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- Engineered a collection of reusable helper methods to increase productivity among test engineer teams- Mentored junior test engineers- Directed Backlog Refinement meetings- Supervised Code Review sessions

- Maintain a spreadsheet of over 10,000 test cases- Author scripts to filter, update, reset, and gather data for the spreadsheet- Collaborate on design ideas and suggest trade-off decisions- Document acceptance criteria for features prior to development- Communicate positively to the development staff when defects are found in current work- Record defects in an easy to repeat fashion- Author browser based automation tests in Selenium- Research failures in browser based tests and communicate the changes needed to the team- Modify existing tests as the application changes- Maintain organization of test cases so team members are able to find tests that cover specific application functionality- Share innovations in test writing with other test writers; communicate progress to the team through wiki updates, email communication- Participate in weekly demonstrations of completed work and daily stand up meetings

- Partner with development to produce quality, usable applications- Estimate the amount of work for each requested feature with the development team- Collaborate on design ideas and help make trade-off decisions- Document acceptance criteria for features prior to or concurrent with development- Communicate positively to the development staff when defects are found in current work- Record defects in an easy to repeat fashion- Build team rapport, both within QA and throughout the entire development team- Participate in weekly demonstrations of completed work and daily stand up meetings- Participate in help desk rotation for each of the existing applications- Held Public Trust security clearance active for 5+ years.- Lead safety officer for the QA team