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As the application development group in deepwatch was a "startup in a startup" the work represented was built from ground up. Building up a quality team and practice that emphasizes efficiency as deepwatch is hyperscaling. Strategic : Lead the overall company development quality effort.- Created QA Model. The goal of this model is to give both the individual teams and the overall org a roadmap of what comprises "high quality". The model also allows us to pinpoint areas each team needs training and help on. Every quarter we create goals for each team on what next steps they can take to push forward. Technical QA : Chose and implemented best fit tools for each project. - Choose tools and created automation framework and test for the company's first ground up applications (mobile : react-native and web : react)- Created automated testing process for testing Splunk TAs using Devops : Bringing the CI/CD process into the SDLC- Created the Continous Integration / Continous Delivery Process for both web / mobile / and add on development products.Release: Build and Coordinate release strategy- Created the release system for mobile apps into the Google Play and Apple App Stores.- Worked with dev teams to plan and roll out releases.Technologies- iOS App / Android App- React Native, React, Python, Typescript- Bitrise / Bitbucket CI/CD- AWS- Detox, Cypress

QA Office Responsible for leading the Quality strategy for the organization.-Created a QA Maturity Model to asses and guide our teams to better overall quality. This includes an organizational Automation Strategy document.-Reorganized and help create the new automation server infrastructure for more efficient automation.-Led and help create a baseline automation framework with dashboard to help teams on onboard into good automation practices from the beginning.-Advising and working with the shared service team to make sure our transition into CI/CD includes quality from the start.MetricsRan development team to create metrics display and gathering app for the organization.-Hired and led a development team create internal metrics application.-Took the project from discovery to completion. (Using Squad / Agile process)-Application is now the source of truth for development efficiency and health. This includes release efficiency (cost to release, speed of release), velocity, and quality metricsLed the effort to get the organization to improve and make decisions based on metrics.-Created new metrics for the engineering organization to base their performance on.-Created dashboards for the teams and leadership. These dashboards are used all the way up to the leadership operating reviews,-Trained teams and leadership on the metrics and how they can be used to improve their efficiency.

Creating automation strategy of the organization to fit into the CI/CD deployment model.- Improving reliability of the automation and automation framework.- Rewrite framework and code to allow parallel execution of test.- Advise DevOps on infrastructure needed in order to allow faster / more reliable execution.- Covers db, service, and ui automation.Managing software deployments.- Reports and mitigates risk during the development life cycle.- Manages and coordinates change request.- Coordinate deployments and runs triage during the windows.Manage team of onshore and offshore QA Engineers and Automation Developers- Hiring and building team to fit the Agile / CI / CD models- Working with offshore vendors on improving processes and making teams more efficient.- Managing team located in 4 time zones.TechnologiesJava, Groovy, Python, Robot Framework, Selenium, Selenium Grid, extJs, TestNG

Brought on to build the Quality Management group.- Help mentor current QA team members in Quality Management in an Agile Environment.- Create structure and processes for Quality Management to be applied throughout the company.- Build an onshore / offshore team of QA in Agile and Automation Test Engineers.- Determine the current and future task and growth of the QA team.Offshore Vendor Management- Worked to create the budget and staffing of the offshore Dev and QA teams for the upcoming year. - Had weekly meetings with vendor leadership on to improve efficiency.- Cut the cost by 30% in less than a year.Automation- Created automation framework (C#, Selenium, Appium)- Setup automation infrastructure on the cloud (Azure, AWS, Docker) for speed and cost optimization. - Worked with the DevOps team to integrate the cloud automation system.- Took automation down from taking over a day to run down to an hour or less.Agile Process- Lead / Train the team to assume the role of Scrum Master.- Helped lead effort to assess our Agile processes, find gaps, and make plans for improvement.- Lead process improvement meetings within the company.Release Management- Create the Release Process for the development organization in order for it to move into a Continuous Integration / Continuous Development cycle.- Trained QA team to take on release task during the development life cycle.- QA team coordinated the releases and performed the deployments.Tools and Languages :Ext JS, Selenium (C#), Nunit, Specflow, Selenium Grid, Docker, Javascript, Soap UI, Scala, Gatling, Appium, EC2, Azure, Google Compute, Jenkins, Jasmine, Cucumber.

Quality-Setting standards and implementing QA processes throughout the organization.-Building an onshore / offshore team for 24/7 QA.-Determining and Implementing QA tool set.-Creating the Automation framework and scripts for testing the UI and Service layer. ( Angular / Java, and .NET )-Building out and performing performance and load testing of the UI and Service layer. -Testing on multiple platforms, both desktop and mobile.Process-Assist in leading the team in the Scrum Agile development lifecycle-Created tooling workflows and systems to help the team adopt the Agile processRelease and Change Management-Created the Release and Change management process.-Setup the tooling and automation in the process.-Acted in the role of release manager for weekly releases.Experience in Visual Studio .NET, CodedUI, Selenium, Jasmine, Protractor, Karma, Telerik Test Studio, QTP, ALM, LoadUI, Gatling, MTM, TFS, Microsoft Project.

Automation testing of web services ( SoapSonar, SoapUI, VSTS, Service Test )Automation test of UI ( QTP both Keyword and BPT )Creating, maintaining automation frameworksManaging and coordinating an onshore / offshore testing team.Administrator of the HP ALM (Quality Center, QTP) Creating Automation Strategy for Testing Team.Performance Testing (Visual Studio, .NET)

Automation testing of web services.Coordinating offshore resources in testing.Mobile testing.

Managed User Acceptance Testing.

Automation Testing in Rational Automation Testing Quicktest Professional.Testing Services and UIAdministrator of Rational and Quality Center test suites.