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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Bellevue, Wa, Us

• Led a product driven team of globally distributed, specialized engineers (Platform, Web, Mobile and QA) in the full ownership of a diverse set of critical, high visibility product areas utilized by millions of global users.• Led customer project that enabled Limeade to secure a $10 million customer/partner contract.• Led stabilization of Azure hosted CI/CD pipelines for nine owned microservices and established standard deployment processes resulting in nearly 100% uptime deployments and zero deployment-caused outages.• Led team in ownership of a diverse set of full stack software: Azure hosted .NET microservices, 2 separate .NET monoliths, React web applications, native mobile application implementations (Kotlin for Android, Swift for iOS).• Optimized first tier triage for all reported bugs resulting in a 90% reduction in disruptions.• Optimized automation (Performance, UI and Integration tests) resulting in zero code related production Sev0 and Sev1 issues.• Built agile team processes that drove team alignment in all SCRUM activities reducing meeting load and disruptions.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

• Led cross-functional teams (Developers, QA, DevOps, Customer Support, and Project/Program Managers) in ideating, designing, implementing, testing and delivered a diverse set of features that spanned all aspects of the Limeade products.• Designed and delivered new survey and quiz functionality, serving as a foundation for enhanced listening capabilities allowing Limeade to expand into the employee experience market.• Managed and supported development in Azure hosted .NET microservices, React web applications, and mobile applications developed natively (Kotlin for Android, Swift for iOS).• Designed, implemented and maintained multiple Azure hosted .NET microservices. Additionally implemented comprehensive automation around services and built and managed CI/CD pipelines for these services.• Reduced manual product testing by 20% collaborating with our QA Department, designing and implementing org-wide testing standards, resulting in reduced SDET pull request review. Reduced average time work spent in review by 40%.• Built an admin targeted React web application to automate 25% of a 100-step, manually run customer upgrade process.• Led monthly mobile app releases for iOS and Android.• Established test automation standards across R&D teams encompassing performance testing with JMeter, API Integration testing with Postman and JavaScript, and UI automation with Selenium. Additionally integrated these automation suites into CI/CD pipelines.• Managed load/performance testing with Microsoft Visual Studio load testing framework to a rotational ownership amongst the entire QA team, resulting in an enhanced understanding by the team in how to facilitate and review performance.• Managed and re-designed the SDET internship program.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

• Led cross-functional teams for quality, testing and delivering features, maintaining/monitoring existing and new test automation, and owned test automation focused on how it fits into the larger CI/CD process. • Worked across the entire product supporting the quality, development and release of a diverse set of features including: targeted consents, global translations, social functionality, cache management, and email functionality.• Lead SDET on year-long initiative to create social functionality within the product.• Mentored and led SDET interns.