I first met Becky in April of last year when she was interviewing for a Quality & Business Analyst position. From the moment we spoke, I knew she was going to be a tremendous asset to Bootsoft. Becky’s solid QA background, strong communication skills and cool as a cucumber demeanor made her a perfect fit for Bootsoft (I was also unabashedly giddy that she had dabbled in Hyperbolic Geometry and Abstract Algebra). Unfortunately, Becky was living in Madison at the time and we would have to wait nearly three months for her to join our team. As expected, she was worth the wait.
Becky hit the ground running and started to contribute immediately. Rather than read all the training materials we have built over the years, she migrated everything to our internal wiki. After that, she went after our auto-test development materials and started critically evaluating our processes looking for inconsistencies with a serious eye for detail. Once she got our existing materials in order, she worked with other Quality Assurance resources in New York, namely Smadar Mavor and Kate Diago, to draft a methodology for creating Agile Use Cases. In summary, she quickly tackled unglamorous tasks that were overdue and badly needed and for that she gets a big fat gold star.
Becky did not stop there; instead she put on a Product Owner cap and collaborated on several Agile projects. In this capacity, her attention to detail was instrumental. She drove story development, corralled clients, managed priorities, and extracted and translated requirements. She has worked on an educational product for a start up, a financial research oriented mobile iPad app, and a SalesForce VIOP integration where her QA and technical skills have certainly been challenged, but she continues to shine.
As noted above, Becky is nailing it and has done so from day one. She has been a tremendous help to me, and I cannot wait to see what else she can do as her career evolves at Bootsoft.