SUMMARY:

• Quality Assurance Specialist with over 20 years of practical experience specializing in Quality Delivery, Quality Processes, Quality Management and Quality Governance Implementation.
• Highly skilled in continuous integration/continuous deployment (CICD) processes to support Acceptance and Behavioral Driven Development methodologies.
• Expert testcase architect with vast industry and technical experience designing scenario - base test solutions.
• Specialist in testcase re-structuring and Optimization for Agile based projects for a seamless transformation from manual test to automated test execution.
• Experienced team leader and mentor with exceptional skills in creating TCoE and QCoE governance processes design to build a quality focus test team.
• Certified ITIL Intermediate Release, Control and Validate (RCV) practitioner in Service Management, which together with my technical experience and skills will ensure products, services, and process adherence to business objectives, requirements and stake-holder satisfaction.
• Experienced in defining and implementing Quality Methodologies through Assessment, Identification, Audits in relation to Quality Controls and Processes.
• Acceptance Driven Development (ADD) Test and Validation
• Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) Test and Validation
• Agile Quality Delivery Test and Validation
• Data Driven Test and Validation
• Continuous Integration- Continuous Deployment (CICD) Test and Validation
• Quality Control Processes: Highly skilled in all testing disciplines;
• Blackbox UI-AdHoc,
• Whitebox Code Review
• Greybox Database, Data Warehouse, DTS, ETL, Data Security
• Wireless GPRS-Bluetooth, Device
• Session based Time allotted specified scenarios
• Test Plan Design: Expert in creating test plans to define the processes, goals, and reporting artifacts to support Functional, Technical and or Business Requirements. I use Test Plans to describe the objectives, scope, approach, and focus of the testing effort and identify the intrinsic and extrinsic factors to help the Business Unit(s) outside the test group understand the 'why' and 'how' approach to test and validation.
• Testcase Creation: Experienced testcase architect and highly skilled identifying scenarios that parallel the simulation of real-world usage by testing positive, negative and boundary conditional aspects of the product(s) / service(s) to be delivered.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Spearhead adaptation of existing processes and procedures to adhere to industry-based methodologies to define and establish quality governance and develop alternative solutions to ensure the implementation and monitoring of Quality Assurance and Quality Control to support and validate complex release requirements.
• Acknowledge and understand the strategic direction of stakeholder’s vision to draft, design and implement a strategic plan with defined goals to execute and measure overall quality across the project to ensure the delivery of the products and or services meet and or exceed expectation.
• Quality Process Implementation lead the implementation of Quality Processes to support Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Manage architecture design and documentation for converting User Acceptance Criteria into Gherkin format to be used by the automation team. Collaborate with development lead to implement Gherkin formatted Acceptance Criteria into the code build to ensure and validate test automation, in-flight test execution and code coverage.
• Tools Implementation Lead (Quality Assurance and Testing) Lead the installation and implementation of TaskTop Sync collaborating software for several teams across the FirstData organization. Managed the installation and configuration for synchronizing JIRA and RTC with collaboration from cross-team members to access and design the field mapping documentation and guides between the different source systems to configure the mapping sequence and execution process to deliver the synchronization. Managed the UAT verification and validation process through test case architecture and design.

Confidential

Sr. Technical Specialist - QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Evoked testing processes and quality governance attributes in support of the ‘Availability’ repository test and validations requirements.
• Lead the testing effort to design and implement targeted test artifacts such as Test Plans, Test Strategy and Test Execution documentation.
• Mentored junior test engineers in proper testcase formatting and execution reporting. Collaborated with project leads to design and monitor change management and software development processes for effective release and deployment implementation.
• Duties include Test Scenario Specification, Data Driven Testcase Architecture to support the ‘Back of House’ data repositories, ‘Front of House’, and ‘Middle-Tier’ composite applications across the Disney organization.
• Build and implement the quality governance program and mentor junior testers in the creation and architecture of session-based testcases and acceptance driven scenarios.
• Spearheaded the collaboration between Functional test team and Automaton to design an optimization process to convert manual testcase into automated scripts with a success rate of 68% of manual testcases conformed into automated scripts. This resulted in reducing the Regression Test Execution man-hour requirements from 504 hours to 302 man-hours.
• Collaborated with project leads from other teams to in corporate quality gates and measurements into their daily development and release plans to build a Agile formulated team structure to support CICD methodologies.

Confidential

Consultant Sr. QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Test plan definition and technical test architect for IT Security Platforms.
• Develop functional and usability test-cases to test and validate physical devices as well as web- based security applications functionality against security protocols and requirements.
• Lead test execution and reporting activities across multiple security platforms.
• Design the ‘Penetration Test’ validation test suite to support multiple platforms across different security devices.
• Enable the use of scripted cases to perform overnight test activities with automated error generation, reporting and logging.
• Collaborated with security professional to implement testing best practice to support the different areas of security protocol, device, digital and governance validation requirements. Trainer and Facilitator of testing best practices, test tools usage.
• Establish and implement the Defect Management program to define the defect lifecycle to support defect reporting, logging, and monitoring.

Confidential

Consultant QA Manager/ Data Analysis Report Validation

Responsibilities:

• Define and implement Quality Assurance methodologies and processes for MSN Financial Support team. Design Test Plan Templates, Test Strategy & Test Process, Schedules, and Test Coverage/Execution and Defect Management.
• Establish quality measurement parameters and provided interpretation and strategy for continuous improvement to reduce time and increase quality during the QA test cycle.
• Task with creating test scenarios to validate wireless and web-based applications accessed by mobile devices. Write and automate device test scenarios for cross platform device verification.

Confidential

Consultant Sr. QA Lead/ Data Warehouse ETL QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop standard artifacts including Test Plan, Test Strategy, and Test Coverage/Execution reports.
• Validate legacy and current data sources, ETL Transformations Data Cleansing Validations, Data Warehouse testing and custom defined ETL systems.
• Conduct pre and post data package analysis DTS, service jobs execution and test to identify data security vulnerabilities using internal security controls and processes. Design complex queries to verify pre-conversion and post conversion data.
• Validate and define data and application vulnerabilities analysis to determine the adequacy of security measures and identifying data security deficiencies. Test Data Transformation Services and ETL System.