Denise Bristol Email & Phone Number

Greater Denver Area

Greater Denver Area

Managed release process: planning, coordinating, implementing, tagging, and building release artifacts and executing releases for multiple products on a variety of platforms/architectures. Assisted scrum team product owners to identify JIRA stories for inclusion in a scheduled release. Maintained calendar of software releases and IT projects in Confluence. Created release plan documents and release run books. • Planned, coordinated, and deployed full quarterly and weekly micro-services releases.• Managed release schedule and multiple-build strategy with feature-toggling.• Scheduled and chaired Go/No-Go release meetings with QA, DEV, IT, Product Management, and Support.• Managed test deployments and rollback in preparation for software releases. • Worked closely with QA and development to deploy artifacts to QA and UAT environments and monitored application availability in QA, UAT, and production environments. • Merged, tagged, and created releases in code repositories in GitHub to create artifacts built in Jenkins and deployed to UAT and production environments. • Maintained full traceability with all checked in artifacts, associated SDLC artifacts, and software versions.• Lead cross functional teams to deploy release artifacts to production environments. Helped resolve issues in production.• Conducted post-release meetings as necessary to perform root cause analysis. I began this stage in my career working for Transzap, Inc. which was re-branded as Oildex. Oildex was acquired by Drillinginfo, now known as Enverus.

Greater Denver Area

Collaborated with, coached, mentored, and provided technical leadership to a team of QA engineers; trained new hires. Initiated go/no-go meetings as part of the release process, interfacing with a cross-functional team of development, QA engineers, production support, IT, and business stakeholders to ensure everything required for a release to be successful had been identified and to reduce the number of bugs introduced to production.• Trained support staff on new application enhancements.• Led QA team and worked closely with developers and product managers to identify and coordinate testing activities.• Accountable for the delivery and acceptance process for a component of the final solution.• Reviewed requirements to identify gaps and bring these gaps to closure.• Wrote, maintained and executed functional/regression test scripts.• Performed root cause analysis, documented and reported defects.• Identified technical and business resources to be available during production releases.• Schedule and facilitate conference calls during production releases.• Participated in software release deployment; assisted technical operations staff to shut down processes in order to deploy software to production environments and facilitate post release smoke testing.

Greater Denver Area

Tested software builds to ensure they met the requirements specified by Product Management and the Business Analyst. Reviewed requirements and change requests. Wrote test cases, prepared test data and estimate time for these activities.• Defined system test requirements, planning test schedule, writing test scripts, executing system, integration, and regression testing and compiling results using quality testing methodologies and procedures.• Worked closely with development staff to identify appropriate software, hardware and/or system solutions.• Performed quality assurance across multiple platforms.• Assisted in ensuring that design meets customer business needs.• Prepared test plans and test cases and implemented system, integration, and regression testing.