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GINA BELL

Brandon

Summary

Adaptable professional with a diverse background in product ownership, quality assurance, agile methodology, and software development life cycles. Excels in backlog grooming, PBI creation, and user story development to optimize agile workflows and enhance digital solutions. Strong communication skills and leadership experience that promote operational efficiency and innovation, while also fostering internal and vendor team collaboration for streamlined processes and execution.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4010
4010
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software QA Manager, Product Owner, and Scrum Master

Cleary Agile
Tampa
06.2021 - Current
  • Led global quality assurance effort to verify data for independent assessment with multiple data sets on proprietary software for multiple countries within the organization
  • Created cadence and ceremonies to improve implementation and streamline process flow to reduce redundancy and churn
  • Managed onsite and offshore QA teams, developing procedures and processes to improve ticket creation, test cases and testing efforts, including automation
  • Develop and execute functional, speed, and regression test cases for application defect identification
  • Assigned testing priorities and reported on project testing efforts
  • Cross-functional collaboration with internal teams and external vendors to drive alignment and successful project execution, including the development and launch of a people management middleware
  • Developed and implemented solutions that aligned with stakeholder business objectives including documentation and process flows transforming business requirements into actionable deliverables
  • Worked with stakeholders to help determine the next phase of the software, including timeline and budget
  • Supported business with downstream consumers of people data to ensure compliance and that requirements were met
  • Supplied input on new product and service features
  • User Story, PBI creation and backlog grooming
  • Leading touchpoint meetings with business and stakeholders to ensure product alignment
  • Producing and updating Product and E2E documentations

Quality Engineer

Wynright (Daifuku America)
Clearwater
05.2020 - 06.2021
  • Translate customer, product, and engineering requirements into quality control plans, work instructions, and inspection requirements
  • Evaluate, monitor, and audit suppliers to ensure they meet federal requirements
  • Develop procedures and processes following ISO 9000, customer, and regulatory requirements
  • Developed and ran SQL queries to confirm API and Database calls
  • Developed and executed functional and regression test cases for application defect identification
  • Assigned testing priorities and reported on project testing efforts
  • Supplied input on new product and service features

Quality Assurance Analyst

Blue Grace Logistics
Riverview
09.2019 - 05.2020
  • Developed and supported automation and integration suites for regression and functional testing using Cypress and Postman
  • Developed and ran SQL queries to confirm API and Database calls and perform data cleansing
  • Developed quality assurance best practices and processes to minimize gaps in testing coverage
  • Developed testing specifications, documentation, test cases and test plans
  • Supplied input on new product and features
  • Expanded existing automated and unit tests to support testing during builds and deployments for developers

Quality Assurance Analyst / Customer Service Analyst

Masonite International Corporation
Tampa
06.2014 - 09.2019
  • Translated stakeholder needs into user stories, functional specifications, process flows, and data maps to streamline operations and enhance system efficiency
  • Engaged with external vendors to negotiate and implement solutions that aligned with internal business objectives
  • Developed automation suites for regression and functional testing using Cypress and Selenium
  • Developed and ran SQL queries to confirm API and Database calls
  • Developed and executed functional and regression test cases for application defect identification
  • Created Quality Assurance guidelines to standardize department testing and reporting
  • Trained and onboarded all new QA hires as well as training new Catalog developers
  • Assigned testing priorities for QA team and reported on testing effort to management
  • Lead for all special projects and give go/no go for release to Production
  • Created department testing specifications, documentation, and regression plans
  • Supplied input on new product and service features
  • Developed documentation to aid the training and customer support functions
  • Troubleshoot and documentation of customer issues
  • Trained customers and stakeholders on Masonite proprietary software
  • Conducted monthly sales and bi-weekly calls with distributors
  • Supplied chat and email support for dealers and distributors

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Texas A&M University
Corpus Christi

Bachelor of Arts - Studio Arts

Texas A&M University
Corpus Christi

Skills

  • Agile Frameworks: Scrum
  • Agile Frameworks: Kanban
  • Agile Frameworks: SaFe
  • Analytics: Google Analytics
  • API: PAWS
  • API: Postman
  • API: React Native
  • API: RESTClients
  • Automation: Cypress
  • Automation: Selenium WebDriver
  • Automation: Testing Anywhere
  • CI/CD: Jenkins
  • CMS: MS Office 365
  • CMS: WordPress
  • CRM/DM: Salesforce
  • CRM/DM: SharePoint
  • Cloud: Amazon Web Services
  • Cloud: Microsoft Azure
  • Database and Data Analytics: Access
  • Database and Data Analytics: Cosmos
  • Database and Data Analytics: Oracle
  • Database and Data Analytics: MySQL
  • Database and Data Analytics: SQL
  • Database and Data Analytics: SMSS
  • Database and Data Analytics: MongoDB
  • Platforms: Android
  • Platforms: iOS
  • Platforms: Linux (Unix)
  • Platforms: Mac OS
  • Platforms: MS DOS
  • Platforms: MS Win
  • Platforms: UNIX
  • Platforms: Windows
  • Product Management: Bugzilla
  • Product Management: Confluence
  • Product Management: JIRA
  • Product Management: Azure DevOps (ADO)
  • Programming languages: Assembly
  • Programming languages: C
  • Programming languages: C
  • Programming languages: CGI Scripting
  • Programming languages: Cobol
  • Programming languages: HTML
  • Programming languages: JAVA
  • Programming languages: JavaScript (Mocha/Chai)
  • Programming languages: PHP
  • Tools: GitHub
  • Tools: Lotus Notes
  • Tools: MS Office
  • Tools: Slack
  • Tools: Teams
  • Version Control: Git
  • Version Control: Tortious Git
  • Version Control: ADO
  • Web testing tool: Chrome Dev tool

Certification

  • Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Certified SAFe6 Agilist
  • Six Sigma Yellow Belt – DMAIC

Timeline

Senior Software QA Manager, Product Owner, and Scrum Master

Cleary Agile
06.2021 - Current

Quality Engineer

Wynright (Daifuku America)
05.2020 - 06.2021

Quality Assurance Analyst

Blue Grace Logistics
09.2019 - 05.2020

Quality Assurance Analyst / Customer Service Analyst

Masonite International Corporation
06.2014 - 09.2019

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Texas A&M University

Bachelor of Arts - Studio Arts

Texas A&M University
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