o Joined an existing R&D leadership group to establish a platform for previously siloed Test Engineers.o Built culture bridges between various departments in order to fuse direct reports into a single team or guild.o Built a culture around automation for the team and drove change using metrics.o Negotiated testing requirements with scrum teams to drive better testing practices.o Built a metric platform to monitor team performance, output, and operational concerns.o Built an alerting system (Jira→Slack) to monitor team “contracts” for quality in real time.o Became a Jira admin when the need arose. Drove major clean-up and cost reduction activities. o Established a Confluence knowledge base for the Test and Support teams.o Worked to help drive adoption of healthy agile principles.o Performed all Jira admin duties and encouraged Agile best practices.o Led Support Triage meetings and helped to convert support patterns into bugs, which were ultimately fixed.o Revised, expanded, and managed the Support Escalation pipeline

Autonomous Vehicle Safety Softwareo Hired as the first Test Engineer at the company, with the goal of building a Testing Department as the company grewo Established and implemented the company Test Strategyo Onboarded a Test Management & Traceability solution that integrated into the existing development workflow o Worked with other managers to plan and integrate with the Development teamo Grew the Testing team from an initial manual solution to an automated solution covering frontend and backend automationo Implemented automation solutions such as selenium, k6, and Security Scanning as part of CI pipeline.o Generated Test and Dev quality metrics to establish visibility into team performance and coverageo Provided estimates and headcount forecasts, in order to ascertain company goals and deadlineso Created and drove interview and hiring best practices as the team grew.o Provided test coverage for commercial and Department of Defense product releases.

Autonomous Drivingo Wrote test plans and executed test cases against new development featureso Worked with the development team through analysis of resultso Supported User Experience and Product teams to drive system requirements

o Managed a team of Test Engineers & Software Developerso Defined Document Control Processeso Defined Test and Operation Processeso Drove pilots of test case management systemso Organized and prioritized software development activities within the testing team.o Drove data analysis of testing outcomes

o Managed a small team of Test Engineerso Worked with development teams to identify upcoming testing needs and funneled work to the groupo Spearheaded helping the User Experience team bring participants in for Validation studies.o Group created and maintained test suites and taxonomy for testso Helped drive the adoption of simulation as a major part of Verification.

o Drove Testing best practiceso Drove cross-functional learning across departments through organized lunch and learnso Mentored junior Test Engineerso Helped teams of Test Engineers organize and execute large-scale testing events

o Designed and executed development tests and regression tests.o Wrote test reports and worked with the development team to drive necessary changes to the systemo Executed on-the-road data collection as "right seat" o Wrote and modified automated shell scripts to enable throughput for the team o Selected as the first member of the new testing department tasked with special missions

Medical Device Robot and Medical Softwareo Tested a medical device robot in a cutting-edge agile environmento Worked with the program management team to deliver company updateso Drove weekly test team meetings as an area of ownershipo Led the scrum team through planning sessionso Drove team learning sessions. Ex: C# & Powershello Tested multi-dimensional robot software and hardwareo Saw global scale platform through development, verification, manufacturing, and Installo Acted as a lead engineer through the manufacturing launch of the flagship producto Acted as lead engineer for the first onsite customer implementation of the flagship product.

o Drove quality of implementation by collaborating upfront as part of the development team.o Worked in a collocated/collaborative area with a self-organizing Software/Hardware team.o Prototyped and tested Hardware solutions.o Wrote test cases and Verification protocols in an FDA-regulated environment.o Contributed to Agile delivery of software in a Scrum environmento Delivered speeches and demos for Sprint/Release reviews

Financial Portfolio Softwareo Used Microsoft Test Manager as an automated GUI testing tool.o Used VBScript to write Macros in Excel, as well as scripts in Test Completeo, Wrote estimates, vision documents, and test plans (Microsoft Solutions Framework - MSF).o Fueled constructive conversations to build structurally sound requirement expectations.o Defined and authored best practice documents for team procedures such as test case writing.o Designed, wrote, executed, and interpreted automated test scripts in Test Completeo Used SQL to query the database and retrieve data sets as needed o Interfaced to SQL Server 2005, 2008, Oracle 10g and Oracle 11g.o Used Visual Studio as a defect tracking tool as well as Team Foundation Server (TFS).

Pharmacy Fulfillment Softwareo Delegated some tasks to other team members.o Gave estimates and devised appropriate test plans to deliver expectations and deadlines.o Executed and interpreted Automated test scripts in Quick Test Professional (QTP)o Sat on a committee to define the commercialization process (Software life cycle).o Served as Alpha Beta Focal for major releases

o Interpreted requirements to ascertain customer expectations.o Wrote, revised, and verified test cases and procedures.o Used Jira as a defect tracking tool.

Clinical Trial Softwareo Developed and executed test cases in an FDA-regulated environment. o Tested client-side PDA programs, web applications, and software updates. o Used SQL to query the database.o Used an in-house bug base for defect reports and defect resolutions.

On Demand Cable Software and Hardwareo Tested software and hardware pending release to major cable companies. o Developed test cases and test matrices in accordance with customer specifications. o Rewired servers and maintained new assets as they were received in our system. o Worked with company switchboards, servers, and various databases.

o Assisted students in: Math, Physics, Engineering, electronics, and programming classes. o Earned Level 1 & 2 CRLA Tutoring Certification