Derrek Meade

Derrek Meade has a diverse work experience in the field of software quality assurance engineering. Derrek started their career at Harmonix Music Inc as a Quality Assurance Tester for the "Karaoke Revolution Party" video game. Derrek thoroughly played the game to identify any defects and logged them in an internal database for developers to fix.

After that, they worked at IBM Rational Software Inc as a Software Engineer, providing customer support for Rational Testing products through phone and email.

In 2012, Derrek joined Affinity Solutions as a Senior Enterprise QA Engineer. Here, they tested and debugged enterprise websites for banking and marketing companies, creating and executing manual and automated test cases. Derrek also performed regression testing on bug fixes.

In 2015, Derrek joined Digital Guardian as a Senior SQA Engineer. Derrek tested the compatibility of cyber security software against third-party applications and hotfixes using sensitive testing data. Derrek found unknown bugs that could exploit the software's purpose and logged them in JIRA. Derrek also ran thorough regression tests.

Currently, Derrek is working at Safety Insurance as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, with the start date in November 2019. No end date is provided.

Overall, Derrek Meade has had a progressive career in the field of software quality assurance engineering, gaining expertise in testing and debugging various software products.

Derrek Meade began their education in 2002 at the University of Hartford, where they pursued a degree in Computer Science. Derrek attended this institution for one year, completing their studies in 2003. Following this, Derrek enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where they continued their pursuit of Computer Science. Derrek dedicated three years to their studies at this university, successfully earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 2006.