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Brian Donovan

QA Manager

Orlando, FL, USA20 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of QA experience in diverse environments.
  • Expertise in both manual and automated testing methodologies.
  • Proven track record of high-impact defect identification.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a QA Engineer specializing in E-commerce and SaaS testing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Test AutomationApi TestingWeb Development

Other Skills

AutomationSeleniumMicrosoft PlaywrightREST APISQLContinuous Integration (CI)C#Continuous Delivery (CD)Selenium WebDriverSelenium TestingPostman APIPOSTMANJiraConfluenceTest Rail

About

Senior Engineer with 15+ years of QA experience. Designed comprehensive test frameworks and lead quality initiatives across Web, Mobile, SaaS, and cloud-native platforms (AWS/Azure). Strong background in both manual and automated QA in Waterfall and Agile environments. Recognized for uncovering high-impact edge-case defects prior to production release. Automation: C#, Python, Selenium, Playwright, Page Object Model (POM), REST/gRPC API Automation, Framework Design Manual: Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Exploratory, Load/Performance, API testing, Hardware/Lab Testing Tools: POSTMAN, Insomnia, Jira, Confluence, BrowserStack, TestRail, HP-ALM, Appium, Visual Studio, PyCharm, GitHub CoPilot Cloud & DevOps Exposure: AWS, Azure, CI/CD pipelines

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Better it florida

Testing Consultant

Oct 2025Present · 7 mos · Orlando, FL · Remote

AutomationSeleniumMicrosoft PlaywrightAPI TestingREST APISQL+2

Govx

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Nov 2022Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Orlando, Florida, United States · Remote

  • Automated and Manual Testing for GovX, an E-commerce company that offers discounts to Military/First Responders/Government employees.
  • Automation duties:
  • Assisted with conversion of Automation framework from Selenium to Microsoft Playwright
  • Created service layer code and tests
  • Languages used were C# and Powershell
  • API/REST/GRPC testing using C# and POSTMAN
  • Version control with GitHub
  • Achieved 90% automation of Regression and Smoke tests
  • CI/CD integration using Azure
  • Manual duties:
  • Testing JIRA stories/defects
  • Authored Test Plans and an extensive Test Case library using Test Rail and later BrowserStack
  • Defect reporting and management
  • SQL data validation using Microsoft SMSS
  • Participated in daily scrum
C#Test AutomationContinuous Delivery (CD)Continuous Integration (CI)Selenium WebDriverSelenium Testing+7

Keas group

QA Engineer, Automated and Manual

Oct 2019Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

  • Automation duties:
  • Assisted with creation of Automated Testing Framework
  • Created a large amount of tests, and some service code
  • Language used was Python
  • API/REST Testing with Python and Insomnia
  • Version control with GitLab
  • Achieved 75% automation of Regression and Smoke tests
  • CI/CD integration using AWS
  • Manual duties:
  • Testing JIRA stories/defects
  • Authored Test Plans and an extensive Test Case library using Test Rail
  • Defect reporting and management
  • SQL Data Validation in PostgreSQL
  • Participated in daily scrum
PythonAPI TestingInsomniaPostgreSQLTest Automation

Ameren

Quality Assurance Test Lead

Mar 2018Feb 2019 · 11 mos · Greater St. Louis Area

  • Managed and coordinated the UAT testing for the ADMS (Power distribution management software) upgrade. Brought in as a contractor to implement a holistic style testing approach including all customer facing applications together with the backend ADMS / CSS / OAS / FocalPoint systems. Contracted services were completed on time and under budget.
  • Worked with application owners to design high level scenarios
  • Coordinated test case design
  • Managed execution with all teams in several day- long conference calls
  • Collected and organized screenshots plus other documentation of results
  • Presented daily and weekly status reports to management
  • Performed defect management- driving investigations to resolution

Animal shelter(non profit)

Web Application Design/Implementation

Nov 2017Jan 2018 · 2 mos · Kirksville, MO

  • Designed, developed, tested, and implemented a web application to allow animal shelters to accept/manage animal adoptions as well as tracking of animal health records. Application is tightly coupled with petfinder.com(Owned by Nestle Purina).
  • Written in PHP, with HTML/CSS as front end
  • Object oriented style
  • Unit tests developed and maintained for each module
  • Uses RESTful API calls to petfinder.com to retrieve animal listings
  • MySQL is database backend
  • Extensive use of SQL SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE queries
  • Compound queries and joins
  • Cron jobs for DB maintenance and email notifications
  • Created new logon and account management system for both adopters and rescue staff
  • Application has front end for adopters and back end for admin staff

Amdocs

4 roles

Senior Testing and Design Lead - AT&T Fixed Wireless Internet

Jul 2015Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Testing lead for AT&T's latest product- Fixed Wireless Internet. This product is one of AT&T's newest offerings; it allows customers who live in rural areas without traditional wired internet access to have high speed internet access via unused spectrum on AT&T's mobility network. My job was to manage the testing of the integration of this service into AT&T's existing ordering/billing/provisioning and mobility network elements. This position included two months of travel to AT&T's Research and Development lab to perform live device testing and troubleshooting as well as assisting in live device API call development.
  • Worked with AT&T Strategy team to design 20+ high level end to end scenarios, ensuring all
  • major functionalities covered and validations performed at all process milestones
  • Monitored/validated environment set up of ordering, billing and provisioning applications,
  • including all necessary test data loads
  • Supervised set up of telephone numbers, Home Subscriber Server(HSS) and other LTE network
  • elements necessary to activate service
  • After environment setup, supervised and participated in test execution. Testing was full flow
  • through, from customer creation all the way through activation and validation of ordered
  • services
  • For the above validations- was sent to Atlanta to work in AT&T research labs- worked inside a
  • faraday cage with test antennas and eNodeB(cell tower) to validate that the wireless service was
  • functioning as ordered after provisioning
  • Extensive work in defect management with development, vendors, and designers- bringing all
  • defects to successful closure
  • Supervised four testers, two offshore, 1 onshore at main office and one in AT&T research labs
  • Collaborated with Ericcson and Cisco engineering support to set up and troubleshoot LTE
  • services and billing
  • Worked with Cisco Jasper software to validate proper flows of data/voice traffic through LTE
  • network and usage billing systems

Testing and Design Lead - AT&T Uverse and Mobility

Promoted

Nov 2013Jun 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Position was as a Team Lead for the AT&T Uverse End to End testing. The team tested the execution/data flow of orders and other customer interactions(such as tech support) through the 300+ applications that work together to provide U-verse Internet, Phone(CVOIP) and IPTV services.
  • 2 major responsibilities:
  • Planning/Design:
  • Worked with AT&T during High Level Design Reviews to ensure 150+ testing scenarios had proper coverage of requirements and were plausible given environment constraints
  • Worked with AT&T and other vendors to ensure environment was ready for full flow-through
  • testing
  • Supervised the creation of detailed test cases for all stages of execution
  • Test scenarios were both regression and new functionality
  • Execution:
  • Flow through testing of all applications involved in customer relations, ordering, provisioning,
  • billing, customer notifications(such as usage overage warnings) and troubleshooting for AT&T
  • end users(systems involved when customer calls AT&T support for problems with service)
  • Database validations in ordering and billing systems
  • Investigated and managed code/data/interface/design defects, and brought them to resolution
  • Extensive work with middleware/adapter software such as IBM Websphere Application Server,
  • IBM Websphere MQ, proprietary UNIX/LINUX based software
  • Supervised conversion testing of Amdocs Ordering and Billing platforms for migration from
  • UNIX to Linux
  • Notable projects and accomplishments:
  • Managed the conversion testing of major Amdocs applications from Unix to Linux
  • Designed and executed infrastructure ugrades including 8mhz to 17mhz, single pair to bonded
  • pair, introduction of Gigabit speed packages, Internet usage billing, and major upgrades to
  • dispatch systems
  • Led a team of approximately five onshore and fifteen offshore testers to one hundred percent completion of assigned work on time and under budget
  • Multiple commendations from leadership and client for quality and customer
  • satisfaction

Testing Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2010Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Member of AT&T Uverse End to End testing team. This team tested the flow between applications that provide U-verse services to AT&T customers.
  • Responsibilities included:
  • Execution of test scenarios, validating the interoperation of 300+ software applications that
  • work together to provide and maintain customer services
  • Validated all steps of the flow(Customer creation(address and credit eligibility), order creation
  • and submission, provisioning on AT&T network elements, customer equipment
  • activation(routers, TV set top boxes, CVOIP phones)
  • Extensive use of SQL queries(heavy use of compound queries and joins) to validate all backend
  • DB systems(mainly Oracle based)
  • Drove all defect investigations, working withdevelopment, vendors, environment owners, data
  • teams, and AT&T strategy team to resolve all defects
  • Worked with a diverse team from the USA, Mexico, India, Israel, and Phillipines

Helpdesk Analyst/Software Development for AT&T Yellow Pages Help Desk

Nov 2005Nov 2010 · 5 yrs

  • 2 responsibilities:
  • Helpdesk Analyst
  • Account management such as password resets, unlocks,RSA securID support
  • Setup and troubleshooting of MsOffice applications, mostly Outlook and Excel issues
  • Supported Amdocs applications such as Amdocs CRM(Customer Relationship Management)
  • Advanced troubleshooting of system performance issues
  • Virus removal and system repair
  • Hardware diagnostics(hard drive/memory)
  • Assisted clients with major Java upgrades and conversions
  • Software developer
  • Developed and maintained "Whiteboard" application which shared information about outages
  • between different teams at many locations. Developed in C using Win32 API, with SQLite
  • database backend.
  • Developed and maintained an online intranet portal which allowed clients to manage their
  • Windows NT account. Features included Active Directory password resets, account unlocks,
  • ability reset password for AT&T proprietary systems, and links to troubleshooting tools and tips
  • Application was developed on C#.NET and hosted on IIS web server

Security information systems

Hardware Software Technician

Mar 2003Mar 2005 · 2 yrs

  • Managed all computer operations for Monitoring and Surveillance systems.

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