Meet the Instructors

Jim Chase

Quality Assurance Consultant, Implementation Specialist

As a professional with more than 20 years in software development and quality assurance, Jim Chase has hands-on experience in programming, design, implementation, analysis and standards-based quality practice. He has acted as consultant and quality-assurance lead for many web, PC, client-server and cloud-based systems. Chase is familiar with ISO-9000/IEEE standards and earned his certification as a Quality Auditor from the American Society for Quality. He has been named a Certified Software Test Engineer by the Quality Assurance Institute.

While working in the field of software quality assurance, Chase has experience using many automated testing tools to increase the confidence and coverage of testing for regression or migration toward production deployment, including IBM Teleprocessing Network Simulator, V-Test, SQA Robot, Microsoft Test, QuickTest Pro, HP Unified Functional Test, Windows send keys and others.

He has provided instruction for the University of Washington for more than ten years. Chase is currently employed by PACCAR Information Technology Division, where he supports multiple projects and products in the global PACCAR network.

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