SUMMARY:

To obtain a challenging position, within a software development company, focusing on Quality Assurance best practices to establish methodologies, processes, and standards for the IT organization.

SKILLS:

Systematic Software Testing, Web - Testing, and Testing Object-Oriented Software. Extensive experience with Agile, SCRUM, CI/CD. Experience with .NET, SQL, SOAP UI, ETL, Visual Studios Team Services, Salesforce, Git, Cucumber, Selenium, HTML, XML, and test automation.

EXPERIENCE:

Software QA Lead

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Working as the company’s only QA resource, within an Agile SCRUM environment assisting approximately 20+ developers to apply Shift Left testing best-practices.
• Oversee and orchestrate the creation of automated Java Unit Test cases and REST API test scripts by internal developers.
• Manage the activities of integrating automates test scripts into build process via Git and Team Services.
• Responsible for grouping automated test cases into logical groupings i.e. functional area, Smoke, Regression, and End-to-End for execution at desired intervals.
• Assist Product Owners and Business Analysts to refine Acceptance Criteria and ensure all solutions are testable with a clear definition of “Done”.
• Leading the organization towards Test Driven Development and DevOps thru Continuous Testing principles.
• Perform manual and exploratory testing for domain knowledge.

QA Project Manager

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the Director of QA, independently managed delivery of QA activities over multiple domains within the Medicaid organization.
• Plan, manage and execute delivery of QA tasks in adherence to Confidential ’s established methodologies and processes.
• Support & drive initiatives to provide efficiencies and quality products to our end-customers.
• Ensure the quality of one or more applications including data, platform, functionality, and system interfaces.
• Collaborate with other areas of the Development organization to effectively develop the test framework to align with the business strategy and goals for the release.
• QA Manager overseeing QA team of approximately 15-20 members.
• Promote repeatability, reusability, efficiencies.
• Ensure every QA tester completes all QA artifacts and deliverables for each release.
• Provide estimates for testing efforts.
• Communicate with stakeholders, and senior management on the progress of the project goals, and testing objectives.

QA Test Lead

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Managed various QA resources over multiple projects; responsible for creating test plans, test cases and test data sets.
• Familiar with all phases of testing; unit, integration, system/functional, regression, user-acceptance, & end-to-end.
• Extensive knowledge of verifying user-interfaces, database validation, data-mapping, ETL, & web-services testing.
• Assist with Operational Maintenance (OM) and researching issues in Production environment.
• Understanding of document repository, configuration management, and tracking individual work-hours against allocated project hours.
• Coordination of over 100 QA offshore & onshore team members.
• Ensure that quality processes are carried out through all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Estimate quality assurance required resources and effort.
• Develop and implement efficient and effective testing strategy.
• Strong, well-rounded experience leading or managing geographically dispersed software testing teams.

QA Test Engineer

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Testing telephony system in the AUDI A8 for the European market.Creating and executing test cases to verify proper functionality.
• System utilizedBlueTooth wireless technology, GPS navigation and fiber optics for data transfer between devices.
• Defects tracked by Clear Quest and requirementsdeveloped and monitored in Clear Case.
• All test scripts developed and executedin Test Director 7.2.

QA Test Analyst

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with creation of Test Cases and validation of functional and technical specifications.
• Worked on web-based applications for merchants and banks to reconcile daily debit card transactions.
• Collaborated with developers to trouble-shoot potential issues prior to release.
• Entered issues into tracking system then verified fixes.
• Adhered to the client’s established metrics for monitoring test performance and test reporting.

QA Consultant

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Quality Assurance consultant for client’s web-based Service Request tracking system.
• Developed test cases and test scripts from Use Cases written by internal Business System Analysts.
• Executed test scripts and entered defects into tracking system.
• Development team utilized .NET technology with MS SQL database.
• QA department monitored 3 separate environments with each in a different phase of development; QA, Staging, and Production.
• Helped to establish standardized QA processes including templates, defect tracking requirements, and weekly test-cycle.
• Contributed to integration, functional, regression, and user-acceptance test efforts.