Ashley Sinner

Provide leadership and strategic vision for the QA departments of a property-and-casualty insurance company, guiding the transition from legacy software to modern tooling and software development practices

• Created, presented, and drove a strategy for QA for the implementation of automation and creation of a CI/CD pipeline moving the company towards modernized QA practices
• Scaled the growth of the QA Automation team from 1 to 10 through targeted recruitment while considering future expansions of new applications
• Introduced Cypress to the organization and spearheaded the development of four automation frameworks
• Successfully lead the integration and automation of GitLab, Cypress Dashboard, Microsoft Teams, and X-Ray, allowing for more streamlining development, communication, and testing processes
• Managed 10 engineers across multiple application types and corresponding automation approaches while providing consistent coaching, mentorship, and technical guidance through weekly one-on-one meetings, constructive feedback, and clear performance expectations
• Introduced shift-left methodologies, leading to tickets in testing status going from 4 days to 1 day
• Created automation performance metrics for data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement
• Earned employee engagement score of 5 out of 5
• Established an interview team and evaluation framework to establish a more consistent hiring process resulting in higher quality hires
• Developed and executed an efficient onboarding strategy in collaboration with the scrum team, facilitating new hires' ability to add value within 2 weeks by identifying critical skills and knowledge, creating a tailored curriculum, and achieving 100% successful integration and high satisfaction with zero turnover
• Perform managerial functions, including budgeting, conducting annual performance reviews, creating job levels, overseeing the hiring process, and setting team goals
• Facilitate monthly meetings for the QA department, automation engineers, and cross-functional teams to promote collaboration and alignment
• Cultivate a culture of respect and trust that fosters open collaboration and encourages individuals to share their screens, present, and showcase code to larger audiences.

Provided automation and manual testing for an lOT and manufacturing company on a greenfield project that is transforming the company from a hardware-first to a SAAS company

• Architected an automation framework using Cypress and JavaScript
• Designed the testing strategy for a greenfield project
• Researched testing tools for test case management
• Worked with vendor to gather information, demo the product to internal stakeholders, and implement
• Significantly reduced the number of bugs by giving early feedback to developers, removing barriers, and shifting QA methodology left
• Created a collaborative culture where QA and developers worked closely towards team goals
• Developed a sprint report to provide information on testing activities, metrics, coverage, and risk.

Provided QA leadership, automation, and manual testing for a healthcare communication and workflow company with focus on a product to transform the company from hardware to SAAS

• Architected and maintained an automated UI and API using Selenium Webdriver, and C# with Page Object Models
• Created 450 API and UI tests with a 10 minute runtime that triggered on every pull request
• Facilitated cross QA team meetings to create consensus across projects and communicate needs
• Led QA response to DevOps questions and to time builds and production deployment
• Trained on-shore and off-shore developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes
• Collaborated with the Vice President of Development to create a vision for QA
• Gave companywide presentation on quality with metrics to create transparency around the companies quality and timeline
• Worked in a fully automated CI/CD pipeline integrated with jenkins
• Worked in a managed cloud service environment, using AWS and microservices
• Managed test automation code using GitHub repository in the same repository as dev code and conducted code reviews
• Used Postman to manually test APIs and Swagger for documentation.

Lead Quality Assurance Consultant for a insurance mobile apps