SUMMARY:

• Experience working in Agile and other SDLC models.
• Work with project teams and management to establish priorities and ensure features/scope deadlines and standards are met/exceeded.
• Team player with a strong work ethic and dedication to tasks, projects, teams and company.
• Strong initiative in solving problems and achieving project milestones.
• Proactive and analytical mindset with trouble - shooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail with a passion for quality
• Analyze requirements/stories and define, document, analyze, and execute tests. Ad-hoc, black box, white box, grey box, exploratory, UAT, UI, smoke, functional, regression, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Participate in defining story acceptance criteria, requirement reviews, planning sessions, triage sessions, providing QA estimates and feedback.
• Strong tracking and reporting of test design/execution metrics to the management team.
• Reproduced internally and externally reported issues and confirmed fixes provided by engineering.
• Able to work well with geographically distributed teams and across different cultures and functional groups.
• Strong database skills. Restore QA databases using production data, including adding/updating tables, inserting/updating/deleting data as needed using SQL queries and universal SQL client, SQuirreL
• Data verification and modification (for testing) using SQL scripts, Stored Procedures

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 2008, Windows 10, Windows Server

RDBMS: MS Access, SQLite, LINQPad, SQL Server 2005/2008/2012, Oracle

SCM tools: MS Visual SourceSafe 2012

Defect Tracking Tools: TFS, PVCS Tracker

Development Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008/2012, Crystal Reports 11

Programming Languages: VB6/ VB.Net, C#

Test Management Tools: MTM, HP Quality Center

Continuous Integration tools: Jenkins, Cruise Control

Other: MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin, TX

Senior/Lead QA Engineer

• As Senior/Lead QA Engineer for the MPPM II project, I’m overseeing the QA efforts in the conversion of TXDot’s legacy system (in partnership with a 3rd party) into a cloud-based system. This effort involves managing a group of 5 QA members, members of a 3rd party software company, plus interacting with NTT Data’s PMs and BAs.

• Work involves information gathering and documents creation for re-writing the legacy system, mapping out QA’s test strategy for testing, and writing user stories, test cases/scripts and test data creation, in testing the process in multiple phases.
• Part of the process is converting legacy ADABAS database into a SQL Server/Oracle database via data migration.

Tools: uses are: Visual Studio Team Services, TOAD, SOAP UI, JSON, SQL queries.

Confidential, Austin, TX

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted test case reviews and enhancements to ensure scenarios accurately capture business needs.

• Worked with Agile methodology.
• Performed Data verification and modification (for testing) using SQL scripts, Stored Procedures.
• Worked with Visual Studio, TFS, Microsoft Test Manager, MS SQL Server, SQLite, LINQPad.

Confidential, Austin, TX

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Integrated 3rd party software, ie. Salesforce, CyberSource Decision Manager, ShipWorks, etc.

• Maintained and executed existing C# automation scripts for testing.
• Worked with A gile methodology.
• Performed Defect creation, Defect tracking, Story and Defects reporting using Visual Studio 2012 / Team Foundation Server.
• Created and executed Manual Test scripts using Microsoft Test Manager.
• Created and maintained SQL queries and Stored Procedures for test plan validation using SQL Server 2012.
• Worked with Octopus Deployment software to deploy software to multiple environment sets.

Confidential

Technical Consultant and Lead SW Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coded all the new requirements using Visual Basic 6 (and 3 rd party utilities).

• Performed unit testing on finished code.
• Prepared formal Peer Reviews on Detailed Designs, Test Cases documents and on finished code on Quality Center.
• Managed code and project through different phases of system testing using Quality Center.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Technical Consultant and Lead SW Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As Business Analyst and Quality Assurance Engineer, gathered requirements from users.

• As Lead SW Engineer, maintained and supported existing VB.Net applications and Crystal Reports 11 using Word Document templates and Visual Studio 2005/2008.
• Maintained and supported SQL Server 2005 scripts, stored procedures and triggers.
• Managed code, templates, stored procedures, and documentation using Visual Source Safe, Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Technical Consultant and Lead SW Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with the maintenance and support of existing C# code.

• Gathered requirements from users/Business Analysts, and documenting these requirements into Functional and detailed Technical Designs.
• Coded all the new requirements using Visual Basic 6 (and 3 rd party utilities).
• Performed code reviews.
• Performed test case reviews using Quality Center.
• Managed the code and project through different phases of system testing using Quality Center.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Lead SW Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Converted existing custom Scan Panel applications from VB6 to VB.Net using Kofax Ascent Capture (KAC) as base application.

• Modifi ed workflow logic in KAC for new tax rules/forms.
• Converted VB6/VB.Net based applications to C#
• Created C# based Release Scripts that interact with Kodak’s APIs.
• Coding for IBM’s FileNet based Content Management software, using C# on Visual Studio 2008.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and enhanced proprietary healthcare software for Confidential solutions (Centricity), using Tandem COBOL/SCOBOL, utilities, and various proprietary software.

• Worked mostly with Tandem COBOL using LastWord/LCJ.
• Maintenance and modification of Centricity, GE’s proprietary Tandem-based HealthCare system.
• Maintenance and modification of DRG-Carecast, Patient Accounting, and various GE proprietary systems.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Technical Consultant and Lead SW Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from users/Business Analysts, and documented these requirements into Functional and detailed Technical Designs.

• Coded all the new requirements using Visual Basic 6.0, VB.Net, 3 rd party utilities/tools, C#.
• Managed the code and project through different phases of system testing.
• Assisted the programmers on the Tandem side by ensuring that the dll’s created matched Tandem objects.
• Assisted other teams on debugging and maintaining C# projects.
• Assisted with re-write and maintenance of Medicare (long-term care) program, using Visual Basic 6.0.
• Attended and contributed to regular meetings with state representatives to clarify changes.

Confidential, Round Rock, TX

Sr. Software Engineer / Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Senior Software Engineer for the Order Broker project. The project is used to maintain orders coming into, and going out of the Tandem database to be processed into an Oracle database. The front-end uses C#.NET on Visual Studio 2005, and talks to various Tandem applications and uses Oracle 9i as the back-end.

• One of the Lead Software Engineers for SnP D3Dgfx Project - converted the existing Order fulfillment system from a Visual Basic 6.0/SQL Server/Tandem SCOBOL - based system into a Java/Oracle 9isystem. Used JBuilder and Netbeans IDE.
• Converted Tandem SCOBOL programs into Java Server Pages, and converting Tandem Server classes to not use MQSERIES queues by using a third-party API called RSOM, which allows Java Beans to talk directly to Tandem Server classes.
• Primary software engineer for the Reports part of the system, which involved heavy use and analysis of the new Oracle-based database, and Java/JavaScript backend, using JBuilder 8.
• Extensive interaction with the user-group in creation of project specs, vision scope, and documentation, and QA/testing of reports.
• Assumed the lead role in the maintenance/enhancement of the existing D3D system (Visual Basic/SQL Server - based system) upon transfer from HSB Technologies group.
• This involved on-the-job training in use and maintenance of ASP/HTML pages and VB-based backend. Extensive use of MQCOM, COM+, and VB 6.0.
• Technical Lead and Primary Support for the Symphony Project - a GUI-based version of Dell’s Tandem-based Order and Inventory system. Developed some code to access Tandem-based data using ASP pages.
• Technical Lead for DellEpro, Dell’s Internet Service Provider. Duties include maintaining and re-writing Oracle scripts and stored procedures. Maintained and developed VBScripts to replace batch files originally written in DOS.
• Created the Customer Referral Program, a Dell-proprietary system, which keeps track of web-based orders and referrals and grants ‘web-cash’ to refer-ees. This was written using VB/COM/MTS/OleDB using a combination of SQL Server 7.0/Oracle 8i databases, and data presented in XML format using style sheets.
• Converted parts of Dell’s TANDEM-based Order Fulfillment system into a Visual Basic/MS SQL system, employing COM, MTS and also using HTML/XML for data reporting.
• Created the Auto-Manifest system which read in users’ data files and processed and converted them into MS SQL7.0 tables, using VB6.0, HTML, XML.
• Created a system for tracking Monitor Serial Numbers (MRSDB) and Service Warranties using Visual Basic 5.0 and Oracle 7.0 for the front-end and back-end, respectively. Later Re-wrote these using VB6.0 and MS SQL7.0
• Conversion of Foxpro-based Data Warehouse into Oracle 7 database using Visual Basic 5.0 for the EUDB project
• Maintenance of existing systems in COBOL/SCOBOL/SQL
• Development of new projects in TANDEM, using COBOL/SCOBOL/SQL
• Conversion of Tandem-based systems into client-server platforms using Visual Basic 6.0 front-end, and Oracle 7 as the back-end
• Modifications and maintenance of programs for Electronic Door to Dell, a hybrid Tandem/NT - based system.
• Served as project lead for the Conversion part of Omega 2.0 from Tandem to NT-based (using VB/SQL Server7.0/Oracle8i).
• Created the conversion programs of affected Tandem Enscribe files into Oracle tables.
• Created the extract programs to retrieve the data from Tandem and convert them to Oracle tables.
• Managed the weekly and monthly downloads of data from the production system into Omega’s test environment.

Languages/Tools: COBOL85 and SCOBOL on TANDEM CYCLONE, Visual Basic 4.0, SQL Server, Oracle.