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Carrie Carlson is a software test engineer, team leader and project manager. She is the team leader over the Application & System Testing team within the Human Centered Computing group.  She was the leader over the Developer Central team and applications that are provided to the software developers to help facilitate software engineering best practices and is a subject matter expert with Confluence and Jira. Currently, she is a project manager on two projects for TSA and works on a handful of projects doing software testing and software quality assurance.

With a focus in software testing and quality assurance, her experience is with all aspects of software testing, including creating test plans and test strategies, test case development, and successful test execution and reporting. Her expertise encompasses configuration management, requirements specifications, and various types of documentation for software deliverables as well. She has an interest in automated testing and using tools to automate the deployment process of software applications (CI/CD) with unit testing to deliver high-quality products. Carrie is experienced with a variety of standards related to software quality and has implemented the requirements for these standards on various projects. She is learning more about artificial intelligence and machine learning model testing.

• AI/ML models
• Agile
• API Testing
• Applications Software Development
• Automated Software Testing
• Causal Analysis
• Computer Science
• Cypress Automated Testing Framework

• BS in computer science, Central Washington University, emphasis on information systems

• CompTIA Security+ Certification, July 2019
• PNNL Certified Software Quality Practitioner, SQP-BH, 2014, 2017, & 2020
• Software Security Online Course—Certificate of Completion, June 2017—Completed free online class from North Carolina State University.
• ASME NQA-1 Applied to Software Used at DOE Facilities, November 2013—Course and exam given by Theseus Professional Services, LLC at PNNL.
• ASTQB Certification in the U.S.A, Certified Tester, Foundation Level (CTFL), October 2012—Course and Exam were given by American Software Testing Qualifications Board, Inc.
• Certified Scrum Master, 2010 – Course was given by Solutions IQ at PNNL.
• Business Process Management – Business Systems Analysis Course, April 2008 – Course was given by The Inteq Group, Inc. at PNNL.
• Auditing Methods for Lead Auditors (Course #170022), February 2007 – Course and exam given by Fluor Hanford and The Volpentest HAMMER Training and Education Center for PNNL.

TSA Vision Recognition Award May 2024 – for SME valuable insights into cloud capabilities, software development and smart management of cloud resources to maximize ITF’s investments

NSD Core Value Award for Collaboration (Team Lead) 2020 – for her accomplishments in bringing together diverse skills and collaborating to advance the practice of software testing across our portfolio

PNNL Pathway to Excellence Award, 2020 – Intellectual Property Commercialization for the Mobile Source Transit Security (MSTS) Technology

Various Project Outstanding Performance Awards, 2010 - 2023