Debbie Koepf
About Debbie Koepf
Debbie Koepf is a Quality Engineering Manager at Kohls with extensive experience in software testing and quality management.
Title
Debbie Koepf serves as the Quality Engineering Manager at Kohl's. She has held this position since 2009, working extensively at the company's Menomonee Falls, WI location.
Previous Positions
Before joining Kohl's, Debbie Koepf was the Quality Test Manager at Agfa Healthcare from 2003 to 2009. She also worked at GE Medical System as a Software Test Manager from 1998 to 2003.
Education and Expertise
Debbie Koepf earned her Master's degree in Business Administration from De Vry University Keller Graduate School. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quality Initiatives
At Kohl's, Debbie has implemented several strategic quality initiatives. She reduced production defect leakage to less than 3% and increased BDD automation script adoption to over 90%. She also aligned automation goals with Engineering to achieve 100% automation execution in the CICD pipeline, reducing unit and integration execution times to less than 15 minutes.
Agile and Testing Strategies
Debbie has been instrumental in implementing Agile example mapping processes to improve the shared understanding of Acceptance Criteria between customers and IT teams. She has also guided teams to shift most of their automation to TDD Unit testing and Contract Testing, and coached product teams on exploratory session-based testing techniques to develop risk-based scenarios.