QA Manager Resume Minneapolis, Atlanta - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Expertise in software testing, automated testing suites, White & Black box testing resulting in time and money savings
More than 20 years of comprehensive experience in providing the highest level of Quality Assurance as a contract consultant to companies as well as employed by the State of Minnesota Department of Economic and Employment Development as their QA Manager.
Adept at project management and successfully training Business Analysts without prior QA or testing experience in QA testing and best practices.
Skilled in stepping into role of QA Project Manager when necessary.
Completed test scripts and cases on schedule meeting all deliverable deadlines.
Managed offshore and remote testing resources that met schedules for multiple nationwide clients.
Created all testing aspects for 6 E - commerce websites in French, Canadian French, and English.

SIGNATURE STRENGTHS & TECHNOLOGY:

Strategic Planning Consulting E-commerce Quality Assurance Needs Assessment Team Leadership
Test Case Development & Planning Test Tracking Systems & Reporting Fruition Partners System
Functional, Performance, User Acceptance, Integration, & Regression Testing Web Applications
Agile, Waterfall, & Scrum Methodologies SDLC Microsoft Azure Test Plans HP ALM, HP Sprinter
SaaS ITSM MS Visual Studio Team Fundation Server SQL
HP/Mercury: Quality Center, Test Director, Win-runner, Quick Test Professional
MS Windows MS Publisher MS PowerPoint MS Project PC Anywhere.
Self Learning - Basic/Advanced SQL, Selenium, Python

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, Atlanta

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

Identify and manage testing all testing phases (e.g. State Cloud Testing, State Integration Testing, State UAT, Confidential Enhancements, and Confidential Subsequent Releases
Assist the testing teams and Product Owners in prioritizing bugs
Manage and coordinate retesting & coordinating testing activities with the State's conversion teams

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

Charged with developing and executing test cases and scripts to meet schedule.
Assumed role of QA Project Manager 2 days into engagement.
Trained 3 Business Analysts without prior QA experience in QA testing best practices.

Confidential, Saint Paul, MN

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

Developed and maintained test tracking system reporting status of test results; used Fruition Partners application.
Performed Functional, Performance, User Acceptance, Regression, Black Box, and White Box testing.
Provided extensive training support to the clients.
Directed offshore and remote testing resources that met all schedule deadlines.

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

Senior QA Automation Analyst

Responsibilities:

Mapped manual and automated tests.
Created automated test cases back to requirements using MS Test Manager 2013.
Developed and maintained test tracking systems using MS Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013.
Trained IT team in QA best practices, SOX Compliance, and Software Development Lifecycle.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior QA Automation Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed all testing procedures for 14 websites, including tracking systems using MS Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012/2010.
Mapped manual and automated tests.
Reported test results and entered problems and/or issues into the defect tracking database within MS Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Work Items.

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

Created test plans, procedures, scenarios, cases, and scripts for Confidential.
Mapped manual and automated tests and performed integration and user acceptance testing.
Conducted manual and automation functional and regression testing for Bestbuy.com website from "add to cart" - "checkout."
Interacted with Defect Manager and Development Team to understand defect resolutions.
Coordinated testing efforts with 12-15 other testing groups.
Reported test results and entered problems and issues into the defect tracking database Monitors and updates defect reports as needed including defect report closure via Rational Clear Quest.
Used Automation Tool JIRA, Microsoft TFS 2010 for running scripts against Bestbuy.com website, and backend databases.