SUMMARY:

• Software Quality Assurance person with 20+ years’ experience in the fields of software and business quality management.
• Used to working in fast - paced environments with little supervision and producing consistent results. Defining and implementing Confidential processes a specialty.
• I have 20 years’ experience in software Confidential and testing.
• I've worked in multiple industries and across multiple platforms for many different companies.
• Test Planning
• Documenting the Test Plan
• Breaking down the requirements
• Tracking test cases to requirements
• Executing test cases -
• User Interface - 15+ years
• Database - 15+ years
• Web services - 10+ years
• API’s - 7+ years
• Test Automation - 4 years
• Batch/ETL components - 4+ years
• Agile environments - 10+ years
• Reporting and logging results and defects
• Retesting defects when they were resolved
• Reporting metrics to management
• Very SQL proficient (MS SQL, Oracle and Sybase)
• Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, B2B EDI, XML, TFS, JIRA, Hudson, ClearQuest, Bugzilla, Selenium etc.
• I also have experience leading small Confidential teams of 3 - 7 in number in agile environments. I am very SQL proficient and am used to being in databases (MS SQL, Oracle and Sybase) as well as GUI testing. I have been involved in several database migration projects as well as service bus projects.
• I have web scripting experience with Selenium and AutoHotKey. I've used automation although am not the framework setup person.

SKILLS:

• Software Quality Management
• ISO9000
• Quality Assurance
• MS Office
• Configuration Management
• Software Testing
• Rational Test Suit

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Maple Grove, MN

Responsibilities:

• Senior Confidential Analyst for an agriculture insurance project.
• Web based external facing application in a very agile environment.
• Manual testing of web applications. Very short contract.
• Microsoft products, TFS used for sprint planning and defect management.

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, St.Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• Senior Confidential Analyst for a human resources project.
• Web based internal facing application in an agile environment.
• Mix of manual and automated testing with Selenium.
• Very short contract. Java and HTML5, Selenium, Agile.

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, MN

Responsibilities:

• Senior Confidential Analyst for a customer loyalty rewards program vendor.
• Web based direct client facing application in an agile environment.
• Very short contract. dotNet and HTML.

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, River Falls, WI

Responsibilities:

• Senior Confidential Analyst for internal, proprietary language translation software systems.
• Agile-like environment with a small team of three QAs and six developers.
• Responsible for writing and maintaining Test Plans based on stories (and sprints) and test results in Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Also performed as an ISO 9001 auditor for internal audits.
• TFS, dotNet and HTML, Selenium, Agile.

Lead Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Lead Analyst for the national bone marrow registry.
• Helping patients find donors for transplants.
• Testing in an agile environment.
• Many intertwined system using a service bus for transactions in a healthcare environment.
• B2B components with importing EMDIS FML and 1003 file formats.
• Confidential Lead of 3 - 6 other Confidential Analysts.
• Also performing testing activities.
• Oracle, Sybase and MS SQL Server environment, very data and validation intensive.
• Java, TFS, JIRA, B2B, Selenium, ESB, EDI, Agile.

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Advertising and PR Services
• Senior Quality Assurance Analyst for an Advertising and Marketing Agencies Customer Loyalty & Reward programs.
• Major clients include Airlines, Banks and International Hotel chains.
• Main focus on email communications and website testing of client communications.
• Writing Test Plans against Requirements, Data Briefs and Campaign Specifications, coordinating the testing of others.

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Responsibilities:

• Member of a central Confidential group which last later embedded within each development team.
• Very data-validation intensive with later testing of e-commerce sites.
• Software Testing Lead for in-house projects. o Financial Systems o e-commerce Systems (Customer facing website)
• Financial Systems - Wrote Test Plans, Test Traceability Matrix and Test Cases for testing the AR/AP and Profit system.
• High degree of accuracy required. SQL Server validation and use of IBM Rational Robot automated testing.
• Performed same duties for a customer facing web based site (dot NET ASPX) where customers could log on and track their shipments.
• SQL Server and test automation of websites.
• SQL, EDI, Rational Robot, iMacros, B2B, Agile.

Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Plan test activities for project based on use case requirements.
• Test team lead on project with extremely short deadline.
• Write master test strategy for project.
• Plan, define, write, and execute test cases. Perform all data validation on a DB2 to Oracle database project.
• Selection of test data from mainframe source.
• Track all defects using Rational ClearQuest.
• SQL, Oracle PL/SQL

Quality Control Analyst / Test Team Lead

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Planned test activities for project.
• Rollout strategy was many, smaller iterations with short lead-times.
• Defined new department test documentation structure.
• Key player in organizing rollout and training.
• Liaised with business analyst and development team leads to ensure adequate test coverage.
• Coordinated several testers.
• Responsible for work allocation, result tracking and progress reporting.
• Wrote project's Master Test Plan. Defined and executed test cases.

Process Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Defined, documented, and supported implementation of SEI CMM compliant quality assurance processes across multiple development teams.
• Processes developed mapped to the Rational Unified Process requirements.
• Scope included process modeling, requirements management, use-case development, test case development, and test case execution and tracking.
• Monitored processes using integrated test execution and management tools (Rational Suite).

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Effectively used management and organizational skills to supervise and perform Confidential activities on four to five projects simultaneously.
• Monitored progress for three project managers.