Portland, Oregon · Remote

Bill Howze

Senior Mobile QA Engineer · Release QA · Software Test Engineer

About

Senior mobile quality assurance professional with 10+ years testing high-traffic iOS, Android, web, and service-based products across healthcare, aviation, and e-commerce. Hands-on background in release ownership, feature QA, regression and exploratory testing, test strategy, defect triage, WCAG accessibility testing, and Appium and Playwright automation.

Trusted to assess release risk, approve production candidates, and translate requirements and code changes into actionable coverage. Currently using Claude and Codex CLI tools to analyze tickets and pull requests, find coverage gaps, and generate targeted manual and automated tests.

Experience

Android Release QA · Feature QA

Jun 2025 – Present

Doximity · Remote

  • Sole Android release QA: own weekly regression, build validation, release-risk assessment, and production sign-off.
  • Expanded into feature QA while keeping release ownership, partnering with engineering to validate new functionality and fixes.
  • Use Claude Code CLI and Codex CLI to analyze Jira tickets and GitHub pull requests, organize TestRail runs, identify coverage gaps, and create targeted manual and automated tests.
  • Run Appium and Playwright suites and extend automation coverage with AI-assisted development.

Quality Assurance Specialist

Jun 2024 – Aug 2025

Odyssey Information Services for Southwest Airlines · Remote

  • Manual QA across the Southwest Airlines iOS and Android apps in an Agile delivery environment.
  • Executed test plans, documented defects, validated fixes, and supported recurring production releases while surfacing risk early with developers and product owners.

iOS Developer · Structured On-the-Job Training

May 2023 – May 2024

eBay · Selling team

  • Transitioned from QA into a development assignment: built Swift and SwiftUI components, participated in code reviews, and wrote unit and UI automation tests for shipped work.
  • Completed focused training in Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, MVVM, design patterns, TDD, and Git.

Software Engineer 3, Quality Assurance

2018 – 2023

eBay · Portland, OR

  • Owned mobile QA strategy across eBay Classifieds, Core, Core E2E, and Selling teams on iOS and Android.
  • Developed and maintained iOS UI automation in XCUITest; streamlined regression from weeks to days with focused, feature-driven suites.
  • Owned accessibility testing under eBay's company-wide mandate, validating against WCAG 2.1 AA with VoiceOver, TalkBack, Switch Control, Dynamic Type, and contrast tooling.
  • Led proof-of-concepts, trained new QA hires, and represented QA in design and release reviews.

Software Engineer 1 → 2, Quality Assurance

2013 – 2018

eBay · Portland, OR

  • Built test plans and strategies, including WCAG criteria, from requirements and specs in partnership with Product and Engineering.
  • Authored Objective-C and Swift automation for iOS client and service testing; contributed iOS and Android automation to the shared framework.
  • Administered feature flags, ran A/B experiments, validated APIs with Postman, and served as interim Scrum Master for the Selling team.

Shipped projects

Hang Timer: 30-Day Challenge

iOS app · Apple App Store

Consumer iOS app I designed, built, tested, and published using Claude-assisted development.

What Did I Build

Developer web tool · Next.js on Vercel

Helps developers clearly describe what they built. Live site with its own domain, email, and API integrations.

Cretins MC Member Portal

Web app · Next.js, Supabase, Resend

Members-only club portal with passwordless email login, event signups, an admin area, and live treasury data synced from Google Sheets.

Exercise apps

iOS · In development

A rucking tracker for distance, speed, weight, and goals, plus a wrist and forearm strength app.

Skills

Testing

Release QA & sign-offTest strategyRegressionExploratoryEnd-to-endRisk-based testingDefect triageAPI validationAccessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)UAT

Automation & AI tooling

AppiumPlaywrightXCUITestXCTestRepeatoClaude Code CLICodex CLI

Platforms & languages

iOSAndroidwatchOSWebSwiftSwiftUIObjective-C

Tools

JiraTestRailGitHubJenkinsXcodeAndroid StudioPostmanCharles ProxyProxymanWireshark

Education

B.S. Music · Portland State University / Georgia Southern University (Armstrong Campus)

iOS & Swift Fundamentals · Big Nerd Ranch, 2023