Ana Morales

A passionate Software Engineer with 15+ years of combined experience in software development, leadership, management, and quality assurance. An advocate for a healthy work environment, collaboration, engineering best practices including accessibility and sensible user experience. A continuous learner - if you're not learning, you're not growing mentality.

Work Experience

Career Break

Personal

April 2023 - March 2024

  • After being impacted by layoff, I took a career break to take care of some personal matters, spend quality time with family, and personal development. While on break, I made sure that I’m keeping my technical skills up to date.

Engineering Manager

Uvaro, Remote

October 2022 - April 2023

  • Mentored, coached, and fostered the growth and development of software engineers through regular one-on-ones, goal setting, and code reviews.
  • Implemented agile and engineering process changes that greatly improved team engagement, collaboration, communication, performance, and quality.
  • Collaborated with other managers, Product, and UX Designer to plan and guide project delivery.
  • Championed Web Accessibility and guided the team, product/ux in delivering web accessible features.
  • Participated in hiring plans and hiring interviews.

Senior Software Engineer

FlowPoint Technologies Ltd., Remote

December 2021 - September 2022

  • Led the implementation of the Design System and integrated the components and design tokens in the codebase.
  • Built product features and technical sustainability work using React (NextJS), Typescript, Emotion, GraphQL (Hasura).
  • Conducted and participated in code reviews.
  • Championed Web Accessibility and guided the team, product/ux in delivering web accessible features.

Frontend Engineer

Daylight Automation Inc., Remote

April 2021 - December 2021

  • Built high-quality, accessible, reusable, and maintainable React components for the angular-to-react migration of the platform.
  • Conducted and participated in code reviews.

Software Engineer

League, Remote

December 2019 - April 2021

  • Implemented Benefits Enrollment features using React, Redux, and styled-components. Conducted and participated in code reviews.
  • Updated components to be A11y compliant and advocated web accessibility through presentation and design feedback.

QA Manager

ecobee, Toronto

January 2018 - July 2019

  • Coached and mentored 12 QA Engineers fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
  • Conducted regular 1:1’s, goal settings, OKR, performance evaluation, and hiring.
  • Worked with the cross-functional teams and advocated for QAs to be part of early planning and design (shift-left).
  • Drove initiatives through presentations, workshops, and optimization of QA workflow and practices.

QA Automation Team Lead

Kinetic Social, Toronto

June 2014 - October 2017

  • Led 4 QA Engineers.
  • Designed and developed scripts using Ruby, Capybara, RSpec, and Selenium.
  • Migrated Selenium IDE (record and play tests) to Webdriver

QA Automation III / Lead

Casale Media, Toronto

December 2011 - June 2014

  • Led 9 QA Engineers.
  • Pioneered test automation from the ground up, hired and established the first QA Automation team in the company
  • Designed and developed scripts using Java, TestNG, and Selenium.

Programmer/Analyst/Manager

Philippines

March 1998 - December 2007

  • Designed and implemented a variety of in-house desktop applications (client-server/LAN based) using Microsoft Visual Foxpro in manufacturing, retail, and pharmaceutical companies.

Education

  • AMA University

    B.S. Computer Science

    1994-1998, Philippines

  • Juno College of Technology

    Web Development Certificate

    July 2019 - September 2019, Toronto

  • California International University

    M.S. International Business

    2008 - 2010, Los Angeles California

Certifications

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • ISTQB (CTFL)
  • CompTIA A+ (2007 ed)
  • CompTIA Network+ (2009 ed)