PreSales Solution Architect working with Enterprise accounts in the western US. Discovery, demos, value selling for the Tricentis platform.

• Sales Engineer focused on Application Delivery Management software products including Octane, StormRunner Load, StormRunner Functional, LoadRunner, Unified Functional Testing, Service Virtualization, Network Virtualization, Mobile Center, LeanFT, and Business Process Testing• Work with customers providing thought leadership on testing strategy. This includes migration to a DevOps processes, test maturity evaluation, as well as tools selection and integrations.

Provide sales engineering support for the sale of software and professional services to customers across the US. Identified client performance and business objectives to recommend the best solution in application performance management, automation, mobile testing, reporting, load testing and/or professional services.

Pre-sales role focused on the HP Apps portfolio including: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Quality Center (QC) , Performance Center (PC) , LoadRunner (LR) , Service Virtualization (SV), Unified Functional Test (UFT), and Quick Test Professional (QTP) , Lean Functional Testing (LeanFT), StormRunner Load (SRL), Mobile Center (MC).

• Provide overall team direction, vision and leadership for a team of test automation developers consisting of 8 employees and 40 consultants.• Lead team of automators in redesign of existing automation framework to increase execution speed and with a focus on maintainability.• Responsible for planning and forecasting cast and consultants across multiple projects simultaneously.• Responsible for drafting and managing vendor relationships including contracts, bids, statements of work and financial tracking

• Grew a team of performance test engineers from 4 employees to a team consisting of 8 employees and 23 consultants. • Responsible for drafting and managing vendor contracts and monthly financials.• Responsible for planning and forecasting cast and contractors across multiple projects simultaneously• Responsible for drafting and managing vendor relationships including contracts, bids, statements of work and financial tracking• Provided direction and leadership to the team to plan out daily and weekly checkpoints to ensure on-time project completion. • Interfaced regularly with developers, QA and executive teams to ensure teams were all on the same page. This included coordinating with Release Planning to align projects with competing needs and priorities through the Performance testing environment.• Developed scripts and scenarios for testing various enterprise applications

• Developed automated framework and scripts using WinRunner and QuickTest Professional• Worked with development teams to gather application requirements, and functional QA to create robust validation of existing manual test cases.• Created a custom WinRunner keyword driven framework to speed the creation of automated test cases. • Later converted all the WinRunner TSL code to VBS for QTP using HP’s BPT framework. • Worked on a small performance test team of 4 engineers writing scripts and creating scenarios to test various enterprise applications

Automated testing of PeopleSoft using WinRunner and QuickTest Professional.Performance Testing using Loadrunner.

Manual and Automated testing of consumer mapping applications.Responsible for developing the install scripts using InstallShield.

Installation and training of POS systems for hardware stores.

Consulting QA for Empire Earth RTS game.

Call Center support

• First full time game tester hired at Hasbro Interactive.• Manual testing of several titles including Risk, Scrabble, Boggle, Star Wars: Monopoly H.E.D.Z., Mr. Potato Heads Activity Pack, Axis and Allies and Sorry!.• Performed hardware compatibility testing using a small hardware lab on-site and with an external vendor,• Responsible for test script creation, defect creation and tracking.