SUMMARY:

• Over 25 years of professional consulting information systems experience, most recently for the past 15 years as a PM/QA and Team Leader, 3 years in Project Management. Technology specialty including as a business analyst, development, SDLC, Agile, project management, QA analysis, test case design, execution, regression, SIT, UAT of Internet, Client Server, Mainframe applications for banks, securities, insurance, pharmacy, retirement, accounting and B2C/B2B internet, Fortune 500 clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: ALM, Test Director/QC, SQL, Oracle, UNIX, TeamTrack, PVCS, COBOL, XML, Java, Visual Basic, HTML, Power Image, Savantage, SunGard Omni Plus, DOCXP, IDMS,, SharePoint,, Mozilla, IE, Firefox, MS Project, QTP, Powerpoint, JD Edwards Oracle Enterprise One, Jira, Selenium, API

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple projects as a sub contractor in creating User stories, test cases, execution, tracking defects and reporting progress reports to managers in an agile scrum environment.

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created and tested in ALM JD Edwards Oracle Database warehouse inventory management system end to end for UAT.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile methodologies, shift left strategy to identify defects early in Development.
• Created weekly Dashboard of progress for CIT for upper management.
• Facilitated Continuous Integration Testing (CIT) for Automation, regression, SOA and Service Virtualization to reduce testing redundancy and optimize 3 LOB into one streamlined QA work stream.
• Identified synergies through elimination of duplicate test runs across LOB s
• Interfaced with QA team leads and I offshore resources to facilitate and coordinate agile processes and procedures to reduce test coverage overlap, reduce time to implement code into production.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and delivered Test Planning documents to the program. Chaired weekly defect meeting.
• Wrote Test Cases based on delivered requirements for both the front and back end of the delivered features.
• Drove and implemented Scrum/Agile methodologies in collaborative effort from former SDLC QA environment. Developed and executed Test Cases for monthly Sprint releases.
• Created hundreds of defects based on Test Execution results for all phases of testing, including UAT.
• Helped drive the Agile Testing Process and deliver Test Execution and Defect Metrics.
• Worked with the BA s to help identify backlog, burn down charts, log defects, identify critical issues and Requirement Changes.
• Managed all testing documentation using Sharepoint. Metrics using MS Office Excel spreadsheets.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating test plan, test cases, end to end testing and UAT using offshore programming and testing resources in a Agile virtual team for the sponsor to do a major upgrade..
• Coordinated, developing, managing and executed all testing activities for all phases of testing including SIT and UAT.
• Ran scrum meetings with data entry, development and QA resources to deliver new website, transaction, processing, front and back end verification

Sr. QA analyst, Team Lead, consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Actively manually tested web - based online TSP.GOV including loans, bank and rollovers using, executed test cases for expected error conditions from user requirements. Responsible for creating, testing, tracking test cases defects for 80 financial reports for management. Installed day-to-day real time access online with ability to make investment changes from a previously month-by-month system.
• Added 5 new lifecycle funds to existing 5 funds. SIT testing around black/grey box Omni database, call center interface and automated voice response testing. Reduced overall operating costs 50% while servicing double the number of users.

QA Regression Testing Manager

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for 6 member group providing Quality Assurance regression testing of automotive & property quote and purchase of Insurance on B2C allstate.com web site. Analyzed, designed, developed, executed and managed QTP Mercury
• Test Director test cases for initial launch and all new software upgrades, UAT for production releases. Identified, tracked, and provided final testing of defects and system upgrades for 14 unique states involving multiple lines of insurance. Site was ranked by Gomez #2 out of 17 in overall quality after just 6 months of being activated.

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and executed UAT acceptance testing suites from system requirements document for web/e-commerce startup. Projects included testing Content Management System, web site tested on multiple browsers through initial successful launch for winning highly interactive adventure travel web site B2C, site sold to National Geographic.

QA Testing Specialist

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed Mercury WinRunner automated scripts and manual tests for a Client/Server..

QA Testing Specialist

Confidential, Barrington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Developed automated test results for batch and online programs using HP/Mercury WinRunner and Test Director software. Created, tested and reviewed test cases for financial institutional compliance, conversion testing, documented SuperC compares of files/reports for auto leases.

Code Testing Manager

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Y2K remediation including integrated testing, analysis, file conversion/expansion, bridging, unit testing, system testing and code implementation. Systems included Dividends, puts/calls, Interest, Month End reporting, Straddles and Tax Calculations. Managed 5-8 resources.

Senior Programmer/Analyst/Team Leader

Confidential, Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and implement mainframe and client server projects for Federal Highway Administration payroll, payments to 50 states for all highway projects $18 billion, accounts and budget applications for nationwide user community (70 sites). Performed Full life cycle development, business user requirements, project time line estimates and analysis, user documentation. Managed 4 programmers. Promoted 4 times to increasingly responsible duties.