SUMMARY:

• Senior information technology, testing specialist with 25 yrs. experience and a diverse background in test management, manual, automated, load testing, software development and server administration.
• Current experience includes 6 years with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in their Test/QA Group managing testing and change control of their large, statewide implementation of SAP. Duties included managing change control of all
• SAP Modules and Test Management, Test Lead or Training Duties depending on the projects assigned. Applicant has extensive testing and change control background with Large, Development, Quality & Production Environments.
• Enjoys experiencing new work environments and learning with or mentoring co - workers.
• Planning, configuration & documentation of new VM Environments for conversion of the HP ALM Quality Center’s Database from MS-SQL to Oracle and move to new Unisys Virtual Environments ( Confidential ).
• HP ALM Quality Center upgrade, technical planning and supervision of Confidential from V11 to V12
• Designed and coded a custom Quality Center mechanism that records a subject matter expert’s verification signature for tests that post transactions to SAP Financials. This process forces a check that transactions were posted properly and provides that information in online and report form to management & auditors.
• Test management, script review and testing of the Commonwealth’s SAP, 2016 Disaster Recovery Plan
• Test & Defect Management of Spring and Fall SAP Support Packs for 2015
• Test Management of the weekly change process for SAP Systems executed on weekends
• Application of transportable and monitoring of non-transportable changes to production (50-90 changes weekly)
• Primary mentor of testing tools (Quality Center, QTP, LoadRunner and VBA Development for department.

APPLICANTS SKILLSETS SUMMARY:

• Test Management, Test Planning, Test Lead, Tester, Testing Trainer
• Support/Enhancement Pack & New Module Planning, Testing & Production Implementation
• Change Control (Change Management, Approval, Testing & Production Implementation)
• Disaster Recovery Planning & Testing
• Web, Web Services & Mobile Testing (IOS & Android)
• HP ALM Tools Installation, Upgrade, Administration, Training (Quality Center, QTP, UFT, LoadRunner)
• HP ALM Quality Center Customization including OTA Interface Development)
• Excel VBA Programming Customization
• Software Development & Server Administrator Background

TECHNICAL & TOOL SKILLS:

• HP ALM Quality Center v8-v12 15 Administration, Requirements, Tests, Test Execution, Defect Tracking
• HP ALM Dashboard 10 Testing Status, Test Validation, Defect & Custom Reporting
• HP Upgrades 10 2016 conversion of Confidential from Quality Center 9, 11 and 12
• Quality Center Interfaces 10 Requirements, VSS, OTA
• Visual Studio 2015 & Eclipse 5 HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Android & IOS
• MTM, TFS 1
• Sprinter, Quick Test Pro & UFT 4 Auto Testing Tools
• LoadRunner 3 Maximum load & transaction thru put, compliance testing
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST 8 Current Web Development Skillsets
• JQuery, PHP, SQL, jsfiddle 8 MS-SQL, Oracle, MYSQL & Access
• Server Administration 15 Windows, Linux
• Excel VBA Customization 7 Excel Developer with proven background solving issues with VBA & Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Senior Quality Assurance, Change Control, Tester & Test Tools Developer

Responsibilities:

• Testing, administration, maintenance, custom development and upgrade of the HP, ALM 12, Quality Center Suite Toolset (QTP, UFT, Custom Reporting, Project Reporting & Business View Modules)
• Authoring, Review & Updating of requirements, test cases, procedures or SOP’s
• Designing test plans, scenarios, test scripts
• Testing of Test/QA Applications.
• Co-coordination of testing changes made to SAP Applications. (FI,FM,CO,SRM,MM,PR,ESS,Payroll,Time,LSO,BW,BO,IHUB,TUBS)
• Test authoring and user training as it pertains to HP ALM Quality Center
• Test Management or Test Lead Duties as assigned for SAP & Non SAP Applications
• Managing the approval process for changes to SAP Environments. (Dev. Quality, Production)
• Scheduling of non-transportable changes with Basis, Security & Functional Teams.
• Scheduling, application and verification testing of transportable changes to all environments.
• Managing the weekly change and functional testing processes, which are executed on weekends.
• Documenting software defects, and with the use of HP Quality Center reporting those defects to developers.
• Creating or maintaining databases of known test defects.
• Conducting regular, group, defect, status meetings as required.
• Updating and monitoring defect resolution efforts and tracking status.
• Regular reporting of defect status to management used for input to go live decisions.
• Authoring and reviewing Test/QA Documentation (SOP and Procedural).
• Providing oversight of software installation and configuration.
• Testing, administration, maintenance, custom development and upgrade of the HP, ALM, Quality Center Suite Toolset
• Authoring and maintenance of departments project plans and checklists.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Automated & Load Test Consultant & Developer

Responsibilities:

• Primary Duties centered on Analyzing Manual Tests & then Automated GUI & Stress Testing using IBM and HP Toolsets of the Navy’s new, supply management system.

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Automated Test Consultant & Developer

Responsibilities:

• Test Management previous to my arrival had purchased the MicroFocus Testing Toolset and had turned over implementation of the tools to an offshore development firm.
• Confidential was dissatisfied with testing progress and hired me to advise, evaluate and if possible get automated testing back on tract.

Confidential, West Chester, PA

Automated Test Consultant & Developer

Responsibilities:

• Hired to analyze Confidential ’s Nationwide Dispatch Software & write demonstration, automated, HP Quick Test Pro Scripts to evaluate automated testing feasibility.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Test, Project Manager & Quality Center Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Hired to temporarily replace one of 3 test managers on medical leave and train new QC Employee on administration of HP ALM Quality Center.

Confidential, Wilkes Barre, PA

Automated Test & Load Consultant/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Primary duties revolved around mentoring Postal Developers on Automated and Load Testing in preparation for implementation of a new payment gateway for Confidential .com.
• Over the term of the contract we developed over 400 automated tests that ran twice weekly to test functionality of Development and Quality Environments.
• When Production Servers for the new gateway became available multiple load tests were run by myself to verify contract compliance and max transaction load ability of the gateway.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Windows Test Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included all configuration & software maintenance of Eclipse Test Environments comprised of over 30 servers servicing Development, Quality and Hot Fix Configurations.