Kelly McNamara
Quality Assurance Lead
Overview
Kelly is an experienced Quality Assurance leader and engineer with over 25 years of experience in software quality assurance
roles. He has implemented processes designed to drive quality upstream in the development lifecycle. Kelly has lead both on-
shore and off-shore testing teams and has developed test plans and processes for a wide variety of software applications in
many industries. His overriding philosophy is to find defects as early in the SDLC as possible so that they can be fixed as cheaply
as possible.
Skills
• Quality Assurance
• Testing Processes
• Mobile Browser Testing
• Desktop App Testing
• Azure DevOps
• Desktop UI Test Automation
• Charles
• Fiddle
• Burp Proxy Tools
• SQL
• Manual/Functional Testing
Experience
Quality Assurance Lead
Five Pack • Tulsa, OK
Nov 2015 - Present
• Define testing standards for the quality assurance
group.
• Develop plans, strategies and test suites for testing
both mobile (iOS and Android) and web applications.
• Direct activities of QA team on multiple projects.
• Execute test plans, review user stories and designs for
early defect identification.
• Provide defect and test metrics reports to
stakeholders.
• Mentor junior QA staff.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Intuit • Plano, TX
Apr 2001 - Nov 2015
• Led testing effort on various professional tax and
accounting products (Lacerte Tax, TurboTax
Professional, QuickBooks Pro).
• Led testing teams of up to 8 testers.
• Developed test strategies and plans.
• Coordinated testing effort for both local and offshore
teams.
• Created UI test automation scripts for desktop
products using Borland SilkTest Serve as Scrum
Master, as needed.

Kelly McNamara
Quality Assurance Lead
Experience (Continued)
Product Owner & QA Analyst
Tax and Accounting Software Corporation • Tulsa, OK
May 1998 - Apr 2001
• Created test cases and plans for professional
accounting software Test applications and document
defects.
• Compiled defects from other testers onto master
defect lists.
• Led team of 6 testers.
• Designed UI for new Windows-based professional
accounting software product.
• Ensured data compatibility between DOS and
Windows applications.
Client Software Liaison
Educational Systems Products • Tulsa, OK
Jun 1990 - May 1998
• Performed Client data conversions.
• Completed on-site installation of college admin
software on client mini-computers Software training
for clients.
• Customized software to meet state-regulated
requirements.
• Designed electronic data transmission to state
agencies.
Education
Accounting
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma
1986 - 1990