Summary
A Winters is a seasoned QA Analyst and software test engineer with over a decade of experience specializing in eCommerce product, cart, and checkout flows and end-to-end quality for high-traffic releases. They blend hands-on automation, performance testing, and manual validation—having reduced test cycle times and accelerated bug documentation with Unix tooling and self-serve dashboards—to keep peak events like Black Friday and Super Bowl running smoothly. With a background as a full-stack web developer and bootcamp teaching assistant, A brings front-end chops alongside deep QA process expertise, often acting as the QA area owner across large projects at Apple, Amazon, Groupon, and Niantic. Based in Renton, WA, they’re driven to improve customer experience through pragmatic test strategies and cross-team collaboration, and they describe themselves as a creator of esoteric worlds who turned from “destroyer of code” into a builder—hinting at a creative, game-aware testing perspective.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at University of Washington
Transfer Associate Degree Computer Science, Transfer Associate Degree Computer Science at Bellevue College
Integrated Computer Applications Focus on operating systems computer hardware networking and web development, Integrated Computer Applications Focus on operating systems computer hardware networking and web development at Business Computer Training Institute