SUMMARY:

Senior quality assurance professional with twenty years of experience.

QUALITY ASSURANCE SKILLS:

SKILLS INVENTORY: MS SQL 2008, MS SQL 2012, MS Win 7, MS WIN 8, MS WIN10, MS Server 2008, MS Server 2012, MS Server 2016, MS - Word, MS-Excel, MS-Powerpoint, MS-Access SQL/DS, Oracle, Eclipse 4.3.1, Java SE JRE7.2,JDK 8 MS Visual Studio 2012, Selenium, SAHI-PRO, SQL/DS, Oracle, Sybase, IBM mainframe, DEC Alpha, PC Desktop/Workstation, IBM RS 6000, HP3000.

JIRA: Administration, Test Cases Capture, Agile, Task /Bug management, Zephyr tests and cycle management.

IDE scripting including Selenium, SAHI: PRO, Frog-logic Squish, IBM rational robot and Oracle E-Test Suite. Able to plan a scripting effort for automation engineers.

Managed automation engineering teams: Rational SQA Robot, E-Tester and PVCM

APPLICATIONS: Purchasing, MRP, HR/Payroll,, Sales Analysis & Reporting, ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), ERP, Development life cycle, SQL Stored Procedures, Black Box Tester, Information Center, Server, Billing/Invoicing Inventory Management, AP/AR/GL

Change management, E: Commerce, Decision Support, Client Server, SAAS (Software as a Service), Data Modeling, Workflow processes, VMWare Virtual Machines, VSphere virtual machine management

Managed automation engineering teams: Rational SQA Robot, E-Tester and PVCM

IDE scripting including SahiPro, Frog: logic Squish, IBM rational robot and Oracle E-Test Suite. Do have great familiarity with where and when to place debug breakpoints and examination techniques. Plan a scripting effort for automation engineers.

Other: Rational Rose Suite (Now IBM) Rational Rose for C++, ROBOT, Clear Case, Clear Quest

JIRA Administration including: JIRA CAPTURE, Test Case Creation and Zephyr test execution and tracking, Agile board, Burn-down

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Technical Leadership
• Managed quality assurance certification for production releases
• Lead concurrent testing teams
• Direct testing assistance to development groups (cooperative testing)
• Expert manual testing high risk complex bugs/enhancements
• Managed the bug tracker
• Test Planning
• Test planning analysis
• Risk analysis
• Test plan production
• Test case development
• Test plan implementation across multiple test groups
• Test Metrics
• Testing functional testing to include
• Regression
• Integration
• New Feature
• Certification
• Hotfix (emergency fix)
• Database
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008,2012,2016 advanced SQL
• Automation

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility for overall testing for the VSA Product Suite
• Gatekeeper for full product release and for all production patch releases.
• Performed production testing releases for the SAAS (software as a service) VSA releases.
• Responsible for product education and test techniques for junior SQE staff.
• Performed highly complex testing in conjunction with Development Staff.
• Managed testing efforts through Scrum, Jira and Agile
• Maintained all test machines and environments on VSphere ESX box servers to include: Win7, Win8, Win10, Server 2008, Server 2012 and Sever 2016.
• Performed special projects as directed by the QA Lead and / or Director of Quality Assurance

Confidential

External Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility for all quality control for the Confidential offerings
• Created test plans and implementation for the BODI employee monitoring suite
• Preparation and testing of the BODI suite
• Smoke tests
• Pre Release Certification
• RC finalization
• Release delivery
• Patch testing and certification

Confidential

External Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility quality assurance for all quality control certification for release of product
• Automation scripting of smoke tests and regression suite using SAHI-PRO and Selenium
• Pre Release Certification
• Bug Tracking through Jira and Jira Capture
• Sprint management using Agile sprints though Atlassian/Jira
• Code Review Principal
• GIT source Control
• Tree Viewer update from GIT to Atlassian Stash repository

Confidential

Principal QA Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility quality assurance for all quality control certification for release of product
• Technical interface with development teams and developers on coding issues
• Backup to the Director of Quality Assurance
• Bug Tracker management
• Complex mission critical manual testing

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• All quality assurance for Confidential in start-up mode
• Testing of prototype development
• Testing of Alpha testing
• Testing and confirmation of Beta Testing results
• Coordination of all efforts with VP Engineering

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead Certification of all production and maintenance releases
• Tracking through Rational Clear Case
• Managed Automated Script consultants Rational Robot
• Backup to Director of Quality Assurance

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• All quality assurance for this start up
• Responsible for certification of all customer releases
• Managed Automated Scripting using E-Test Suite

Confidential

Software QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 14 testers
• Managed the automation of regression testing using Rational Robot
• Responsible for all certification of production releases