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• Led a major quality initiative for a data migration project by creating and executing iterative test strategies and test plans. Project summary - ETL data from a third party system to internal databases using a custom.
• Responsible for coordinating large regression and UAT efforts by leading test strategy sessions among QEs and business stakeholders across multiple business segments, documenting test plans, and communicating overall.
• Activities included collaborating with scrum team members to define AC and ensure appropriate test coverage was provided, educating/training others on migration processes, shadowing SWEs to fully understand scope of.
• Worked closely with the analytics and accounting teams to set up detailed parallel test scenarios in the third party system and internally after migration to ensure financial data was aggregated the same in Snowflake.
• Owned monitoring activities relying on logs/dashboards in Datadog, as well as running complex SQL queries against Snowflake to ensure business operations took place in the correct PAS and financial transactions were.
• All applications were hosted on AWS, CI/CD was primarily managed via Github actions and Jenkins, and code repositories were on Github.

Philadelphia, PA

• Acted as a leader within the QE organization to mentor more junior members of the team on testing best practices and how QEs can be involved throughout the full SDLC.
• Drove QE initiatives including test automation, increasing test coverage, advocating squad based testing, increasing release frequency, and validating production releases as an individual contributor within a team.
• Partnered with software engineers to increase engagement in test automation efforts using the existing Selenium framework.
• Partnered with software engineers in utilizing a feature flagging strategy to reduce risk with production deployments while increasing release frequency as an effort to improve DORA metrics.
• Participated in pair-programming and code reviews with the software engineers within the squad.
• Responsible for coordinating production releases and running/analyzing results of an automated smoke test suite after deployments.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Mentored/coached direct report QEs in outlining and accomplishing professional growth goals, and completed annual performance reviews that led to promotions within the quality engineering organization.
• Led the quality engineering practices for three full-stack product as a service (PaaS) applications within a robust product suite.
• Drove QE strategy for the applicable product teams, supporting the vision of larger quality engineering organization, while managing a team of four onshore QEs and four offshore QEs embedded across three product teams.
• Assisted in managing API (RestAssured/Java) and UI (Selenium/Java) regression test suites that were triggered automatically after builds via Jenkins, and completed on-demand production releases and post release.
• Assisted and coached QEs with spearheading process changes within squads to help improve DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, etc.) and other QE related metrics (rework percentage, escaped defects, etc.).
• Helped direct QEs on the selection of a new UI testing tool (WebdriverIO/Appium) for revitalizing the existing UI automation suite and adding coverage for a newly created mobile app, as well as coordinated the.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Led and executed testing activities as the senior QE for both new and legacy software applications.
• Regularly participated in pair-programming exercises practicing test-driven development, and participated in code reviews with the software engineers on the squad.
• Commonly created/modified test data and managed feature flags using SQL (MySQL).
• Coordinated manual testing activities completed by offshore team members, built an automated API test suite using Postman for newly developed APIs, and contributed to existing UI automation using Protractor.
• Developed a POC framework supporting E2E testing of a new product using cypress.io.
• Major accomplishment was the successful commercial launch of a new product geared toward the education/onboarding/mentoring of new nursing staff at client hospitals.

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

• Responsibilities included assisting in definition of acceptance criteria for user stories, completing manual validation of defined acceptance criteria for UI, API, and database functionality, contributing to an.
• Oversaw the training of new team members on application functionality, facilitated scrum ceremonies as the team’s scrum master, and assisted with other development tasks as needed.
• All applications applicable to this role were hosted on-prem infrastructure and data centers, code repositories were managed via Microsoft TFS, and deployments were performed by IT server admin(s)/DBAs.

• Responsibilities included monitoring inbound data transfers (SFTP) from vendor partners, hosting weekly status calls with vendor partners, and querying data persisted in Microsoft SQL Server using T-SQL to satisfy.
• Assisted business analysts with requirements gathering and prioritization of new feature requests.
• Assisted business analysts and departmental leadership with coordination of user acceptance testing efforts for feature releases.

Supervised and assisted team of domestic and international individuals with daily functions of the Intake Department as part of Retrospective Appeals. Responsible for quality assurance, training/mentoring staff, department communications, provision of support/problem solving to staff, escalation of issues to upper management, supervision of team.

Assist team supervisor with daily team functions and overall supervision of Level I employees. Responsible for quality assurance, answering questions from team and other departments, assistance with training of new staff, completion of tasks/requests from other departments, redirection of work to appropriate work lists, completion of daily reports relevant.

Processed information sent from client hospitals, managed safekeeping of information, and entered information into company database. Responsible for documentation preparation, scanning, data entry, indexing, maintaining quality control and creating cases for initial patient review as part of retrospective appeals.

Worked in a Cardiac Rehabilitation office within the Cardiopulmonary and Sleep Services Department. Responsible for exercise prescription to patients, blood pressure analysis, direction of patients on exercise equipment, assistance with patient education and monitoring of patient EKG rhythms. *Major project consisted of completing a case study.