SUMMARY:

Over fifteen years experience as a QA Engineer in Software Analysis, Design, Testing, Implementation and Support. I am able to adapt to various SDLC approaches quickly to support any size organization needs. On many occasions I was called “bulldog” for getting the job done in dealing with clients’ issues, stakeholders, and cross team members.

STRENTHS:

Test Planning SDLC Management Load Testing Performance Testing Automation framework Open Source Telecommunications Financial Retail Digital Media Web Services Mobile Technologies Agile Methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Manager, Application Development QA

Confidential, Flushing, NY

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of testers to support enterprise applications and mobile platforms that drive client reservations, Confidential regulation compliance and training
• Implemented test strategies and best practices to help drive development of products. Sprints are getting completed quicker and team is being held accountable for there work.
• Implemented automation framework strategies. Automation test library can be expended with out having to rewrite multiple scripts.

Environment/Tools: TFS Server, MTM, Rest, SOAP, AS400, SQL, SAP, Selenium WebDriver,

Test Automation Lead

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Confidential provides an intelligent match people to products technology for online retailers.
• Responsibilities included but not limited to setting up QA process, hands on testing, hiring resources and managing offshore testing efforts.
• Worked with developers on building QA acceptance criteria with minimal or no documentation.
• Developed automation framework to support daily monitoring of client site critical functions and various build regression checks

Environment/Tools: JIRA, TESTRAIL, Selenium WEBDRIVER (java), TESTNG, Agile Methodologies, MYSQL, MongoDB, Mixpanel Analytics, Revive Server

Senior Test Consultant

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and converted large data set of files from non readable format into excel format for data mapping testing
• Interpreted technical log errors for UAT business team to help identify between application code errors and data specific errors

Environment: /Tools: QTP/UFT, Oracle, MYSQL, VMware, HP Quality Center

Senior Tester

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Responsibilities:

• Practiced Agile SDLC approach to meet quick deadlines for testing multiple releases
• Automated (cut testing time) browser tests with open source tools with object oriented programming techniques in .net framework

Environment/Tools: Visual Studio Test Suite, Selenium RC, SOAP UI Web Services

Senior Tester

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Responsibilities:

• Used Selenium RC to drive some of our manual testing requirements. Saved 30 minutes of testing time every time script executed
• Helped improve stability of deployed applications by designing/benchmarking/running load testing.

Environment: /Tools: Mainframe, MySQL, LoadRunner, HP Quality Center

QA Lead/Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Set up QA process, test plans with agile/scrum methodologies approach.
• Testing product upgrades with offshore development team for US and overseas market clients.
• Uploading/testing of multiple video and image formats.
• Improved testing environment by establishing virtual lab machines for testing multiple platform requirements.
• Recognized by Development team for turning out critical defects quicker during 4 week sprints.

Environment: VMware, MySQL,

QA Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Setup automated smoke test scripts with open source tools (selenium RC) to improve test coverage during build cycles
• Increased response time of video content display by creating performance benchmarks and running various load tests
• Successfully released on average 8 critical business driven releases a year on time.
• Was a part of the development team praised for increasing unique user traffic month after month two years in a row

Environment: /Tools: IBM Rational ClearQuest, TFS, Selenium RC, Visual Studio Test Suite

Senior QA Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Lead testing effort for back office Admission Services components of the application.
• I wrote complex SQL queries to access multiple database servers, applying extracted test data for functional tests. During our software development life cycles (SDLC) heavily used agile methodologies.
• Prepared automation scripts using QTP HP tools.
• Responsible for successful production release or holding back releases
• Created unique automation QTP scripts which helped cut our testing of multi - servers by 50 percent during production night releases.
• Heavily used Data Driven tests with automation scripts to maximize test coverage.

Environment/Tools: QTP

QA Lead

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Chief QA support for e-business financial self filing application.
• Organized and trained testers for various components of the application.
• Developed test plans and test scripts for all new and maintenance releases of the application.
• Heavily used database SQL to test data driven application Market Share components for multiple sales manager reports
• Launched successfully some high profile projects like Market Share for Sales Managers worldwide to help drive the sales market.

Test Lead

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Leading small testing team to test and release a highly visible financial product.
• Managed test plans, scripts, and reviewed release with cross platform stakeholders.
• Providing support of testing various system test components and coordinated user acceptance testing activities.
• Completed testing execution, fix and deploy in two month. Met and exceeded division goals of three month time frame.

Environment: Weblogic, iPlanet, Oracle9i, MQ Series, IBM (ACAPS), Win NT, Win 2000, Site Minder.

Test Lead

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• International advertising, marketing and public relations agency
• Established QA process and developed test plan documentation for multiple IBM marketing sites.
• Provided training on SDLC process to testers and other business stake holders on the project.
• Developed training slides on QA best practices.
• Excelled in Content Management Systems tools implementation and testing.

Environment: 3 tier architecture utilizing IBM HTTP Server, Web-Sphere & DB2.

Lead Quality Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Led assigned web design projects from inception to production.
• Mentored and trained testers on the project.
• Worked with multiple cross teams to plan and design test plans.
• Wrote and executed test scripts with limited specifications from the client.
• Load and Volume tested simulating multiple users at a given time using in-house load testing tool HTTP.
• Excelled in leading and providing test guidance to multiple testers on the project.
• Praised by managers for completing multiple projects in to production during crunch time.

Lead Testing Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Telecommunications giant entering long distance market to be approved by federal regulators
• Coordinated and tested a complicated Order-Entry system which used back office EDI and EFI language formats.
• Performed various data extraction tasks in SQL generate complex use case scenarios.
• Accessed Unix platform scripts using VI Editor to edit and run scripts
• Excelled in leading own complicated test projects.