I am a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing comprehensive QA programs from the ground up across healthcare, financial services, government, and open-source ecosystems. I specialize in building automated test frameworks and CI/CD integrations, balancing automation efficiency with thorough manual validation to deliver reliable software. Throughout my career, I've led QA initiatives for diverse teams, established quality processes, and architected testing strategies that reduce risk and improve patient safety, data integrity, and user experience. I am passionate about mentoring teams and translating complex requirements into scalable, high-quality testing solutions.

Kari Skinner

I am a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing comprehensive QA programs from the ground up across healthcare, financial services, government, and open-source ecosystems. I specialize in building automated test frameworks and CI/CD integrations, balancing automation efficiency with thorough manual validation to deliver reliable software. Throughout my career, I've led QA initiatives for diverse teams, established quality processes, and architected testing strategies that reduce risk and improve patient safety, data integrity, and user experience. I am passionate about mentoring teams and translating complex requirements into scalable, high-quality testing solutions.

Next availability:
June 1, 2026

I am a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing comprehensive QA programs from the ground up across healthcare, financial services, government, and open-source ecosystems. I specialize in building automated test frameworks and CI/CD integrations, balancing automation efficiency with thorough manual validation to deliver reliable software.

Throughout my career, I’ve led QA initiatives for diverse teams, established quality processes, and architected testing strategies that reduce risk and improve patient safety, data integrity, and user experience. I am passionate about mentoring teams and translating complex requirements into scalable, high-quality testing solutions.

See more

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Quality Assurance Analyst at The Jahnel Group
August 1, 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.

Education

Associate in Applied Science at Utica School of Commerce, Utica, NY
January 11, 2030 - May 13, 2026

Qualifications

Add your qualifications or awards here.

Industry Experience

Healthcare, Financial Services, Government, Software & Internet, Professional Services