Stephen O'Day

Stephen O'Day has over 29 years of work experience in various roles and industries. Stephen started their career at Clear Channel Communications where they worked as an Assistant Program Director, Traffic Manager, and eventually became a Program Director responsible for the entire on-air product of a medium market radio station. During their time at Clear Channel Communications, Stephen developed customized software to automate commercial data reconciliation.

After leaving Clear Channel Communications, Stephen joined Video Communications, Inc. as a Broadcast Operations Analyst, where they provided consulting and training to broadcast television and cable clients. Stephen eventually worked their way up to the role of Manager of Implementations, Training, and Consulting, where they managed multiple simultaneous data conversion projects and a team of Broadcast Operations Analysts.

Stephen then joined ESPN as a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, working within the agile framework to develop software that served the business needs of the sports media industry. Stephen was responsible for testing software applications to ensure compliance with functional specifications.

Most recently, Stephen has been working at Health New England as a Senior Information Technology Business Analyst. Stephen has served as a Software Quality Assurance Lead, where they worked within varied development frameworks to ensure the delivery of high-quality software in the health insurance domain. Their responsibilities included assessing manual and automated testing needs, authoring and maintaining test plans and test cases for major web development and ETL initiatives.

Throughout their career, Stephen has demonstrated a strong technical skill set, including proficiency in SQL and automation tools such as Selenium/Python. Stephen has also consistently shown the ability to work effectively within agile and waterfall development frameworks.

Stephen O'Day attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree. Their field of study is not specified. Additionally, Stephen O'Day has a certification in Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) from the ITSQB. The exact month and year of when they obtained this certification are unknown.