Tim Lyon

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Quality Solution Delivery Leader @ Ascendion
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Plano, Texas, United States, United States
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About Tim Lyon

214.803.5265 lyonmsu@yahoo.comResults-oriented servant leader who leads quality transformation advancements in software and systems from concept through production delivery and ongoing support. Successfully drives manageable and automated processes for improving business Key Performance Indicators and overall customer satisfaction. Committed, resourceful, and innovative problem-solving leader who significantly improves quality and time to market. CORE COMPETENCIESAssured Advancement | Quality Evangelist | Efficient Automation | DevOps Delivery | Change Management | Servant Leader | IT Governance | Project Management | Center of Excellence | Executive Reporting | Cybersecurity | DevSecOps | Transformation Leader | Release Management | Continuous Improvement | Agile Delivery | KPIs| CRM | Financial Reporting | P and L | Strategic Planning | PMP | CSM | ITIL | SAFeKEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Utilized root cause analysis and shifting left quality engineering to proactively reduce production defect escape rate of over 18% to under 6% with rigorous compliance to HIPAA, HITRUST, and CMS healthcare regulations.• Spearheaded the development of the Quality Assurance program driving over 75% surge in growth in CRM professional services testing revenue while reducing 25% concessions and rework on client implementations.• Redesigned and administered overall Software Development Life Cycle tooling for user story, bug, time, resource, code, delivery tracking, and follow-up within Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).• Piloted an agile transformation to include a continuous delivery DevSecOps pipeline with automated builds, unit testing, services, functional, security, and performance testing.• Drove a flexible automation framework, utilizing tools such as Selenium Web Driver, Appium, WinAppDriver, Postman, Newman, Sikuli, Coded UI, OWASP Zed Attack Proxy, and others reducing maintenance.• Remotely developed and managed Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) across numerous testing groups and multiple time zones, including offshore, amongst varied projects and delivery patterns.• Orchestrated data center migration quality assurance efforts and integration endeavors of enterprise applications and divestment of business unit’s data and applications.• Led quality assurance through product growth from initial startup to handling several million page views and almost one million unique users a day.• Technology Director of the entire development and delivery team that delivered product enhancements contributing to 100% year-over-year revenue growth.#ONO #opentowork

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Ascendion

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Quality Solution Delivery Leader
Tim Lyon Work Experience Details
  • Ascendion
    Senior Manager Quality Engineering
    Ascendion Jun 2024 - Present
    Basking Ridge, Nj, Us
    Transformed QE practices and performance of 28 QE resources across eight different agile release trains by integrating a new offshore QE team to improve Santander Consumer USA vehicle loan servicing delivery quality.• Improved bug tracking details and reporting procedures that reduced the average aging of defects to closure by 33.33% to improve the overall effectiveness of the delivery team. • Increased automation effectiveness to better support UIPath automation and incorporate Selenium WebDriver with AI development assistance tooling that reduced regression cycle by 20% in execution time.• Implemented Amigo Reviews for coordinating test cases and execution plan reviews with business and development teams to align better acceptance criteria that reduced UAT and production issues by 10%..• Led development of Gen AI QE training and associated testing strategy for QE and automation testing utilized in 2 different AI projects, including testing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) of AI implementation.
  • Intapp
    Director, Quality Management
    Intapp Apr 2022 - May 2024
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Established quality assurance services practice for data quality, configurations, integrations, implementations, and end to end testing for financial, legal, and professional services SAAS based CRM and management solutions. • Developed a quality validation process for providing professional, reliable, measurable, and billable quality management practices with artifacts to provide customer confidence in our software implementations.• Advanced integration testing with API based services testing utilizing Postman, Swagger, and validation scripts to quickly validate data mappings and transformations from original data sources to destination sources.• Implemented a pre-release end-to-end system testing validation process with a QA Report Card to give leadership and client contacts clarity and understanding how clients would be affected by the release. • Audited current delivery practices to find opportunities for quality improvements and developed plans to implement, track, and report on improvements where we realized a 70% decrease in escaped defects.• Expanded existing partners' fulfillment objectives with standardized QA practices as well as extending partnerships to address expansive growing global clientele in multiple regions and time zones.
  • Covered Care
    Vp, Qa And Release Management
    Covered Care Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
    Dallas, Tx, Us
    Developed first quality assurance, release management, change control, DevOps, and compliance practices for an early-stage start-up in a high growth, financial, and HIPAA cloud-based platform with white label services • Created a development, QA, and production delivery process flow to ensure that all technical delivery components were tested, validated, UAT approved., and signed off before being promoted to production.• Implemented API testing and onboarding practices for new partners to ensure quicker and more standardized practices for each of their implementations so they were utilized in a reusable pattern.• Established test case management tool and process practices through Azure DevOps and worked with the development team to build and implement the first automated build and release pipeline.
  • Tpl Transformation Services
    Director Software Qa And Release Management
    Tpl Transformation Services Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
    Provide Quality Assurance, Release Management, Automation, DevOps, and Agile Transformation planning, processes, and implementation guidance.Work to build and enhance teams and business solution delivery practices and increase efficiency and effectiveness in providing quality business and customer value that leads to better profitability and growth.
  • Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Us
    Senior Director, Quality Assurance & Release Management
    Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Us Sep 2018 - Nov 2020
    Kennesaw, Ga - Georgia, Us
    Led Quality Assurance, Automation, and DevOps personnel in incorporating Continuous Testing with automated builds, deploys, and testing with approval gates for environment progression that greatly increased higher quality production releases. • Devised transformation methods to utilize automation tooling for customer perspective UI based application monitoring and timings for both domestic and overseas-based operations. • Broadened existing automation framework to utilize Selenium Web Driver, WinAppDriver, and services-based testing from a deprecated automation tool implementation to make it more usable and easily supportable.• Employed existing automated production release validation smoke tests into AppDynamics to provide regularly scheduled business flow monitoring and alerting that greatly enhanced proactive resolution.• Organized a Quality Assurance team into a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) to better support enterprise, system integration, automation framework development, and common testing practices.• Implemented “Ship Room” policy for code deliveries past code freeze to be presented by team to board of senior business leadership for approval before inclusion in a release that increased commitment delivery.
  • Lehigh Hanson
    Qa Practice Lead
    Lehigh Hanson Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
    Established first-ever professional software quality assurance practices and methodologies for growing digital platforms of web, services, and mobile apps that significantly reduced escaped bugs into production. • Developed and implemented Continuous Delivery and Continuous Testing platform for automated builds, deploys, and testing that significantly increased delivery efficiency for testable code available for review.• Orchestrated reusable component-based object-oriented automation framework that incorporated Selenium for automated web testing and Appium for mobile testing• Organized delivery patterns and practices for Scrum processes and team workflow for better adoption of agile practices in Azure DevOps.• Center of excellence leader for web, mobile, and continuous testing in utilizing reusable components for faster and more manageable automation development and support • Managed offshore and onshore resources for meeting commitments and delivery deadlines for sprints and future releases
  • Astegic
    Advisory Board Member
    Astegic May 2016 - Sep 2018
    Falls Church, Va, Us
    Advisory Board Member that consults upon strategic independent QA offshore and onshore solutions and market strategy. Provide input and guidance on considerations of approach with senior leadership and ongoing interactions to build and strengthen partner relationships with clients.
  • Nthrive (Formerly Medassets)
    Vice President, Quality Assurance & Shared Delivery Services
    Nthrive (Formerly Medassets) May 2013 - Feb 2017
    Plano, Tx, Us
    Led over 40+ quality assurance and release management personnel upon a strategic direction for quality and release practices with ongoing compliance with HIPAA, HITRUST, and CMS healthcare regulations.• Drove measuring the overall improvement of QA and shared delivery DevOps techniques, tools, and results while hiring, developing, and maintaining top talent internally and with third-party resources.• Managed quality assurance planning, phased testing cycles, and production validation for large data center moves and server consolidation projects that consolidated core systems with separation of sold systems.• Implemented DevOps practice of Continuous Testing with automated builds with gated flow, unit, services, functional, security, and performance testing.• Instrumented common testing, automation, and delivery standards and practices across different segments that eased transition and on-boarding of resources.• Orchestrated first overall professional test case management, execution, and tracking tool for better overall coverage and speed of test case development and reporting.• Optimized offshore testing group that had been underperforming to one that produced greater beneficial and efficient output.
  • Gamestop
    Quality Assurance Manager - Online Technology
    Gamestop Oct 2010 - May 2013
    Grapevine, Texas, Us
    Led several onshore and offshore quality assurance teams’ integrations into each project’s software development life cycle (SDLC) and overall daily testing and reporting efforts.• Created web performance certification process for release candidates that discovered five critical performance failures prior to major release and validated fixes before release. • Implemented a cross-system automation framework that allowed underlying base automation tooling to be swapped out as better tools became available while the existing test case library required limited change.
  • Rapp
    Center Of Excellence Manager
    Rapp Mar 2010 - Oct 2010
    New York, Ny, Us
    Initiating the development of the Center of Excellence for all marketing technology solutions. Reviewing, analyzing and devising quality assurance processes, building automation framework, leading automation training, and configuration management procedures.
  • Match.Com
    Director, Technology
    Match.Com Apr 2007 - Jan 2010
    Dallas, Texas, Us
    Led software development, configuration management, quality assurance, automation, and release management processes that included data validation, ETL, and automation deployment processes that led to the assuring the highest volume growth business in the entire industry. Worked closely with product development, business development, marketing, information technology, third-party vendors, and executive management to define product road maps, release dates, system requirements, and risk management.
  • Match.Com
    Quality Assurance And Configuration Manager
    Match.Com Feb 2006 - Apr 2007
    Dallas, Texas, Us
    Managed Quality Assurance teams project planning, release cycles, production and execution of test deliverables while serving several business channel owners with multiple and often conflicting agendas. Incorporated agile development and testing practices that included Continuous Integration (CI) with multiple daily builds and iterative release cycles into the quality assurance environments.
  • Match.Com
    Quality Assurance Manager
    Match.Com Jun 2004 - Feb 2006
    Dallas, Texas, Us
    Coordinated QA teams project scope, capacity, test deliverables, defect reporting, and followed-up on many concurrent project delivery dates. Significantly increased QA teams efforts in effective data validation and automation scripting to better utilize time and increase testing efficiency.
  • Match.Com
    Quality Assurance Lead
    Match.Com Mar 2004 - Jun 2004
    Dallas, Texas, Us
    Led team of Quality Assurance Engineers that ensured customer-facing deliverables delivered consistently well-tested and thoroughly vetted systems in extremely limited time periods. Provided lead by example approach that consistently demonstrated high output efficient testing and led team to utilize database querying skills and automation testing techniques.
  • Match.Com
    Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
    Match.Com Jan 2003 - Mar 2004
    Dallas, Texas, Us
    Developed automated tests for database stored procedures, web-based functional, performance, and regression tests utilizing various automated tools. Upgraded and devised new test plans, test cases, and test scripts for web-based matching system, customer service application, partner implementations, and vertical markets.

Tim Lyon Skills

Agile Methodologies Software Quality Assurance Sdlc Test Automation Testing Integration Software Development Microsoft Sql Server Requirements Analysis Quality Center Databases Sql Web Services Tfs Scrum Qtp Test Cases Visual Studio Sharepoint Web Applications Software Project Management Xml Selenium C# Html Web Development Javascript Iis Asp.net Agile Project Management Performance Testing Vbscript Scripting Agile Testing Waterfall Ruby Microsoft Test Manager Ms Project Cmmi Jruby Powershell Sql Server Yaml Json Kanban Msbuild Configuration Management Pmp Certified Project Manager Agile

Tim Lyon Education Details

  • Michigan State University
    Michigan State University
    Political Science
  • Naveen Jindal School Of Management, Ut Dallas
    Naveen Jindal School Of Management, Ut Dallas
    Marketing And Management Information Systems
  • Naveen Jindal School Of Management, Ut Dallas
    Naveen Jindal School Of Management, Ut Dallas
    E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce

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