Summary
Brian Maxwell is a pragmatic Software Quality Assurance Analyst with 13 years of dedicated experience ensuring reliability for large financial and enterprise systems. He has advanced through hands-on roles from technical support to lead QA, designing test strategies, performing both black- and white-box testing, and guiding releases for clients such as Barclays, Citizens, and American Express. Comfortable across Unix, Linux, and Windows, he blends mathematical rigor (B.S. Mathematics, CSU Chico) with practical scripting and debugging in Java, Perl, C, and XML to solve tricky production issues and automate test data. Brian excels at scoping projects, mentoring new QA and development hires, and translating client requirements into auditable delivery plans. Colleagues know him for shipping dependable software under tight SLAs and for a wry coding humility—he writes code “not always well thought out” but gets it working and iterates until it’s solid.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Science, Mathematics, Bachelor Science, Mathematics at California State University-Chico