Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

Lynchburg College

IT Release Management Supervisor at Wakefern Food Corp.

Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, United States

Wakefern Food Corp.

IT Release Management Supervisor

Product delivery lead for software releases across multiple platforms.  Coordinate release activities across multiple teams, from product thru development, to clinical validation, to ensure a timely software release.  Active contributor on the program team for long term planning.  Responsible for core documentation for release activities including but not limited to known issues, FDA required documents and internal communication. Advocate for best practice across cross-functional teams.  Advocate for continuous improvement for development and process.  Coach for agile transformation and best practices.

Butterfly Network, Inc.

Software Release Manager - Mobile

Agile coach to multiple teams and expertise on the agile process, best practices and ceremonies.  Scrum Master to multiple teams and disciplines with the responsibility to ensure customer delivery commitment is met.  Responsible for functional requirements to assist in project scope and timeline deliverables.   Agile process coaching geared towards the uniqueness of each deliverable.  Quality coaching to help ensure a minimal level of validation prior to production go live.  Risk remediation as needed.  Scope refinement using Agile processes such as backlog grooming and planning.  Engaged with DevOPs operations to improve involvement at all levels.

Avlino Inc.

Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Agile Project Manager,

Strategy leader to a talented team of manual and automation engineers within a SCRUM environment responsible to deliver and maintain Billtrust’s core framework.   Team assignments include decomposition of monolithic applications into microservices. 

Coached and lead transition to automation first approach to testing using Protractor for Angular UI validation and Postman for services.

Revised defect root cause analysis process to identify areas of quality improvement and lessons learned.  This practice resulted in a 35% reduction in customer identified defects within 9 months.

Review test cases and test strategies to ensure coverage before production deployments.  Implemented core test practices to improve code delivery to production.   Worked closely with development teams to increase unit test code coverage to over 90%

Coach SCRUM teams towards ever higher quality by implementing peer review and team agreement on scope.  This resulted in a more team approach to ownership of quality.  This pivot in mindset resulted in zero P1 customer facing defects for our main customer portal for a period of 12 months.

Release coordinator for product releases to production.  Release manager for code delivery to staging environments and production using Jenkins code build and deploy to AWS.  

Helped drive teams towards CI and CD; define quality metrics for product/process improvement, including building dashboards and reports.

Scrum Master for delivery team delivering features and refactoring of internal applications; manage sprint deliverables with team utilizing the application.  Work with stakeholders on requirements and feature enhancements; work closely with the development team on decomposing features into stories, story pointing, and tasking.

Quality champion responsible for changing the negative mindset regarding testing to a positive belief.  Achieved thru  testing parties, collaborative events and lots of baking. Champion for awesome team collaboration.

Billtrust

Scrum Master, Release Coordinator & Quality Leader

Built a testing team of 18+ employees and contractors of various skill levels and project roles for major home retailer; coached, trained, and developed team, performing career planning and staff reductions as needed.

Level-set expectations regarding timeline and scope for projects of various sizes to ensure accurate communication of feature/testing completeness prior to UAT turnover (for Waterfall and Agile projects).  

Project Manager role for complex projects leading projects from requirements to completion.  

Coordinated efforts across multiple departments and disciplines.  Risk remediation efforts for timeline, resources and scope.

Quality leader for multiple customer facing and internal projects. Coordinated efforts with multiple stakeholders including internal staff, store associates and customers.

Met delivery targets for multiple simultaneous projects in compliance with Agile processes.

Engaged with Agile sprint teams to evaluate status, remediate issues, and coach on concepts of code freeze, stabilization, and feature decomposition.

Maintained effective communication with team members, Scrum masters and all levels of management including status reports on testing progress, impediments and risks to project team; formulated remediation plan when needed including risk analysis, resource allocation and recommended completion timeframe.

Using historical data, generated management statistics regarding project risks and options to meet deadlines.

Generated statistics pertaining to test pass/fail rate, code quality, and development/testing progress.
On-boarded quality staff members as needed for scope expansion or project needs.

Bed Bath & Beyond

IT Quality Assurance Manager, Enterprise QA

Led a 15-member team, including 6 onshore and 9 offshore (India and Belarus) resources for health care billing solutions company; acted as QA representative for Senior Management Oversight Committee.

Ensured meeting defect maintenance targets; also worked with Scrum team on sprint planning.

Balanced requirements and maintained communication across organization to ensure release quality.

Created regression roadmap for multiple products including manual regression test case creation, translation to automated scripts, and execution from smoke to full execution before a change package was released to production (using keyword-driven automation to enable early automation adoption in testing cycle).

Worked closely with Automation Center of Excellence on processes for creation of standards for automation from requirements; architected and implemented automated regression for CORE products using QTP with Quality Center (via both VB script and object-oriented keyword automation).

Created process for ongoing maintenance and improvement of automated and manual regression to ensure accuracy of system modifications; implemented quality improvement processes to increase customer confidence.

TriZetto Corporation

Director Quality Assurance; Scrum Master

Led a team of 8 testing engineers, including 3 onshore and 5 offshore (India).

Directed team assignments and responsibilities; provided matrix to senior management regarding product quality and productivity (focused on payer modules of eligibility, billing, commissions, and alternate funding).

Provided regular coaching and feedback to reporting staff along with training as needed.
Translated functional requirements and design specifications into test case documentation.

Performed manual execution of test cases on all applicable product versions (results recorded in Quality Center).

Logged and tracked defects in Serena Business Mashups 7.0 (Team Track); performed MSSQL, Oracle and Sybase database validation (Webservice verifications using SOAP UI).
Responsible for maintenance of XML batch programs to update system/databases.

Robin Moloney