SUMMARY:

Seasoned, results driven and accomplished QA lead with 10+ years of SDLC deployment experience utilizing Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodology. Continuously praised for prudently managing resources and successfully delivering products that exceed client expectations and specifications. Sets and continually manages project expectations with team members and other stakeholders. High academic s include a Master’s degree in Business, a Bachelor’s in Science and multiple technical s. Outstanding leadership, interpersonal and communication skills with an ongoing commitment to ensuring technical solutions consistently meet or exceed business objectives.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Agile software development
• User acceptance testing
• User requirements gathering
• Knowledge management
• Client relations & satisfaction
• Test scripts and test cases
• System testing
• Technical requirements analysis
• Regression testing
• Database management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Test Manager, Version One, Mercury Quality Center, Test Director, HP ALM, WinRunner, Selenium, ClearQuest (Defect Tracking), BLT, Object Cycle, PVCS.

Operating Systems: Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP, Linux, Mac, Solaris, HP - UX, AIX.

Database: Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, SQL*Loader, SQL*Plus, TOAD.

Tools: Share Point, Doors, CVS, SVN, Rally, Version One.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston, VA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Agile Scrum sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations, retrospectives and solution releases.
• Facilitated and attended meetings with product owners and stakeholders to capture and document functional and business requirements and demoed backlog items.
• Elicited requirements using interviews, research, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases and task and workflow analysis.
• Analyzed business requirements and convert them into system requirements, refine system requirements into detailed specifications for developers and testers.
• Created EPIC in version one for any new ECPS and wrote user stories and acceptance criteria for the backlog items.
• Worked with the project team to ensure proper test coverage and overall system reliability, performance and quality.
• Participated in all phases of the test cycle, including integration/system Testing, exploratory Testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Automated smoke testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Provide production support and problem resolution on day-to-day-issues.
• Maintain project plans, resourcing schedules and forecasted activities.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.) in the absence of scrum master.
• Reviewed and evaluated work and prepared periodic performance reports.
• Directed and mentored the less experienced staff in the team.
• Determined resources required, assign and schedule the time frames to the QA Group & Trained them Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, Roles and Responsibilities.
• Developed and executed software test plans, test cases and test schedules.

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review all US-VISIT Delivery Methodology (UDM) project related documents to gain a strong understanding of the project, and the US-VISIT/IDENT systems, and review the requirements.
• As Test Lead, on one major release and one SCR release, performed impact assessments, and during testing sent daily status report, kept ongoing list of issues and got resolution from development team on them.
• As part of environment shake off, verify tunnels, logins, connectivity, etc. Compile list of servers needing access to, or any issues with connectivity for the EM team.
• As functional tester Identify test cases from the requirements, develop test cases and test procedures in QC and execute the same manually and document results in QC.
• As part of IV&V team, was crucial in finding issues critical to the releases.
• Identify testing needs (i.e. data generation, accounts, special tools, environment needs) and communicate with System Assurance.
• Document all software defects in Team Track and escalate test execution risks/issues to the test planner lead if necessary.
• As Regression tester compile regression scenarios for testing each release, recognize which scenarios to be moved to full regression suite versus fast track.
• Led the effort to create Testing Standards and Best Practices to be used across the test organization.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Attend project-related peer reviews, status meetings and assigned client meetings.
• Documented the whole new hire TODO on the team WIKI to facilitate new people with what needs to be done to ease into the project.
• Review all US-VISIT Delivery Methodology (UDM) project related documents to gain a strong understanding of the project, and the US-VISIT/IDENT systems, review the requirements and provide comments.
• Identify test cases from the requirements, develop test cases, test procedures in QC and execute the same manually and document results in QC.
• Identify testing needs (i.e. data generation, accounts, special tools, environment needs) and communicate to the test planner lead.
• Collaborate with project test team members and support developers, planner and release team.
• Document all software defects in Team Track and escalate test execution risks/issues to the test planner lead and SME if necessary. Interact with developers to report software bugs and re-test the fixed issues.
• Support IV&V testing with SAIC, UAT with ITM and Confidential, PIT testing with CBP-BP.
• Lead tester on Biographic Index Search release, which enhances the indexing capability by adding second tier for faster search. Biggest was the maximum number of defects opened.
• Lead tester for Multimodal PIT testing with BP stake holder. Identified issues with client CBP/BP during testing, opened defects, communicated with developers, retested after code fix.
• Regression tester for R2 release with new functionality for PCSC, IXM6.
• Scripted a cleanup script in VBScript for cleaning up transactions and related data from IDENT and thus releasing images belonging to Iris modality back to available upon deletion of the data.