SUMMARY:

• Managing and enabling a team of testers in a matrixed organizational structure.
• Performing unit, smoke, functional, system, UAT, deployment, failover, white/black box, 508 compliance, certification, security, and backend testing.
• Collaborating with project stakeholders to address requirements clarifications, resolve defects, and demo system functionality to end users.
• Analyzing and testing systems employing J2EE, ASP.NET, Unix, IBM Mainframe, SharePoint, Web Services (SOAP, REST), ERP, ETL, EDI (HL7, X12), Message Queues, and Workflow components.
• Developing automated test scripts and frameworks using QTP, HP UFT (GUI and API), SoapUI, Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber (using Node.js), and JUnit.
• Performance testing using Silk Performer, LoadUI, Load Runner.
• Scripting and coding using HTTP, Java, JavaScript, groovy, VBScript, XML, DOM, XPath, XSLT, Unix Shell Scripting, C#, Perl, JCL, REXX, and COBOL.
• Writing, reviewing, and validating complex SQL for backend, data warehouse, and BI Report testing.
• Testing and Programming background on multiple projects following Waterfall, and Continuous Integration (Agile Scrum) methodologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Systems Quality Assurance Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performing functional testing on behalf of the Program Management Office (PMO) on a Veterans Affairs (VA) application.
• Writing and executing test cases for several components including a front end web GUI, backend Oracle database, a Web Service API, and several reports.
• Automating the regression test suite using Rational Functional Tester (RFT).

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Continued on prior project after it was won by a different contractor. Transitioned into Senior Test Engineer role.

Lead Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of testers on a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) contract. The team is matrixed across four work streams. Three of the work streams develop new functionality and employ agile scrum methodology. The fourth work stream maintains existing applications and follows a separate schedule.
• Coordinate testing of releases, production fixes, Confidential upgrades, and environment configurations with the project manager, planner, development leads, and partner application teams.
• Analyze requirements and ensure compliance with Acceptance Criteria defined by the business sponsor.
• Test (functional, integration, and performance) a suite of applications which enable user access (authentication and authorization) to several systems at the enterprise level (SSOi, SSOe, VAAFI, IDM Provisioning, eSig, CAR, MVI)..
• Develop and manage test artifacts using Rational Jazz Suite, SoapUI, LoadUI, Rational Performance Tester, SharePoint, and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ensure test deliverables and processes follow the VA’s Project Management Accountability System ( Confidential ) and ProPath requirements and guidelines.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported development of an integrated electronic health records ( Confidential ) system to provide seamless sharing of electronic health data between Department of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA).
• Performed functional and integration testing of API (Web Services), user interface, and backend components.
• Components under test included a REST based data federator which aggregates patient records from multiple Vista and AHLTA sources. A data transformation layer which generates xml output for seven clinical domains to conform to the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) open standard. A Clinical Translation Service which translates clinical data between various local and national terminologies. A Layer 7 based access control feature. And an Audit and Control component.

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported development of the Project Management Accountability System ( Confidential ) dashboard application for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Information Technology to manage IT projects.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to validate BI Reports against an MS SQL Server database.
• Tested SQL Server stored procedures and triggers.
• Used Axosoft’s OnTime Agile PM Tool (for product backlog and defect tracking), Brosix (Instant Messenger), Microsoft Lync (for online meetings), and Selenium WebDriver (for test automation).

Test Methodology Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed functional end - to-end, automated, 508 compliance, and performance testing on a portfolio of financial, legal, and governance applications at the Confidential
• Tested several platforms and technologies including Desktop (Windows XP, Windows 7), web (ASP, J2EE, Portal, .NET), Citrix Meta Frame, Workflow (BizFlow), Content Management, Document Management (Documentum, SharePoint), and several Confidential (PegaSys, Sun Identity Manager, and Oracle 11g )
• Automated functional and performance scripts using Silk Performer Workbench 2010 and QTP 11.0.

Senior Test Engineer Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed end-to-end testing of system which included a portal web/applet interface, multiple MQ and remote procedure call based legacy interfaces, EDI interfaces, back end (SAP CRM, SAP R3, DB2. Oracle), external systems interfaces, user authentication and authorization (Tivoli Access Manager, Webseal, ITIM, LDAP), Business Objects Reports, ETL (Informatica Powercenter), and Confidential products upgrades.
• Developed and maintained automated scripts using QuickTest Pro (QTP) for use in failover and regression testing and for facilitating data preparation needs of the test team.
• Tools and platforms included DB2, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, WebSphere MQ Administrator, SAP (CRM & R/3), Putty, DbVisualizer 6.0.7, MS Excel 2003, Mainframe (CICS, ISPF, JCL, SPUFI), and UNIX.

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• System tested and facilitated User Acceptance Testing of customizations to PeopleSoft General Ledger and Asset Management modules.
• Automated the user security test suite. Developed the automation framework and enhanced recorded scripts using parameterization, and descriptive programming (used QTP in concert with QC).

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tested a Confidential application for sourcing mortgage loans.
• Analyzed use cases and change requests.
• Wrote and executed test cases for front and back-end components of the application.
• Used Rational TestManager and ClearQuest, DB2 UDB, SQL Plus 8.0, IMS database, ISPF, JCL, Jobtrac Scheduler, SAS, WebMethods, and UNIX.

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported system, integration, and deployment test efforts for a large systems modernization effort at the Internal Revenue Service ( Confidential ).
• Supported Confidential SIT and Deployment testing.
• Tested a complex mainframe based transaction processing system involving XML formatted events passing through initial edits and over 1000 business rules before posting to database.
• Rational TestManager, Rational RequisitePro, Rational ClearQuest, Windows NT, IBM OS/390, File aid, DB2, JCL, MQSeries, CICS, REXX, and XML.

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in developing and facilitating execution of a User Acceptance Test (UAT) Plan for an internet domain registry system consisting of a web front-end with an XML interface to a central database (Oracle) with triggers feeding downstream Billing (PeopleSoft 7.5), Bulk Data Extracts, Domain Name Services ( Confidential ), WHOIS, and a CRM tool (Siebel). Performed gap analysis and presented results to the client.
• Performed gap analysis of system test team’s test suite/scope against stakeholder’s requirements and presented recommendations to senior management team.

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented test strategy, test plan, and test cases for a Confidential compliant web-based lab results ordering and reporting system with an external HL7 EDI Interface.
• Managed team of three testers as interim Test Manager. Reported to Vice President of the company.

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented test strategy, test plan, and test cases for a Confidential compliant web-based lab results ordering and reporting system with an external HL7 EDI Interface.