SUMMARY:

Prefer a Software Quality Lead position. Desire an organization with an emphasis on quality from the executive management level and down through the entire organization. Desire an atmosphere that invites learning new concepts and skills, and maximizes the potential of personnel on the project through empowerment. The ideal company knows it will save money in the long run by implementing quality up front, thus providing the customer/end - user the best system based on customer satisfaction.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

QA Test Lead

Confidential, Spring, TX

Responsibilities:

• Led test teams in China and Mexico for the purpose of the separation of HP into two separate companies, HPE/HPI, as it pertained to the HRBI Reporting modules.
• Ensured that ALM was setup for test cases, requirements and defects.
• Worked with SMEs for the AMS/EMEA/APJ regions to ensure HR and Payroll BI data warehouses were successfully separated for HPE/HPI along with applicable security roles.
• Tracked/produced daily metrics and monitored project schedule for all of the modules being archived, cloned and decommissioned for HR and Payroll BI reporting.
• Charged with overseeing System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and UAT Signoff for each module; led daily triage meetings.

Software QA Test Lead

Confidential, Katy, TX

Responsibilities:

• Led a group of manual/interface testers for implementation of Oracle Retail Applications (RMS/RPM) for integration with Confidential Image Library and Promotion & Pricing Layout Software (PPM).
• Utilizing HP Quality Center ALM for Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects. Also, led a team of eCom Manual Testers and SIM-Store Inventory Management Manual Testers, as well as enhancements, to above-mentioned modules as the staged implementations occurred for PO, F&A, Whse, RDF/Planning, ReIM and ReSA.
• Functional testing on NOVA Libre PIM tool and Cubiscan for Warehouse Dimensions and Weights.
• Decomposed Functional Specifications, Interface Specifications and Data-Mapping documents to ensure requirements coverage.
• Planned test scenarios and data coverage for end to end testing.
• There were more than 200 interfaces being tested with this implementation of Oracle Retail Applications.

Quality Assurance Test Lead/BA

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved working with vendor in Utah to customize existing Retail.net workstreams to meet requirements.
• In charge of requirements traceability matrix, defect management / administration, lab equipment setup, UAT and beta testing.
• Creation of test strategy, test plans, functional test scripts, metrics reporting to team, and interfacing with QA team at 3rd party vendor.
• Analyzed gaps in requirements and test cases, and test scenarios.

Quality Assurance Test Lead

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of manual testers to support updates to the various modules of seismic interpretation software offered by SMT.
• Mentored the test team in their efforts to achieve their CSTE certification thru the Quality Assurance Institute.
• Provided metrics for progress made on test efforts as well as defect assignments.
• Led the Hot Fix/Service Pack releases for the Production Support QA team.
• Served as QA Defect Manager utilizing Visual Studio 2010's Team Foundation Server.
• Role included execution of automated Performance Testing utilizing the "Test Complete" toolset on .NET framework in C# on 32-bit and 64-bit applications and hardware on Windows 7, Vista and XP.
• Responsible for daily metrics maintenance and notification to stakeholders and QA team.

Sr. Quality Analyst/Verification Lead

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Led an offshore QA team to deliver updates and new functionality for the iLien application, which was a means to file and search UCC documents that mortgage lenders and legal fields require in order to secure liens against real and tangible property.
• This was a .NET framework on a web-based application that interfaced with various other product offerings made available to North American clients.
• Mostly manual testing and used Mercury Quality Center for defect management.

Data Cleansing Lead

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in cleansing of legacy databases in preparation for conversion to global SAP applications in various modules for Confidential Downstream products; also worked on data cleansing for their Global Product Catalog

QA Lead

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Testing of middleware and Confidential equipment includes: unit, system, integration, and end-to-end, as well as, stress/performance verification and user acceptance.
• Participated in use case scenario reviews, created test abstract, test plan, test cases, test case summary, test case results summary, user acceptance matrix with traceability to test cases, defect reports and defect results summary.
• Daily defect meetings and reporting of defect status and overall metrics reporting.

Software Quality Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Perform manual testing of the Booking phase of the Rome Theatrical web application, as well as the Marketing phase for Music, Theatrical and Motor Sports modules.
• This is an ASP .Net application on Internet Explorer w/ IIS, BizTalk, and a SQL database.
• Types of testing include regression, retest, security, and user acceptance; as well as defect management and User/Developer interaction.

Software Quality Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Testing of Active Update deployment utility on a variety of Windows-based Operating Systems.
• Includes testing on Servers, Clients, Integration Testing, System Testing, White Box Testing. Create test cases, defects, progress metrics.
• Banned country security testing.
• Also worked on Version Control Agents, and Version Control Repository Manager, Insight Manager 7 and HP Systems Insight Manager. Server, Client, integrated testing, system testing, test case creation, security testing.
• Tested on multiple Windows-based Operating Systems including NT, 2000, & Server 2003. Also, tested on Linux including Red Hat 8.0, Red Hat 2.1/3.0 AS/EL and Suse SLES 7.

Software Quality Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Functionality testing of web-based application for Freightliner Trucking system.
• Involving testing of IBM WebSphere and Java/JSP, and some use of WinRunner, TestDirector, as well as The TIC defect reporting tool.
• Position involved traveling to Portland, OR to gather requirements with client, and implementing changed requirements in the test suite.

Software Quality Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Manual functionality testing of AIM*AT distributed control systems software on Windows NT, Windows 95, and Sun Solaris UNIX based systems.
• Participated as Moderator and Documenter in document reviews; analysis of test plans and test cases. Defect management.