Debbie Koepf

About Debbie Koepf

A solutions-oriented management leader with experience leading international and national quality engineering teams in providing reliable products, reducing testing budgets through automation and small deploy able releases, enhancing customer experience by engaging them in the Agile process, and providing a strategic quality direction throughout the organization. A leader that collaborates with Management, Engineering, Product Management, and Customers to develop cost effective solutions by transforming the teams to a Modern Technology Agile Testing process.

Experience

1. Quality Engineering Manager

   Kohl's

   Jan 2009 — Present · Menomonee Falls, WI, US

   Lead teams both international and national to champion and foster a culture of delivering fast feedback within Product Teams (Engineering, Product, and Quality Engineers) to deliver reliable solutions to our customers through the implementation of Agile Testing Strategies. Provide Leadership and Expertise:• Champion for the Modern Technology Test Strategy guidelines utilized by the Product Teams to deliver weekly, small fast deployments with high quality features. • Create guidelines on: Agile Testing Pyramid, example mapping, contract testing, BDD functional automation, end to end testing, and exploratory testing. • Collaborate to develop measurements: daily code commits, test coverage, probability of risk, change failure rate, automated script pass rate, and monitoring of user experience feedback.• Implement Agile example mapping process, common shared understanding of the Acceptance Criteria between customers and IT team. Reduce production defect leakage to less than 3%• Drive Quality Engineers in the creation of automated Gherkin Behavioral Driven Scenarios (BDD) that test the functional acceptance criteria of the user stories. Increased BDD automation script adoption to over 90% • Guide teams through the implementation of an automation test strategy that shifts left majority of the automation to TDD Unit testing and Contract Testing. • Align with Engineering on Automation goals: 100% automation executed in CICD pipeline, Unit and Integration execution less than 15 minutes.• Increased onsite collaboration between Software and Quality Engineers, resulting in shared understanding of features to code and test producing cleaner more reliable code.• Coached Product teams on how to implement Exploratory session-based testing techniques to develop minimum number of risk-based scenarios with the goal to discover unintended consequences due to code changes.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Molecular Biology

• De Vry University Keller Graduate School

  Masters, Business Administration

Skills

• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Quality Center
• Automation
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Quality Assurance
• Testing
• Test Planning
• Test Management
• Integration
• Leadership
• Software Development
• Software Quality Assurance
• Integration Testing
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Performance Testing
• Medical Devices
• Project Planning
• Test Cases
• Analysis