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Clear Lake, Mn, Us

Responsible for leading four teams of software engineers and quality assurance engineers in an agile development environment to deliver mortgage, commercial, and consumer banking software applications. Lead technical discussions and plans to improve overall software quality. Collaborate with Product Management and Architect teams to define and deliver on product and technical roadmaps. Establish a collaborative work environment that fosters teamwork, transparency, and a high degree of craftsmanship and personal growth.

St. Cloud, Minnesota Area

Built, mentored, and coached a large team of software quality assurance engineers in an Agile software development environment. Provided strategic thinking, planning, and leadership to the entire quality assurance life cycle, ensuring the success of the team's manual and automation testing efforts. Responsibilities included:* Developed and drove a high-level QA strategy* Led efforts to develop, document, and implement applicable QA processes and procedures to provide more effective quality methods in support of providing quality software products. * Highly committed to the creation of world class automation for regression and feature testing.* Provided coaching and guidance to the team and removed organizational obstacles.* Planned,organized,and resourced the product development teams with the appropriate resources. * Remained current on changes and new developments on new and existing software applications/releases and industry trends

St. Cloud, Minnesota Area

Performed the role of Product Owner and set the vision and execution plan for the financial software technology agile stream. Maintained a deep understanding of business priorities, customer needs, and technology capabilities and synthesized these to create product software through the agile development process. As Product Owner I worked across the technology and business teams to ensure that technology development yields excellent products through clear priorities and goals. Responsibilities included: • Championing the team in building high quality products that financial organizations want.• Effectively guiding development activities through the management of prioritized user story queues in multi-product backlogs.• Critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources, reconciling conflicts, decomposing high-level information into details, abstracting up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguishing user requests from the underlying true needs.• Creating and maintaining detailed user story backlogs which accurately reflect customer and business priorities.• Proactively communicating and collaborating with customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements, and deliver completed stories with Acceptance Criteria to team.• Successfully engaging in multiple initiatives simultaneously• Collaborating with developers, architects and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade offs between usability and performance needs.• Considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current business environment.• Conveying the Vision and Goals at the beginning of every Release and/or Sprint and inspecting the product progress at the end of every sprint to accept or reject completed work.• Embracing and championing Agile development processes and involves customers in internal development review activities (sprint reviews).

Gathered functional business requirements from end user clients and developed functional specifications and designs for applications and enhancements including technical specifications for SAP configuration and programs. Provided cost/benefit analysis and hour estimations for potential solution options. Worked with development team members to ensure that the solution chosen met the defined business requirements. Tested applications and assist with end user acceptance testing. Developed training materials and provided application training to end users and support staff. Project managed small projects with teams of business analysts, developers, and testers.

Worked with the Business Analysts and project teams to design test cases for functional requirements and system integration. System tested all products created or enhanced by the Information Technology department. Provided application support for Creative Memories systems. Maintained spreadsheets and databases used by the department in tracking project information.

Worked with a team of analysts in the Systems and Planning area of the department. Created and maintained various call center statistical reports including productivity and quality reports. Administered the pricing and product information on the consultant online ordering site as well as in the ERP system SAP R/3.

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