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Watertown, Ma, Us

New York, New York, Us

• Ensure the achievement of strategic initiatives by supervising and mobilizing high-quality performance from a team of more than 40 resources, including Managers and Leads.o Provide ongoing mentorship and leadership development.o Identify talented potential team members, conduct interviews and navigate hiring process. o Assess future roadmap initiatives and generate forecasts of staffing needs to meet goals. o Drive departmental success through effective oversight of key performance indicators and metrics scorecards• Create and deploy User Acceptance Testing discipline and team for business customers. • Evaluate status of start/stop/continue items in partnership with Managers by participating in monthly one-on-one reviews.• Contribute to financial performance strength, operational excellence and exemplary customer satisfaction and employee engagement.• Impact solid integration planning and product and business acquisitions in alignment with Quality requirements.• Coordinate QA programs related to the Predictive Model initiative and facilitate the establishment and migration of QA toolsets to a centralized group of tools, including adding standardization to ensure refined metrics for reporting efforts. • Pinpoint risks and recommend mitigation strategies for multiple projects through consistent liaising and progress reporting with senior leadership. • Augment service-level testing by adeptly designing and implementing simulation tool and test automation framework. • Orchestrate new and existing project plan security testing and performance testing activities.• Cultivate productive third-party QA vendor relationships to ensure data setup needs, test coverage, and appropriate communication for projects.• Educate senior leadership on principles of performance/load/stress testing and train peers on Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise implementation.

• Charted successful course for the performance and outcomes of an offshore test team of 5-10, providing effective teambuilding, mentoring, performance evaluations, and corrective procedures as deemed necessary. • Facilitated collaboration between offshore and local teams, trained employees in manual and automated testing techniques, and discovered talent and assembled a team of manual and automated Testers from scratch.• Leveraged IaaS and Security protocols to test cutting-edge technology.• Assessed design and requirements provided by Product and Development units to communicate a clear interpretation.• Played key role in the optimization of the testing cycle by analyzing test data.• Utilized HP UFT 12.0 to apply Agile SCRUM methodology and automation framework.• Administered HP ALM 12.01 as appropriate and used SQL for data creation and validation. • Regularly evaluated test coverage to confirm continued quality of software.• Performed essential functions related to analysis and triage by developing defect reports.• Drove ideal end-to-end and integration testing throughout test cycle. Highlighted Accomplishments• Decreased production time 36% using Agile and Preventive testing techniques. • Incorporated application functionality to produce customer experience workflow recommendations.• Generated efficiency gains by evaluating testing progress during sprints and utilizing preventative methods that resulted in a net 13% increase in time to production for releases.• Completed products prior to staging in Production in conjunction with stakeholders.• Met project timelines and surmounted roadblocks in collaboration with third-party vendors.

Zurich, Zurich, Ch

• Spearheaded requirements gathering starting with the JAD session phase. • Kickstarted test plan and formulated test cases using a standardized test template created in Excel. • Integrated the user level of the UA Testers upon completing QA test cases to generate applicable UA test cases.• Delivered clear overviews of testing efforts through the creation and presentation of daily progress reports using a burndown chart.• Performed QA testing and supported UA Testers, including but not limited to training on new features and assisting with entering defects in Jira.• Garnered and consistently employed a strong understanding of web-based applications with SQL backend and .NET/Java.

New York, Ny, Us

• Directed and virtually delegated the assignments of an offshore team of 20 Testers, including by hosting weekly status calls to review outstanding issues. • Tested LAN-based and web-based applications built upon PowerBuilder 12.0 and .Net. • Navigated migration of 400 manual test cases to automation using QTP 11.0.• Throughout release schedule, held responsibility for composing and maintaining automated and manual test suites for new functionality.• Reported daily and weekly progress on assignments via Excel spreadsheet or query-based reporting within Microsoft TFS.• Aligned performance efficiency of all commodity trade functionality with strict guidelines.• Integrated Agile methodology within applicable development and testing efforts.

Bachelor Of Science In Information Systems Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Business

Diploma