PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential has over 25 years of experience transforming teams and organizations through profitable and efficient business models using lean agile approaches, better analysis and design, continuous integration and delivery, solid ROI and just simply better products through better testing. By implementing “shift left” testing approaches that fit in any governance model, bugs are found faster and therefore: every research firm agrees the faster we find bugs, the cheaper it is to fix them.
• Confidential provides total solutions for products, software and services in harmony with vendor partnerships and relationships, current in - house teams, augmenting or creating teams or as a team of one. Confidential is a complete one-stop shop, from answering RFP’s to ensure your requirements are understood before engagement, addressing any foreseen risk and ensuring on-time delivery of solutions and services all the way to exceeding ROI.
• Confidential can bring testing into your project governance model in any flavor.
• From lean agile, scrum, waterfall, hybrids with over 27 years of experience implementing solid testing strategies can, and will, help organizations find defects faster and save time and money.
• Collaboration is the key to success in any model and Confidential has the experience to make it happen.
• Extensive lean, agile, scrum, extreme programming and waterfall experience
• Can create a best fit solution in any environment with the least amount of pain possible to promote collaboration
• Extensive expert experience in creating formal curriculum, training materials and conducting formal classroom with lab training classes
• Highly skilled at mentoring “on the job” training during real project work
• Evangelist for, advocate and engineer of DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Shift-Left testing, utilizing sub GUI automation and virtualization technology to decrease defects and time to market
• Designed CA-Librarian mainframe to RTC migration, which was one of the largest and most successful in the world at Confidential, ZA
• Extensive experience implementing Team Concert, Requirements Composer, Quality Manager
• Allowing teams to communication, collaborate
• Allowing complete transparency and traceability from requirements, design, software, test assets and defects
• Allow executives and project sponsors 100% traceability of project status via work item progress, dashboards and data warehouse reporting
• Expert since tool inception and one reason for invitation to Confidential Rational Business Partnership program
• Expert in SOA testing
• Expert in Java/Eclipse and .Net/MSVB (.Net only exists for RFT), which allow complete transformation of client’s automation and performance testing abilities that seamlessly flow with ALM solutions
• Over 15 years of experience, including predecessors Robot, RobotJ and Rational XDE
• Sub GUI automation and integration testing and service virtualization
• Automation and Performance Architect and Development and Software Development in Test: Expert in creating test frameworks, Test Driven Development, unit testing, API testing, integration testing, automated testing and performance testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Java/JUnit
• .Net/NUnit/TestNG
• Selenium IDE/RC/Grid/Web Driver
• Expert in creating architecture/frameworks from scratch
• Increased logging and reporting capabilities
• Seamless error handling and self healing, while maintaining test directives
• JMeter (extended with Java)
• SoapUI/LoadUI including groovy scripting
• Loadrunner (HTTP/SOA/DB) and QTP
• SilkTest and SilkPerformer
• TestComplete
• Hacker/newbie in Middleware development
• Confidential MQ
• Confidential IIB
• Mainframe development including Confidential systems programming and software installations
• Confidential Rational Test Workbench, SeeTest, Perfecto Mobile
• Cucumber - jvm
• Evangelist and engineer in application profiling, especially prior to any system performance testing
• McCabe (cyclomatic complexity, test coverage analysis, application profiling)
• JProfile, JProbe
• Current Mac VMWare Fusion images
• Solaris 11 64 bit
• Ubuntu 14.04 64
• CentOS 7 64, MariaDB
• Rasperry Pi
• Raspbmc, Raspbian

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

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Hybrid Cloud Testing Technical Sales Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural analysis and planning in order to provide complete solutions of process and products.
• Provide product knowledge to clients in the pre and post sales cycle.
• Provide demo’s, POT’s, POC’s for Confidential Rational’s testing products. Support Functional (Rational Functional Tester), Performance (Rational Performance Tester), sub GUI/integration testing and service virtualization (Rational Integration Tester/Greenhat). Completed Confidential ’s Global Sales School with exceptional scores.

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Test Architect and Account Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed client accounts. Analyzed architecture and designed automation solutions adhering to state of the art engineering practices for GUI, sub GUI/integration testing and service virtualization using Confidential ’s Rational Integration Tester (Greenhat).

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CLM/ALM Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided CLM/ALM and continuous integration and delivery solutions with Confidential ’s Jazz CLM (Rational Team Concert, Rational Requirements composer, Rational Quality Manager).
• Provided integration for performance and automation tooling solutions into QM in order to create an iterative continuous integration solution.
• Provided answers and bids to RFP’s, timelines and budgets for performance services for multiple projects. Served as the expert and SME for performance testing by providing analysis, solutions, software, tooling, execution and reporting for mobile, mainframe, web services, TCP/IP, MQ, Message Broker and web applications.
• Served as SME, admin as well as implemented a tooling solution of Rational Performance Tester, Rational Integration Tester, JMeter. Investigated an open source web interface mainframe terminal in order to implement JMeter for mainframe testing.
• Provided answers and bids to RFP’s, timelines and budgets for automation and testing services for multiple projects.
• Designed virtualization solutions for web services, MQ, Message Broker and TCP/IP. Served as the expert and SME for automation and testing by providing analysis, solutions, software, tooling, execution and reporting for mobile, mainframe, web services, TCP/IP, MQ, Message Broker and web applications. Served as SME, admin as well as implemented a tooling solution of Rational Functional Tester, Rational Integration Tester, Selenium Web Driver, Java/JUnit (TDD), Cucumber - jvm (BDD).

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Test Tools Consultant, SQA Program Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Formal training classes, documentation and usage models for these tools as well as Java, JUnit, Selenium Webdriver combined with test methodology, including OO design concepts in automation, test driven development, were given to pollinate the teams and ensure long term project success.
• Created a design to migrate mainframe SCM models from CA-Librarian to Confidential ’s Rational Team Concert while improving functionality, ease of use and simultaneously improving reliability.
• Created and maintained full lifecycle projects utilizing Rational Team Concert, Rational Requirements Composer and Rational Quality Manager in order to manage projects and provide complete traceability. Tweaked CLM templates to suit user needs. Created training materials, conducting training classes and demos in order to reduce learning curve and increase productivity.
• Supported new projects throughout the whole lifecycle from project planning in RTC, requirements, use case and model creation and importing with RRC and RSA with Rational Requirements Composer, test management, artifact creation and execution in RQM and metrics and reporting via data warehouse reporting and CLM dashboards.
• Installed, implemented, supported, created formal training guides and conducted formal classes for Rational Functional Tester, Rational Service Tester, Rational Performance Tester, Java, Selenium Webdriver, test driven development and JUnit. Provided mobile testing and automation solutions.
• Provided guidance, training and leadership for pilot projects chosen to showcase CLM and test tool implementations by mentoring and managing the Confidential test organization. The newly implemented tool sets provided the perfect opportunity to transform people and testing into collaborative, leading edge technology testing COE’s.
• Created user guides for and trained staff in functional, automation and performance strategy as well as for Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester and Rational Service Tester while integrating with Rational Quality Manager as well as CLM as a whole.

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SQA Program Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared project statistics and reported in 3 weekly status meetings to bank executives and project sponsors.
• Coached and managed staff of tests managers, testers, developers, and analysts to ensure project success. Streamlined and organized team structures and communication to enhance resource utilization, thus providing faster delivery with higher quality. Filled SDLC process gaps and implemented a complete SDLC approach with processes from daily SCRUM and defect meetings to overall project management, reporting and tool infrastructure. Created and implemented test management and execution approach, defect management, issue tracking, metrics reporting.
• Implemented and managed automation and performance testing strategies for different groups with multiple toolsets including: Quicktest Pro, Loadrunner, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester as well as Selenium RC 2, JUnit, Java with Eclipse. Implemented an automation and performance SOA test strategy with Rational Service and Performance Tester.
• Created a budget analysis tool in Java to extract live data from Confidential s time management system and database to forecast efforts based on historical data, forming an accurate and automated bottom up budget approach to justify top down estimates.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created automation architecture and implemented TestComplete with Javascript on COTS applications.

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

Automation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed on and offshore resources including a Ukrainian offshore team to design and implement a successful automation strategy.
• Analyzed HTML and JavaScript front end web pages, java struts and hibernate XML with firebug, httpFox in order to create an automation and performance solution to compare front end data with the backend Oracle databases using Selenium RC 1.0, Eclipse, Java 1.6, Junit 4, JDBC.
• Implemented performance strategy with JMeter. Implemented Subversion source controls as well as Maven build and continuous integration configurations.