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 - PresentLead 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 2023Executed 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 - PresentDocumenting 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 2019A 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 2021Handled 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