SUMMARY:

• A resourceful, versatile, and tenacious software tester who’s experience includes creating (mapping) testplans from technical specifications; implementing and performing manual and automated tests; gathering and evaluating the results; and recording and tracking defects.
• Obstacles are approached with creativity and a perspective that there are commonalities in applications, tools, languages, operating systems and/or environments.
• Fifteen plus years experience in Software Testing.
• Technical contact for, managed, and used IBM/Rational Robot extensively (~ 9 years).
• Managed and used WinRunner extensively (4 years).
• Test environment included Java, .NET Framework, and web based software.
• Tested C and Java APIs.
• Tested embedded and non - embedded systems.
• Three plus years experience in Systems Administration.
• Once held a U.S. governmental security clearance (Inactive).

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

SYSTEMS: Windows Windows 8, 7, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000

UNIX: Solaris 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10; IBM AIX 5.x; HP-UX

Linux: Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise 3, 4, 5; and SUSE

Mainframe: z/OS 01.13.00 (only briefly)

SERVERS: Solaris; Windows NT 4.0 to 2008; Tomcat 4.1; Squid; ISA 2000; Netware 3.12 and 4.10

DATABASES: MySQL; MS-SQL 6.5, 2000, 2005, 2008; Oracle; some Sybase, IBM DB2, MS Access

BROWSERS: Internet Explorer; Firefox; Chrome; Netscape

LANGUAGES: C; SQL; Java; brief use of Python and Perl

SCRIPTING: Korn, C, and Windows NT Shells; Robot SQABasic; WinRunner; VBS

SOFTWARE: Rational Functional Tester 8.5, Hitachi ID, Active Directory, Quality Center 10 and 11, MS-SQL 2008 Server Management Studio, Toad for Oracle, MS Offices 4.0 to 2010, Rational Team Concert, RSA for Websphere 7.5.5 and 8, Eclipse, Rational Robot, Remedy, VMware, PVCS Tracker, WinRunner 5.0, CC Mail, Palindrome Archivist, Micro2000; acquainted with Visual C++ 6.0, 2003, 2005 and Visual Café 4.0

HARDWARE: PCs, Early Sun Microsystems SparcStations

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Test Specialist

Confidential, East Lansing, MI

Responsibilities:

• Depending on the project, test plans, test cases, and/or SQL query test scripts were written and executed.
• Projects involving HPQC, some administration was involved.
• One project supported Hitachi ID-Synch.
• Offered an automated solution to a Firefox issue that was provided for Client’s use.
• One project involved brief use of a Mainframe.
• On the last project, Test cases were written (mapped) for Mobile App and Web Portal from documentation. Manually tested the Web Portal. The RFT was briefly used, presenting issues with its use on this project.