Ellen Brusie

• Championed Agile development as Scrum Master for 2 teams, overseeing sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure optimal team collaboration and productivity
• Involved in transition from Azure Dev Ops to JIRA and Jenkins for defect, build, test case, and documentation tracking resulting in enhanced agile practices and build management efficiency
• Assured product quality through meticulous development of 'net-new' manual and automated test scripts, ensuring high-level test execution coverage and adherence to requirements
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings, fostering full team engagement and alignment with project goals
• Proactively mitigated risks and escalated issues to technology management, contributing to timely resolutions
• Spearheaded environment setup for diverse configurations required for release testing, optimizing testing processes
• Conducted root cause analysis to identify core reasons for failures and errors, driving process improvements to minimize errors
• Developed comprehensive traceability documentation to facilitate fault investigation and defect resolution
• Effectively trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction in testing methodologies and tools
• Demonstrated proficiency in SQL, Postman, Fiddler, and WcfTestClient, ensuring thorough validation of system functionalities.
• Facilitated training sessions for team members on quality management principles and best practices, enhancing overall competency levels within the department.

Played a dual role as Agile Development Scrum Master and integral team member, orchestrating sprint planning and story pointing sessions to ensure efficient allocation of resources and timely delivery of project milestones

• Spearheaded QA estimation, meticulously crafted test cases, and executed comprehensive testing within 2-week sprint cycles, ensuring delivery of high-quality software products
• Took charge of QA environment creation and maintenance, optimizing testing processes and facilitating smooth testing operations
• Installed daily builds, ensuring continuous integration, and enabling rapid feedback loops for development iterations
• Proactively identified opportunities for process enhancements, resulting in significant decrease in errors and improved overall efficiency
• Led problem-solving initiatives to swiftly identify and implement permanent resolutions to quality and productivity issues, fostering culture of continuous improvement and excellence.

• Engaged as key participant in Sprint Planning and story-pointing sessions, contributing insights to ensure accurate resource allocation and realistic goal setting
• Held responsibilities for QA estimation, meticulously crafting test cases, and executing thorough testing within 2-week sprint cycles, maintaining high standards of product quality and adherence to timelines.

• Led a team of fifteen testers dispersed globally, overseeing testing assignments and defect resolution within the development group, ensuring cohesive collaboration and efficient workflow management
• Conducted meticulous functional and regression testing, logging defects, and diligently following through to resolution, maintaining product integrity and user satisfaction
• Pioneered the development of a comprehensive QA Process flow implemented in Quality Center, streamlining defect entry and resolution procedures for new development initiatives, enhancing efficiency and accuracy
• Directed day-to-day activities of the quality assurance department, fostering a culture of excellence and teamwork, and establishing strong rapport with team members to facilitate effective communication and coordination
• Acted as a primary point of contact for the QA team, addressing user-reported problems and inquiries promptly and effectively, ensuring seamless resolution and user satisfaction.