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Avon, Ct, Us

Hartford, Ct, Us

Hartford, Ct, Us

Hartford, Ct, Us

• Managed multiple initiatives across four Agile teams and served as Technical Lead over two customer-facing applications, supporting 40+ individuals across technical and non-technical roles• Developed an innovative solution to transform the application’s monolithic architecture to align with a microservice architecture, resulting in increased agility of the teams and simplified architecture of the API code• Partnered with business for long-term strategic direction by performing system analysis, defining requirements, and designing functionality across several complex features• Coordinated activities during monthly production releases to ensure the implementation plan was followed and performed post-implementation validation• Determined root cause of production issues, both during release calls as well as collaborating with Production Support between release cycles• Maintained environment stability and provided build and deploy support to the team• Provided support to external teams based on required application dependencies • Led the conversion of application JBOSS servers to Infrastructure as Code with support from the infrastructure team and maintained the associated Terraform code• Implemented application upgrade from Angular version 5 to version 9 • Partnered with a third-party vendor Tempus to collect payment card information and performed system analysis and updates to ensure the application was PCI compliant • Assessed and implemented changes to improve the outcomes of Performance Tests• Aided team members in resolving accessibility violations and security vulnerabilities• Collaborated with the data analytics team to ensure application tagging met the provided specifications

Hartford, Ct, Us

• Conducted feature design and GitHub pull request reviews with attention to detail to ensure business requirements were met while maintaining code quality guidelines• Facilitated daily technical forum across two Agile teams• Expanded skillset to full stack development while helping to mature the agile and engineering discipline• Delivered user stories and defect fixes utilizing .NET, Angular, Java, SQL, and Blaze Rule Manager• Absorbed additional functions for Java and Blaze Rule Manager updates resulting in a cost savings by eliminating the need of an additional developer• Built and deployed application code utilizing software delivery framework tools Jenkins and UDeploy• Retrieved and evaluated Production data to help Business make data driven decisions on design• Ensured the business requirement and the User Experience guidelines were achievable with a technical solution

Hartford, Ct, Us

• Supported multiple projects across two Agile teams to ensure successful delivery of high priority business capabilities• Increased the adoption of Agile across multiple teams and worked with leaders to determine gaps in the QA process• Set direction on future development to drive efficiencies, quality, speed of delivery, and business value• Developed automation scripts with complex test scenarios utilizing a Java and Selenium framework to increase productivity and efficiency during test cycles• Performed automation and application code reviews and delivered code changes to resolve application defects• Executed and maintained automated and manual regression test cases across releases to reduce defect leakage• Founding member of the DevOps Task Force which presented 6 “Feature Toggling Road Shows” for 16 unique Agile teams in 6 weeks • Mentored new team members in company methodologies and procedures

Hartford, Ct, Us

• Pioneered the foundational API regression test bed to support cross-application touchless functional automation testing by delivering 50+ automation scripts and mentored teammates on how to create their own scripts• Presented new functionalities to leadership and hosted several educational sessions across the QA and Group Benefits Claims organization to promote Behavior Driven Development and demonstrate the practices which QA has defined surrounding automation and API testing• Collaborated with Software Engineers and Technical Leads during architectural and program design conversations to reduce defect leakage during production deployments• Conducted testing sessions and daily QA updates to ensure best practices are followed• Advanced automation solutions to improve efficiencies in test quality in support of In-Sprint Automation, Touchless Automation, Automated Test Data Management, and Automation Framework Updates• Founding member of the THAA Genius Bar which assists in troubleshooting and resolving issues identified by other teams in the non-production environment

Storrs, Ct, Us

• Taught as a peer instructor and modeled different ways to approach problems to enable students’ success• Hosted review sessions for 100+ students prior to exams• Hosted study sessions twice a week to supplement what was taught in lecture• Collaborated with the Academic Achievement Center as well as the First Year Programs

Bachelor Of Science And Engineering - Bse, Computer Science And Engineering Major; Mathematics Minor

High School, General Education