Summary
Andrea Kennedy is a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 11 years of experience building and executing test strategies across healthcare and enterprise platforms. She has driven end-to-end testing鈥攕moke, functional, system and regression鈥攚ithin agile teams at Change Healthcare and Optum, collaborating closely with developers and product owners to close critical defects before release. Comfortable with test tooling and cloud services, she brings hands-on knowledge of ReadyAPI, Jenkins, GitLab, Genrocket, Airflow and AWS (CloudWatch, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, EMR). Her background in business analysis and long tenure in healthcare payments gives her a pragmatic, risk-focused approach to quality that balances automation and real-world data scenarios. Based in Northampton, MA, she also brings an unusual combination of technical rigor and people-facing experience from earlier roles including dance instruction, which informs her clear communication and team coaching.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst