Software Test Automation Architect

• Nov 2008 - Present

• Part of a high functioning, highly efficient, experienced Agile team (this software development team has been Agile for 12+ years). • Testing efforts included automated and manual testing, regression, browser compatibility and occasional of load and performance. • Released code to production every 2 weeks, completing approximately 6 stories every sprint. • 100% of regression tests are automated with approximately 90% feature coverage. • Participated in and led data maintenance for a seed database used for regression. The dates needed to be rolled forward each year. Found ways to improve the automation design so this process became easier each year. • Spearheaded automating some areas that required a full database and had never before been automated. • Led refactoring and improvement efforts to increase the maintainability of over 15,000 automated test cases. Including innovating new solutions. • Strived for constant improvement in team processes and implemented new resources to improve team communication. • Created and helped maintain automated builds in Hudson/Jenkins. Automated builds kick off a plethora of automation • Heavy use of sql to verify data during manual testing. • Test Automation in Robot Framework, FitNesse and more. Service and User Interface integration Automation • Interviewed and participated in hiring process and decisions for testers, developers and sysadmins. • Worked closely with the business to ensure the correct functionality was delivered and understood. • Strong focus on delivering value.

Certified Aroma Freedom Technique (AFT) Instructor

• Jul 2016 - Jan 2023

FasterEFT Level 2 Practicioner

• 2014 - Jan 2023

Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer

• Feb 2008 - Oct 2008

• Supervise, train, and mentor a team of testers. • Interviewed and participated in hiring decision of additional testers. • Led testing for 5 projects concurrently, consisting of 12 websites in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. • Responsible for testing 4 of the websites personally, new functionality was added regularly. • Deployed builds to QA environment using Apache Tomcat and Postgres database. • Testing efforts included automated and manual testing, test planning, test case writing, smoke tests, regression, browser compatibility and coordination of load and performance and Omniture testing. • Verified mapping and map tiles for other countries. • Tested websites in multiple languages.

Sr. SQA Engineer

• Nov 2005 - Feb 2008

• The product tested is a multi-tier application that proactively monitors, analyzes and diagnoses performance and availability bottlenecks within other applications. Feedback is provided to stakeholders to improve performance and reliability of business critical applications. • Tested the product in an agile development cycle with regular releases to QA. Continually performed process improvement during this cycle by working closely with development and product management to identify testable requirements. • Conduct product feature breakdown and analysis used to drive test case identification and priority • Automation using Selenium and Quick Test Pro • Execute functional, system, regression, acceptance, load, performance tests using both black-box and white-box techniques • Test Environment setup including deployment and configuration of Operating Systems, Application Servers and Databases, involving many different products and versions

Sr. Analyst / Test Lead

• Dec 2002 - Nov 2004

• Supervise, train and mentor a team of testers • Coordinate testing for projects in a complex, fast paced integrated environment for frequent production releases • Supervise integrated acceptance testing of 5 - 15 projects and 17 regression plans testing over 15 services ordered via as many systems on a bimonthly basis • Improve test processes and standards by creating and socializing processes for test phase. • Implement / Ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance • Analyze requirements to determine level of effort and resource needs for projects • Create and execute functional, system, regression, acceptance, black-box, grey-box and end-to-end flow-through tests • Perform test analysis including identifying, logging, and communicating defects and possible solutions; retesting and closing defects when the system was corrected • Created knowledge matrix to track tester level of expertise of systems, processes, products and regressions.

Consultant

• 2000 - 2003

Test Lead / Production Support Analyst The project developed a real-time, integrated service activation system to provide automated web-based real-time capacity checking, order submission, broadband circuit provisioning, and network activation. Responsibilities included: • Create and execute functional, system, regression, and end-to-end flow-through testing • Certify releases deploying to production • Perform test analysis • Support system production • Provide documentation and conduct training for employees to use and/or test the system Process Engineer / Requirements Analysis / Developer The project globalized an order entry and provisioning system. Responsibilities included: • Define use cases for functional requirements. Develop system level requirements • Create user acceptance test plans and identify data requirements • Use of Siebel Tools to develop and modify business components and services to improve existing business processes

Paralegal

• 1999 - 1999

Loan Processor

• 1997 - 1999