Darren Watson
Quality Assurance Consultant at TEKsystems
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Watson is a Quality Assurance consultant with 11 years of experience shaping reliable web and product experiences from game consoles to enterprise SaaS. He blends hands-on defect fixes in Angular, TypeScript, and C# with leadership of cross-functional QA teams, accessibility efforts, and automation frameworks like Cypress, Selenium, and REST-Assured. At Sprout Social he closed critical testing gaps by building backend API suites and analytical dashboards that reduced recurring support bugs and informed product risk decisions. Known for creating productivity tools in Python and test templates that raise confidence in releases, he pairs process improvements with practical coding skills. Based in Chicago, Darren brings a tester’s curiosity to design reviews and pre-mortems, often surfacing stop-ship issues early. He’s motivated by making work easier and more consistent, turning lessons learned into repeatable team practices.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lake Washington High SchoolDesktop Support Specialist, CIS (Computer Information Systems), Desktop Support Specialist, CIS (Computer Information Systems) at Edmonds Community College
Github Skills (1)
rpg3
Github contributions (5)
torggaman/Simple_rpg
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 16 PRs, 30 pushes in 29 days
rpggameanimekonosuba
torggaman/destinypy
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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