Joie Graves (She/Her/Hers)
About Joie Graves (She/Her/Hers)
Joie Graves is a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Lead at Livly, where she has worked since 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. She has extensive experience in quality assurance, having held various engineering roles at Livly and PayLease, and specializes in a range of testing methodologies.
Work at Livly
Joie Graves has served as the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Lead at Livly since 2021. In this role, she develops and executes manual test cases for over 10 developers across two scrum teams. She specializes in various testing types, including feature, system integration, exploratory, regression, UI, compatibility, smoke, and hotfix testing. Joie utilizes tools such as Cucumber for test scenario development and management. She collaborates closely with product owners, scrum team managers, and the CTO, and leads QA-related meetings while managing QA engineers.
Previous Experience
Prior to her current role, Joie worked at Livly as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer for 10 months in 2021 and as a QA Engineer I from 2019 to 2021. She also has experience at PayLease, where she held the position of Sr. Operations Engineer for 7 months in 2017 and worked as a Data Processing Lead from 2014 to 2017. Additionally, she served as an Assistant Manager in Convergent Billing at Ocius from 2006 to 2014 and as a Data Processor from 2005 to 2006.
Education and Expertise
Joie Graves earned her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English and Theatre from The University of North Dakota, where she studied from 1998 to 2003. She also completed her high school education at High Mowing School, graduating with a High School Diploma in 1997. Her educational background supports her expertise in quality assurance and software testing, where she employs tools such as SQL, Fiddler, Charles Proxy, and Dev tools for testing various applications.
Testing Skills and Tools
Joie specializes in conducting mobile testing on both Android and iOS devices, including native, web, and white label applications. She utilizes a range of testing tools and methodologies to ensure software quality. Her experience includes leading testing efforts across multiple platforms and managing complex test scenarios, which contributes to the overall success of the development teams she supports.