Lauren Wark

I spend most of my time making digital illustrations and lifting weights. I love learning and the outdoors. I am currently looking to transition out of the tech sector. 

CAVA                                                                                                   November 2021 - Oct 2024  QA Analyst                                                                                                  Richmond, VA / remote

Responsibilities: 

• Attended daily Agile Scrum events including daily standup, sprint planning, story refinement, sprint review, and release planning.
• Oversaw the Quality Assurance of the transition to Microservices of CAVA applications as the Lead Microservices QA
• Performed API testing and back-end testing for data validation 
• Tested APIs for functionality and security
• Logged defects in Jira and communicated with the necessary team members
• Analyzed stories to create, review, and execute robust manual test cases.
• Performed regression testing and analyzed manual test cases from a given Sprint for automation candidates.
• Created Javascript test scripts for Postman API testing 
• Co-planned the architecture for new Automation Framework for Microservices
• Participated in meetings, preparing reports and other supportive documentation to
  contribute to the establishment of procedures for testing and standards for our code
• Environment: WebDriver IO, Javascript, GIT, NodeJS, Mocha, Jira, CircleCI, BDD, LaunchDarkly, AWS, PostgreSQL, Agile Scrum

EDUCATION

Virginia Commonwealth University                                                          August 2010 - June 2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Arts                                                           Richmond, VA