Alanna Risse
QA Engineer at Back Office by Buyers Edge Platform
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAlanna Risse is a QA engineer and seasoned web developer with nearly two decades of hands-on experience designing accessible, responsive web applications and leading testing efforts across startups, enterprise retailers, and public institutions. Based in Portland, she combines practical QA rigor with UX/UI teaching as an adjunct instructor at Portland State University, where she trains juniors and seniors in accessible design, advanced front-end techniques, and real-world testing practices. Her background spans full-cycle web development—custom WordPress builds, React/Ember projects, and marketing site migrations—paired with curriculum design and one-on-one technical mentoring. Alanna’s work blends creative practice (MFA in Visual Studies) with technical disciplines, making her particularly skilled at translating visual concepts into testable, inclusive digital experiences. She’s equally comfortable writing acceptance tests in Jira as she is advising on marketing ops and SEO for small businesses, bringing a rare combo of pedagogy, design sensibility, and pragmatic QA to every project.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Studio Art, Communication Design, Studio Art, Communication Design at Foothill CollegeBFA, Painting/Drawing, BFA, Painting/Drawing at California College of the ArtsFine/Studio Arts, General, Fine/Studio Arts, General at City College of San FranciscoMaster of Fine Arts (MFA), Visual Studies, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art
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Github Skills (22)
test-project8
javascript8
shieldsio8
blazor6
azure-pipelines6
asp-net-core6
razor6
nuget6
mongoose5
expressjs4
des4
api3
mongodb3
git-addons3
libgit23
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Thinkful-PDX-Dev/AppyHour-client
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 months
alannarisse/alannarisse.github.io
May 2018 - May 2022
my github page
Contributions:150 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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