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Cambridge, Ma, Us

* Managing a global team responsible for developing, deploying and maintaining lab environments for the Akamai Connected Cloud Platform.* Building lab tooling that enables engineering teams to deploy and test platform critical bare metal and VM based services. * Responsible for the local sandbox environment supporting hundreds of engineers developing nearly every application on the platform.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Worked on teams responsible for delivering multiple new, high quality products and new product categories including: Linode Cloud Manager, Authentication Service, Linode Kubernetes Engine, Custom Distro Images, VM Backups, Object Storage.• Led the establishment of test automation frameworks for multiple front end and backend applications. Using various stack appropriate frameworks such as including WebdriverIO, Jest for front end applications. Pytest for testing public and backend APIs.• Adopted a shift left test automation approach in multiple teams, running unit, integration and end-to-end tests early and often starting with PR's and later release candidates.• Led the effort to streamline release processes by working with team members to ensure each team member could build, test, and deploy applications.• Containerized critical applications for production deployments as well as local development.• Developed Jenkins pipelines as code, and established improved standards for CI builds on multiple teams.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

• Senior test engineer on Checkout team, focusing on improving the conversion flows and adding new payment integrations (Apple Pay & Alipay).• Responsible for developing automation strategies affecting multiple products and channels (Web/iOS/ Internal Business Tools).• Maintainer of cross-team automation backlog for extending test coverage and reliability.• Developed mock data tooling and integration into front end testing framework to isolate dependencies and allow for testing complex scenarios.

Philadelpia, Pa, Us

* Created an automation framework utilizing WebdriverIO, a Node.js Selenium language binding, used by all URBN brands in order to achieve continuous delivery goals. * Built highly scalable test architecture with a focus on localization, multi-screen size and performance testing.* Mentoring team on test design best practices and encouraging fast, thoughtful peer review.* Designed and collaborated with other QA team members to create end-to-end integration tests touching every component of each site.* Document test cases in Behavioral Driven (BDD) style to effectively communicate testing requirements to stakeholders, PO's, Developers and other QA engineers.* Manage Jenkins configurations for UI automation efforts.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Responsible for regression testing releases for US & EU brands on desktop and mobile environments.• Led the adoption of front-end UI automation testing across the brand using various tools including Selenium Web Driver & Ghost Inspector.• Provided DevOps with production support during peak sales periods.• Regression tester for Anthropologie iOS application• Primary QA on scrum feature team responsible for delivery of high business value projects, including, Store locator rewrite, email sign up rewrite, global domain restructure.• Defined test requirements for development in each sprint with input from product owner, stakeholders, and developers.• Created, documented, and maintained test scripts for new and existing functionality. • Identified, reproduced and pursued the resolution of production issues with focus on checkout issues.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Responsible for site-wide product activation and day-to-day maintenance of Anthropologie EU, while coordinating efforts with London-based team.• Provided remote & on-site training to London-based team members• Managed requests and queries from Buying and Planning while collaborating with Copy, Photo, Trade and Visual Merchandising Teams to meet product launch deadlines. • Optimized and restructured the product activation process to align with Anthropologie US practices.• Point person for communicating EU web production needs to Business Systems Team to fine-tune reporting & Merchandise Tracking System.• Partnered with IT Services and brand dev teams to ensure features and bugs were successfully delivered and/or resolved, including the successful launch of Anthropologie Europe's mobile website.• QA lead for Anthropologie EU and primary tester for new features and functionality. • Advised US development teams on EU impact for features, bugs, and enhancements and assisted product owners accordingly during ticket grooming.• Worked closely with Trades Manager and Visual Merchandiser in the merchandising of Anthro EU.• Successfully executed thousands of markdowns for each end of season sale, and assisted in the setup and QA of promotions.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

- Men's Pants & Shorts/Men's Factory Division• Evaluated business by creating weekly financial overviews of current business for Buying and Planning teams.• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to ensure T&A, quality, costing, and placement met company standards and ensured the success of the product line.• Analyzed competition and present recommendations future areas of growth and opportunity to Buying & Planning teams.• Deep-dive analysis of merch. sales by week, month, and season to react to business trends.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

- Men's Factory Division• Strategized with Buying and Planning teams to help create the most productive assortment in an expanding outlet business.• Analyzed competition and made recommendations for future growth of outlet business.• Coordinated with transportation partners to ensure products arrived to stores on time.

New York, New York, Us

• Assisted customers with shopping needs.• Provided outstanding customer service.• Visual support during new product roll outs.