Define the architecture and frameworks to be used by product deliveryteams.Optimize test pipelines to ensure transparency through robust loggingand quick feedback.Facilitate automation forum / community of practice to encouragelearning and innovation.Build and maintain automation frameworks for an expanding suite ofapplications and technology types.Coach teams and individuals on ways to adopt modern practices.Mentor team members to help grow their knowledge of testautomation and modern development practices.Encourage and facilitate the automation of processes, procedures, anddata creation.Manage and prioritize tech debt / automation backlog across deliveryteams and offshore teams.

Enterprise-wide automation Architect. Built, distributed and maintained automation frameworks for multiple technology stacks. Stood-up and maintained the testing infrastructure which included a company wide test automation reporting / metrics tool.Coached teams across the enterprise to implement test automation into their development cycle. Taught manual testers how to code / write test scripts using our frameworks. Coached automation engineers on best practices around test automation and review test scripts to help ensure maintainability of scripts.

Started an automation team and built the supporting frameworks from the ground up.Introduced new practices into the development cycle to ensure each build is tested quickly using build validation scripts. In addition, I've built and maintained a full regression suite to ensure all functionality is working as expected before deploying to production. The current technology i'm primarily working with is C# and selenium for all UI based tests. The web service framework is built in C# and supports JSON. Outside of the normal day to day execution and maintenance of the scripts, I'm constantly updating the framework to address any weak points and ensure the results are as reliable and as fast as possible.

Responsible for managing the Independent Validation Team (IVT) for Electronic payments. TheIVT consists of QA architects and technical leads who engage with the functional delivery teamsto assist in the creation and maintenance of all automation frameworks.Implementing a Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery model within the developmentlifecycle so that problems can be detected early in the development process.Continuously developing strategies to raise automation levels which have reduced regressioncycles from 6 weeks down to 1.Adding additional static and dynamic code scanning to the application to raise the quality levelwithout sacrificing time in the testing cycles.Initiating and leading various automation initiatives across electronic payments to raisefunctional testing coverage as well as efficiency in writing the test cases.

Served as Team Lead for the Bill Payment product.Led a team of 6 QA analysts onshore and 8 QA analysts offshore.Created and executed the test strategies for each major release.Established standard practices for Functional, Regression, and Security testing.Partnered with development and professional services to manage defects and ensure a qualityproduct was being released to production.Ensured the functional design was built to specification to serve the need of the client.

Developed a fully automated regression suite for the Small Business bill pay application.Drove a conversion from Quality Center to TFS for all test cases in Electronic Payments.Led multiple large scale projects from a QA perspective with no major issues in production.Partnered with offshore testers to ensure the application was properly validated during eachrespective time zone.Participated in joint design sessions to establish functional requirements.Identified requirements from functional specification documents and created test cases.Responsible for functional, regression, smoke and security testing.Testing across all layers of the application: UI, web service, and database.Reported defects and validated fixes as they were delivered.