NOELLE TOLVE
Woodstock
Summary
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) with over 10 years of experience delivering customer-focused software across SaaS, web, mobile, and enterprise platforms. Proven in backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, UAT ownership, sprint execution, and release readiness. Known for bridging business, engineering, and quality to ensure teams ship the right features with confidence, clarity, and customer value.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Test Engineer (Product Delivery Partner)
Cox Automotive
Atlanta
07.2021 - Current
- Partner with Product Managers, Developers, and business stakeholders to refine user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring backlog items are clearly defined, prioritized, and sprint-ready.
- Own UAT and feature acceptance for enterprise web and mobile platforms, validating that delivered functionality meets business, compliance, and customer expectations before production release.
- Provide release-readiness, defect, and quality metrics that inform go/no-go decisions for production deployments.
- Leveraging AI (Copilot) to identify product gaps, workflow issues, and usability risks through testing, Splunk log analysis, and real-world customer scenario validation.
- Act as a delivery bridge between business and engineering, translating requirements into testable, verifiable outcomes that reduce rework and delivery risk.
- Support sprint ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to improve delivery flow and product clarity.
Software Engineer in Test (Agile Delivery & Release Support)
P&M Solutions
10.2020 - 07.2021
- Supported sprint execution by validating user stories, acceptance criteria, and deployment readiness for web and mobile products.
- Partnered with developers and leadership to enhance deployment pipelines and delivery efficiency using Jenkins and Bitbucket.
- Led regression and post-release validation cycles, ensuring product stability aligned with business and customer priorities.
- Produced quality and system-health reports in TestRail used by project managers and leadership to assess delivery risk and readiness.
QA Test Engineer Lead / Business Analyst
Concertium (Murphy Business & Shield Watch)
Atlanta
09.2019 - 10.2020
- Served as primary liaison between executives, development teams, and QA, ensuring product requirements aligned with strategic business goals.
- Led end-to-end feature readiness from planning through UAT sign-off across multiple client solutions.
- Introduced Jira, Jenkins, and GitLab to improve backlog tracking, sprint visibility, and release planning across teams.
- Facilitated stakeholder workshops, requirement reviews, and readiness meetings to validate scope, assumptions, and delivery outcomes.
- Provided risk, compliance, and readiness reporting that guided leadership decisions on releases and customer deployments.
Software QA Engineer
BetterCloud
02.2019 - 09.2019
- Collaborated with Product Managers and Developers to ensure customer requirements translated into usable, testable, high-value features.
- Performed post-release validation and risk analysis, ensuring stakeholder expectations and customer workflows were met.
- Used Kibana and Kubernetes logs to provide business teams visibility into product stability, performance, and customer impact.
QA Test Engineer / Business Analyst
Murphy Business (Formerly Shield Watch)
04.2016 - 02.2019
- Partnered with business leaders to convert customer and operational needs into validated, testable deliverables.
- Produced stakeholder-facing readiness, risk, and compliance reports used to guide release and deployment decisions.
- Facilitated cross-functional communication between executives, developers, and QA to ensure business outcomes were prioritized throughout delivery.
Education
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) -
Scrum Alliance
Westminster, CO09-2024
M.S. - Information Technology
Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH09-2019
B.S. - Anthropology
Eckerd College
St. Petersburg05-2011
Skills
- Product backlog refinement
- Prioritization and user stories
- Epic management
- Acceptance criteria development
- Sprint planning and reviews
- Retrospective facilitation
- UAT ownership and release readiness
- Stakeholder collaboration
- Requirements and workflow validation
- Risk and scope management
- Quality assurance strategies
- Customer experience enhancement
- Feature validation processes
- Agile methodologies
- Scrum delivery practices
- Continuous improvement initiatives
- Delivery optimization techniques
- Jira project management
- Confluence documentation tools
- Rally tracking software
- TestRail test management
- Azure DevOps integration
- GitLab version control
- Jenkins automation tools
- Salesforce CRM solutions
- Splunk data analysis
- Kibana visualization tools
- Kubernetes container orchestration
- Postman API testing tools
- AWS cloud services
Timeline
Software Test Engineer (Product Delivery Partner)
Cox Automotive
07.2021 - Current
Software Engineer in Test (Agile Delivery & Release Support)
P&M Solutions
10.2020 - 07.2021
QA Test Engineer Lead / Business Analyst
Concertium (Murphy Business & Shield Watch)
09.2019 - 10.2020
Software QA Engineer
BetterCloud
02.2019 - 09.2019
QA Test Engineer / Business Analyst
Murphy Business (Formerly Shield Watch)
04.2016 - 02.2019
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) -
Scrum Alliance
M.S. - Information Technology
Southern New Hampshire University
B.S. - Anthropology
Eckerd College