When my name comes up, I want people to think that I am a dependable, hard-working QA employee who has the creativity and motivation to identify and solve important problems.

I want to be hired by a large company or a burgeoning startup business as a salaried QA analyst. As of now I am a contractor and I would like to help advance my career to the next step.

Despite my young age I have strong work experience in quality assurance because I was the primary tester for a web platform that is accessed regularly by tens of thousands of people per day.

I want to be known as someone who will carry out quality assurance analysis in rigorous ways that show a mastery of finding defects in the web development process, and has the talent to advance to becoming a project manager.

I like to think I am unique because I go to great lengths by finding defects in QA analysis through cross-browser testing, cross-device testing, code injection, version control and user acceptance scenarios. I challenge myself to dig deep into my projects to uncover things that others do not discover, so that the end user has the most effective and enjoyable experience they can have.

I can teach others around me the techniques I follow when developing and executing test cases for manual testing strategies. I can also explain the ins and outs of the web projects I work on to help onboard people who join a QA team.

I want to influence the views of my superiors so that they see me as a vital, valuable part of their company with a go-to attitude towards my work. I also want to influence my peers in QA, most of whom have been in the industry for 20 years or more, to offer a millennial's perspective on end-user UX/UI design.

In the IT/QA world, it is difficult to identify people as a status/brand symbol because it is often more important that they work more as a cog in a machine rather than an individual unit. One person I look up to is a business analyst named Nate who has worked for 16 different agencies as an IT contractor. He now owns his own business. Like Nate, the QA staff and project managers I have worked under live fulfilling lives by constantly looking for new jobs in the fast-paced tech industry. It is not highly stable because different skills have to be learned and market trends evolve over time. They make sacrifices by working long hours, attending lots of meetings, and are not afraid to make moves across the country to relocate for work. They make a lot of money this way. I am prepared to do the same.