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Jared Howard

Software Engineer · contact@jaredhoward.com · jaredhoward.com

Summary

Software engineer working as a QA Software Engineer at enChoice, Inc., with a background leading the development and maintenance of automated Cypress and Playwright test suites. Alongside the day job I run an independent practice building and maintaining custom web applications for small-business clients.

Experience

QA Software Engineer at enChoice, Inc. — May 2025–Present

  • Contributing to the test-automation suite using Cypress.
  • Building security automation with OWASP ZAP.
  • Creating Bitbucket Pipelines to run the automated tests in CI.
  • Reviewing and triaging the reports from automated test runs.
  • Contributing to scrums and sprint planning on a daily/weekly basis.

Senior SDET at Paymerang — April 2023–April 2025

  • Leading the development of several automation projects, employing tools such as Cypress and Playwright.
  • Leading and onboarding a new remote Indian SDET team.
  • Worked with an Australian team (Sypht), contributing to different frontend and backend projects.
  • Helped the development team at Paymerang improve their Remix apps.
  • Contributed to scrums and sprint planning on a daily/weekly basis.

QA Engineer at enChoice — July 2022–April 2023

  • Testing new features under development.
  • Creating as well as maintaining tests on their automated test suite.
  • Integrated Cucumber with our existing test suite, enhancing the overall efficiency of our testing processes.
  • Created and executed test cases in Zephyr for Regression testing.
  • Participation in scrums and sprint planning on a daily/weekly basis.

Internship at enChoice — January 2020–March 2020

  • Shadowing developers and QA engineers.
  • Actively participating in their daily tasks and contributing to various projects.
  • Extensively working with JSON files, updating information to ensure its seamless integration within our product.

Externship at NYCTechPros — July 2019–September 2019

Further developed a website for a client as part of my final semester.

Education

Le Moyne College — Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | May 2022

  • Minor in Mathematics
  • Athletic Scholarship (Tennis)

ASA College — Associates degree in Computer Programming and Inf.Tech | September 2019

  • Athletic Scholarship (Tennis)

Skills

Programming: Javascript, Python, HCL

Software: Gitlab, Github, Azure Devops, AWS, GCP, Jira

Relevant Coursework: Data Structures and Algorithms, Object Oriented Software Design, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Computer Architecture, Calculus, Discrete Mathematics, Introduction to Probability

Foreign Languages: Afrikaans

School Projects

Le Moyne Dolphin App — May 2022

For my honors project I built a news app using Xamarin. I learnt about mobile app development and gained experience with the .Net framework and the C# programming language.

Farkle Game — December 2021

Built a game using Java to implement certain design principles and follow security requirements. Final product was playable from the command line and stored data in an XML file.

Simulate Operating System — May 2021

Built functions to simulate operations of numerous operating systems. Implemented the inter-process communication mechanism. Used multithreading and scheduling algorithms. Built a memory manager for the simulation.

Awards

  • ASA College Dean's List
  • Le Moyne College Academic Excellence Spring 2020
  • Le Moyne College Academic Excellence Fall 2020
  • Le Moyne College Academic Honors Spring 2021
  • Northeast-10 Conference Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award
  • NE10 All-Academic Team
  • Elite 24 Award recipient
  • NE10 Player of the Year
  • All-Conference First Team at #1 singles and #1 doubles