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Charleston, Sc

• QA as well as Senior Scrum master and servant leader for top performing development team. Managing continuous release cycles and delivering value to clients on a consistent basis. • Coached SM and QA for new team brought in on new development project. Ensured there was a common understanding of product and testing needs. • Evaluated previous processes for testing on release nights, developed a new deployment testing strategy minimizing the time spent on release nights but still maintaining the quality of releases by focusing on the intent of testing. Reduced level of effort by 75%.• Set in place Risk Based regression testing strategies. Efforts now based on risk and code churn, allowing QA to test a smaller set of tests and still release with high quality. Regression strategies and Risk Based testing changes reduced the LOE for patch and general regression testing efforts by 60%.• Certified Scrum Master leading Planning, Stand up, Retrospective and Grooming sessions.• Contributing member of Triad working with Lead Architect, Designer and Product Owner to build and refine the product backlog.• Manage general availability releases. Determining strategy, creating test suites, assigning work, communicating progress and managing completion through release to production. • Created training and on boarding procedures for new QA team members. Designed schedule and training strategies as well as documentation.• Spearheaded assessing new test execution software to give the QA organization insight into the quality and stability of code, as well as visibility of historical testing efforts. • Organized the implementation of Gherkin for automated smoke test suite as well as requirement communication.

Charleston, Sc

• Organized automation implementation for ticketing software using a Keyword based system. Managed efforts to transcribe tests to gherkin as well as the implementation of the corresponding automation. Effort covered the products Regression suite of test cases. • Introduced Risk based testing strategies to several teams and reduced testing LOE for one products general releases by 70%. • Organized Regression testing strategies, sessions and assignments for multiple products. • Tested production as well as development software for several products. • Responsible for spec reviews and test planning for Waterfall release cycles, then transitioned with the company to SCRUM based testing practices. Quality Assurance member for several sprint teams and products over the years.