OBJECTIVE:

• Challenging position inclusive of Software Test Engineering and quality assurance responsibilities within an organization that provides a service - oriented environment whereby my B.S. in Computer Science Technology and minor in Business Management are utilized.
• Adept in inscribing System Requirements, Use Cases, and Business Requirements
• Effective in inscribing Test Plans/Cases/Strategies from Requirements, Use Cases, and Functional documents
• Knowledgeable and able to apply Agile methodologies (Sprints, Stories, Features, Use Cases, etc.)
• Proficient in Testing and Quality Assurance methodologies and preparation of detailed system test requirements/plans/defect tracking
• Accomplished in System, Functional, Regression and Unit level testing of application software
• Skilled in Quality Assurance/Testing Audits: Manage audits of System/Unit test environments, ensuring test cases cover functionality of business and user requirements. Audit documents, work products, process/procedures to validate effectiveness to Business Rules. Inscribe weekly/daily reports/QA logs to management regarding status/defects/problems/root cause analysis with plan of execution to eliminate and/or fix issues, schedule unit/ system and regression testing time as well as resources, Perform audits, inspect product deliverables. Mandate quality assurance for all deliverables to client
• Experienced in control/reporting/management of application releases
• Competent in Quality Assurance, Software Testing, and Configuration Management Administration Methodologies
• Quality Assurance /Testing/Development tools: JIRA, TestRail, ApTest Manager,Bamboo, Confluence, HP ALM/Quality Center, Test Director 7.0, Bugzilla, TestTrak Pro, Rally Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) (Client/Server both GUI and CLI
• Accountable for weekly software builds for release to System Test, Product Assurance Testing, Production, and Prototype environments
• Evaluated/selected/Implemented Software, Bug tracking and Configuration Management tools
• Prepared and administered Testing Audits to achieve CMM Level 1 and Level 2
• Administered process/procedures for code branching, merging, and labeling
• Provide guidance to other projects concerning change control, use of CM tools, and CM methods and processes
• Ability to use conversion methods from one CM tool to another (PVCS to CVS), reserving history of existing files
• Lead System Tester for four-Software Applications with teams of 2 or more testers
• Inscribe Use Cases, System Requirements, and Business Requirements for re-design of entire Web application
• Set-up/Configured Agile software application for department
• Configuration Management Administrator for seven-Software Applications/Trained additional CM personnel
• Effectively established Configuration Management SDLC methods for five-projects
• Implementation of SCM system for four-Software Applications
• Set-up and configured five-projects for remote access to accommodate geographically dispersed sites
• Certificate of Training in Software Configuration Management, Quality Assurance and System Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Boulder, CO

• Responsible for ensuring quality on Online and CD-Download versions of varying languages. Revised and created Test Cases. Update/Rewrite of “Onboarding” documents via Confluence pages.
• Verification of AEB product suite. Inscribe Test Cases, Lead Defect triage meetings, Prepare tasking for offshore testing team, deploy releases to QA and Production environments via Bamboo Continuous Delivery process

Software Quality Assurance Tester

Confidential, Loveland, CO

• Responsible for learning Wholesale and Retail applications and then applying said knowledge to inscribe detailed functional test cases for Nine (9) preexisting production applications. Confer with SME when necessary for clarity. Create folder structure for Test Cases within ALM
• Inscribe and validate Test Cases for new Features/Functions of application releases to production

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential, Louisville, CO

• Accountable for quality on Confidential software/hardware integration. Further, inscribed Test Cases from Requirements, Feature Meetings, and Use Case documents, within Agile environment utilizing Agile tools.
• Execute and Record status of Test Cases and Defects. Report Test Cases to Defect outcome percentage used for validation of Seismic software (application) and hardware (firmware). Setup and configure Seismic Hardware. Training peers through PowerPoint demonstrations on new Features/Functions. Mentor and train new QA employees. Traveled for "field visits" to customer sites required for “real life” scenarios to provide insight/training/support to required personnel.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential, Louisville, CO

• Software Tested Video Surveillance web application and Video Player with associated controls. Inscribed and executed regression, smoke, and test cases for weekly releases (Agile environment) for web application and video player, as well as use cases for development of new web application. Developed “how to” process and procedures for defect management, test cases, reporting for use via development team. Created reports which depicted the status, number of Test cases executed (pass, fail, not executed, other).

Test Engineer

Confidential

• Responsible for inscribing Selenium stubs for automation of Test Plans and Test Cases for Map/Direction/Search software in Agile Environment against User Stories and Verification points. Responsible for manual as well as automated Test execution for releases into production, conducted on Seven (7) browser combinations. Analyzed automation test results to determine whether results were fixes for tests or defects in software. Provided team a process for executing “sprints” from a Test Driven perspective. Maintained updates for tracking of critical defects via WIKI.

QA Engineer

Confidential, Denver, CO

• Business Analyst activities including evaluating user requests, determining process requirements, inscribing system requirements and use case specifications and providing facilitation of the systems requirements planning process for RSS reader. Also responsible for performing traditional QA activities using AJAX, C, C# on .NET WEB 2.0 framework, including creating and executing test plans, documenting and tracking software defects to closure and reporting defect metrics (Agile programming environment)