Seeking ways to execute on my personal leadership philosophy: To grow, inspire, and serve my team while seeking and implementing ways to push the business forward.
Work
Daxko 2019-11-01 - 2022-01-01
Director of Software Test
- Hiring, growing, and leading Test Engineers, Test Managers, and Software Engineers in Test across multiple products
- Building and growing an engineering culture that cares about quality
- Identified and built out standard metrics around release quality, customer reported defects, and test automation
- Building strategies around what and how to add test automation to our flagship products.
- Involved in designing and building out our CI/CD pipelines
- Influencing and Establishing healthy culture around: agile practices, high quality software, and teamwork
- Leading remote teams both in the US and offshore
- Established branching, deployment, and testing strategy multiple acquisitions at Daxko
- Effectively lead the test team of approximately 50 team members
- Established world class test automation strategies, and empowering the teams consistent delivery of quality software
- Established career path and training library for the test team
Daxko 2019-02-01 - 2019-11-01
Engineering Manager
- Hiring, growing, and leading Software Engineers and Tester Engineers across multiple project teams
- Serving as a technical lead working with product managers when scoping out the details of new product features
- Work with product team to establish realistic delivery dates and project milestones
- Influencing and Establishing healthy culture around: agile practices, high quality software, and teamwork
- Leading remote teams both in the US and offshore.
- Hired UI Software Engineers to build React front ends to our applications
Daxko 2016-02-01 - 2019-02-01
Test Engineering Manager
- Built and implemented a release management process to allow multiple teams to deliver code to production
- Identified risks for upcoming development and infrastructure projects and worked with teams to mitigate as much as possible
- Hired and trained 10 team members in this role across two different products
- Transitioned to a company that we acquired and positively influenced the culture of quality across the development teams
- Successfully implemented a Test Automation strategy and have made significant progress on API and UI frameworks
- Worked with DevOps team to build out our CI/CD pipeline
Daxko 2012-08-01 - 2016-02-01
Software Test Engineer
- Tested across many different products and product teams.
- Implemented Test Automation Framework Ruby/Watir/Selenium.
- Served as Scrum Master for delivery team.
- Used exploratory testing to find defects in web application.
- Managed code deployment processes.
Complete Communication Services 2006-04-01 - 2012-08-01
Manager of Operations
- Managed inbound call center.
- Negotiated rates with vendors.
- Managed warehouse fulfillment.
- Provided technical training and documentation for team members.
Volunteer
TEALS 2018-08-01 - 2019-05-01
High School Teacher
- Co-taught Introduction to Computer Science to High School students
- Prepared lesson plans based on the provided curriculum
- Graded students projects and provided helpful to the students
Education
Auburn University 2001-09-01 - 2005-08-01
Bachelor, Liberal Arts
Skills
Technical Skills
Master
- Test Automation
- API Testing
- Performance Testing
- Security Testing
- Exploratory Testing
- Software Testing
- Quality Assurance
- DevOps
- Continuous Integration
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Github Actions
- Gitlab Runners
Testing Tools
Master
- Postman
- Charles Proxy
- NeoLoad
- JMeter
- Github
- Jenkins
- OWASP ZAP
- BurpSuite
- Browser Dev Tools
Methodologies
Master
- Context Driven Testing
- Modern Testing
- Agile Testing
- Servant Leadership
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Quality Coach
- Mentor
Programming Languages
Proficient
- HTML
- CSS
- SQL
- Ruby
- Python
- Javascript