SUMMARY:

• 9 years of expertise in identifying key functional areas, evaluating effectiveness of existing processes, aligning personnel, and controlling cost to deliver organizational objectives of faster time to market and fewer production defects.
• Architect level of expertise in Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Data, Designing Test Plans and Test Cases, Verifying and Validating Web based e - Commerce applications and Documentation based on standards for Software Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Able to manage stakeholder expectations and willing to take full responsibility for the delivering of project objectives

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: VMware, Windows, Linux (RedHat, CentOS), MVS

Servers: VMware ESX, vSphere, Vcenter, VMware ViewDatabases: SQL Server, Oracle, FD Query Tool

Languages: COBOL, C, C++, JCL, HTML, XMLMethodologies: Agile and Waterfall

Performance Testing: LoadRunner

Defect Tracking Tools: Rational ClearQuest, Jira

Microsoft Tools: MS-Project, Word, Excel, Access, Power PointCA Tools: CA Service Desk, Clarity, Harvest, Service Catalog

IBM Tools: CA7, IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF, 3270, ODS

Performance Mgmt: OpTier, Up Time IT Management

OLAP Tools: Business Objects BOXI 3.1 / XIR2, Web

PMP: In Process

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Test Data Engineer

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Establish Confidential governance and IT policies for sensitive data masking & profiling
• Perform data profiling, data masking, sub-setting, and data mining to meet QS requirements
• Responsible for identify test data based on business requirements (identify data requirements, identify data types, identify data source and identify data dependencies)
• Responsible for acquisition of the data based on the requirements identified ( data virtualization, data mining, data extraction, data conversion)
• Responsible for data masking and the creation/ modification of data to meet testing needs
• (Data selection, Data scrubbing, data mapping, and data transformation)
• Responsible for populating test environments with the necessary data(Data migration, data load/storage, data validation, and data ownership)
• Responsible for updates of test data( Data backup, data refresh, data cleansing, and data retention)
• Responsible to deliver highly comprehensive Test Data design to consolidate data across LOB
• Work closely with enterprise data governance and information security groups to ensure proper controls around PII and PCI data in a dev/test environment
• Provide leadership, evaluations, mentoring for direct reports
• Technical expert as Test Data Architect, Test Environment Architect, and Defect Management Architect.
• Responsible to design and create the entire Quality Assurance strategy from the ground up Test Data, Test Strategy and Test Plan, and Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Design and Managed Test Data Management tool (FileAid/EX, Data Privacy), according to business need, which include installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting
• Responsible deploying distributed build to QA environment in order to take change control ownership
• Responsible for validating and approving CR records before code migration to UAT and Prod
• Responsible to work with testing and development team to build and maintain test data
• Analyze the code and perform smoke test before deploying code to QA environments.
• Responsible for identify dependencies, constraints, risks and issues
• Review and provide inputs for all the testing related artifacts
• Provide leadership on test data management strategy and tool and test environment management for clients
• Work with Quality Assurance to plan levels of testing to ensure project deliverables meet requirements
• Plan and conduct acceptance testing to ensure requirements have been met
• Record any IRs found during smoke test and report to developers and informs testers once developers fix the IRs.
• Maintain cooperative relationships with developers, testers and communicate with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Project Management including presentations, budget estimates, project plans, and reporting
• Analyze business and system requirements, mange development of specifications to create and execute detailed test plans, and verify bug fixes.
• Participate in implementing test-plans and test-cases built on high-level and detail design.
• Manage offshore and onshore testing resources to ensure project tasks are completed successfully and according to development specifications and deadlines.
• Provide and support to internal and external teams on tools and processes managed by the environment team
• Provide weekly status report to stakeholders

Business Analyst

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with prospective clients to evaluate and understand their feature requirements from a business needs perspective
• Liaise between the technical team and clients, as well as senior management and stakeholders
• Able to merge customer and user needs with business requirements, budgetary restrictions and logistical consideration to meet project deliverables
• Performed any research necessary to gather required information and coordinate with the appropriate staff to ensure project is handled in a timely manner and to the utmost quality as determined by Confidential standards
• Analyzed client and end user requirements and thoroughly understand the application functionality and the business solution each feature will provide
• Provided expertise for assigned special projects which may include internal improvements of methods, procedures, or processes, and specific analysis for application enhancement through documentation of Use Cases and Test Cases
• Responded to 24 hour/7 days-a-week service requirements as determined by client or Corporate needs
• Coordinated, prioritized, and participated in activities associated with completing assigned projects or project task(s)
• Provide management with status reports detailing status and timelines
• Followed all steps to close project which may include conducting meetings, completing project reports, and maintaining completed project file
• Escalated to supervisor any situation outside the employee's control that could adversely impact the services being provided
• Provided analysis and feedback to management staff and appropriate departments regarding recurring problems, recommending improvements aimed at reducing future occurrences of problems
• Established and maintain a professional relationship with team members and department contact
• Participated in documenting each step of the test plan to include back out plan, testing, implementation and end user support information, describing program development, coding, testing, changes and corrections

System Engineer/Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to project manager role to plan, schedule and execute all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations. Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets.
• Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs
• Gathered requirements from customers and business partners and design, implement and provide solutions in building the environment.
• Analyzed client and end user requirements and thoroughly understand the application functionality and the business solution each feature will provide
• Managed Linux, Windows and VMware server, which include installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual machines critical server issues.
• Wrote functional specifications for data conversions from an existing system to VMware vCenter