Owner-Operator Resume

SUMMARY

Background My 20 - year background in Software Development/Quality Assurance and in Confidential as a Registered Nurse, has given me a unique perspective into the challenges and intricacies of two demanding fields.
Approximately two decades of Software Development/Quality Assurance experience; with a focus on the fields of Confidential and Microprocessor design.
Extensive SQA Automation tools experience; both with formal tools such as SilkTest and Rational, and with home-grown test harnesses written in Python and other scripting languages.
Confidential as a Registered Nurse (RN) and Software Development in regards to developing and evaluating Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Owner-Operator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Ran and operated a small Software Development/Quality Assurance firm.
Projects included: VoIP call center for local Confidential clinic, LDAP/Identity Management system integration and deployment, Mobile patient management applications.
Designed and developed automation framework to effectively exercise Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile applications via an emulated environment.
Refactored, redesigned, and implemented comprehensive Quality Assurance metric tracking system to more effectively communicate show-stopping issues to clients.
Worked to integrate bug-tracking database into extranet to allow client observation of SQA engineer progress and track SDLC milestones.

Owner-Operator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Ran and operated a small Software Development/Quality Assurance firm
Primary projects included: durable medical equipment, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), and practice management software.
Worked with technical staff to effectively design manual and automated test cases to fully exercise client products.
Interview, hire, supervise, motivate, evaluate, and train staff.
Ran the daily operations of the company, including: analysis, sales, social media, SEO, marketing, and client relations.
Coordinate all events of the Company to promote services and showcase past experience to attract clients.

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Developed test requirements, test plans, and automated test suites for backend systems such as SMTP, RADIUS, and LDAP servers utilizing Python and SQL.
Worked with key stakeholders to formalize software test practices and software code reviews.
Mentored junior Quality Assurance Engineers on test techniques, reporting, and analysis.
Primary business owner for bug scrubs and code reviews on key project deliverables.
UAT/User Acceptance testing
Test plan authoring/execution
Bug scrub/auditing
CVS/CVN release management Associations
American Association for Men in Nursing (AAMN) Member
American Nurses Association (ANA)
Phi Theta Kappa
RedHat Technology Partner Volunteer Work
CentOS Virtualization SIG
Debian Linux QA Steering Committee

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Catalina Marketing

Responsibilities:

Collaborated with Marketing Directors to find techniques that might further business growth, including Web Product enhancement that drove a 45% increase in visitor traffic growth, month-to-month.
Created web testing automation library containing well over 200 functions to ensure high-quality deliverables and shorten test development time.

Quality Assurance Enginer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Worked with management to implement a test-driven development process to bring Quality Assurance to the front-end of the development cycle for measurable gains in: software quality, functionality, and end-user productivity.
Discovered deep-seated billing regression error in deployed software that, if undiscovered, would have erroneously charged clients monthly.
Created and executed automated and manual software quality assurance test plans, cases, and scripts.