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Hi, I'm Kari Skinner, a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing comprehensive QA programs from the ground up. I’ve established quality processes across health care, financial services, government, and open-source sectors, and I’m skilled at building automated test frameworks and CI/CD integrations. I’m passionate about balancing automation efficiency with thoughtful manual validation, architecting testing strategies, and delivering reliable software that improves patient outcomes and operational metrics. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring testers to achieve quality at every stage of the development lifecycle.…Hi, I'm Kari Skinner, a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing comprehensive QA programs from the ground up. I’ve established quality processes across health care, financial services, government, and open-source sectors, and I’m skilled at building automated test frameworks and CI/CD integrations. I’m passionate about balancing automation efficiency with thoughtful manual validation, architecting testing strategies, and delivering reliable software that improves patient outcomes and operational metrics. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring testers to achieve quality at every stage of the development lifecycle.

Kari Skinner

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Hi, I'm Kari Skinner, a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing comprehensive QA programs from the ground up. I’ve established quality processes across health care, financial services, government, and open-source sectors, and I’m skilled at building automated test frameworks and CI/CD integrations. I’m passionate about balancing automation efficiency with thoughtful manual validation, architecting testing strategies, and delivering reliable software that improves patient outcomes and operational metrics. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring testers to achieve quality at every stage of the development lifecycle.…Hi, I'm Kari Skinner, a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing comprehensive QA programs from the ground up. I’ve established quality processes across health care, financial services, government, and open-source sectors, and I’m skilled at building automated test frameworks and CI/CD integrations. I’m passionate about balancing automation efficiency with thoughtful manual validation, architecting testing strategies, and delivering reliable software that improves patient outcomes and operational metrics. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring testers to achieve quality at every stage of the development lifecycle.

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Hi, I’m Kari Skinner, a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing comprehensive QA programs from the ground up. I’ve established quality processes across health care, financial services, government, and open-source sectors, and I’m skilled at building automated test frameworks and CI/CD integrations.

I’m passionate about balancing automation efficiency with thoughtful manual validation, architecting testing strategies, and delivering reliable software that improves patient outcomes and operational metrics. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring testers to achieve quality at every stage of the development lifecycle.

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Work Experience

Quality Assurance Analyst at The Jahnel Group

July 31, 2020 - Present

Built a complete QA program from scratch for an open-source alliance. Architected and implemented a comprehensive automated test suite using Playwright/JavaScript with 47 automated tests covering smoke, regression, version validation, and documentation testing. Designed a shift-left testing approach where smoke tests run on every PR and regression tests run on the develop branch post-merge, plus scheduled runs every 6 hours; developed 72 manual test cases and custom utility scripts including a Link Checker for periodic validation; created live dashboards with auto-updating metrics, visual test results, 7-day trends, and quality indicators.

Test Analyst II at Preferred Mutual Insurance Company

April 29, 2017 - July 30, 2020

End-to-end testing for a billing system replacement project, creating 300+ test cases and identifying 100+ critical defects prior to production release. Maintained detailed user stories and defect tracking in Team Foundation Server, ensuring clear documentation and traceability. Conducted mainframe and database testing to validate data migration accuracy and billing calculation logic. Maintained a 95%+ pass rate through systematic test execution across multiple releases.