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Renton, Washington, United States

Manage software testing for PACCAR's warranty registration and Supplier Recovery system. Functional, regression UAT, and test automation using UIPath and Postman. Coordinating test efforts in India, Texas and Washington.

Greater Seattle Area

Manage test program for PegaSystems Warranty implementation to replace legacy systems that track warranty agreements and manage vendor recovery.

Greater Seattle Area

• Recruited and managed 20 remote, on-site and offshore QA engineers and Test Developers• Plan and oversee test automation frameworks and automation strategy.• Created and maintained high level QA metrics reporting for stakeholders and senior mgt.• Created in-house mobile device test lab saving over $120k/ year over outsource alternative• Mentored 4 direct reports to promotions in Development and Test Leadership• Increased scope from 1 product to 3 product lines and multiple asynchronous projects• Improved and enforced bug management process• Drove innovation in mechanical test automation of integrated hardware/software product• Tuned testing practices to fit within the constraints of Agile development with short sprints.• Improved delivery efficiency by standardizing test practices and metrics across the organization• Target platforms included Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android.

Greater Seattle Area

• Automated end to end testing for system integrating mouth guard impact measurement with cloud analytics.• Developed test protocols for web and desktop UIs, data transfer and performance of a cloud based system with hardware and browser endpoints.• Managed processes to prioritize and resolve bugs and issues in Assembla.• Ran bug triage, coordinated schedule estimates with dev. management• Standardized issue and feature management processes across the company.

Develop processes, infrastructure resources to test cloud based advertising analytics and brand management tools to enterprise clients. Built out test infrastructure to mirror production in AWS using EC2. Developed test automation in Hive to verify Hadoop processing. Performed reliability and stress testing using Jmeter and bash scripts. Managed and mentored small team in SAAS application testing. Managed daily bug triage process and supported overall agile product planning. System based on MySQL, Hive, Hadoop, MongoDB, Ubuntu Linux. Tested reporting application running on IE, Firefox and chrome browsers as well as iOS and Android.

Define and execute testing for digital content delivery system. The system fulfilled digital movies and music to off-line devices such as PCs, set top boxes and cell phones. Technology is a Microsoft stack using SQL, IIS webservices and WPF running on purpose built touch screen point of sale kiosks. Build test infrastructure to mirror production on Hyper-V using on-site servers. Managed and mentored team of 4 testers.• Developed test strategy for all phases of product development and launch.• Verified metadata transformation and import into MSSQL 2008. • Developed automated tests in powershell and SQL to verify Deployment instructions to Ops.• Developed methods using secured production data as part of test infrastructure.• Provided task effort estimation and managed QA schedule planning for sprints.• Created daily bug metrics system to keep stakeholders up to date on product progress• Built out test lab consisting of 6 Hyper-V hosts and 37 virtual machines.• Managed 4 person team in MSSQL testing and agile test methodology.

By virtualizing the test and production infrastructure, deployed new code in a matter of minutes rather than house. Bug management processes enabled us to focus development effort on critical issues. These processes enabled to rapidly respond to new requirements.• Defined strategy for testing and deployment of advertising analytics platform.• Built version 1 of marketing media analytics system in Amazon EC2.• Verified code changes then propagated new code to production in Amazon EC2.• Provided task estimation and managed QA schedule planning for sprints.• Wrote test cases to assess system performance, data quality and end-user experience.• Using SQL and Windows shell scripts automated tests for build and deployment verification.• Managed bug triage and implemented agile test practices.

Managed design and delivery of user interface improvements for SAAS DRM solution using IIS, .NET and SQL. Trained and collaborated with Customer Support to resolve issues from the field. Wrote functional specifications based on customer requirements and team input. Drove implementation of features to support required scenarios based on market intelligence and customer meetings. Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure on time delivery of releases using the scrum methodology.

Led test organization of over 13 testers supporting reporting systems for Finance and Headcount accounting at Microsoft. Responsible for infrastructure, recruiting and mentoring testers. Drove best practice adoption to streamline testing and optimize resources across multiple competing priorities.