Skilled software professional with effective project planning, process development, quality assurance and business analyst skills. Talent for quickly understanding operational and strategic objectives, effectively managing engineering procedures and teams, and using analytical skills to inform business decisions. Highlights from recent job history include:• Directed the development of the Microsoft MDS test strategy including test process, standards, build infrastructure, quality bars, resource management, scheduling, reporting, code reviews and compliance testing. • Collaborated across teams in creation of common team workflow and tracking templates, metrics, resourcing and release schedules for multiple on-time releases despite factors such as organizational restructuring, shift in ship vehicles and changes in product scope. • Prepared systematic test gap analysis with team counterpart and subject matter experts to discover key integration gaps in test coverage. Identified over 18 key high coverage integration point gaps resulting in more comprehensive test cases and greater product quality.• Created and published customized team reports such as bug glides and task burn-downs using Microsoft Excel pivot tables, Microsoft Excel TFS add-ins and SQL Server Reporting Services that were widely used by management to inform decisions and track progress towards feature deliverables.• Researched, proposed, defined and helped automate key base verification tests for service pack testing reducing each GL service pack testing cycle from approximately 3 weeks each to 3 days each. Used C# and Microsoft internal automation tools in the automation.Specialties: • Software Test Management • Software Development Lifecycle • Business Analysis • Project Management• Communication, Collaboration and Presentation Skills• Microsoft Visual Studio including Team Foundation Server• Microsoft SQL Server • Process Improvements • Software Test Automation• Team Management • Microsoft Office Technologies including Excel and Project
Listed skills include Pmp, Test Automation, Testing, Sdlc, and 17 others.