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Vancouver, Wa, Us

Vancouver, Wa, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Toronto, On, Ca

Effectively guided the testing team and helped out with Scrum Master responsibilities on the Australia and New Zealand New Westlaw product, working in a cross-functional multi-team environment in a project stretched between 5 different timezones and 4 continents. Worked closely with the geo-dispersed product owners on a daily basis, ensuring alignment on key deliverables, quick impediment removal, and filling in missing context between engineering and product. Helped oversee Sprint progress, tracked metrics, highlighted inefficiencies and identify impediments early. Helped coach the teams, product owners, and stakeholders on Agile and Scrum best practices. Ensured a successful, thoroughly tested launch and each monthly release through coordinating manual, automation, performance, billing, accessibility and release testing, by providing continuous feedback and ensuring effective communication across the team.

Toronto, On, Ca

Acted as a Scrum Master for the team working on the Website feature of the Westlaw products used by 20+ teams in the organization and 24,000+ customers. Effectively facilitated all Scrum ceremonies, helped maintain a healthy backlog and helped balance the workload between community duties and key deliverables at a sustainable pace.As a Software Engineer, maintained existing features and implemented infrastructure improvements; performed community support duties, coaching on community coding standards and code change processes, to ensure a consistent experience for the Westlaw customers.

Toronto, On, Ca

Worked on a cross-functional co-located and geo-dispersed team in an Agile environment, actively participating in all agile events and working closely with the product owners. Helped adapt an existing US product, Drafting Assistant, to UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand markets, using C# and Javascript. Acted as a sole UI expert of a document processing tool, collaborating closely with back-end development team, UX designers, testing team, project manager, product owners and team lead, to ensure a high quality customer-focused product.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Ensured quality of Thomson Reuters product, Drafting Assistant, through manual and automation testing. Worked in an Agile environment and participated in Agile events, collaborated with a cross-functional team and other teams in the organizations while working off-site. Collaborated with the testing team to build and maintain automation suite using C#, CodedUI and Selenium; continuously reviewed, analyzed and reported suite results daily. Effectively tested new functionality, verified bug fixes and work items, and participated in release testing, ensuring a thoroughly tested product.

Mankato, Mn, Us

Mankato, Mn, Us