- Highly skilled in diverse areas of technology and mentoring within R&D focusing on QA and different environments (mobile, SaaS, browser, security, enterprise, performance, DevOps) -Understand optimal use of when and where to use automation and manual testing to achieve greatest ROI- Advanced understanding of R&D product life cycles including Waterfall and Agile training - Admin/trainer and user of numerous bug tracking applications including Azure DevOps, Jira, Aptest, and ALM - Utilization of Webload for performance tests and Selenium, Appium for automation - Lead effort of pilot project for network security project to analyze sensitive data over non-secure networks - Managed foreign and domestic remote testing teams on short and long term releases - Instituted testcase design structure and team ownership and responsibility initiatives for several software product releases and subsequent maintenance releases - 18+ years mentoring/training other testers with aspects of testing, SDLC and various technology fields and personal development - Managed communication of project status to upper management as well as fostering good communication with peers in the DEV, PM and design organizations