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As a Practice Architect, I contribute to the growth, efficiency, and profitability of the Continuous Quality (CQ) Practice by providing expert customer consultation and senior technical leadership. My role requires proficiency in a wide range of technologies, services, and advisory methodologies utilized within the Practice. As a Subject Matter Expert (SME), I offer industry-leading expertise, strategic guidance, and support to fellow team members, current engagements, and prospective projects.

In an advisory and implementation capacity, I work closely with both prospective and current customers in pre- and post-sales scenarios to expand our customer base. I collaborate with our sales, delivery, and practice leadership team as well as other solutions and other practice architects to promote purposeful innovation, a culture of customer-centric work, and to enable colleagues to innovate and reuse successful ideas.

Practice Architect (Continuous Quality)

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As a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with a focus on Continuous Quality (CQ), I was responsible for completing software development tasks and test automation, documentation, and the creation of testing frameworks and solutions. I was also responsible for planning & designing exploratory, integration, and functional tests, executing them, and then reporting their results. As a Lead SDET, I wrote test cases that worked well in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and used various tools for Test Automation, Project Management, Test Management, Service Management, and Code Analysis.

During this time, I worked on projects for United Services Automobile Association (USAA) and Veterans United Home Loans (VUHL).

Project: Core AML System Replacement

Situation: We were tasked with assisting in the migration from an in-house AML platform to NICE Actimize.
Task: We needed to create a cost-effective solution for automated system configuration validation.
Action: I joined the project after it had already started. Once onboarded, I reviewed the code and identified several flaws in our automation and shared my findings with leadership. I then created and implemented an action plan to address these issues.
Result: I transformed a non-functioning test suite into a reliable, accurate solution that could be executed on-demand and in a variety of contexts while achieving a 231% return on investment.

Lead SDET (Continuous Quality)

St. Louis Blues Blind Hockey Club

Facilitated the implementation of the SportsEngine for the team to improve the organization’s public profile, accessibility, administrative and communications abilities, and visibility of team events and initiatives.

Provides administrative services (player info management, feature utilization analysis, site updates, implementing new features, accessibility validation, etc.) as needed.

Maintains & communicates developments with team event schedule.

Keywords: Accessibility, SportsEngine,

Volunteer Webmaster

New Balance

Designed, implemented, extended, and continually improves and maintains New Balance’s test automation framework.

Implemented concurrent automated functional testing for both web browsers and mobile devices for 28 different countries, saving 150+ hours of execution time per test cycle.

Integrated test automation framework with third-party test automation tools and APIs (such as JIRA, Zephyr, SalesForce Commerce Cloud OCAPI, JMeter and Sauce Labs) to enable faster test execution, continuous integration, results visibility, analysis, cloud execution, and API and Performance and Load testing.

Designed, extended, and maintained test data database to facilitate data-driven testing, records keeping, results analysis, and metrics collection.

Designed & implemented APIs using express (node.js package) to facilitate test data mastery, ensure automated test suite reliability, and facilitate continuous integration.

Designed & implemented reporting tool to demonstrate value of framework, thereby saving up to 1 - 4 hours of analysis time per test cycle.

Orchestrated & executed strategic and development effort for holiday preparedness testing; primary development resource and strategic contributor to ongoing performance and load testing effort.

Mentor quality assurance professionals new to test automation, both within and outside of my organization.

Test automation lead for offshore SDET resources, helping with code reviews, troubleshooting troublesome scripts, and facilitating discussions between team leadership, developer, and DevOps resources.

Keywords: Microsoft, .Net, C#, MSSQL, Azure, SQL, Selenium RemoteWebDriver, Jenkins, JIRA, REST, Sauce Labs, JavaScript, Page Object Model, JMeter, BlazeMeter, Zephyr, ZAPI, NUnit, API, DemandWare, DynaTrace, SiteSpeed.io, DinoLytics WAVE, ReadyAPI, SoapUI, Sales force Commerce Cloud, OCAPI, CSS, Sauce Labs, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Load Testing, test automation tools, scripting, node.js, etc.

Test Automation Architect

Vivit Worldwide

Chapter Leader
 - St. Louis chapter leader since spring 2009; Kansas City chapter leader since Spring 2014.
 - Organized local user group meetings on a bi-annual & later, quarterly basis.
 - Coordinated with out-of-state chapters for regional & shared user group meetings.
 - Collaborated with vendor & partner marketing & sales personnel in support of local events.

Director
 - Elected to the Vivit Board of Directors on 05/29/2010.
 - Primary duties include planning the strategic direction of our organization, assisting with operational tasks as needed, and advocating for the group in the customer, HP, and partner community.

DIrector, Chairman, Nominations Committee:
- Elected as chairman of the Nominations committee by the Vivit Board of Directors on 06/12/2010. 
- Duties include recruiting top talent for future board members and officiating over organizational elections.

Director,Treasurer
- Elected as Treasurer of the Board of Directors on / around 06/04/2012.
- Primary duties include overseeing the organization's finances and expenditures and charting the organization's financial strategy.

Director, Secretary:
 - Elected as Secretary of the Board of Directors on 06/01/2012.
 - Primary duties include ensuring that the organization's bylaws are observed, meetings are ran in a fair and orderly manner, and that the organization's records are maintained.

Director, Secretary
 - Re-elected to board and returned to previous Secretary role in June of 2014.

Director, Vivit Worldwide

Chapter Leader
- Elected as chapter leader in 06/2009, I've served as the de-facto leader of this group for the last four years.
- Primary duties include organizing both virtual and physical chapter meetings, arrangia
ng for speakers, and communicating organizational developments to my chapter members.

Co-Leader for St. Louis Vivit/HP Software User Group

Camber Corporation

Test automation consultant assisting clients with implementation & utilization of test automation frameworks using HP's UFT quality validation tool.

IT Consultant

Trizetto Provider Solutions

Automation Specialist, Shared Services:
- Trained and mentored QA resources in the use of HP's QuickTest Professional and the organization's homegrown test automation framework.
- Participated in QA Community of Practice.
- Assisted in retrofitting new cross-vertical capabilities for automation framework.
- Created training artifacts focusing on tool & framework usage, features, and capabilities.
- Leading the way in adoption of Trizetian Keyword Driven automation framework.

Offshore Facilitator:
- Lead and mentored automation team offshore resources. 
- Defined & improved engagement process and metrics for said team. 
- Oversaw day-to-day operations of team and resolved roadblocks and questions as they appeared.
- Visited in person and collaborated with offshore team for two weeks, providing training and mentorship for the team.

Automation Specialist, Team Real Time:
- Served as a pathfinder for migrating & storing automated test assets into Visual Studio Source Control. 
- Defined automation team source control processes & branching strategy.
- Designed and implemented capability for on-demand, unattended, and remote test execution.
- Designed and implemented cross-environment & continuous deployment testing.
- Created and implemented general automation framework improvements, such as the ability to execute queries and the ability to execute SoapUI test cases from with QTP test cases.
- Created web service test cases using SoapUI; trained and mentored both onshore and offshore team members in using this tool to create & refactor SOAP web service test cases. 
- Designed and implemented strategy for routine execution and analysis of UI and web service tests.
- Developed new capabilities for web services to facilitate reuse of components across tools for both UI and web service automated test cases.
- Developed automated test scripts for agile software development teams.
- Participated in HP's UFT 11.5 Beta program.
- Self-education around Selenium, C#, and Java.

QA III, Automation Specialist & Offshore Facilitator

Essence Healthcare

Automation Specialist:
 - Created and maintained test cases using both out-of-box & custom frameworks features.
 - Created and maintained a data-driven framework capable of executing multiple test cases sequentially within multiple test environments.
 - Mentored other team members in the use and maintenance of the framework and its test cases.

Quality Assurance Team Lead:
 - Organized and supervised the quality assurance efforts of team members for Provider Portal, CareSeries, and Maestro projects.
 - Created and carried out detailed test plans, test specifications, and test cases.
 - Assisted in deployments by providing post-deployment QA approval.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Information Technologies, Inc.

Quality Assurance Technician:
 - Developed automated web-service test cases using in-house tool.
 - Created functional & regression test plans.
 - Defined & executed test cases in support of new development & maintenance efforts.
 - Created functional & regression test plans. - Documented application features, functions, and capabilities.

Quality Assurance Technician

Manager, Practice Architect at TEKSystems Global Services

Practice Architect focusing on enabling business agility through Test Automation and Continuous Integration.

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