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SUMMARY

A Quality Assurance Management Professional in Information Technology wif 13 Years of Hands on Experience
Comprehensive experience in Quality Assurance Management. A proven track record of accruing massive savings for companies through the use of cost reduction, waste elimination, and process improvement. An effective leader who encourage team cohesiveness through effective management and excellent decision making.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Program/Project QA Management t Forecasting/Budgeting/Capacity Planning
Team Management t Best Practices & Process Improvement t SOA Testing t Drive Testing Efficiencies Continuous Integration and Virtualization t Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM) t Leadership
Staff Recruitment and Training t Opportunity Identification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tampa, FL

IST Manager

Responsibilities:

Ensured the satisfaction and continued support of key stakeholders through constant communication and interaction wif them.
Strengtaned company by building, training, and leading onsite and offshore IST teams, seeing the qualified candidates through the entire recruitment lifecycle.
In the role of IST Manager, engineered Web Services Testing Framework utilizing CA LISA for the automation of SOAP and REST services for E2E and Regression testing for roughly 421 services.
As Test Architect, enhanced testing efficiencies and slashed redundancies through the analysis of test scope, test procedures, tools, and redundancies. These efforts resulted in an 18% reduction of testing costs in the QA phase.
Maximized coverage and slashed data inputs through adding self - sufficiency and intelligence to Functional and Regression automated LISA scripts.
Utilized continuous integration and virtualization in the support of both Agile and Waterfall to enhance the development process.

QA Release Manager, QA Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Strengtaned company by recruiting and overseeing a team of 64 through the successful delivery of 6 releases.
Directed the goals, direction, and functional activities of the organization. Enhanced monitoring and control of test design by co-designing, creating, and standardizing automated productivity, reporting, and metric tools.
Slashed project time by ensuring constant communication wif the dev team and early testing through the development of stubs and simulators.
Minimized manual effort through the development of automated tools utilizing Java for data setup. dis allowed for much faster task completion time.
Prepared, reviewed, and tracked QA milestones across all ANG QA groups.

Confidential Chicago, IL

QA Manager, QA Lead

Responsibilities:

Interviewed and assembled an offshore team of 8.
Championed an environment of efficiency by streamlining onsite offshore coordination and communication.
Implemented Web Service Testing using SOAP UI, enhancing test coverage for middle tier and refining the quality of UI integration wif the middle tier.
Developed test schedules and track QA activities, deliverables, and milestones through the entire life cycle of the project.
Reduced development time by documenting Lessons Learned and performing Root Cause Analysis.
Slashed Cost of Quality by minimizing rework, improving cross team coordination between the Dev, BA, and Architecture teams, as well as preventing failure.
Implemented and fully utilized best practices across various TDLC phases to promote company standards regarding quality work products such as test cases and defects.

Sr. QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Enhanced test coverage and slashed redundancies through use of improved testing techniques.
Authored test plans.
Improved test case quality and coverage by disseminating SME knowledge wifin team.
Improved testing processes and work products wif the introduction of best practices.
Designed, reviewed and executed functional test cases.
Slashed test data management effort by streamlining data acquisition and usage.
Improved quality of daily and weekly status reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: CA LISA, TOAD, SOAP UI, HP ALM, JIRA, Cucumber, Selenium Webdriver, Selenium IDE, Eclipse IDE, Jenkins

Languages: C, C++, Java, VB Script, Java Script, Servlets, XML, HTML, SQL, PL/QL

Operating Systems: Windows XP/NT/7, Unix, Mac OS

Databases: Oracle 9i/11g, MS SQL Server 2000, MYSQL