Experience

Polly

• United States
• Insurance
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineer In Test

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  A test engineering role embedded on a product team. Advancing knowledge of automation best practices, principles, contributing to the creation, evolution, and maintenance of automated UI and API regression tests for new features and defect fixes to ensure requirements and design standards are met. Executed tests (either manual or automated) using multiple OS/devices, environments, or browsers where appropriate. Liaised with team members (e.g. Software Engineers, other QA Engineers, Product Owners, Designers) to help identify application feature requirements and clarify testing needs. Strong participant in all agile activities, including daily stand-up, sprint planning, refinement, and retrospective. Served as an advocate and coordinator for testing within the Scrum team and other dependent product teams. Identified, clearly documented, evaluated the severity of, and communicated defects. Identified opportunities for the improvement and evolution of testing and worked to implement process changes with the Scrum team and QA Community of Practice – including leading a large refactor to make the Test Repository utilize more componentized reusable functions and page objects. Participated in training new hires and also had sole responsibility for a QA Intern Show less



VIP (Vermont Information Processing)

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Software Developer - Quality Control

  • Aug 2018 - May 2021

  A test engineering role on the Quality Control team. Developed automated integration tests focusing on basic acceptance criteria and ensuring behavior with new versions. Helped to refactor and implement good coding practices and architecture within our team that focused on Object Oriented Programming and SOLID principles. Developed eVIP panels using Rocket Software as the user interface for VIP IBM console programs. Participated in training new hires for test automation. The Quality Control team was responsible for the final ticket promotion. The product at VIP is for beer distribution accounting, ordering and warehouse management software. Feature development was mostly written in RPG language, while the test code was written using Java, SQL, Stored Procedures to DB2 and JUnit. Show less



Chatham Financial

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer / Test Team Member

  • Jan 2017 - Aug 2018

  Software Developer in Test Lead January 2018 – July 2018 In addition to below, trains new-hire associates, decides on testing implementation, assigns tickets, works with the agile team to develop a new workflow with our transition from SVN to GIT Software Developer in Test January 2017 – January 2018 This role is a technical, test engineering role embedded in an agile development team. Developed automated tests with a focus on BDD, acceptance, and integration test-driven development. Lead exploratory testing sessions using specific charters and paired the business team with the tech team, experimented with new testing technology, and worked with my development team to ensure our features were designed for testability, worked with the business team to ensure that all user stories were covered and understood. The product at Chatham was for the Debt Management team with a focus on Reporting and Yield Maintenance. Testing this product required a strong understanding of the complex business formulas, how the user interacted with the product, and how the code was implemented. Most of our feature development was written in C# and Typescript/JavaScript, while test code was primarily written using Ruby, Cucumber, and WATIR. Projects: Contributed to internal test Result-View application in Ruby, Mongo, Typescript, Angular2 Co-leader of an internal application focusing on community volunteer opportunities that was developed during hackweeks in Angular2, Typescript, C#, SQL, Show less



Zip Code Wilmington

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Student Software Developer

  • Sep 2016 - Dec 2016

  Graduated top of class in a 12-week immersive development program achieving 1000 hours of coding experience that mirrors real world job practices. Projects: ATM • Calculator • ScrewUp App built with Spring Boot/ Ionic/Angular • HR App built with Spring Boot/Angular Graduated top of class in a 12-week immersive development program achieving 1000 hours of coding experience that mirrors real world job practices. Projects: ATM • Calculator • ScrewUp App built with Spring Boot/ Ionic/Angular • HR App built with Spring Boot/Angular



University of Delaware

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Scenic Artist with the REP

  • Aug 2015 - Aug 2016

  Painting Theatre Sets using a variety of techniques Painting Theatre Sets using a variety of techniques



Formax

• United States
• Retail Office Equipment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contracts Administrator

  • Jun 2013 - Feb 2015

  In my position as a contracts administrator, I renewed and invoiced approximately 200 maintenance contracts a month on a national scale for a small office equipment manufacturer. It was extremely detailed oriented work to ensure that all invoices, contracts and records were kept accurately. I also dealt with customers and service vendors on a daily basis to facilitate questions and service issues.

• Contracts and Accounting Associate

  • Jun 2013 - May 2014



Washington Speakers Bureau

• United States
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Associate

  • Jan 2011 - Mar 2013

  As an Account Executive, I worked closely with multiple stakeholders – speakers, clients, event coordinators and my sales team – throughout the speaking event planning process, managing expectations to ensure all requirements were met for a successful event. As a result, I am extremely detail-oriented and accustomed to anticipating issues and proactively addressing them from more than perspective. As an Account Executive, I worked closely with multiple stakeholders – speakers, clients, event coordinators and my sales team – throughout the speaking event planning process, managing expectations to ensure all requirements were met for a successful event. As a result, I am extremely detail-oriented and accustomed to anticipating issues and proactively addressing them from more than perspective.



Mail Shark

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Coordinator

  • Oct 2008 - Dec 2010

  As a Project Manager at a startup company, I worked in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where I wore many hats as the company grew over five-fold from its inception, including quality assurance. In all my roles, I have sought to find the best way of doing business, to generate more positive outcomes – from saving time or money to improving quality or productivity. I would eagerly bring my proactive, analytical and creative skill set to any role to help achieve goals. As a Project Manager at a startup company, I worked in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where I wore many hats as the company grew over five-fold from its inception, including quality assurance. In all my roles, I have sought to find the best way of doing business, to generate more positive outcomes – from saving time or money to improving quality or productivity. I would eagerly bring my proactive, analytical and creative skill set to any role to help achieve goals.