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Mandy Lappe

Urbandale,IA

Summary

With a 14 year proven track record at American Equity Investment Life Insurance, I excel in enhancing product quality by implementing rigorous testing procedures and fostering cross-functional collaboration. The experience I have gained from testing Derivatives, Accounting, Actuarial, and Reinsurance projects has provided me a solid foundation to fulfill the Business Analyst role for the SAP Team. I have strong communication skills and evolved working relationships with our Accounting business partners. I am recognized for leadership in quality assurance and adept at driving testing excellence. I am eager to collaborate with development teams and the business to identify and resolve issues.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

American Equity Investment Life Insurance
05.2021 - Current
  • Established strong relationships with cross-functional teams, promoting effective communication and collaboration throughout the organization.
  • Reduced defects in production releases by implementing rigorous testing procedures.
  • Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
  • Managed large-scale projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
  • Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features and testing demands.
  • Mentored and coached team members on QA topics, testing tools, and strategies.
  • Reported progress, test metrics and results to project stakeholders.
  • Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
  • Created reusable test suites and established frequency of reuse.
  • Conducted testing of Lifepro, FAST, and SAP.

Sr Service Specialist- CE- Solutions/Commissions

American Equity Investment Life Insurance
09.2010 - 05.2021

• Ten years internal/external annuity and commission customer service via phone and processing roles
• Creation of Commission Department Procedures and transition to OneNote
• Identification of Commission Department solutions, project management, and UAT of each project prior to Production release
• Served as Commission department trainer as well as the Customer Excellence Phone and Processing Team trainer for core commission processes
• Assisted teammates in a leadership capacity in the absence of the Commission Director, including but not limited to making allowable exceptions, managing workflow, phone coverage, and processing manual commissions/journal entries

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

AIB College Of Business
Des Moines, IA
08-2009

Skills

  • Strong communication skills
  • SAP Fiori/WebGui-Advanced Beginner
  • Lifepro Proficient
  • FAST System- Advanced Beginner
  • Proficient in Agile Methodology
  • SQL Querying skills
  • Quality assurance background
  • Team leadership
  • In-depth technical knowledge
  • Requirements analysis
  • Test case design/development
  • Documentation expertise
  • Problem investigations/Critical thinking
  • Test case design/development
  • Documentation expertise
  • Problem investigations/Critical thinking

Certification

LOMA-Associate, Life Management Institute- ALMI


LOMA-Associate, Customer Services- ACS


LOMA-FMLI- Level 1: Insurance Fundamentals

Software

SAP Fiori and WebGui

FAST

Snowflake

Lifepro

JIRA

Microsoft SQL Server Querying

QTest

Timeline

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

American Equity Investment Life Insurance
05.2021 - Current

Sr Service Specialist- CE- Solutions/Commissions

American Equity Investment Life Insurance
09.2010 - 05.2021

LOMA-Associate, Life Management Institute- ALMI


LOMA-Associate, Customer Services- ACS


LOMA-FMLI- Level 1: Insurance Fundamentals

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

AIB College Of Business
Mandy Lappe