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• Contracted Sr. Value Stream QA Lead for American Family Insurance
• Guided the QA and testing for seven enterprise application teams in the quote and rating function for a property and auto insurance AWS cloud enterprise system following the SAFe agile methodology. Coordinated.
• In the Sr. position, led the other five Value Stream QA Leads in the enterprise program to help ensure a consistent approach for QA metrics across the enterprise program and provide transparency to leadership.
• Leveraged the enterprise tool set of: Jira, Kendis, Confluence, Zephyr (test management), and Hexawise (test design).
• Earned the Hexawise Test Design Professional certification.

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• Manager of multiple test team leaders and on/off shore testers. 5/2014 to 11/2019
• Managed teams totaling up to 12 employees and 105 contractors (on and off-shore) for the testing of Business Intelligence Reporting and Applications, Health Information Exchange, and Data Extracts.
• Earned the SAFe 4 Scrum Master certification from Scaled Agile, Inc. and renewed until March, 2025.
• As Scrum Master, guided Agile Cohorts (teams of managers) in addressing organizational roadblocks for implementing agile, such as funding agile teams/value streams instead of individual projects.
• Volunteered as the Agile Champion representing testing in our organization’s transition from waterfall to agile and successfully mentored my test teams through the transition.
• Guided my teams in the conversion from manual to automated testing using iCEDQ and Selenium.

• Contracted Test Lead for State Farm
• Attained the positions of Persistent Project Test Leader and Defect Management Discipline Lead for State Farm’s Property & Casualty Test Delivery organization.
• Participated in State Farm’s SDLC conversion from Waterfall to Agile in 2007.
• Led the testing of seven large, multi-release, enterprise projects. The tested applications were used by over 17,000 agents in 52 jurisdictions in the US and Canada.
• Used Rational Tools for the development lifecycle, including ClearQuest, RMT, and RFT.

• Contracted Test Consultant for Cisco Systems
• Tested a large back-end Oracle database and its B2B web application for tracking service contracts.
• Developed complex SQL queries for back-end data validation. Wrote WinRunner scripts for automated testing of the user interface.

• Contracted Consultant for GlaxoSmithKline
• Created automated tests using WinRunner and TestDirector. Used add-ins for Web Tests, Java, and Visual Basic for a multiple-server conversion effort impacting 45 science lab applications.
• Led internal process improvement projects, including Automated Software Inspection pilot.

• Managed a staff of 18 Software Test/QA and CM Engineers. Department had responsibility for testing and release management of shrink-wrapped and enterprise software systems for electricity metering.
• As the Six-Sigma Champion and Process Owner for a process improvement project, reduced customer-delivered software defects by 30%, saving $113,000 per year in lower rework costs.
• Implemented process improvements: Internal document reviews, Change Request Review Committee, enhancements to problem tracking systems, requirement traceability, daily builds, test case tracking via TestDirector, and.

• Managed staff of five Software QA Analysts. Application under test was an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) enterprise system running on Windows 95/NT connected to an Oracle database.
• Administered and maintained Lotus Notes database, forms, views, and agents for Problem Tracking.
• Wrote SQL queries to independently verify the structure and content of the database under test.
• As a member of the GUI Standards Committee, developed the GUI/Usability Test plan and test cases.

• Contracted Consultant for Lucent Technologies
• Test Team Leader for an object-oriented (C++ and VFSM) telecom configuration asset on Unix.
• Developed the test plans. Wrote test cases. Reviewed all test cases and mentored other testers.
• Used simulators and wrote Unix shell scripts to automate regression testing and stress testing.

• Administered the primary computer system hosted by an IBM RS/6000 running UniVerse on AIX connected to an NT server and over 30 PCs via TCP/IP over Ethernet.
• Designed, coded, and tested programs to aid management and improve business processes. A waste-tracking program facilitated process improvements that resulted in monthly savings of $44,000.

• Led the Quality Assurance team to formalize, document, and improve the QA processes.
• Programmed automated test scripts using SQA TeamTest/Robot and MS Visual Basic.

• Developed korn shell scripts and SMIT stanzas for the NetView/6000 (AIX/UNIX) application.
• Contributed to Test Team cost savings of $400,000. Earned an IBM TEAM AWARD.
• Implemented a tool enhancement to manage defects across multiple product versions. Earned an IBM IDEAS/COST EFFECTIVENESS AWARD.