Mitchell Gross Email & Phone Number

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

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

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

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.
• 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