Expert Quality Engineer Resume Raleigh, NC - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Accomplished and energeticSoftware professionalwith a solid history of achievement inProject Management, leading and delivery.
Motivated leader with strong organizational and prioritization abilities.Excellent communication skills, Committed to professionalism, being highly organized, able to see the big picture while paying attention to small details.
Certified ScrumMaster with Proficiency in Agile practices, Test Driven Development,
Waterfall and Rapid Application development methodologies Resourceful in creation and execution of test cases, test scenarios, bug documentation and bug tracking; creation of Project documents like test plans, schedules, release notes and defect tracking reports.
Agile artefacts like Burndown Charts, Product Backlog Items prioritization, Sprint Backlog maintenance.
Experienced in the creation of Test Strategies and Plans, Led and managed teams of 5 to 30 members, including Program Management over 4 complex projects concurrently with onsite/offshore resources.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Expert Quality Engineer

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

Roles and responsibilities: Lead the development of product/process quality strategies and plans that are aligned with project scope, resources, and quality targets.
Leading the coordination of various activities and working with individuals, who will be responsible for defining and implementing new releases, including performing change mgmt, defect reporting and tracking, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of all new builds.
Leading meetings designed to schedule and coordinate all upcoming release mgmt tasks and to track the progress already assigned as needed, assisting with the escalation of production support issues, specifically issues influencing release management maintaining an electronic system artifacts repository associated with release mgmt.
Lead quality process improvement activities by utilizing root cause data analysis and defect prevention methodologies, propose corrective approaches for measurable improvements, track and report progress, and communicate the plans and results to effectively drive measurable improvements in the SDLC.
Ensure traceableability to requirements and test execution coverage.
Coordinate, update, and monitor defect entries and issues from initiation to resolution utilizing the defect tracking system.
Escalate concerns about project/product/process quality in a clear, timely, collaborative, constructive way.

ScrumMaster / Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Roles and responsibilities: Ensured effective implementation of agile process and trained team to maximize productivity and assure collective benefit.
Spearheaded software testing and quality assurance efforts to meet committed delivery dates.
Generated test plan and test metrics; coordinating test execution for Functional / Regression / Integration testing cycles and overall defect management.
Preparation of Daily Status Report, Weekly Status Report and Defect reports and ensured testing is conducted as per plan.
Managed all projects aspects like budgeting, financials and evaluated software development and certification practices and adopted "best practices" to improve new software productivity.
Risk Management and Mitigation - Identify/anticipate any problems with projects and assisted in solving those effectively and efficiently, to include conducting lessons learned sessions and modification of current processes to reduce future defects / software bugs.
Roles and responsibilities: Analysis of the business requirements.
Prepare Testing schedules for functional and regression phases Identify and assign the Functional test cases.
Review of Functional and Regression test cases.
Writing and executing test cases.
Defect analysis of the bugs found during the testing phase.
Attend Change Control Board meetings.
Defect reporting and User Acceptance testing