Mary Lehane

Experience

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  CBT

  Sept 1999 - Sept 2000

  Software Test Engineer
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  Smartforce

  Sept 2000 - Jan 2004

  Responsibilities:• Resource management – 17 direct report staff -- involved in all aspects of recruitment of QA engineers, career development including training, reviews etc • Scheduled and coordinated testing tasks for multiple projects to ensure on time delivery of quality products • Monitored the testing status of current projects• Maintained bug reports for open and closed issues with all software products being tested • Analyzed and contributed to the design of the specifications of SmartForce projects• Assisted Program Managers with the project release process• Ensured high standard testing practices were adhered to and developed as necessary to ensure the highest possible quality of released software• Maintained good communication with the members of the other software development groupsKey Projects / Accomplishments:Accomplished a management role after being in the company less than 3 years having been promoted twice from a test engineer Show less

  • Test Manager

    Jun 2001 - Jan 2004

  • Test Team Lead

    Sept 2000 - Jun 2001
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  Skillsoft

  Jan 2004 - Jul 2016

  Responsibilities:• Managed a large distributed team across multiple continents and time zones• Lead and managed the testing of large-scale mobile applications and related backend services, including standard functional, regression, performance, and security testing.• SOW preparation for external Development and QA of our Mobile Apps• Approved UX Designs, User Stories, Test Plans, Test Cases, Exit Criteria • Defined Test Strategy for all software projects in accordance with SDLC methodologies • Designed UAT Test Plans• Represented Skillsoft QA in daily standups and demos with external development partners• Responsible for program alignment across functional teams• Resource assignment of internal QA leads as well as offshore testers in India and China • Provided leadership and support on product and process to QA Leads • Designed and delivered metric reports providing defect and test run data to project stakeholders • Line management duties for all team members including performance reviewsKey Projects / Accomplishments:• Defined Mobile delivery strategy for the companies first iOS and Android Apps • Integral team member in the organizations first project release using Agile • Established a new internal Mobile App QA team in India • Supervised the creation of Automated RAPI Test Suite in ReadyAPI, handed off to Dev for Continuous Integration • Oversaw the implementation of an automation test suite for both iOS and Android using Appium Show less Responsibilities:• Requirements sign off. Worked with functional stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of product release requirements.• Converted project requirements into verifiable test requirements• Provided expertise and feedback to the QA team on project requirements• Produced SQA plan detailing all testing required to ensure a quality release, incorporating a VCRM (Verification Cross Reference Matrix) • Provided QA level of effort estimates for all projects• Verified that test assets (test cases, test procedures/scripts and test data) were adequate to ensure test objectives were met• Ensured interdependencies relating to the release were assigned to the appropriate groups to testKey Projects / Accomplishments:• Received Skillsoft Outstanding Performance Award in 2011• Established our offshore QA team in Beijing through careful cross-cultural communication, which resulted in long-standing trusting relationships, buy-in, high quality of output, timely delivery and low staff turn overManaged complex content and feature migration projects following the Skillsoft acquisition of Netg and later ElementK Show less Responsibilities:• Defined and managed QA schedules across multiple projects • Alignment of team members across multiple simultaneous projects • Supervised the day to day tasks of the test team • Provided leadership and expertise to the QA team • Worked with development on resolving bugs and other issues• Worked with program management team to provide both status updates and knowledge on product• Ensured QA representation through full product life cycleKey Projects / Accomplishments:• Became the product expert on all things player from both the Smartforce and Skillsoft player products • Successfully completed migration projects after the merger which ensured all customers were happy to move to our Skillsoft technologies and leave behind the Smartforce products. This took a lot of buy in and so our new offering had to be of the highest quality. Show less

  • QA Manager - Mobile Applications

    May 2015 - Jul 2016

  • QA Planner

    Feb 2006 - May 2015

  • QA Project Lead

    Jan 2004 - Feb 2006
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  Fenergo

  Oct 2017 - now

  • Project Manager

    Sept 2021 - now

  • QA Lead in Professional Services

    Oct 2017 - now