QA Data Manager Resume Alpharetta, GA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Manager with a drive to implement strategies that transform data into actionable business insights.
Leads and grows teams to establish them as a center of excellence through and mentoring with an emphasis on quality and process optimization.
Built a competent team from square one and successfully delivered quality products.
Managed and mentored up to 31 on - shore and off-shore technical resources.
Guided the team through the transition from one company to another and adapt to new tools, policies, and procedures.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Modeling Tools: Power BI, Tableau, Visio, R-Studio, Rapid Miner, MYSQL workbench

Databases: SQL Server, MS Access, Teradata.

Tools: Quick Test Pro, Selenium IDE, ALM, SharePoint, MTM, TFS.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, JSP, ASP, Java Script, VB Script.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

QA Data Manager

Responsibilities:

Drives quality testing of the database changes for the Confidential OneSpace global tax document management and collaboration program on behalf of a multinational information technology consulting company.
Guides a team of five Quality Assurance testers for achieving timely sign off during UAT by working closely with clients throughout the SDLC.
Develops resource plans based on priorities, prepares master test plans, and obtains e-signoffs on deliverables.
Liaises with 3rd party vendors to interpret customer demands.
Manages defect resolution by communicating with the team and continuously improves areas including processes, reporting, and KPIs. Participates in project stakeholder and team meetings.
Sets up schedules, gathers and documents test results, and presents dashboard reports to visualize trends in project status during review calls.
Reduced defects being released into production by 60% by implementing changes in QA processes.
Guided the team through the transition from Confidential to Confidential and adapt to Confidential tools, policies, and procedures.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

QA Supervisor (Database Testing)

Responsibilities:

Built a competent team from square one and successfully delivered quality products.
Optimized the quality of database testing by establishing, maintaining, and implementing QA industry test standards, structured testing processes, tools, and best practices.
Enhanced defect resolution by implementing a template for use by non-QA members to capture actionable defect information.
Consulted by the Business Intelligence (BI) team for knowledge in Tableau to recommend insights into an approach to transition from Tableau to Power BI.

QA Supervisor and Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Requested by management to fulfill all recruitment and onboarding responsibilities of new employees: screens, interviews, and hires candidates for positions on the team.
Assumed the role of project manager for the System Integration Testing team in an Agile environment to ensure testing environments were configured and completed for every sprint.
Led workshops to teach developers, testers, and others about Scrum.
Partnered with and trained the Field Auditors on the role of Product Owners Consistently improves the quality of testing (as PO - Product Owner) by working closely with the team to ensure there is a proper understanding of the application from a business perspective.
Improved defect capturing, tracking, and resolution by sharing the process with project stakeholders and by creating a template for use by non-QA members to capture essential defect information.
Created a proof of concept on Selenium to decide if to use Selenium or UFT for automation, Created UFT framework for Automation team to use.

Confidential, Johns Creek, GA

QA Systems Specialist

Responsibilities:

Increased team productivity by leading on the use of pivot tables for data validation testing.
Ensured meeting deadlines and project objectives by emphasizing to the team the need to work extra hours.
Created HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) framework and established an automation team.
Developed new online matrixes and benchmarks of quality standards that brought visibility into current project status which in turn improved the performance of the QA team.
Led the QA of two releases on two strategic projects one of which was recognized by a team by management for exceptional .
Assisted store operations by staff in multiple stores on use of the new inventory tool and customized software solution.