Elizabeth Shaw

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Summary:

Software Engineering manager with 20+years of experience in the software industry. Knowledge of Agile, product life cycle, release management, product globalization, application compatibility. Defined and implemented product quality goals, ran day to day operations through release. Worked closely with Development, Program Management, leadership team and QA teams on product specifications, schedule, issue resolution and organization communication. Responsible for establishing cross team project management and maintaining external and internal partners.

Experience:

Test Management

Microsoft June 1996 – Jan 2015

Created and implemented project goals, signoff process, quality criteria and exit criteria using scrum and agile strategies

Cross team project management, external partnership and internal partners

Defined and implemented test strategies and process for multiple versions of Microsoft products, (including, Windows, Office, MSN, Client / server messenger, Web Pages), application compatibility and sustaining of released products

Worked with customers and product support to collect feedback and issues resolution.

Collated and presented finding and status to upper management

Evaluated new assignments and their impact on the team including resource allocation

Developed master test plans, test cases, test integration, and automation for products, releases of multiple versions of Windows, Office, Messenger, Client and Server applications

Managed full time resources and contingency staff including offshore teams in China/India

Create job description, review resume, conducted interviews and made hiring decisions

Defined goals for my direct reports, manage assignments and helped with the skill development

Reviewed the design specifications, provided feedback and suggested changes

Created and updated web pages using SharePoint

Developed and implemented test automation

Owned master bug list for office releases management and public updates. Analyzed and coordinated the impact of the changes across of Office organization and partners team, flagged any potential issues and signoff on bugs that were part of the release

Created, implemented and tracked release management process and developed roadmap

Worked with development, Program Management, leadership team and QA teams on project specifications, release criteria, schedule, issues resolution and organization communication, goals and strategies

Created and developed daily build verification process, test and reported on the health of the build

Software Design Engineer in Test

Microsoft April 1991 – June 1996

Responsible for testing Windows, WFW, Win 95, Win NT, OS/2, Lanman and MS test. Developed, executed and analyzed test plans, test cases and test scripts using MS test.

Responsible for testing OLE, Microsoft applications and third party applications on Win 95

Responsible for testing the multimedia authoring tool called ASF Editor for Microsoft NetShow On-Demand. I was responsible of developing MSTest scripts, Test Cases and Test Plans.

Authored and administered the team web pages.

Responsible for testing the Channel Administration and Electronic Program Guide applications for Interactive Television. My responsibilities included developing and executing MSTest scripts, Test Cases and Test Plans, and reviewing the Design Specification for the applications.

Determined requirements and debugged localized versions of MS products for international markets

Created, developed and implement test specification plans, test cases, test automation, signoff criteria for product areas owned by me

Developed daily build verification test cases

Responsible for reviewing changes to my areas, identify impact to the release, and to other areas

Participated in feature team reviews and helped prioritize features for releases

SOFTWARE BACKGROUND: Windows products, Client and Server applications, Internet Explorer, MS Office, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, MS Onenote, MS Visio, Skype, Microsoft internal tools, Scrum, Agile, Bug management tools, TFS

Education: Computer Science Information Systems – University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

Additional skills: Fluent in English and Spanish. Washington State Public Notary

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