Aaron Joyner Email & Phone Number

Mukilteo, Washington, United States

• Built and led QA team of up to 8 QA Analysts and SDETs across 6 differentteams in a fast paced, CI/CD, agile environment. • Established, inspected and adapted QA test procedures, processes and quality standards. • Monitor the process of projects for adherence to the planned schedule and participate in project affecting decisions. • Work with development and product leaders to to ensure correct QA resource allocation for future development work. • Provide leadership, performance feedback, mentoring, and career development to QA team members. • Lead QA team by example by taking on testing of stories and bugs. Creating test plans and cases, executing test cases and reporting testing results. • Additional duties including leading the Release Management team. This team built and deployed all scheduled and hotfix releases to production. Involved in over 50 deployments to production a year. • Promoted from QA Lead to QA Manager – January, 2020

Mukilteo, Washington, United States

* Tested front end, back end and services projects in an agile environment. Contributions included writing test plans, writing and reviewing test cases, executing test cases and writing bug reports. * Organized, lead and guided test efforts for teams from 2 to 30 onshore and offshore testers. * Scrum master on agile development teams for the last 3 years. Duties included running daily standup, grooming and retrospective meetings, working to unblock team, and representing agile team at status and sprint review meetings.* Coordinated testing efforts with other product teams during Stabilization periods before a major release. * Communicated daily status of projects with immediate teams, management and c-level executives. * Mentored new QA team members, both onshore and offshore.* Promoted to Team Lead, QA Analyst Group - April 2018.

* Led QA teams of full time employees, contractors and offshore testers on strategic projects, production fixes and deployment nights. Projects encompassed web front end, back end database and web services testing.* Contributed to projects by organizing and guiding the QA team, writing test plans, writing and reviewing test cases, executing test cases, and writing and regressing bugs.* Demonstrated communication abilities through attending meetings representing QA and the sprint team, bug triages and status reports.* Experience testing within waterfall and scrum methodologies.* Involved in interviewing QA candidates and mentoring new hires. * Promoted to Senior QA Analyst in February 2010.

* Responsible for leading teams of 1-5 testers on web front end and billing system projects.* Organized the test team for each project. Wrote test plans and cases, came up with a schedule, and divided testing responsibilities among the team.* Represented the test team during project status meetings and bug triage.Earned "IT Excellence Award" in the third quarter of 2007 for outstanding performance.

* Tested a wide variety of projects involving web front end and back end database testing. * Leadership opportunities include interim European websites test team manager for 4 months, managing summer interns, mentoring new hires and contractors and leading team on release nights. * Built relationships with other test teams and 3rd parties through project work, answering questions and resolving issues.* Opportunity for whitebox testing using Java and JUint as well as writing test automation with C#.

* Designed, wrote and ran automated test scripts using Visual Basic for testing Visual Basic runtimes and controls. Also participated in writing test harnesses using Visual Basic.* Opportunities to lead project testing. Worked with developers and project management to meet deadlines and project requirements.* Earned "All-Star" award for outstanding performance April 2001 and June 2003.