SUMMARY:

• Results oriented leader with accomplishments in project management, process improvement, SDLC creation and implementation, movements from Waterfall to Scrum, and have multiple SCRUM certifications.
• Over 15 years of hands on experience within the QA testing space being hands on all in all facets from manual, automation testing and executive leadership.
• Ambitious self starter with proven track record of designing and implementing testing teams, procedures, and processes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

VP, Sr. QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creating and leading the Lending and Automation programs.
• Created testing strategy and approach.
• Recruiting and hiring
• Creating objectives and goals against SDETvision.
• Reviewing automation framework and tools to leverage best in class.
• Implemented Performance testing framework with staff using HP’s Performance Center.
• Coordinate defect prioritization meetings.
• Mentor staff through defining tasks, goals, and objectives.
• Create and perform staff reviews.
• Responsible for recruitment and hiring of staff.
• Define and communicate vision, best practices, for all staff.
• Create and project budgets and financials.

Confidential

VP, QA C&IB

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for and owned all C&IB testing efforts, including automation, performance and manual testing teams.
• Highest ranked QA team in all of Confidential for quality, speed of delivery and processes. Determined through independent audit.
• Acted as scrum/agility coach to teams moving to scrum and adopting scrum principles.
• Trained team members on scrum practices.
• Worked with the development staff through all phases of coding, unit testing and deployment to QA environments.
• Designed and implemented scrum processes.
• Created and implemented career path projections and defined QA team objectives.
• Created and defined Quality Metrics with targets and evaluate improvement methods against plan.
• Implemented Performance testing framework with staff using HP’s Performance Center.
• Coordinated defect prioritization meetings.
• Mentor staff through defining tasks, goals, and objectives.
• Create and perform staff reviews.
• Responsible for recruitment and hiring of staff.
• Define and communicate vision, best practices, for all staff.
• Create and project budgets and financials.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Manager/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the test efforts on Java, .Net, and C# applications with a staff of 23 including project leads in an Agile/SCRUM environment.
• Defined and prepared fiscal budgets with year over year projections.
• Coordinated trainings within budget projections.
• Setup and maintained project schedules and resource assignments.
• Coordinated defect prioritization meetings.
• Mentored staff through defining tasks, goals, and objectives.
• Created and performed staff reviews.
• Responsible for recruitment and hiring of staff.
• Created, defined, and measured departmental goals, strategies, objectives, and KPIs.
• Defined and communicated vision, best practices, for all staff.
• Prepared and presented defect metrics and risk analysis reports.
• Scrum Product Owner managing multiple scrum teams.
• Scrum Master for two teams.
• Manage test automation process of testers using QTP and Selenium.

Confidential

Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the testing efforts on Java, .Net, and Iseries 400 applications.
• Streamline data input efforts by creating automated scripts using QTP.
• Manage status for multiple project assignments.
• Prepare and present testplans.
• Perform functional, blackbox, whitebox, and regression testing.
• Log and track defects to resolution.
• Perform requirements gathering to ensure overall business functionality and objectives are being considered.

Confidential

Manager Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Setup and maintained project schedules and resource assignment.
• Managed team budget, bonus and raises.
• Provided conceptual and detailed estimates for junior QA staff members.
• Coordinated defect prioritization meetings.
• Mentored staff through defining tasks, goals, and objectives.
• Created and performed staff reviews.
• Responsible for recruitment, hiring, and training of staff.
• Managed status and progress for multiple functional teams.
• Defined and communicate vision, best practices, for all staff.
• Prepared and presented defect metrics.
• Responsible for QA compliance to SAS70 requirements.
• Reviewed staff testplans and testing efforts and provide results to executive management.
• Participated in requirements walkthroughs held by Business Analysts and Developers.
• Reviewed business requirements documents and the technical specifications and developed the test plans and test cases.
• Responsible for the validation efforts working between Servicelink and external vendors across multiple applications.

Confidential

Team Lead Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Improved QA defect reporting process by implementing new tracking procedures and reporting functionalities.
• Responsible for QA testing on all internal and external software applications including regression, integration, and functional tests.
• Implemented new QA process for application testing which resulted in the release of the application two months prior to scheduled delivery.
• Responsible for training and development of new QA associates.
• Facilitate user acceptance testing for web based applications.
• Perform requirements gathering to ensure overall business functionality and objectives are being considered.
• Coordinate kickoff and defect review meetings.

Confidential

Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for QA testing on all internal and external software applications including regression, integration, and functional tests.
• Partnered with development team to establish project management timeline to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of software implementation.
• Responsible for running validation scripts using Enterprise Manager for SQL server applications.
• Implemented new QA process for application testing which resulted in the release of the application two months prior to scheduled delivery.
• Performed smoke, sanity, and regression testing.
• Designed and implemented functional, system, and integration test plans.

Confidential

Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer - Contractor

Confidential

Quality Assurance Tech Lead

Confidential

Software Development Engineer

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer