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Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

• Led team of testers supporting legacy TDA Advisor applications through transition to the new Schwab ecosystem including maintain-lights-on work, critical new features, security, library and java updates, and feature.
• Transitioned team from onshore and offshore hybrid model of 11 people to onshore team of 4 people to support cost cutting efforts.
• Streamlined testing to move to targeted manual regression and leveraged existing automation test libraries.
• Supervised creation of test suites to validate both data conversion and end to end workflow for end state applications.
• Worked with stakeholders in product ownership, development, and IT security areas to verify all “maintain lights on” releases had clear testing criteria for approval.
• Coordinated staffing and estimates to schedule multiple releases with competing priorities.

Greater Omaha Area

• Provided support to Enterprise ReST (kanban) and Messaging teams (scrum) under trading technology systems to balance current ecosystem needs and drive toward the end state architecture after Schwab acquisition.
• Detailed planning of Messaging technology work across multiple epics spanning an 18-month effort with quarterly PI planning
• Supported gap in Product Ownership of Messaging team including backlog management, prioritization, ticket creation, refinement and ticket splitting to reduce complexity and foster more frequent, smaller deliverables.
• Facilitation of scrum ceremonies including improvements to daily stand up and retrospective formats that drove process improvements.
• Revised Jira project to include workflow changes and adding fields fulfilling the teams Definition of Ready and Definition of Done.
• Coordination with the Enterprise ReST team developers, product owner and consumers of the ReST services to ensure all dependencies were resolved prior to implementation.

Greater Omaha Area

• Assisted with trading technologies UI team and Think or Swim migration teams in all areas of scrum.
• Collaborated with teams to create working agreements, definitions of done and ready that were tailored to team dynamics and assigned components of the application.
• Facilitated refinement of backlog to make sure every ticket was clearly defined and sized for complexity, level of effort and risk.
• Collaboration with product owner to balance needs for new features with needed angular upgrades to the UI.
• Set sprint goals by working with product owner and other business stakeholders to maintain the backlog according to competing priorities and identifying sprint tickets that were suitable for end of sprint demo.
• Removal of impediments in a timely manner to keep developers focused on delivering software.

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

• Provided guidance to team of 30 developers on acceptance criteria and test scenarios. T2 RRC Team Excellence Award BEB-Infrastructure Enhancement Team, September 2016. Quarterly Excellence Team Award ETF Marketplace.
• Participated in and facilitated agile ceremonies for multiple feature teams for the order management application including huddles, refinement, backlog prioritization, retrospectives.
• Assisted development team in creating test coverage by outlining use cases and best testing practices.
• Tracked monthly releases from development to enterprise QA and production validation.
• Coordinated with upstream and downstream applications regarding integration points.
• Support of test environments.

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

• Test lead for re-platforming of order management application and sunsetting legacy application. Better Begins With Me, Semi Annual Winner, 2014
• Assigned work to a team of 6 testers, performed test planning, test case inspection, tracking of test entrance and exit criteria.
• Oversaw creation and maintenance of targeted automated regression suites, including housing them in bitbucket and Jenkins to facilitate ad hoc test runs.
• Negotiated with other applications in test to identify the correct test environment and prepare it for testing.
• Coordinated with other applications that integrated with order management to assure that no adverse downstream defects were introduced.
• Tracked and prioritized defects.

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Led testing on project basis, using waterfall methodology. Coordinated test planning across all applications participating in a project with an Order Management focus. Oversaw creation of new automation test suites for trading functionality,Wrote comprehensive test plans to highlight testing duties of all testers on the project.Identified and tracked.

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Created system-based test plans for maintenance releases and large projects. Created and executed manual test cases and performed requirements traceability.Created data sheets for automated test suites.

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Individual contributor for manual testing. Analyzed requirements and created manual test cases. Verified test coverage of all assigned requirements. Entered and tracked defects.

Order Management system user acceptance testing including regression, disaster recovery, maintenance items, small and large projects.Represented order management as needed on large project cross-functional teams. Worked together with internal customers by helping with questions, entering tickets and coordination of enhancement requests.Assisted the.

Bellevue, Nebraska, United States

Diagnosed and solved clients’ technical and computer issues via phone and email, including Y2K preparedness.Assisted clients on multiple browsers and operating systems.Walked clients through website, assisted them with placing trades, quotes, quote lists and alert portfolios. Helped clients set up Quicken and Microsoft Money for direct download of their.

Bellevue, Nebraska, United States

Provided fiscal proficiency to clients through education of financial industry terms, guidance navigating the website, and distribution of relevant information regarding quotes, orders, requisite forms and requested checks.Responsible for providing account and website information. Addressed client complaints and concerns. Explained account terms and.