Douglas Cueva

Software QA Engineer & Freelance Documentary Photographer

Objective

To apply five years of software quality engineering to tools at the intersection between art and technology.

Engineering & Technology

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer — CBCInnovis

Jan 2023 - Present

Lead quality assurance strategy and test execution for the core Score Application team at the credit bureau CBC Innovis.

  • Designed and scaled robust API automation suites using Java and REST Assured, ensuring exact schema and payload compliance.

  • Maintained and expanded front-end UI regression test suites utilizing Selenium and Java.

  • Integrated automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins.

  • Utilized SQL, Bash, and Python scripting to manage test data and configure local test environments.

  • Isolated and logged software bugs in Jira with precise, technical steps to reproduce.

Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst — CBC Innovis

Jul 2021 - Jan 2023

Executed deep integration, regression, and exploratory testing across API and frontend systems while establishing BDD workflows.

  • Contributed to the implementation of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) testing processes across frontend, API, and core Score processing layers.

  • Acted as primary QA liaison between engineering leads and product teams to clarify requirements and accelerate defect resolution prior to release.

  • Demonstrated application domain expertise by presenting software release status, system architecture, and quality metrics directly to executive leadership.

  • Onboarded and mentored new QA team members, authoring centralized technical documentation in Confluence covering test automation tools and internal processes.

  • Executed API testing using Postman and REST-Assured while querying backend SQL databases to ensure transactional state accuracy.

Documentary Photojournalism

Documentary Photographer — Freelance Photojournalism

2024 - Present

Documenting the people and subcultures of the Pacific Northwest.

  • Commissioned by The Stranger for freelance photojournalistic coverage of the first ever No King's Day protest during the summer of 2025.

  • Documented local events for Lake City Summer Fest (2025) and Pioneer Square Music Fest (2025).

  • Operate fully manual medium-format digital Fujifilm GFX 50R and a Hasselblad 500C/M.

  • Maintain an analog processing and digitization process: hand-developing black-and-white negatives and scanning with the GFX.

Fraud Strategy Intern — Bread Financial

Jul 2019 - Sep 2019

A selective 90-day analytical deep dive into transactional risk trends.

  • Queried financial databases using SQL to extract transactional logs.

  • Analyzed data anomalies to identify emerging fraud rings and suggested loss-mitigation strategies.

Account Protection Support & Fraud Strategy Intern — Bread Financial

Jun 2014 - Jun 2021

Handled direct credit disputes, fraud intake, and client discrepancies in bilingual environments.

  • Investigated credit bureau reporting errors and formally resolved complex complaints.

  • Handled fraud claims in English and Spanish, using tools like VCARS and Falcon.

Education

Associate's Degree in Software Development

Columbus State Community College

Skills & System Knowledge

Testing

REST-Assured, Selenium, Jenkins CI/CID, Postman, BDD (Behavior-Driven Development), Regression Testing, Black-box testing

Languages

Java, Oracle SQL/Netezza, Bash, Python, Rust

Frameworks

Selenium, REST-Assured, Django, Zola (this site built with Zola)

Tools

Jira, Postman, Git, Jenkins, Vim, VS Code, IntelliJ, Confluence, Oracle DB, HTML/CSS/JSON

Analog & Creative

Analog Film Development using Cinestill Monobath developer, Adobe Lightroom