* Manage a team of up to 30 Onsite and Offshore Data Engineers and Developers. Oversee the Scrum process, collaborating with Dev Leads to review team members’ workloads and ensure that they can complete their work on time. Assist team members with HR activities. * Build the team by reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates * Assist my team with their career path and growth * Build team communication and collaboration through online virtual meetings

Manage the Agile test process by creating test scenarios and test cases. Execute and complete all test cases scheduled in the 2-week sprint. Log bugs for developers. Collaborate with development teams to meet project deadlines.

* Manage Onsite and Offshore Quality Assurance Engineers through the Scrum process, to meet deadlines using QA best practices, within the Development Lifecycle. Collaborate with Test Leads to assign work for QA Team. Operate as a Scrum Master to assist sprint teams in completing work in the sprints. * Hold team and 1 on 1 meeting with the QA team * Work with director on department budgets * Create and facilitate Bug Triage meetings for sprint teams, to review and triage all bugs in a sprint * Show less

* Manage a team of Quality Assurance Analysts utilizing functional, Integration & regression testing. Implement QA best practices to successfully test BPB applications. Attend backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily standup, scrum of scrum, sprint retro & sprint review meetings. * Develop the QA process for an inexperienced team * Review test cases and performed maturity assessments on the team * Train the team on Agile/Scrum practices * Provide guidance and coaching to the team * Implement Azure DevOps as the QA Management Tool * Work with Automation Engineer to build an infrastructure of automated regression tests Show less

* Built a team of Quality Assurance Analysts to test Mobile & Web Apps for our ONE-KEY Milwaukee Tool project. Estimate and plan QA work for 2-week sprints and 6-week releases. Write test cases against user stories for sprints. Execute test cases and fixed bugs for sprint. Review, analyze and report test data findings to the leadership team for them to understand status. Attend Daily Standups, Scrum of Scrum, Sprint Planning and Test Case Review meetings. * Built a new QA team of permanent and contractors and put in all process for the QA team * Develop the QA management strategy for Functional, Integration & Regression Testing * Create remediation strategy for Bugs and developed the Bug Triage meeting * Train internal Support Staff on all new software features used on One Key tools * Work as a Tier 2 Production Support Analyst working with customers and internal staff to resolve issues Show less

* Lead a team of 8 Software QA Analysts though Integration, System and Regression testing on the Point of Sale (POS) software PLS develops. Manage the day-to-day operation of the team and the QA environment. Use Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Test Manager to manage the Test process within the Development Lifecycle. Oversee all PBI’s and Bugs to make sure that we meet our goals within a sprint. * Hired QA Automation Engineer and together we created an automation infrastructure and all process * Implement Agile Methodology on a QA team that was running Waterfall * Hold weekly team meetings and 1 on 1’s with QA team members * Work with director on department budgets * Met with PLS Store customer staff members to understand software issues to bring back to development teams * Train internal Support Staff on all new software features Show less

* Create test scenarios and test cases from requirements for Integration, System and Regression testing on the Point of Sale (POS) software PLS develops using FoxPro and .NET. Execute test cases and bugs for releases. * Validate PLS Loan contracts are compliant per Legal Specifications. * Validate Currency Transaction Report’s using the Patriot Software and PLS internal CTR programs. * Create status report for manager

* QA Engineer that implements and manages the test process for the newly created Lead Generation software. Using Agile methodologies, I planned out and executed 2-week sprint QA/Testing work based off a backlog of user stories. Attended all sprint planning, sprint refinement, daily standup, and demo meetings. * Coordinated cross application testing with the QA team * Estimate the testing effort for each Iteration within a release * Used JIRA and Rally for all Development and QA processes

* Test management using HP/Mercury Quality Center. Create test cases from use cases and requirement docs. Execute manual test cases that were written in Quality Center. Create, review, and run automated tests from QTP. Log defects in QC application and retest them when they are fixed by development. Collaborate with Development and help with Unit testing in the Development Environment. * Responsible for the test scheduling of the Software QA and Offshore Testing contract members. * Earned 2 FedEx Information Technology “Hall of Fame” awards for excellence in performance in Testing. * Implemented Quality Driven Management (QDM) programs to reduce software defects. * Completed documentation and regulations to stay ISO Certified Show less

Committee member for Light the Night for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. As a committee member, we help in coordinating the LTN walk. We also help gather raffle items, recruit volunteers, work with the community to get support with donations and build teams for the walk.As a committee member, I am also responsible for the helping of setting up the walk site, volunteering during the walk and tearing down the walk site.

Create test management processes. Generate test scenarios and cases from requirement docs and execute all tests using HP/Mercury Quality Center. Use SQL to validate data that landed in the data warehouse. Collaborate with BI to create cubes for them to report from. Create status reports and test matrixes used by upper management to track projects. Work with manager to define and build the QA/Testing department. Took part in ETL development code reviews

Manage a team of 7 Data Engineers utilizing the scrum process, to onboard Internal Northwestern Mutual customers to the cloud based Unified Data Platform/UDP. Partner with the product and development teams to understand customer needs, to bring their data to the platform. Using Kanban based Agile framework, the team was successful at supporting our customers through stories and communication. Create a streamlined process using JIRA to record and report Service Level Agreement/SLA’s. Coordinate monthly Education Series to showcase DataOps work done during the Program Increment/PI Create Customer Satisfaction Surveys for customers to provide feedback to help improve team performance Measure team performance from completed stories in a sprint and successfully onboarding customer Show less