SUMMARY

• 17 years of professional Information Technology (IT) experience following Agile and Software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• More than 17 years of experience in the creation and execution of quality assurance artifacts in Agile and SDLC environments.
• Proven expertise in technical leadership, systems analysis, design, development, system administration, quality assurance (QA), and implementation
• Led team in support of quality goals to include 95% automation coverage, defect tracking, test planning/strategy, test case creation
• Assisted in the development of Python solution for automation of claim inventory close process.
• Extensive Confidential Server SQL T - SQL experience as it relates to data analysis, back-end data movement, data mapping, external data interfacing, UI data validation and defect resolution and reporting.
• Proficient in the creation of Test Plans, strategies and use cases to ensure the appropriate depth
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, both technical and non-technical, at all levels of an organization.
• Provided interval project reports of overall status, test case matrices and defect aging reports for ongoing projects, as well as, hours/resource estimations for upcoming proposals
• Worked closely with developers in the identification and resolution of application defects

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Management/Leadership Skills: Plan, organize, and direct information systems activities, schedule resources, manage and lead teams; Maintain project plans, and report status.

Development Technologies: T-SQL, working knowledge of HTML, CSS, C#, Javascript, Protractor, Python

Database: Confidential SQL Server, MySQL

Third Party Software: Rally, Confidential Quick Test Professional, ALM, Visual Studio, TFS, Test Manager, Confidential Office suite, SQL Server management Studio, dBeaver, Selenium

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Contractor Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support team in upgrade effort migrating healthcare providers to the Confidential SAAS product offering following an Agile/Kanban methodology.
• Responsible for the creation and execution of test artifacts including Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test summary utilizing Jira/XRAY as the test repository.
• Supporting developers in the research and identification of defect resolution.
• Facilitate weekly defect prioritization/resolution meetings.
• Support UAT efforts facilitating the UAT Kickoff meeting and working with the client in the identification and execution of UAT testing scenarios.

Confidential, Michigan

QA Team Lead/ Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Confidential 2012 SSMS in the development and maintenance of claim analytic T-SQL scripts across multiple healthcare clients.
• Designed and implemented a re-useable dynamic T-SQL solution for analytic scripting implemented across 3 segments and 6 database instances.
• Led the implementation of dynamic SQL for claim exclusions across multiple client segments.
• Assisted in the development of Python solution for automation of claim inventory close process.
• Performance tuned several analytic scripts reducing execution times from a couple hours down to less than 5 minutes.
• Led team in support of quality goals to include 95% automation coverage, defect tracking, test planning/strategy, test case creation
• Developed automated tests utilizing Protractor, Jasmine, Jest, karma, javascript, MySQl and Selenium.
• Provided oversight and direction for onshore and offshore QA resources.
• Participated in agile ceremonies including semi-weekly grooming meetings, daily scrum meetings, sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Liaison between scrum team and product owner for acceptance criteria clarification and coordinating release level UAT efforts.
• Authored QA Test Plan and Definition of Done for Program Increments
• Coordinated Go/NoGo release meetings across multiple management levels
• Led E2E integration testing efforts across multiple teams during major database upgrade including 45 SSIS packages.

Confidential, Franklin, TN

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Senior QA analyst supporting bi-weekly agile sprint cycles for al assessment applications and ETL processes ensuring usability across multiple browsers and mobile devices.
• Assisted in the identification and prioritization of Product Backlog items.
• Created and maintained data test sets for testing of internal and external ETL verification.
• Supported developers in the research and identification of defect resolution, utilizing code base research, component services tool, application log files, environment .config files and data analysis
• Developed, maintained and executed test cases in Confidential ’s test manager application.

Confidential, Brentwood, Tn

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Subject matter expert in data movement between multiple Confidential SQL servers and integrated applications
• Administered database backup/restores to ensure test data availability
• Authored and maintained SQL Server T-SQL scripts for automation of data movement validations during testing efforts.
• Provided interval project reports of overall status, test case matrices and defect aging reports for ongoing projects, as well as, hours/resource estimations for upcoming proposals
• Worked closely with developers in the identification and resolution of application defects
• Developed and executed test plans, test strategies and test cases for several projects
• Created, executed and maintained test cases and defects utilizing Confidential ’s Quality Center
• Mentored, trained, and supported new/junior level QA resources

Confidential, Chantilly, Va

Software Engineer/ Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided programming expertise in the maintenance and enhancement of a customer service management system in a VB 6 environment
• Developed and enhanced re-usable stored procedures called by multiple proprietary applications in a Confidential SQL Server environment
• Utilized Confidential Report writer to author and maintain multiple financial reports.
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts with quick test professional (QTP) for use throughout the test team.
• Applied quality assurance expertise at all levels of testing, manual and automated, for web-based and backend applications
• Authored scripts for inbound/outbound ETL data validation processes utilizing Confidential SQL Server
• Authored test plans and test case scenarios to ensure project requirements were met for both unit and system integration testing