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• Leadership: Hands-on leader with a proven ability to drive efficiency and effectiveness in the quality assurance process through the improvement of quality programs, defect reduction, and productivity gains throughout the process. • Automation: Expert at establishing and growing enterprise automated testing capabilities• Quality Assurance: Proven ability to deliver and execute large-scale testing efforts. Comprehensive experience in high-level strategic planning and hands on implementation of Quality Assurance best practices.Summary:• Over 15 years of Quality Assurance expertise with the Software Development and Testing Life Cycles; including both agile and waterfall methodologies.• Experience leading and managing both on-site and offshore testing teams for all testing related activities/issues.• Proven ability to build new automation teams & frameworks while maintaining existing legacy tests using continuous improvements in large organizations. • Expert in driving end to end quality assurance delivery including development of testing strategy, test plans, test estimation, test designs, test cases, and automation.• Extensive experience in strategic planning, budgeting, vendor and staff management•Selenium, Appium, Quick Test Professional (QTP), UFT, Ranorex, QC, SoapUI, LoadUI, ALM, Rational Robot, Rational Clear Quest, Mantis, Harvest, Vantive, Redmine, Spira, Rally, Visual Studio, Spira, ALM, BDD, JBehave, Cucumber, SpecFlow•DevOps, CI/CD/CT•Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Kafka•AWS

Listed skills include Quality Assurance, Agile Methodologies, Test Planning, Scrum, and 42 others.

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