SUMMARY:

• Enthusiastic & results driven IT Professional with over nine years of Software Quality Assurance experience seeking an opportunity to implement technical and business skills in a challenging position.
• Passionate about aligning agile software development & quality assurance to meet business needs and reduce risk.
• Proven success in identifying, analyzing and solving problems through expertise in numerous software testing technologies.
• Broad experience in the full software development life - cycle and testing process.
• Well-versed in the current manual and automated QA testing methodologies.
• Designed test plans and test cases, analyzed requirements and managed defects.
• Created automation scripts to ensure quality with the expanded scope of limited timeline projects.
• Coordinated releases/deploys of code to six different environments.
• Provided status metrics and schedules for testing activities and accomplishments. 
• Proficiently collaborates with stakeholders, leading and mentoring the testing team to maximize the level of productivity, while forming a cohesive team environment.
• Analytical thinker who consistently resolves ongoing challenges.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation: Test Partner, UFT - Unified Functional Test (QTP), Selenium, Xamarin

Languages: SQL, VBScript, HTML, XML, C#, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

WebServices: SOAP Sonar, SoapUI, POSTMAN, WSDL, REST, API

Mobile Automation: .NET - Xamarin Mobile UITest & Test Cloud, NUnit mobile test framework

Other: VMware, Crystal Reports, CMS Joomla & Drupal PHP, Windows, Mac, SharePoint, SyteLine, TCP/IP, VPN, Alteryx - Analytics, Redgate, Octopus Automated Deploy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Software Quality Engineer & Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working with the software development team in a dynamic Agile/Scrum environment, in conjunction with PM and internal stakeholders, for delivering the Customer Facing & Internal Applications.
• Performs web-based functional/manual software applications testing which supports the BI Inc. continuum of RF, AMD, GPS tracking, and alcohol monitoring equipment, in a host system that allows direct client data access and management functions.
• Create UFT (QTP) automation test scripts using the hybrid framework to drive efficiency and quality in the software development and test processes. Increased the automation regression test coverage from 10% to 60% in 2 years, generating rapid ROI.
• Designed and built the automation framework and testing system infrastructure. Identified areas for improvement and developed custom procedures to ensure efficient and accurate automated testing.
• Worked with the Xamarin Mobile UITest, Test Cloud and NUnit mobile test automation framework using Android/iOS devices, SDKs, and APIs.
• Continuous integration using Octopus Deploy as the automated software deployment and release management server, to simplify the deployment of ASP.NET applications, Windows Services, and databases.
• Attend planning, estimation, sizing, release and retrospective meetings. Review/create test plans and tasks, break out stories and provide details needed to accomplish desired outcomes.
• Implement Web Service testing using UFT, POSTMAN, and SoapUI for Soap and REST services.
• Test simultaneously the accuracy and completeness of the GUI, Crystal Reports, Processor, Load, Data conversion, Database schema, Analytics, Web and Mobile application, SyteLine and Web Services.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Software Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the developers, product and project managers in an interactive Agile environment. Tested the newly developed front/back-end of the web and mobile applications.
• Developed test plans and test cases for the Drupal content management system (CMS). Increased test case coverage from 40% to 85% in 10 months. Provided status updates in Scrum and Triage meetings to validate risks in each time box/sprint.
• Led smoke, regression, functional, integration, system, user interface testing. Prepared the traceability matrices to fill the gap between the requirements and the test cases coverage.
• Coordinated releases, selected functionalities for automation, tested and executed regression scripts in the integration environment.

Confidential, Superior, CO

Software Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created and executed UI, database, compatibility, unit, system integration, localization, regression, Globalization tests in Android/iOS/BlackBerry (RIM), Windows and Mac environments. Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT), software performance, and load testing.
• Reported defects and reviewed the configuration and log files to determine the breakdown source.
• Proven ability to plan, organize, and lead QA projects in both small (3 testers) and large (27 testers) groups; reducing test cycle duration and improving tracking of test areas.
• Technical support; demonstrated skills in training, supporting and setting the testing environment including software installation and configuration to achieve performance objectives.
• Industry experience included mobile handheld device, digital camera, portable storage, social media, medical software, and hardware.