Helen Groves

Roles

IT Manager, Automation Consultant,

Application Engineering Consultant,

Quality Assurance Lead,

Sr. Software Engineer,

Systems Programmer

Software

Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin, TestNG, Rest-Assured, Swagger, Postman, Junit, JIRA, TestRails, Artifactory, UFT, Jenkins, Vagrant, Docker, AWS,

RequisitePro, SilkTest,

Test Environment Toolkit, NIST-ACTS,

Oracle, ClearQuest and ClearCase,

Subversion, Git, GitHub, SCCS, Salesforce, MS Project, Visio, Excel, Access

Languages

JAVA, Ruby, JRuby, C, Python, mySQL, VBScript, C++, Javascript, CSS, C#, Powershell, ksh, bash

Education

BA: Computer Science and Art 1990

Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA

Experience Summary

Over 30 years IT experience for entertainment, financial, insurance, military, communications, operating systems vendors, and aerospace clients.

Skills Inventory

Define effective processes that produce high-quality software product and service

Create reports/dashboards and analyze exceptions, risks, and performance trends

Direct QA team, delegate, supervise activities, and evaluate team performance

Analyze, propose, and manage testing technologies and resources for projects

Design test automation frameworks, and management tools

Build technical documentation and project roadmaps

Operating systems programming in numerous languages and platforms

Automation Quality Engineer, Prodege LLC (6/22 - 8/22)

●Responsible for test automation of seven different websites and supporting APIs. Review test failures and repair web browser or API tests, or open defects in JIRA identifying the source of defect within the JavaScript/JAVA programs. Develop new automated tests from new user stories in sprint or backlog.

Automation Consultant, Strategic Resource Partners consultant to FOX (01/21 - 5/22)

●Collaborate to build a Quality Center of Excellence - setting automation coding, tools, processes, training, and testing standards across West Coast Engineering teams.

●Design new frameworks to test core APIs used by West Coast product teams, and test web browser-based applications for scheduling all FOX programming.

●Work with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Development to understand new porting efforts of network programming scheduling software to Salesforce’s ecosystem, then plan and build a new automated framework

Automation Consultant, TEKsystems consultant to Sammons Financial Group (05/17 - 12/20)

●Build test automation hybrid framework for RESTful APIs and websites.

●Principal QA on Architectural Review Board - collaborate with Architects on design reviews, vendor and tools selection, and impact to automation roadmaps. Serve as escalation point for all matters related to automated testing for the QA members on different Agile teams. Research best testing vendor tools, conduct Proof of Concept and provide Return on Investments analysis.

●Work with Product Owners to understand product roadmaps, legal, and compliance impacts to create test scenarios which aligns with changing business processes.

●Develop test automation, and delivering tools, processes, and training to increase testing competencies.

Principal Consultant, TEKsystems consultant to Farm Bureau Financial Services (11/15 – 04/17)

●Define governance framework for QA deliverables, coding standards and change management processes.

●SCRUM master and QA lead to team of Architects, Engineering, Admins, and QA performing POC to deliver a Continuous Delivery model (process, guidelines, tools, staffing, and training needed).

●Architect testing frameworks to test web applications/services across multiple platforms, and easily integrate into FBFS new continuous integration process.

●Personal achievements: initial Life implementation yielded 1300% efficiency gain.

Test Automation Analyst, TEKsystems consultant to Nationwide Insurance (04/14 – 10/15)

●Support multiple Agile teams by developing tests for website applications and mainframe

●Personal achievements: 98% test coverage on new business and renewals capabilities.

Automation Programmer, Secured Systems Integration (11/13 – 04/14)

●Develop automation for security configuration of Teradata's UNIX and Linux OS; write scripts to ensure conformance to Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and the National Security Agency guides (Department of Defense Information Assurance).

QA Consultant, Principal Financial Group (03/12 – 09/13)

●Program Senior QA Lead over global team of QA Leads; participate in requirements gathering, technical reviews, and risk management reviews; write Master Test Plans, code SQL automation; coordinate test reviews and defect meetings; write Test Summary Reports and Post Implementation Reviews for multiple projects: HR PeopleSoft port, Hyperion Financial management, Essbase, Smart View, and Dodeca.

Application Engineering Consultant, Nationwide Insurance, Commercial Lines IT (03/09 – 03/12)

●Personal achievements: Designed ALM (UFT) augmented framework with expense reduction exceeding $3.7 million dollars in 1st quarter of 2012; and Technology Group of Iowa’s finalist for 2011 Women of Innovation award.

IT Manager, Nationwide Insurance, Property & Casualty Delivery Services (10/06 – 02/09)

●Personal achievements: Increased team members’ average utilization from 78% to 95%. Raised SQA skills assessment 15+% annually.

Systems QA Analyst, Wells Fargo Home and Consumer Finance (05/06 – 10/06)

Senior SQA Lead, Wells Fargo Financial (06/04 – 05/06)

Software Engineer, Netscape Communications, E-Commerce Quality Assurance (05/97 – 05/98)

Software Designer, Tandem Computers, Non-stop Kernel Filesystems Quality Assurance (02/93 – 05/97)

Senior Software Engineer, Amdahl Computers, Network Quality Assurance (10/90- 02/93)

Systems Programmer, Amdahl Computers, UTS Customer Support (07/88 – 10/90)

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