used include: Screen readers (VoiceOver, NVDA, TalkBack), AxeTools, Google Lighthouse, Wave, and Pa11y
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👨💻 Curious, product-minded Software and QA Engineer with a variety of technical experiences in SaaS
⚠️ Calculated risk-taker not afraid of testing the boundaries of life and society in order to create unique experiences for myself. Firm believer in working to live, not living to work.
💼 Expertise includes web development, software testing (automated and manual), accessibility and WCAG testing/audits/remediation, process improvement and efficiency, Agile methodologies and implementation, User Experience strategy, product development, product management, and WordPress websites/blogs
❤️🔥 Passionate about international travel & backpacking, hiking & camping, snowboarding, digital equality & web accessibility, product development, process efficiency, cooking/eating new food, and always trying to leave things better than I found them
🎒 Living nomadically around the world since June 2019, traveling with only my hiking backpack and laptop. Have backpacked around South and Central America, traveled the West Coast of the US in a camper van during the pandemic, as well as traveled to India and Thailand. Thanks to my extensive time living and traveling in Latin America, I have developed Spanish fluency.