A professional with 15+ years who is effective at gathering and aligning business requirements that are clear, test-driven and reach quality standards for a viable product. A certified scrum master and QA tester who proactively forms test cases early along in the software development lifecycle. Communicating with business analysts, product owners and developers helping create test plans and fulfill backlog items. I facilitate continual improvement throughout the testing and development life cycle. Committed to refining the build, sharing lessons learned, preventing defects, catching regressions and functional issues. Also, my familiarity of security frameworks helps bring additional perspective, providing an objective approach to assess governance and compliance.