Penny McVay shares how her team approached improving the quality of a large policy-writing application for a global insurance carrier. The application has many pieces and parts, thousands of lines of code are changed monthly, and the business depends on a stable application. To mitigate risk, the team investigated the question of how to predict where testing needed to focus. The regression test suite the organization had built was difficult to maintain, identified few defects, and took hours of effort to run. QA needed not only to optimize the regression suite but also to determine how to...
Penny McVay
Liberty Mutual
Penny McVay manages a large, global-wide quality assurance team for the commercial insurance technology division of Liberty Mutual. Penny began her career in the insurance industry and has experience in business functional areas and IT. From a COBOL programmer to a developer to earning her PMP certification, Penny’s experiences have shaped her approach to managing QA as a true partner in collaborating on large IT projects for the past fourteen years. Penny resides in Hamilton, Ohio, and when she’s not knee-deep into quality assurance practices, Penny enjoys spending time with her family and camping.