Mike Overkamp

I have 26 years of experience in Information Technology, including roles as a Tandem Developer, manual and automated test engineer, Product Owner and Scrum Master.  I specialize in automation (Specflow/Gherken) as well as Test Case/Test Plan development.  I have extensive experience working in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and creating team cohesion/collaboration to ensure we deliver the highest quality products to our users.  I have experience in MS SQL, .NET/C#, JavaScript, Python, Postman - with some knowledge of Selenium as well.  I am adept at defect identification and tracking to resolution via Jira (or tracking system of choice).  I also have extensive experience mentoring junior software test engineers to ensure best practices and thoroughness of their test cases.  I also have extensive experience pairing with software developers to meet BDD and ATDD goals.

Experience in budget and financial services with 20+ years experience in information technology (four years as a developer and 22 years in manual testing, automated testing, research and development/project management in banking, communications/billing and defense industries both in waterfall and agile methodology). Experience as a QA team member, team leader, product owner and scrum master, having transitioned from waterfall methodology to agile process and DevOps.

BSBA - University of Nebraska at Omaha - this was beneficial in my experience working at First National Bank of Omaha as a developer and tester.

Certificate of Mainframe Programming/COBOL - Creighton Institute of Technology