SUMMARY:

Twenty years of experience in software testing, including participating in the establishment, maintenance and documentation of software quality assurance processes. Proven ability of collaborating with development and marketing teams with the goal of developing required functional tests based on use cases and system requirements. Experience in adapting and integrating new tools into the development and testing environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Test Lead

Confidential, Seattle, WA

• Led the quality team in standardization of best practices for the product teams in which they are embedded
• Prototyped and refined development work item workflows with my product team that were picked up and spread company wide
• Inherited three disparate cross - functional teams and through team-building, cross-training, and skills building, created a single team of professional testers
• Utilized mentorship skills to empower other team members to advance their skills and become independent members of the QA team
• Repeatedly entrusted with leading the effort of creating testing infrastructure for existing systems that had little or no testing infrastructure. Some examples are BizTalk, SAP, and an internal royalty manager
• Drove the agile/scrum process for four, historically waterfall centric, teams working on a common project
• In an agile/scrum team created the test plans and test cases. Led the review meetings of tests with the business and customers
• Championed test automation expanding current frameworks, creating new frameworks, and planning the automation efforts
• Created an innovative a new method of supporting and utilizing an automation test framework reducing the time to update tests in the automated framework from weeks to minutes
• Created C# tools that enabled large amounts of data to be edited and managed by subject matter experts

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Seattle, WA

• Operated in an Agile/Scrum test team supporting the need of multiple development teams.
• Tested against wireframes
• Created test matrixes for initial user experiences based on customers IP address, country, and language localization preferences

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Seattle, WA

• Created C# application to parse requirement documents and write data to Excel and SQL
• Worked closely with development in creating requirements, test plans, test cases, and design
• Developed C# console applications to parse MS Word documents and copied relevant data into Excel

Software Engineer

Confidential, Redmond, WA

• Created best practices document on how to for web sessions using PHP for the device
• Directed junior testers on how improve their testing

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Seattle, WA

• Installed and implemented Silk Test and Silk Central Test Manager
• Integrated Issue Tracking between Silk Central Test Manager and Test Track with a Java plug-in
• Developed tools in C# to automatically update test descriptions in Silk from XML documents
• Designed and implemented VBA scripts to transform software requirements in MS Word documents to a format and content ready for import to Borland’s Silk Central Test Manager
• Created reports with Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) and SQL that pulls data from the Silk database

Software Test Automation Engineer

Confidential Seattle, WA

• Scripted HP Quality Center (QC) to constrain user workflow within the tool
• Installed and debugged the testing environment for QC and Quick Test Pro (QTP). Developed the installation process and test system configuration for QC/QTP for the software testing environment
• Designed workflow processes for the software test team used throughout the release cycle.
• Designed automated tests using QTP and originated Scripted tests in QTP
• Worked with representatives from software development and the executive staff to evaluate offerings from three companies to determine which automated test tool was best able to test the product software
• Administered the requirements management database
• Developed original DOORS DXL scripts supporting the needs requirement and test change management for the software engineering and test teams
• Reviewed testing protocols originated by team members for accuracy and completeness of testing requirements
• Developed scripts to parse QA test protocols extracting which requirements were tested; data was used in a 510K FDA test report
• Developed SQL queries to validate test coverage of system requirements, reducing the coverage validation cycle from two or more days to less than two hours
• Normalized tables for the requirements traceability database aimed at ensuring correctness and ease of maintenance

Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential, Seattle, WA

• Performed manual testing of .Net applications used to monitor real-time movement of tumors during radiation therapy using implanted electromagnetic transponders
• Performed regression analysis of code changes to determine scope of testing required to test the code changes
• Wrote testing protocols and test cases to test system requirements in support of a 510k submission to the FDA
• Developed VBScripts to examine values of the registry and contents of files

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

• Filed and tracked bugs through the life cycle of the software release
• Established relationships with developers between multiple groups for researching and resolving bugs

Confidential

Desktop Technician

• Generated and maintained scripts and batch files for automating tasks
• System Administrator in a MS Domain environment

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

• Produced the user manual documentation covering how to run the test tool review submission and how to test hardware products
• Troubleshot and tested automated test scripts and the testing harness
• Configured test environments for testing wireless Ethernet devices

Software Engineer

Confidential, Redmond, WA

• Nurtured client relationships by completing projects with accuracy and under demanding deadlines
• Embraced the requests made by OEMs and Microsoft of the product. By communicating these requests to 3Com, 100% of 3Com’s NIC drivers were shipped with Windows XP
• Researched, designed, and setup a WHQL testing laboratory for both NIC and analog modem testing
• Debugged product, Windows OS, and test tool issues that prevented the product from passing tests, thereby assuring that the certification was completed successfully
• Designed the testing lab and methodologies that resulted in a 50% improvement in test times
• Achieved issue resolution between Microsoft Operating Systems and 3Com’s hardware and drivers
• Worked as a liaison resolving both product and testing issues at WHQL. This resulted in Digitally Signed product being delivered to 3Com’s OEM customers on time