PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential has over 25 years of experience transforming teams and organizations through profitable and efficient business models using lean agile approaches, better analysis and design, continuous integration and delivery, solid ROI and just simply better products through better testing. By implementing “shift left” testing approaches that fit in any governance model, bugs are found faster and therefore: every research firm agrees the faster we find bugs, the cheaper it is to fix them.
• Confidential provides total solutions for products, software and services in harmony with vendor partnerships and relationships, current in - house teams, augmenting or creating teams or as a team of one. Confidential is a complete one-stop shop, from answering RFP’s to ensure your requirements are understood before engagement, addressing any foreseen risk and ensuring on-time delivery of solutions and services all the way to exceeding ROI.
• Confidential can bring testing into your project governance model in any flavor. From lean agile, scrum, waterfall, hybrids with over 27 years of experience implementing solid testing strategies can, and will, help organizations find defects faster and save time and money. Collaboration is the key to success in any model and Confidential has the experience to make it happen.
• Designed CA-Librarian mainframe to RTC migration, which was one of the largest and most successful in the world at Nedbank, ZA
• Extensive experience implementing Team Concert, Requirements Composer, Quality Manager
• Allowing teams to communication, collaborate
• Allowing complete transparency and traceability from requirements, design, software, test assets and defects
• Allow executives and project sponsors 100% traceability of project status via work item progress, dashboards and data warehouse reporting
• Expert since tool inception and one reason for invitation to Confidential Rational Business Partnership program
• Expert in SOA testing
• Expert in Java/Eclipse and .Net/MSVB (.Net only exists for RFT), which allow complete transformation of client’s automation and performance testing abilities that seamlessly flow with ALM solutions
• Over 15 years of experience, including predecessors Robot, RobotJ and Rational XDE

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Systems: Current Mac VMWare Fusion images Solaris 11 64 bit Ubuntu 1 CentOS 7 64, MariaDB Rasperry Pi Raspbmc, Raspbian

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Hybrid Cloud Testing Technical Sales Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Confidential provides architectural analysis, presales demo’s, POT’s, POC’s, deployment planning and after purchase support for Confidential ’s Rational testing products.
• Provide architectural analysis and planning in order to provide complete solutions of process and products. Provide product knowledge to clients in the pre and post sales cycle. Provide demo’s, POT’s, POC’s for Confidential Rational’s testing products. Support Functional (Rational Functional Tester), Performance (Rational Performance Tester), sub GUI/integration testing and service virtualization (Rational Integration Tester/Greenhat). Completed Confidential ’s Global Sales School with exceptional scores.

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Test Architect and Account Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential provided test architectural frameworks and intelligent test design capabilities for the number one services provider of sub GUI/integration testing and service virtualization company in the world.
• Test Solutions Architect and Account Management: Managed client accounts. Analyzed architecture and designed automation solutions adhering to state of the art engineering practices for GUI, sub GUI/integration testing and service virtualization using Confidential ’s Rational Integration Tester (Greenhat).

Confidential

SQA Director of Performance and Automation

Responsibilities:

• Confidential managed and implemented automation, performance and test architectural solutions in preparation of a major client engagement with a major bank in Thailand.
• Project Governance: Designed lean agile solutions for the client’s Senior Architecture manager including collaboration, an iterative approach, TDD and BDD practices for testing. Created a transformation plan from the current waterfall setup.
• CLM/ALM Architect: Provided CLM/ALM and continuous integration and delivery solutions with Confidential ’s Jazz CLM (Rational Team Concert, Rational Requirements composer, Rational Quality Manager). Provided integration for performance and automation tooling solutions into QM in order to create an iterative continuous integration solution.
• Performance Architect: Provided answers and bids to RFP’s, timelines and budgets for performance services for multiple projects. Served as the expert and SME for performance testing by providing analysis, solutions, software, tooling, execution and reporting for mobile, mainframe, web services, TCP/IP, MQ, Message Broker and web applications. Served as SME, admin as well as implemented a tooling solution of Rational Performance Tester, Rational Integration Tester, JMeter. Investigated an open source web interface mainframe terminal in order to implement JMeter for mainframe testing.
• Test Architect: Provided answers and bids to RFP’s, timelines and budgets for automation and testing services for multiple projects. Designed virtualization solutions for web services, MQ, Message Broker and TCP/IP. Served as the expert and SME for automation and testing by providing analysis, solutions, software, tooling, execution and reporting for mobile, mainframe, web services, TCP/IP, MQ, Message Broker and web applications. Served as SME, admin as well as implemented a tooling solution of Rational Functional Tester, Rational Integration Tester, Selenium Web Driver, Java/JUnit (TDD), Cucumber - jvm (BDD).
• : Provided, mentoring and support on all efforts implemented.

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SQA Program Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential successfully implemented Collaborative (Application) Life-cycle Management with Confidential Rational Team Concert, Requirements Composer and Quality Manager in conjunction with the testing line-up of Rational Functional Tester, Rational Service Tester and Rational Performance Tester, working with and the Nedbank GT Tools Group, TCOE as well as their internal customer base. Formal classes, documentation and usage models for these tools as well as Java, JUnit, Selenium Webdriver combined with test methodology, including OO design concepts in automation, test driven development, were given to pollinate the teams and ensure long term project success.
• CLM/ALM Solution Architect: Created a design to migrate mainframe SCM models from CA-Librarian to Confidential ’s Rational Team Concert while improving functionality, ease of use and simultaneously improving reliability. Created and maintained full lifecycle projects utilizing Rational Team Concert, Rational Requirements Composer and Rational Quality Manager in order to manage projects and provide complete traceability. Tweaked CLM templates to suit user needs. Created materials, conducting classes and demos in order to reduce learning curve and increase productivity. Supported new projects throughout the whole lifecycle from project planning in RTC, requirements, use case and model creation and importing with RRC and RSA with Rational Requirements Composer, test management, artifact creation and execution in RQM and metrics and reporting via data warehouse reporting and CLM dashboards.
• Test Tools Consultant: Installed, implemented, supported, created formal guides and conducted formal classes for Rational Functional Tester, Rational Service Tester, Rational Performance Tester, Java, Selenium Webdriver, test driven development and JUnit. Provided mobile testing and automation solutions.
• SQA Program Test Manager: Provided guidance, and leadership for pilot projects chosen to showcase CLM and test tool implementations by mentoring and managing the Nedbank test organization. The newly implemented tool sets provided the perfect opportunity to transform people and testing into collaborative, leading edge technology testing COE’s. Created user guides for and trained staff in functional, automation and performance strategy as well as for Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester and Rational Service Tester while integrating with Rational Quality Manager as well as CLM as a whole.

Confidential

SQA Program Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential managed the program testing effort surrounding the transformation of the 4th largest bank in Thailand’s core systems for the KT Transformation project for Confidential as well as Temenos. While focusing primarily on mortgages/loans during my tenure, this vast effort included 250+ applications, multiple third party vendors, governed by standard Waterfall methodology with formal execution of FUT, SIT, UAT, NFR and ORT testing. In the words of the project sponsor, provided expertise that helped turn the project around to success.
• Executive Sponsor: Prepared project statistics and reported in 3 weekly status meetings to bank executives and project sponsors.
• SQA Program Test Manager: Coached and managed staff of tests managers, testers, developers, and analysts to ensure project success. Streamlined and organized team structures and communication to enhance resource utilization, thus providing faster delivery with higher quality. Filled SDLC process gaps and implemented a complete SDLC approach with processes from daily SCRUM and defect meetings to overall project management, reporting and tool infrastructure. Created and implemented test management and execution approach, defect management, issue tracking, metrics reporting.
• Performance and Automation: Implemented and managed automation and performance testing strategies for different groups with multiple toolsets including: Quicktest Pro, Loadrunner, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester as well as Selenium RC 2, JUnit, Java with Eclipse. Implemented an automation and performance SOA test strategy with Rational Service and Performance Tester.
• Application Development: Created a budget analysis tool in Java to extract live data from Confidential ’s time management system and database to forecast efforts based on historical data, forming an accurate and automated bottom up budget approach to justify top down estimates.

Confidential, Austin Texas

Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Confidential provided consultation on a year-end budget clearing SWAT team automation project for COTS military applications.
• Automation Architect: Created automation architecture and implemented TestComplete with Javascript on COTS applications.

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

Automation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential successfully created automation architecture after 4 predecessors failed while in the words the client “outworking” a team of 6 offshore Ukrainian subordinates.
• Automation Architect: Managed on and offshore resources including a Ukrainian offshore team to design and implement a successful automation strategy. Analyzed HTML and JavaScript front end web pages, java struts and hibernate XML with firebug, httpFox in order to create an automation and performance solution to compare front end data with the backend Oracle databases using Selenium RC 1.0, Eclipse, Java 1.6, Junit 4, JDBC. Implemented performance strategy with JMeter. Implemented Subversion source controls as well as Maven build and continuous integration configurations.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Architect, Automation and Performance

Responsibilities:

• Confidential completed an internal ISO audit, mentored and managed the QA team, created and implemented automation and performance strategies and provided test tool requirements, design and architecture for the number one IPTV security provider in the world.
• SQA Auditor, Tools Architect: Provided consultation to VP of Research and Development and CEO concerning SDLC strategy and best practices. Completed pre ISO audit in preparation for formal ISO Audit sanctioned by Goldman Sachs. Introduced agile methodology to organization. Trained teams in use case design in real live scenarios to create requirements for a functional and performance test solution to replace 20 undocumented and unmaintained test tools. Acquired and implemented a test management tool and designed test artifacts to map/trace to automation and performance artifacts. Introduced techniques and strategy to improve efficiency of SDLC management, including QA “best practices”.
• Automation Architect: Created and implemented an automation test strategy using Rational Functional Tester, Java, JDBC, Oracle and JUnit. Implemented automation framework for web based UI’s, C, C++, C# and Java API/Unit tests, GUI applications, UNIX system commands and Oracle databases.
• Performance Architect: Performed proof of technology with Rational Performance Tester, and LoadRunner. Planned, designed and implemented a performance test strategy using an in-house created toolset for proprietary protocols as well as Rational Performance Tester for other protocols.
• Application Development: Designed and developed application in C# for testing named pipe interfaces, using Perforce for configuration management.

Confidential, CA

President

Responsibilities:

• During these years, Confidential took time to build up a practice in Southern California, work on personal projects as well as build up a partnership with Confidential Rational Software Group as well as work on short-term client projects.
• Confidential Rational Software Consultant: Performed various Proof of Concepts/Technology initiatives with various Confidential Rational Tools at client sites.
• Performance Architect: Provided all-inclusive performance testing services. Tools ran the gamut of Confidential Rational Robot, Performance Tester, Loadrunner, homegrown/in-house, JMeter and Silk Performer.
• Automation Architect: Provided all-inclusive automation testing services. Tools included Confidential Rational Robot, RobotJ, XDE, Functional Tester, Selenium RC, Selenium IDE, Quick Test Pro and Silk Test.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Automation and Performance Architect and Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager: Created the bid and project plan to support at the request of the QA Director and acquired the QA effort for the CEO portal project with a $60M budget - a huge effort to literally remove all legacy interfaces and place all wholesale customers behind a SSO web portal for all applications.
• SQA Program Test Manager: Managed QA for ACH and Demand Deposit Account applications.
• Automation and Performance Architect and Manager: Created automation and performance organizations from scratch when such concepts and teams were nonexistent at Confidential . Created and implemented an automation test strategy for functional and performance testing of the CEO/E-commerce web portal using Rational Robot (GUI and VU).

Confidential, Foster City, CA

Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Source Code Analysis: Managed project of measuring all applications for complexity, maintainability and testing coverage. Reported metrics and cost analysis to CEO. Implemented McCabe Visual 2000 code coverage tool and UniTest 2000 validation tool for Y2K testing efforts. Designed and co-developed a Windows based application for the McCabe tool with Microsoft Visual C++. Development in mainframe environment using JCL, VSAM, COBOL and COBOL II.
• Automation Architect: Before the idea of “automation really existed”, created an automated test strategy to build mainframe test environments as well as execute tests and validate results for Single Message System, reducing testing time by 50%.
• Application Development: Designed application for retrieving and preparing large amounts of source code as input to the McCabe IQ and Visual 2000 tools.