Melody Gerow
Summary
Talented Manager with expert team leadership, planning and organizational skills built during successful career. Smoothly equip employees to independently handle daily functions and meet customer needs. Diligent trainer and mentor with exceptional management abilities and results-driven approach.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Automation Engineer, Manager
Jack Henry & Associates
Monett, MO
10.2012 - Current
- Automated regression testing for six applications, resulting in manual test execution savings of over $16,000 per day
- From inception, built and managed team of 8 Automation Engineers covering 6 applications
- Managed various multi technology automation projects
- Determined various processes and ensured timely delivery of automation solutions
- Generated process models illustrating automation engineering progress, specifications and details.
- Established company automation methodology, frameworks and tools.
- Updated and maintained project documentation for detailed recordkeeping.
- Completed automation of functional and regression testing.
- Established best practices and innovative solutions to enhance production rates and output quality.
- Maintained, debugged and optimized automation programs.
- Trained developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs, processes and infrastructure
Quality Assurance Manager
McKesson
03.2008 - 11.2011
- Planned staffed, trained and maintained new QA department comprised of onsite, remote and offshore manual and automation testing resources
- Use SQL to query for data extraction, expected results, mock data and verification
- Created standards for Test Cases to ensure full coverage from Requirement to Defects including test cases with results
- Created multiple measures to analyze for improving quality and efficiency of team
- Expanded QA team ensuring full coverage of talent for business need to reduce external defects which resulted in improvement of quality of products released to clients over 20%
- Implemented Quality Assurance Best Practices for manual, automation and performance testing according to CMMi standards and internal audit recommendations resulting in highest CMMi appraisal score within department
- Worked with business to move from waterfall to agile SDLC
Education
University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, MOSkills
- C#/Selenium Infrastructure Design & Implementation
- Automated Test Environments
- Automation Process
- Data Driven Testing
- SQL Database Design, implementation, and maintenance
- Requirements Reviews
- Business App
- Team Member Hire, Train, and Development
Timeline
Automation Engineer, Manager
Jack Henry & Associates
10.2012 - Current
Quality Assurance Manager
McKesson
03.2008 - 11.2011
University of Missouri - Columbia
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