About

Mark Leslie is a technology professional with 8 years of experience in software development, web development, and retail. He is an adaptive professional who specializes in web programming, QA testing, and interdepartmental communications. Mark is currently working as a Data Quality Engineer / QA Engineer at ultranauts inc, a New York-based technology company that provides high-quality, highly responsive software testing services. With the company since the beginning, Mark was able to prove the model that people in the Asperger’s spectrum were ideally suited to be QA testers. Mark has a strong attention to detail and is able to closely follow and scrutinize acceptance criteria specified in user stories to deliver high-quality results in a timely fashion. He is experienced in defining, scoping, and sizing test cases according to the associated user stories. Mark is also able to function effectively within agile frameworks and is adaptable to regularly changing client needs while at the same time ensuring that the quality of delivered products was always held at the highest standards. Mark has established a good baseline of communication between other team members, including the development team, designers, and project managers. He has managed to spot and smooth out any issues as they arose by analyzing communications and filling in any gaps in understanding. Prior to ultranauts inc, Mark worked as a Web Programmer at scott briefer design, a freelance web design consultancy firm. He also worked as a Bookseller at Barnes & Noble College, the largest bookseller in the US. Mark has a strong educational background, having studied Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh and Maths and Sciences at Cults Academy, Aberdeen, Scotland. He has a wide range of technical skills, including QA, Web, test, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, and Software Engineer. Mark enjoys traveling and learning new languages, and he believes that getting to know how different people work and what they value helps him to remain adaptive and effective when entering any new situation.