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• Directly manage QA Analysts, Test Engineers and QA Managers, helping them balance multiple short- and long-term projects. - help define priority projects• Support direct reports’ long-term career development, helping them build their skills in software testing and leadership. - weekly appraisals, discover skills, passions• Represent QA Leadership within a cross-functional team, advocating for QA practices and people.• Foster an environment of cross-team collaboration where questions are welcomed and success is celebrated.• Advocate for QA’s involvement early in the planning and development phases to ensure successful implementation of all projects.• Work to refine and evangelize Mailchimp’s QA practices and processes.• Organize team communications and projects.Help to drive the interviewing and hiring of a diverse QA team.

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Managed and executed test cases, test planning and related test efforts for multiple projects. Worked very closely with a third party vendor team including developers and off-shore testers. Verified work, drove the team assignments and held them accountable for system integration, functional and UAT testing.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

 Oversee and manage all activities of the team while monitoring and elevating quality test solutions; Directs the coordination and facilitation of testing efforts, schedules, planning, and resources across the product/software development teams to meet product delivery timeframes. Communicates application release status, including issue/defect metrics, code coverage metrics, critical path and testing status. Lead a team of vendor and staff resources to enhance processes and workflows which maximize efficiency, maintain high level of Quality Assurance, and comply with regulatory and audit requirements. Strong organizational skills, tracking multiple test executions simultaneously and are able to synthesize the results. Effectively work with the IT Sourcing Lead to define QA needs, select appropriate vendors and manage on-going vendor relationships. Coordinates and facilitates testing communications with project managers and application management. Ensures that accepted methodologies and best practices are utilized to address QA/Test needs. Proactively identifies, manages and makes recommendations to mitigate delivery risk.

 Oversee, direct and mentor onshore and offshore associates, providing input and guidance of staffing process. Execute backend database testing (in Microsoft SQL environment) and manual web base testing. Performed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) w/corrective action to reduce future failures. Provide support and perform User Acceptance testing, evaluate test requirements for projects. Initiate and maintain Defect Management process at the program level, creating processes for tracking and report defects. Extract, compile, track and analyze data to generate management reports.  Ensures coordination of build and test environments teams. Investigate and evaluate new and alternative testing tools for new projects. Create and update testing and training documentation, ensuring communication to appropriate teams, and providing training and guidance to other testers and engineers. Evaluate requirements, improve test effectiveness and efficiency; report progress; and gain consensus on high risk requirements. Develop software test plan(s), create test estimates, and execute software applications using various technologies  Review requirements and writing, updating test cases, troubleshooting defects and analyzing test results. Act as lead functional areas of a project or multiple concurrent projects. Participate in test planning and in testing activities on multiple devices for multiple projects.

Hamilton, Bermuda, Bm

 Documented and interpreted business and technical requirements for custom reports created in Business Objects. Collaborated with SAP IT Data Services team, identifying the impact of system changes. Advised on efficiency enhancements for data extractions, manipulations and reports. Partnered to develop specifications in support of new system deployments and enhancements of SAP systems. Monitored balance and control reports, performing reconciliations, researching out of balances, and assisted with functional areas and IT to triage and resolve issues. Develop software test plan(s), create test estimates, and execute software applications using various technologies (TFS). Worked as primary liaison with Business, QA and Development teams for major releases, recreation of customer issues, subsequent patch testing, successful release of patches Documented high-level test plans and detailed test cases from requirements and other related documentation Executed test cases, analyze test results utilizing, Quality Center, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Test Manager Executed Web and SAP functional, conversion and regression testing. Tracked, monitored, and prioritized testing issues (using JIRA) and interacting with developers to understand and resolve defects. Performed data validation via Business Objects and Business Warehouse. Experienced backend testing and validating HTML,CSS data  Designed and executed SQL queries for data validation and test execution  Developed test cases, validation, and evaluation to ensure data integrity new. Executed manual and automated regression testing.

Stamford, Ct, Us

 Supervised the testing implementation of SAP (FS-RI and FS-CD), creating and managing team test case inventory. Proactively partnered with project team to find/correct defects in product architecture. Developed and executed defect tracking processes, reporting, and delivery of QA information. Initiated detailed test plan with scenarios, test cases, workloads, environments, and pertinent data.

Roswell, Georgia, Us

 Execute test cases, log, triage and test multiple mobile devices.  Responsible for creating and improving test plans, test case summaries, and traceability reports. Managed and coached team of eight analysts accountable or testing approach and technical issues, including delegating assignments, prioritizing tasks, and allocating resources for key initiatives. Created and supported metrics monitoring quality throughout the development process. Performed audit inspections, reviewing project documentation at various points during development life-cycle of project to ensure deliverables, processes, business rules, assumptions, and change requests are completed. Evaluated and provided defect tracking, detailing root cause analysis for test reports. Collaborated in review of project artifacts to ensure quality and completion.

Dallas, Tx, Us

 Supervised all technology and systems testing, including, analyzing requirements, developing test plans, auditing/modifying test cases, and implementing methodologies to track and manage defects.  Oversaw all QA resources, offshore and onsite, through System Testing assignment.Executed manual and automated regression testing via Selenium. Led daily meetings via Global Web Conferencing to track defects, utilizing Rational Clear Quest facilitated and managed defects, e.g., root cause analysis, defect status, and triage meetings. Collaborated with offshore development team, on-site business leads, and assisted Project Management to maintain project schedules per requisites. Evaluated daily progress of releases, reporting to Program Manager; provided daily status of defects/CR delivered in the release. Developed and executed automated solutions for Rules Based Engine utilizing Selenium. Led test case review, execution, tracking/reporting, and analyzing test case results to communicate to client. Developed testing strategy for multiple projects via Microsoft Project, creating and using Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.Audited software before/after the implementation of release package changes

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

 Directed and led QA resources on and offsite through testing assignments, leading and facilitating meetings, maintaining documentation of issues, and following up as appropriate. Facilitated integration testing, coordinating testing efforts across multiple teams and platforms. Developed Test Strategy and Test Planning document utilizing Quality Center, producing reports, managing defects, and creating test plans based on end user needs. Oversaw budget and project timelines to ensure asset utilization effort did not exceed budget target. Partnered with SQL Developer to access Oracle Database and write SQL statements. Authorized and updated XML transactions for inbound/outbound files. Executed testing using internal POS tools to simulate financial card transactions. Orchestrated Smoke testing, UAT, system, and regression testing. Fostered and sustained vendor relationship with offshore global testing team.

Dallas, Tx, Us

 Responsible for all areas of quality including testing, developing test cases scenarios, managing test case scenarios for Siebel based products, functioning as Test Director, and leading daily defect meetings. Orchestrated boundary system meetings pertaining to Siebel, B2B, Middleware, and Special Order Systems. Operated as Special Order and Special Services software SME. Oversaw repository of test suites for functionality testing, ad-hoc, regression, and functional testing, as well as automating the User Interface utilizing QTP