Donna Ellery Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lead and coach high performance through dashboards, cadences & collaboration. Facilitate ceremonies building capability toward self-sufficiency. Facilitate the creation of Objectives & Key Results to drive measured outcomes. Coach and inspire positive attitudes towards failure and a culture of learning building trust and psychological safety. Create and deliver high value and interactive training.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Provide targeted communications to senior stakeholders to ensure clear understanding, visibility and transparency of deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues as well as measure and manage stakeholder expectations. Escalation point for dealing with risks, issues and bottlenecks. Accountable for leading and coordinating resources to deliver the project. Develop deep working relationships across multiple functions of the business and third party vendors. Manage dependencies across multiple internal and external teams and remove blockers to drive outcomes with business stakeholders and product owners.

Creates a cohesive and engaged team environment where all staff are engaged in both the client environment and the Servian environment. Provides usable feedback and ensures that feedback to staff is delivered as constructive and encouraging. Promotes and develops accountability and collaboration with other Team Members in-regard to client outcomes and career goals. Accountability for overarching client delivery excellence. Drives commercial success and supports recruitment process.

Leading the delivery of initiatives through the delivery lifecycle by supporting the devops practice and squads, partnering with stakeholders and implementing best delivery through agile practices.Empower team members to continuously improve and optimise ways of working by implementing team structure, practices and processes that are fit for purpose. Lead teams to shorten lead-time to deliver greater value to our customers and business. Facilitating agile ceremonies, to ensure team members are enabled to synchronise in their activities. I manage capacity, risks, issues, dependencies, providing transparency of the teams delivery performance and health.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ensures the engagement succeeds and is well regarded. Support the team whilst also setting the standard for delivery excellence. Focuses on management enablement and commercial awareness. Mentors, coach and demonstrates leadership to ensure positivity, engagement commitment and consultative behaviour within the engagement team and pro-actively seeks and develop new opportunities.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Build and facilitate delivery plan for the stream against key milestones. Track and coordinate the delivery progress through driving day to day activities and timelines in accordance to the plan. Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies within the stream and cross-stream.

Melbourne, Australia

Leading the delivery of initiatives through the delivery lifecycle by supporting cross functional teams, partnering with stakeholders and implementing best delivery and agile practices.Facilitating agile ceremonies, to ensure cross functional team members are enabled to synchronise in their activities.I work with the business and cross functional teams, to create strategic customer centric solutions. Managing capacity, risks, issues, dependencies reporting and providing transparency of the teams delivery performance and health.

Melbourne, Australia

Performed Release Train Engineer, Agile Coach and Scrum Master roles. Coached DB staff agile practices and principles. Supported the sales team with agile expertise for potential tenders. I was the key facilitator and organiser for the community of practice sessions.

Melbourne, Australia

Played the role of the Scrum Master for multiple cross functional teams, identifying and removing blockers to maintain team momentum. Implemented and led continuous improvement behaviours and provided Product Owner and stakeholder satisfaction.

Melbourne, Australia

Supported cross functional teams to embed and achieve agile principles and practices. Mentored leaders and teams to deliver high quality customer centric outcomes. Promoted a continuous improvement culture. Built knowledge, capability, to evolve and improve organisation knowledge base.

Melbourne, Australia

Built, established and coached best practices and processes for testing in agile ways of working. Facilitated and promoted change within Quality Assurance. Mentored less experience testers.

Melbourne, Australia

The QA Practice Team had career opportunities open within their capability lead space. I was promoted to lead Quality Assurance in their best practices and processes across the development teams in technology.Responsibilities:Agile CoachingProcess Change ManagerOnboarding Line ManagerQA Coach/MentorFaciliatatorAchievements:Implemented new test suites for Staging and PVTReduced Teams Regression Debt by an hour a dayIntroduced Risk-Based TestingOrganised a QA offsite and managed the outcomes into a strategic plan

Produced test estimates and documentation. Prepared, reviewed and executed formal test cases. Managed defects and prepared/presented test progress reports.

- Medibank is a leading health insurer, delivering better health to Australians. I was successful of becoming Test Analyst after I was given several opportunities whilst working in Medibank’s call centre to assist with UAT during major projectsResponsibilities:Test Case CreationTest ExecutionTest Case MaintenanceDefect ManagementAchievements:Delivered accurate and efficient test preparation, test execution and defect management during projectsActively maintained test suites for both progression and regression testing- Manage ITQA review documents in the agreed timeline- Assist with my Test Lead’s work load when needed