Dan Nelson Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

• Work alongside the Engineering and IT teams to advance efforts of building strategic test plans for the future• Manage team of Quality Assurance Engineers – both onsite & offshore - to ensure processes, efficiencies, and quality of test coverage on an ongoing basis• Manage the Performance Testing and Security Testing teams offshore to ensure quality as well as coverage for technical testing areas• Oversee Functional Automation training of non-automation quality assurance team members• Lead release review meetings in open, collaborative format to ensure key players are all on the same page on an ongoing release basis• Provided presentations to technology team members for insight into Quality Assurance efforts – opening the door for cross team alliance for future success• Performed API testing where applicable utilizing Postman - a powerful API testing and development suite• Hands on when needed to support Quality Assurance team• Responsible for hiring and retaining talent – including career growth opportunities for team members• Hands on management style for understaffed Quality Assurance team, helping where ever and whenever I could

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

• Work alongside the Engineering and IT teams to advance efforts of building strategic test plans for the future• Manage team of Functional Automation Engineers – both onsite & offshore - to ensure processes, efficiencies, and quality of test coverage on an ongoing basis• Manage the Performance Testing and Security Testing teams offshore to ensure quality as well as coverage for technical testing areas• Created Functional Automation Roadmap through end of 2015• Oversaw Functional Automation training of non-automation quality assurance team members• Lead release review meetings in open, collaborative meeting format to ensure key players are all on the same page on an ongoing release basis• Provided presentations to technology team members for insight into Functional Automation efforts – opening the door for cross team alliance for future success• Performed API testing where applicable utilizing Postman - a powerful API testing and development suite

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

• Worked with Business Analysts and Product Owners to gather requirements for writing manual test cases• Executed manual test cases per sprint to ensure cross browser/tabletcompatibility of newly developed features• Managed small team of QA members offshore and onsite to ensure sprint tasks completed and executed properly• Worked with onsite and offshore QA team members to provide 5/24 hour QAcoverage• Oversaw QA build releases to ensure scheduled releases and avoid environment inconsistencies when testing• Developed and implemented framework for automated test scripts written inC# utilizing Selenium WebDriver API• Created and maintained separate repositories for automation codebase and automation executable files to allows proper access across QA team depending on needs• Led offshore automation team• Responsible for reporting and report generation per automation test run• Provided bi-weekly presentations to product stakeholders outlining automation progress, milestones, and roadmap at end-of-sprint demos• Managed on-site and off-shore team members ensuring the day to day tasks match strategic planning for the overall and ongoing quality improvement of products• Generated reports demonstrating the growing automation coverage per Agile Sprint• Oversaw and contributed to creation of a Functional Automation On-Boarding guide for new and existing team members

Mesa, Az, Us