Annette Dyer
About Annette Dyer
Annette Dyer is the Lead Quality Assurance Engineer at MAXIMUS with over 20 years of experience in software quality assurance and system testing.
Company
Annette Dyer currently works at MAXIMUS as the Lead Quality Assurance Engineer. She has held this position since 2007 and operates in the Greater Denver Area. Her role involves extensive interaction with various teams to ensure quality standards and overseeing deployments. Prior to this, she worked at TEKsystems, Abacus Direct, and Xerox in similar capacities, accruing over 20 years of experience in software quality assurance and system testing.
Title
Annette Dyer holds the title of Lead Quality Assurance Engineer at MAXIMUS. In this role, she manages deployments, negotiates QA/system test needs with support teams, and performs defect triage. She also creates test plans, test cases, user stories, and process documents. Additionally, she provides full testing coverage, including functional, integration, white box, and end-to-end system-level testing.
Education and Expertise
Annette Dyer studied at Roberts Wesleyan University, where she achieved a BA in 1988. Her expertise spans over two decades in the field of software quality assurance and system testing. She specializes in UI, Java, .NET Middleware, and Web environments, with a particular focus on State Child Health Insurance Programs and Enrollment Brokers. Annette is adept in Agile, Waterfall, and Iterative Waterfall methodologies, and she also creates select and update queries for Oracle and SQL databases.
Background
Annette Dyer has a comprehensive background in quality assurance, which includes roles at TEKsystems, Abacus Direct, and Xerox. At TEKsystems, she was a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer for 8 months in 2006. From 2002 to 2006, she worked as a Quality Assurance Engineer at Abacus Direct. Prior to that, she was at Xerox as a Quality Assurance Team Lead from 1998 to 2001. Her extensive experience encompasses team leadership, defect evaluation, and collaboration with IT organizations.
Achievements
Throughout her career, Annette Dyer has led test teams on various projects to successful completion despite challenging deadlines. She has directed both onshore and offshore teams using scrum-agile and waterfall methodologies. As a subject matter expert and team lead on State Child Health Insurance Program applications, she has significantly contributed to the software quality assurance field. Her work includes developing requirements gap analysis, training new employees, and supporting multiple testing teams.