Clare Mclennan
QA Manager at Ruby Play Network
Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolClare Mclennan is a QA Manager and engineering coach with 15 years of experience helping teams deliver quality software more reliably through Specification by Example, ATDD/BDD and automated testing. She blends hands-on test automation design with release testing management and agile coaching across Scrum and Kanban teams, often improving continuous integration and build systems. Her background spans senior engineering and QA leadership roles at startups and organisations including Ruby Play Network, Voyager Internet and The Cacophony Project, plus long-running freelance work as a test automation consultant. Clare teaches communication and collaboration skills for technical teams and has lectured and mentored in university and school settings, reflecting a strong emphasis on knowledge transfer. Notably, she pairs practical coding experience (full-stack and controls programming early in her career) with facilitation-led process improvement, making her effective at shifting team practices as well as tools. Based in Canterbury, New Zealand, she focuses on turning ambiguous requirements into executable, auditable specifications that speed reliable releases.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Bachelor of Science with Honours at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (53)
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server9
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motion-detection9
docker8
garmin8
television8
flir8
vms8
api-server8
machine-learning8
hls-stream7
python7
video-recording6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TheCacophonyProject/integration-tests
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
Integration tests to check the various parts of the Cacophony ecosystem work together
Contributions:4 reviews, 11 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 7 months
testingpartsecosystemintegration-tests
clare/cacophony-browse
May 2019 - Jul 2021
The web interface for the Cacophony Project API
Contributions:66 pushes, 51 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 2 months
apiapi-projectweb-interface
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