Lead software tester for a database server administration tool. Responsible for coordinating the software test teams activities as well as implementation of automated test scripts.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Lead development team from Planning to sprint end for the product’s enhancements teams.

• Responsible for all agile ceremonies including planning, backlog grooming, and demos

• Created and presented clear and concise progress reports for management and product team for feedback.

• Tracked and prioritized enhancement requests for the Internal Automation tool for test. New enhancements to our internal tool all done in a month sprint led by me.

Software Testing Responsibilities

• Primary developer for the implementation of software automation scripts. Wrote over 200 scripts for 25% test coverage of our product. Lead Intern team each summer to add to the test coverage increasing coverage every year by 5%.

• Attend companywide quality standard meetings to ensure our internal tool follows standards and help implement companywide usage of the internal tool based on our own enhancements and defects. Test software of our product, Admin Tool, in all the latest REST API’s, DB2 function level continuous delivery for day 1 support, and customer commitments from IBM.

First software test engineer hired at EchoPixel, a medical device start-up, to organize and lead software testing.

• Designed and implemented from inception of an automated test system.

• Effectively tested and tracked bug fixes to ensure a software release to research sites every sprint.

• Led full FDA Verification efforts for product release multiple times a year Develop, design, and manage the framework for manual and automation testing. Created the testing framework for automation for every regression cycle. Managed content for sales and run root cause analysis for any customer reported issues.

Medical Device Quality (RA/QA): Involved in every phase of the ISO 13485 Design Control Process, from Planning, Development, Verification and Validation, to post market surveillance.

Manage all client and employee relationships by scheduling, selling and keeping active contact from our mailing list of 120 subscribers

Handle all payroll, taxes, licenses and fees, including State Board regulations, city taxes, city licenses, federal tax IDs, sales taxes and seller’s permits

Hire and terminate employees based on company policy contracts

Create company policies and actively initiate training and contracts between employee and company

Run all transactions and receipts through QuickBooks and run quarterly and annual reports for tax purposes

Participate in community events with other local small businesses to promote and market services such as meet and greets and open houses for nearby apartments

Key Accomplishments:

Schedule between 10-25 appointments daily

Hired 4 full time employees with over 5 applicants every seasonal time period

Trained all new employees for a total of 8 hours in the first month before full time hire which resulted in 4 full time employees learning all 4 services with initial knowledge of 1

Sold business space back to Property owner for initial investment amount, plus revenues from all 3 years averaging $100,000 per year.