SUMMARY:

I am a well - respected and accomplished software test engineer with leadership experience in successful projects at some of the top companies in the world.

I SPECIALIZE IN:

• Management of QA processes
• Test automation & Technical test analysis
• Collaborative team building
• Agile development methodologies
• With hands-on experience in the full life cycle of the software development process, I exhibit a breadth of aptitude for overcoming impediments towards delivering high quality software on schedule. I have a keen interest in utilizing my combination of technical and leadership skills to ultimately ensure the success of my teams.

EXPERIENCE:

Managing Team Lead

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

• Many quality and testing initiatives are driven though this team to ensure consistency in testing approach across the delivery teams.
• Manage a second team of 7 Performance Engineers who use the NeoLoad tool to detect performance degradation in the product as soon as new features are added.
• Setting objectives, conducting 1:1’s, reviews and ensuring there is adequate performance testing coverage across the application are on-going duties of this role.
• Served as the head of the newly established Automation Center of Excellence for the Raleigh development center. Responsibilities included working across all of the product delivery teams, ensuring a consistent approach to agile test automation.
• Presented proof of concepts to help evaluate new tools and frameworks.
• Introduced lean strategies such as Risk Based Testing, Confidential Development and exploratory testing to focus on delivery, foster collaboration and increase quality.
• Worked with vendors to coordinate interviews, screen and onboard more than 30 automation engineers for multiple projects.
• Collaborated with heads of other global development centers to discuss challenges, give technical and process guidance and to assist with automation test framework creation and maintenance.
• Led training sessions on Test Frameworks, Confidential Development and Test Automation for the UI and service layers.
• Executed 3600 UI tests in parallel, cutting execution time by more than 80%.
• Drove dashboard initiative to bring visibility to CI test execution.
• BI client was developed after getting automation test data pushed to data lake.
• Trends and analysis of the data is now available to all stakeholders.

QA Manager

Confidential, Cary, NC

Responsibilities:

• I joined a small but dynamic engineering team at one of the top E-learning companies.
• Initial responsibilities involved implementing a Confidential Development framework for a newly created agile development team, where previously all testing had been done manually.
• As an integral part of the Engineering Leadership team, I was also responsible for management duties for our QA team, providing process and technical oversight, delegation and mentoring to the team.
• I utilize key metrics, evaluate test coverage as well as routine root cause analysis for defects.
• I set quarterly QA initiatives which are communicated to Director and CIO.
• I establish individual training plans for team members, conduct regular 1-on-1 meetings, perform yearly performance evaluation and set goals and growth plans for direct reports

AVP QA Lead

Confidential, Cary, NC

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for creating and managing teams of junior level QA members.
• I imparted knowledge of QA processes, strategies, documentation, automation and also knowledge of core products.
• The distributed teams were quickly up to speed taking on a range of projects which included requirements validation, test case creation, test execution and metrics reporting.
• I also was involved in the design and execution of test automation and performance testing for a number of projects using a variety of third party and homegrown tools.
• I was heavily involved in team building and onboarding events such as campus recruiting efforts, onsite interviews for QA and junior developers as well as at many corporate job fairs and volunteer events in the community.
• I organized meetings for this global collaborative platform that met regularly in an effort to bring communication and consistency to our test automation efforts across the firm.
• I was heavily involved in the implementation of Acceptance Test Driven Development across multiple UI projects.
• We used the technology stack of Cucumber, Ruby and the WATIR toolkit to automate our acceptance tests against the current sprint of work as well as a set of automated regression tests.
• I led instruction of our more junior members as well as offshore resources on the best practices of our framework.

Lead Software Automation Engineer

Confidential, Cary, NC

Responsibilities:

• I was brought in specifically to help with this transition and to teach current team members about automation tools and related testing strategies.
• I was the only US based engineer on the project.
• I oversaw manual test status of our India QA team as well as instructing them on how to setup and use the HP test suite.

Web Application Developer

Confidential, Durham, NC

Responsibilities:

• I was on a new project to develop an internal web dashboard that would monitor daily consumption metrics for many types of resources such as applications, business transactions, physical sites, system layers and even hardware.
• I used JSP and Adobe Flash to implement a drilldown functionality from the highest layer down through its smaller units so a user could be proactive in identifying possible bottlenecks or failovers in their systems
• I was responsible for our build process which included gathering code from our ClearCase branches, compilation and deployment.
• I was also responsible for migration of package and table changes across three database instances in order to keep our releases structured and organized.