SUMMARY:

Active involvement in an organization offering the opportunity to use my 10+ years of QA software testing experience in a software testing or support environment.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Tested a fairly large configurable application for the Confidential and Regulatory Affairs for the Confidential .
• Testing involved a large number of pages for the registration of corporate entities in the Confidential and consisted of manual, black - box testing of component functionality, user interfaces, back office configurations, and online corporate registrations and reports.
• Written requirements were initially “sketchy” and/or non-existent, so did quite a bit of collaboration with development, the architect and program manager to ferret these out.
• Used TFS in Visual Studio 2010 for creating user stories (from requirements), tasks, test cases, writing and tracking defects.
• Simple database queries using SQL 2008 were used to verify the correctness of data written to it.
• Participated in weekly scrums.
• Provided to Project Management defect status reports weekly.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Tested a survey web application that required the creation and updating of 11 different forms.
• For these forms, testing was based off of general and specific Process Instructions that were the requirements for the application.
• Usability, functional, content testing, field range validation, negative scenarios, and ease of navigation were some of the testing done.
• Simple database queries using SQL 2005 were used to verify the correctness of data written to it.
• Testing also involved the exporting of data from the database to an Excel spreadsheet for distribution to Confidential ’s client.
• Used the tool Bugzilla for defect tracking.

Confidential, Morrisville, NC

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Continued as a temporary and then full-time employee with Confidential testing mobile content solutions for wireless phones.
• Tested Portal software on wireless phones for various carriers whereby users had access to such information as News, Theatres, Stock Markets, Social Networks, etc.
• Wrote and executed functional test strategy plans, test scenarios and test scripts for assigned functional areas of the storefronts.
• Participated in UX design and test plan reviews.
• As a QA Test Engineer I performed Functional, Device, Smoke and Regression testing.
• Wrote test cases and executed them using Compuware’s QA Director.
• Wrote and tracked defects with the tracking tool Bugzilla.
• Later, used Mercury Quality Center to write test cases and to execute them as well as write and track defects.
• Participated in a major testing of the storefronts when migrated from Confidential ’s Fuel platform to Confidential ’s Mcore platform.
• Used VSTS 2010 TFS for creating and associating user stories, tasks, test cases and defect tracking for the storefronts and a QA internal project.
• Participated in Sprints and Scrums for QA test projects and for our commercial storefronts.
• Used VSTS 2010 MTM for writing and executing manual test cases.
• Did some QA testing on an enhanced Content Management System that allowed content administrators to input content from content providers.
• Wrote simple SQL scripts to aide in testing when needed.
• Used SQL Server 2005 and MS Access.

Confidential, Morrisville, NC

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tested software that supports the provisioning of content to mobile devices via WAP browsers, and WEB storefronts that are an integral part of the content storefronts for those devices.
• Executed manual test cases using spreadsheets and for defect tracking, Bugzilla.

Confidential, Durham, NC

Web Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and tested software for internal Rolodex, Bookmark, Weblog, Message Board and Auction Site web applications.
• Helped to write software for a Donor Management System for a North Carolina state agency.
• Applications were developed using skills in classic ASP, SQL, Stored Procedures, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and VB Script.
• Performed Unit, Integration, System, and Regression tests of the applications.

Confidential, Morrisville, NC

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Set up and configured equipment for recreates of customer problems and provided answers to customer configuration questions and fixes for field problems.
• Responsible for library updates, development of code fixes, and testing.
• Configuration protocols included OSPF, IP, PPP, FR, X25 transport, ISDN, Ethernet, and Token Ring.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Remediation Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Researched third party vendor apps for Confidential compliance.
• Analyzed test cases for required Confidential compliancy and created formal Confidential docs for Confidential Project Management Office.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and wrote test cases for fault isolation of the data link control hardware part of the product to be tested.
• Wrote a test strategy for the software testing of a new peripheral in the DMS family of voice and data switches.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and wrote test plans for doing Confidential testing on the 2216 family of routers.
• Responsible for product verification testing of the PRI Confidential function on the 2216 routers.
• Participated as part of a team doing system verification testing on a network made up of the Confidential family of networking products.