# James Lopez (Jay)

**LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesjlopez
**Location:** Austin, Texas
**Languages:** English, Spanish

## Current role
- **Software QA Engineer — Jack in the Box** (remote, July 2024–present). Testing the mobile ordering app rewrite (iOS/Android) + backend stack (identity, events, push, deep links, in-app messages).

## Background
QA/test engineering career spanning 20 years across major consumer platforms: Palm webOS (2005–2010, QA Manager leading team of 7), Amazon Kindle Fire (2010–2013), LinkedIn mobile (2013–2016, test engineer — automation in Appium/Ruby, UIAutomation/JS), Apple watchOS (2016–2019), Shopify POS (2021–2023, first QA on the POS team), and now Jack in the Box. Education: UC San Diego, Cognitive Science. Strong systems thinker with deep UX/human factors instincts. Currently transitioning into AI engineering via personal projects (congressional-trading, qip-qien, pool-monitor, DashSmash, Speaker Listens) + Vanderbilt AI certs.

## Certifications
- Claude Code in Action — Anthropic (April 2026)
- Claude Code 101 — Anthropic (April 2026)
- Claude 101 — Anthropic (April 2026)
- Agentic AI and AI Agents for Leaders — Vanderbilt University (January 2025)
- Certified Tester Foundation Level — ASTQB (February 2024)
- Certified Tester Foundation Level Agile Tester — ASTQB (February 2024)

## Personality

**Type:** INTJ-A — "The Architect"
**Source:** 16Personalities (https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality)
**Role:** Analyst | **Strategy:** Confident Individualism

| Trait | Score | What it means |
|-------|-------|---------------|
| Introverted | 86% | Very strong preference for independent work; low social overhead tolerance |
| Intuitive | 62% | Big-picture, pattern-driven; less focused on step-by-step process |
| Thinking | 71% | Logic-first; values competence and directness over emotional considerations |
| Judging | 54% | Prefers closure and structure; decides and moves forward |
| Assertive | 64% | Confident, low-stress, self-reliant; doesn't seek validation |

**Confident Individualism** — Trusts his own judgment. Works independently. Doesn't need external validation to proceed.

See `../coding-agent-behavior.md` for the derived behavior file for coding agents.

## What this tells me
James came up as a mobile software engineer (LinkedIn-era), has product/UX sensibility, and has been systematically upskilling in AI since early 2025. The ASTQB certs suggest he also cares about QA/testing rigor. He's building AI-augmented projects (congressional-trading, qip-qien, pool-monitor) from a strong engineering foundation, not just experimenting.

## Family
- **Ramón B. Lopez** — brother. Working with James on qip-qien; James is helping him level up on AI and his repos.