Emily Scharf

About Emily Scharf

Highly accomplished Project and Delivery Management professional currently in the Testing space passionate and skilled in streamlining operations and maintaining schedules ensuring maximum customer satisfaction and business revenue. Used to managing large global teams / operations to develop cohesive cultures to maximize best practice delivery and achievement of broader organizational objectives. A Servant Leader that can lead and inspire teams, while developing beneficial relationships with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders. A leader of both external projects and relationships as well as internal initiatives and deliverables.

Experience

1. Senior Program Test Manager

   Alight Solutions

   May 2019 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Leads and develops the testing function and defines the role of the testing function. Mentoring and guiding the testing team on the discipline of testing and effective implementation of the testing processes. Support defining and deploying a robust testing framework and ensuring suitable testing infrastructure to support this framework. Identifies and deploys testing process/parts of the process that can be automated and implements industry best practices within the testing framework- Manage program change in accordance with the change management plan to control scope, quality, schedule, cost, and contracts- Identify and deploy appropriate testing framework including processes, methods, and tools to meet the organization\'s testing requirements- Define the objective measures to be applied to products under testing- Implement metrics to effectively provide feedback and measure project quality- Set the standards and acceptability criteria for each project/product- Identify and implement test automation for manual testing process/parts of the process based on available test automation frameworks- Ensure that testing efforts are aligned with business needs and industry standards- Ensure that future needs of specific skill set requirement for a project are addressed by ensuring appropriate training to the testing team- Consult with counterparts in project estimations, capacity planning, and resultant financial implications- Participate in key project review meetings- Ensure that the processes followed in project are in accordance with Quality Management System- Act as an advocate for quality and continuous improvement by actively seeking continuous improvement in all areas of work- Act as an advocate for the use of the defined Software Development and Testing processes- Make recommendations for Continuous Process Improvement projects. Work with Test Leads to continuously improve testing methodology across development groups.

Education

• Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  Optometry and Business

  1991 — 1994

• University of South Carolina Upstate

  Business, Business, Sociology, Psychology

  1998 — 1999