Quality lead in the Pega Cloud Engineering organization. Responsible for introducing, implementing, and overseeing quality standards & automated testing, including coordinating quality-improvement activities across multiple local & remote development teams. Lead & contribute to Cloud Engineering Quality Guild activities. Provide advice & mentoring to quality, test, and development engineers.

Responsible for overseeing quality standards & automation planning for multiple teams' work backlogs. Lead & contribute to Quality Services Organization activities. Provide advice & mentoring to test and development engineers.Coordinate quality-improvement activities across multiple local & remote teams.

Team lead responsible for planning & scheduling tasks for Platform QA team of 6 people in ATG e-Commerce software group. Work with project manager, QA manager, and other teams leads, as well as providing technical direction and expertise to QA group. Advocate for test automation and technology.

QA lead responsible for multiple project areas and a team with 7 members, the majority of which are offshore. Performing requirements review, estimations, scheduling, task planning, and progress monitoring. Strong emphasis on test automation development by all team members, for new and existing features. Involved with maintenance and improvement of existing nightly test automation execution system. Work closely with other QA teams, development and build engineers.

Senior technical test engineer for IBM Lotus Notes v. 8.0, 8.0.1, & 8.5, supporting up to 4 functional test teams. Team lead & liaison to design & development teams. Assisted manager with scheduling, costing, analysis, planning.Co-architected, designed & implemented test automation system using Java/Eclipse (Rational Functional Tester v7), executing on W32, Linux, & Mac OS. Co-lead combined teams of test automation writers; provided guidance, mentoring, education. Lead team to port distributed-testing system; designed & implemented execution harness. Lead team producing functional test automation for Calendar group. Individually requested to provide automation development for high-priority projects.Division representative for test to Quality in Software Engineering (QSE) group. Represented group at Lotusphere trade conference multiple years. Chosen to attend IBM Technical Leadership Exchange conference.

Worked with 'greenhouse' group to brainstorm and implement prototype for product later named IBM Workplace Client. Senior technical test engineer for Mail/Calendar/Contacts components of Workplace Client v. 2.0, 2.5, 2.51. Designed & implemented test automation using Java/Eclipse (Rational XDE Tester). Developed automated test execution harness using Perl & Ant, executing on both Windows & Linux.Senior test engineer in group of 5 for Lotus Domino Offline Services, integrating service support with Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes. Designed & implemented test automation in Segue SilkTest.

Software test engineer for Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS & Windows, Lotus Symphony for DOS, and Lotus eSuite. Reviewed technical design/specifications to produce test plans and outline test cases. Designed & implemented test automation using 1-2-3/Symphony macro language, LotusScript, JavaScript, and Java.

Software engineer writing FORTRAN code for US government contracts, as well as C code & GUI for private contracts. Also started contracting with Lotus Development, doing software QA for Lotus 1-2-3.