SUMMARY

An accomplished Project Testing Lead overseeing multiple Agile and Waterfall projects concurrently along with teams of testers through the appropriate Standard Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Possesses strong skills in project leadership and planning, status and metrics reporting, budgeting, resource and capacity planning. Extensive experience in writing Test Plans, Test Cases, and final documentation. Proven ability to manage changing test priorities and meeting deadlines. Successfully completes testing activities on time or ahead of schedule with zero percent fallout in Production. Comprehensive understanding with years of experience in the secondary mortgage market.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• DOORS
• Remedy
• Database Queries SQL
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Oracle and Sybase Databases
• Java
• COBOL Mainframe
• TOAD
• Embarcadero SQL
• OLQ
• TSO
• IDMS
• UNIX
• DMLO
• CICS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Applications Quality Analyst IV

Responsibilities:

• Led the team that supported the testing for the Reperforming Loans project that will reduce the size of Confidential ’s balance sheet.
• Manages team of testers to ensure they are following SDLC policies and standards.
• Collaborates with business stakeholders to represent their testing interests on projects in their area.
• Led the testing for eight projects during this timeframe with zero percent fallout in Production for mainframe, web based applications and windows applications.
• Produces monthly testing metrics by projects in execution to report velocity and test case pass rate.
• Partners with Developers in Technology to resolve identified testing defects.
• Works with automation teams to increase regression test case coverage.
• Provides LOE (Level of Effort) estimates and testing milestones for new projects.
• Trains new contractors and employees on testing protocols and educate them on business functionality of the Acquisition applications.
• Mentors and advises staff on skills needed for testing and career advancement.
• Provides input into yearly employee performance assessments.

Applications Quality Acting Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 15 Testers consisting of full time employees and contractors to support testing for ten projects and multiple integration efforts.
• Represented managerial testing interests for the Acquisitions systems portfolio at project and status meetings.
• Briefed upper management on UAT status on Acquisition projects.
• Realigned resources as needed in order to meet multiple customer testing needs and tight deadlines.
• Continuously reviewed resource allocations to ensure testers worked within budget.
• Conducted contractor interviews and hired personnel for projects needing resources.

Applications Quality Analyst IV

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed testers and/or assisted with Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Cases and final test documentation for assigned projects.
• Provided feedback on requirements and design specification documents provided by Technology and Business areas for completeness and accuracy.
• Coordinated across multiple departments to ensure thorough Functional, Regression and Integration testing have been performed.
• Presented final SDLC UAT test results and metrics to Business area stakeholders and senior management.
• Team lead for the first Agile project in the Acquisitions area.
• Participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Standup meetings and Retrospective meetings.

Applications Quality Acting Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reporting UAT project test status and metrics directly to senior management.
• Performed UAT Test Team Lead functions and assisted with software testing as needed.
• Allocated testers to projects and other testing efforts in order to meet deadlines.

Applications Quality Analyst IV

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ensured SDLC documents and procedures for UAT testing are followed for all projects and Integration efforts.
• Coordinated across departments to ensure thorough Functional, Regression and Integration Testing has been performed.
• Provided project daily status to stakeholders via email.

Applications Quality Analyst III

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan, Test Strategy, test cases, and Test Results Summary Document of final testing results.
• Resolved any inconsistencies in project documentation with Business and Technology developers during status meetings.
• Assigned as the Lead Software Tester on a rotating basis responsible for assigning tasks to team members and executing test activities to meet project deadlines.

Technical Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ensured business requirement artifacts (Use Cases, Screen and Mapping specifications) were created and maintained according to standards in the requirements database repository.
• Worked with Test Teams to review test cases and data, and resolve test execution differences.

Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coded User Interface (UI) screens using Java Server Pages and backend batch JAVA processes.
• Wrote technical data mapping requirements and testing scenarios for all the relationship and party interfaces coming from Legacy systems.