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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Delivered improved trust and investment account level performance reporting product for clients in matrixed organization.SME in Personal Trust and Investments, served as liaison between business and engineering.Managed vendor relations and engineering requirements.Identified business readiness activities including test validation, internal communications, and demonstrating product to internal customers. Maintained cross functional project management milestones.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Created and presented Product Roadmaps to communicate product strategy and vision to stakeholders and customers. Maintained product backlog, authored stories, and created acceptance criteria for the development team. Led regular feedback discussion with internal stakeholders and participated in discovery calls with customers to validate ideas and assumptions.Prepared release materials and engaged with Release Manager when new features were launched.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Facilitated cross-team resolution of customer reported defects.Facilitated discovery meetings with PM, UX, and Development to understand business requirements for product features and scheduled subsequent follow-up meetings.Maintained product backlog including triaging incoming bugs.Prepared sprint plans, including capacity planning and story prioritization, and reviewed these with the Product Manager. Coordinated with Engineering Manager to ensure release timeline was up to date and worked with Launch Manager to ensure cross-team features were successful when released.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Wrote automated test cases to validate feature acceptance criteria.Coordinated cross-team testing efforts by writing test plans and preparing system environments.Evangelized quality by a co-leading group of engineers to identify and share best practices.

Minneapolis, Mn

Established automation test plan best practices to guide team members in creating automation test plans.Moved team to Kanban methodology to increase efficiency and bring into focus high priority work items.Monitored metrics for test case coverage (success and failure counts), defects found by automation, and interval automation defects.Created a new reporting database which provides better quality metrics for the automation team and other stakeholders.

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Played a key role in the team’s monthly quality report for the visualization project, establishing quality metrics, improving quality, and delivering a report to management.Contributed to instituting a new method of defect tracking to aid in eliminating late defects by designating issues added and found during a sprint as blocking issues.Served instrumentally in saving time through automation by creating and demonstrating a proof-of-concept user story test case to secure adoption of Selenium WebDriver; achieved 75% test automation.

Winona, Mn

Played a critical role collaborating with developers as Quality Assurance Lead. Developed test plans based on functional requirements and executed using unit and functional testing strategies. Produced technical documentation and presentations to demonstrate software functionality.Highlights• Contributed to testing the migration of an existing sales, parts, and service automobile dealership console software to a web application.

Winona, Mn

Built departmental websites using SharePoint CMS and forms with Microsoft InfoPath utilizing Lean methodologies and driving sustainability. Created queries using MS SQL Server and reports with SQL Server Reporting Services.Highlights• Upgraded campus departmental forms by converting to InfoPath documents accessible on the university's intranet.

Winona, Mn

Developed an automated test plan based on functional system requirements and engineered utilizing HP Quality Center. Gathered functional requirements and built a unit test and executed using Oracle PL/SQL. Established stored procedures and functions to support the development of the test data environment.Highlights• Contributed to testing the shipping and sortation warehouse management system from the ground up; transitioned from the warehouse into a software quality role.