Christopher Brown Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

* Managed the geographically dispersed 16 person team of software test engineers responsible for manual and automated testing of the websites, mobile applications, APIs/Services, and Data Processing.* Conducted hands-on testing, project management, and release management of the Babycenter and WhatToExpect properties.* Instituted process improvements across.

San Francisco Bay Area

* Tested Babycenter website, services, and mobile applications to evaluate the level of quality and verify satisfaction of requirements prior to production releases.* Filed bug reports and drove them to closure to resolve important issues.* Formalized and expanded the test automation suite to reduce site regression testing from days to hours.* Created and.

Sunnyvale

• Managed a geographically dispersed 20 person team of software test engineers responsible for testing a clustered disaster recovery solution. The solution owner and integrator of components from 10 different development.
• Coordinated the activities of 15 test teams from technology groups across the company to produce an integrated test approach which maximized coverage and minimized overlap.
• Organized a Summit to bring together project partners from around the world which facilitated the collaboration between the QA partners and cross functional teams.
• Managed the project from requirements through development and test which provided consistent and effective results.
• Managed the integrating test team to produce End-to-End system testing as well as in-depth functional testing.
• Oversaw extensive automation of the project including automated build acceptance testing and automated functional testing which reduced test time and identified defects early in the development cycle.

• Software Quality Engineering (SQE) ManagerManaged an 8 person team of gaming software testers. Hired key contributors to the team, managed and tracked the efforts of the team, reported progress to stakeholders, created.
• Spearheaded the growth of a 5 person test team that was limited to manual testing of a website into an 8 person team that included capabilities in automated GUI testing, automated API level testing and performance.
• Initiated the process of moving the team from a water-fall to an agile development lifecycle. Resulted in more collaboration and flexibility.Error ManagerCreated the Error Management Process and managed errors through.
• Trained the R&D teams so that there was a common understanding and utilization of the process that resulted in consistent and productive defect resolution.
• Conducted error review meetings with stakeholders to triage and prioritize the defects so that fix efforts could be focused and effective.
• After 6 months, was requested to take on responsibility of managing the test team. Both positions were held concurrently.

• Solutions Architect 2005 - 2007Managed Patni's QA engagements.
• Reduced start-up times for Patni QA engagements by devising and documenting the QA processes to be followed and templates to be employed.
• Produced consistent and successful automation implementations across Patni QA engagements by defining and documenting the Automation Implementation process.SQE Manager 2003 - 2005Managed a 40 person test team spread.
• Defined and managed the integration process and procedures that moved a QA Team from 100% manual testing to 70% Automated testing of Web-Based and Client Server applications. Dramatically decreased test execution time.
• Promoted to Senior QA Solutions Architect.Software Quality Engineer 2001 - 2003Conducted integration testing of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System and a Web Portal.Contributed to the successful, on-time.

Bs, Aeronautical Engineering

Certificate, Software Engineering And Management; Quality Assurance And Testing