Summary
Jesse Costales is a QA Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience automating RESTful and SOAP APIs, web UIs with Selenium, and unit testing with JUnit across finance and large enterprise products. He combines test automation with strong backend validation skills working with MS SQL Server and Cassandra, CI tooling, and Agile processes to deliver reliable releases. His background includes safety-critical avionics and embedded systems testing for platforms like the AH-64 Apache and A400, bringing rigor from DoD standards to commercial software quality. Jesse has field-deployed and trained units worldwide, blending hands-on support with test engineering—a less common mix that sharpens real-world system validation. He’s contributed SDET expertise at companies including SigFig, Expedia, and Live Nation, and is comfortable across languages and tools from Java/Python to SoapUI and HP ALM. Based in Mesa, Arizona, he pairs operational discipline with pragmatic automation to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (AA), Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, Associate of Arts (AA), Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at Honolulu Community College
Bachelor of Divinity, Bible/Biblical Studies, Bachelor of Divinity, Bible/Biblical Studies at PBI
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at New Mexico State University