Sr. Test Engineer Resume Chicago, IL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Hands - on software QA Manager/Lead seeks an opportunity to improve product quality by evolving an organization’s quality assurance and testing practices. Proven track record of partnering with development and business teams to implement a testing strategy that is the right fit for the organization. A strong leader of QA teams and a quality advocate.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Implementing effective QA strategies All types of testing Automation of tests

Requirements Agile (Scrum), Waterfall Start ups and larger organizations

Developing/leading QA teams Offshore resources UAT coordination

Front and back end testing Web-based Decision Support Tools Mobile

AUTOMATION EXPERIENCE:

Defect tracker/workflow managers: Jira, Flowdock, Pivotal Tracker, Rally, Salesforce, Quality Center

Testing tools: Selenium, Multi-browser Viewer, Perfecto Mobile, SauceLabs, Quality Center, BrowserMob

Other tools: Git, Jenkins, SQL, SharePoint, Confluence, TeamCity, VMware, SourceSafe, Jing, Contour, Firebug

CAREER NARRATIVE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Analyze business requirements, identify acceptance criteria to improve user stories (e.g., lead ‘3 Amigos’)
Work closely with developers, product owners on Scrum teams to develop high quality products
Design/execute the right set of automated and manual unit, integration, and system level tests to verify the front and back end for Web-based Decision Support tools
Work closely with Client Support team to reproduce client reported issues, address root causes
Implemented a compatibility testing strategy for desktop browsers/versions, mobile devices
Planned and coordinated User Acceptance Tests (UAT) with internal teams and client beta projects

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Lead

Responsibilities:Responsibilities:

Analyzed business requirements, assessed risk, identified test plans geared to our customers’ needs
Implemented activities across the life cycle to improve the quality of our web-based products (more effective requirements review, improved change control and test environments, release checklist, more effective functional and regression testing including leveraging automation, production deployment validation and monitoring, internal release notes, browser compatibility testing, more effective UAT, developer’s quality checklist, validating data collection/ transformation processes, continuous integration/validation, continuous improvement/root cause analysis, emphasis on prevention of defects).
Daily hands on QA tasks included reviewing user stories/requirements, testing new features and bug fixes (UI and back end data, code and db changes), regression testing of releases (including cross browser, performance, localization, API), production validation at deployment, production monitoring, managing defects and stories, and tracking and reporting QA metrics.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Software QA Manager

Responsibilities:

Developed a new QA team (3 on shore, 2 off shore resources)
Implemented an effective test strategy for our external web sites, internal web and cloud-based applications, financial systems, and mobile applications that included functional, regression, and performance testing to manage risk, improve quality, and meet regulatory requirements
Automated over 50% of our regression tests to increase test coverage and improve efficiency- enabling the QA team to pursue more value-added activities rather than regularly repeating manual regression tests
Chaired Change Board to review quality of implementations and continually improve our processes

Confidential, Rosemont, IL

Quality Assurance Manager

Responsibilities:

Led our Software Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, and Software Project Management efforts
Managed a team of five on shore Test Engineers (supplemented by offshore testing resources)
Implemented more formal methodologies for quality assurance and project management
Implemented a Quality Management System to document and improve business processes and ensure compliance with FDA regulatory requirements and ISO standards
Worked effectively with offshore partners and our own offices distributed across the globe
Managed team of developers, test engineers, promoted from a Systems Implementation/testing role
Developed/ implemented custom and packaged banking/trading applications

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