Lead Quality Engineer Resume Phoenix, AZ - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

An experienced Test Lead with over 15 years of experience with a track record of delivering high quality results and contributing to improvements dat strengthen the bottom line of organizations.
Experience spans multiple business environments including companies in financial, automotive, and educational industries.
Fact - based decision Test Lead who has excellent analytical abilities, a demonstrated aptitude to learn and utilize new and complex technologies and the ability to establish trust-based rapport with project management, development and other quality colleagues.
Specialties include test planning, test execution in all phases of agile projects, defect triage, status/metric reporting, and test automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Automation Applications: Application Lifecycle Management, QTP/UFT, Selenium Webdriver

Platforms/Environments: Windows, Mainframe, OS X

Programming: Java, JavaScript, Junit, TestNG

Databases: SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential | Phoenix, AZ

Lead Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

Devised Automated Framework - architected a hybrid QTP framework solution for regression testing on any common changes for email communication eliminating manual intervention and saving more than $10k.
Managed Test Planning - introduced daily status reports during tenure as test lead on Thunderhead Uplift project as a way to keep project management and director updated on project test status.
Established Test Documentation Best Practices - instrumental in developing and implementing document standards to retain testing artifacts throughout the project lifecycles.
Prioritizing Delivery Transformation Automation Goals - Met aggressive goal of 100% regression automation of portal scripts using UFT to align with company DT direction.
Utilized Video Recording - solved issues with showcasing defects to vendor by recording bite size videos with exact replication.

Confidential | Phoenix, AZ

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

Leveraging QA Lead Skills - co-led QA testing during in-sourcing phase of the application from the vendor for one of the most complex supply chain applications in record time while delivering functionality to the customers at the same time.
Addressed Mentoring Needs - mentored new employees, new college hires, and existing employees on software test development tools, Agile and GM processes.
Facilitated defect triage - during execution phase engaged all stake holders on daily calls to prioritize defects in ALM. As a team we evaluated, prioritized and assigned the resolution of defects.
Initiated Quality Reporting - created daily metrics and status reports for projects to keep project management and extended team up to date on projects.
Exceeded Batch Processing Efficiency - lead the testing portion of the enhanced batch processing design as part of the GMCC uplift which saw a 36% improvement in processing hours going from 26 hours to 18 hours per week and resulting in an overall $4.1 M ADBB as well as a reduction in IT Operations effort.

Confidential | Phoenix, AZ

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Increased Speed and Efficient Regression Testing - developed a data driven Automation Framework to cover 25% of manual regression test cases. Regression testing turn around went from 3 to 1 day due to new framework.
Expedited Validation and Verification - during execution phase concentrated validation of testing discrepancies using SQL, Ultimus Workflow, Active Directory, and ILM tools.
Facilitated user acceptance testing - lead UAT with business stakeholders during each new release of internal IAM software, TEMPeffectively communicating test statuses through a test dashboard.
Delivered Automation Presentations - presented true test automation benefits to upper management and the savings of automating regressing testing and how teams would see increased cost savings, efficiency and quality.