Principle Software Quality Engineering Specialist Resume Westford, MA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Principle Software Quality Engineering Specialist for 20+ years with extensive knowledge of both manual and automated software testing and methodology, primarily within the medical industry. Experience as an Automation Team Leader and Quality Center Administrator.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, qTest, Helix ALM (formerly TestTrack), Quality Center (QC) / ALM, QuickTest Professional (QTP) / UFT, Jira, Jama, Jenkins

Development: Java, VBScript, C, C++, SQL

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Defect Tracking: Jira, Bugzilla, QC

Other: Agile/Scrum, Agile/Kanban, Confluence, Keil, Code Warrior, TFS, Maven, TestNG, Tera Term, VMWare

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Westford, MA

Principle Software Quality Engineering Specialist

Work with multiple clients testing Class (I/II/III) medical devices at all stages of the software development lifecycle
Perform manual testing, ad - hoc, regression, GUI, black/white box and installation testing
Write and manage test cases, gather test metrics and report defects
Devices tested included a simulator for various blood pumps, an implantable visual prosthetic’s GUI application, hand-held software used to drive robots for the United Stated military and law enforcement and an insulin management system.
Write test tool validation plans and reports for various applications within client’s automation framework

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Senior SQA Engineer

Worked in an agile/scrum environment in two-week sprints including sprint planning, daily stand-up and sprint review and retrospective meetings to create, review and run tests for the Rhythmia software
Created and executed tests in Jama based on pre-approved protocols. Tests were run using pre-recorded data streams in a simulated environment or by using various mapping, reference and ablation catheters in a saline tank to create real-time maps.
Deployed builds locally and remotely using Jenkins
Tracked issues/defects and project management functions originally in Bugzilla then in Jira after a complete migration to Jira was complete
Created summary test reports

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Senior SQA Engineer / Quality Center Administrator

Worked with the offsite development team to review and update functional and UI specifications until all specifications were officially approved
Reduced regression cycle time by automating over 50% of the test cases using the QTP/UFT test tool
Entered defects found in LabSystem using the QC/ALM test tool
Worked with the test team to complete various Verification and Validation test cycles for major releases and service packs
Administered QC/ALM:
Created domains and projects
Created users and defined user properties (permissions, passwords, groups, etc.)
Set up project workflow (customized lists and fields, default values, etc.)
Created summary reports (pre-executed test cases, test run results, etc.)
Created and ran SQL queries against the project database to update fields and create additional reports

Confidential, Woburn, MA

Senior SQA Engineer / Quality Center Administrator

Utilized QC to:
Create over 300 tests based on requirements entered by the software development team
Map each test to the appropriate section(s) of the functional specifications
Track defects
Create summary test reports
Utilized QTP to:
Automate 80% of the test cases
Create numerous functions and function libraries to use along with the built-in functions of QTP to streamline the process of automating the tests
Utilized VMware Workstation to create virtual machines for testing the software with various versions of Microsoft Office and varying user permissions and to ensure a baseline for installation tests
Participated in a defect triage near the end of each release to decide which defects to fix and which to defer to a later release based on severity and priority
Administered QC

Confidential, Lowell, MA

Senior SQA Engineer / Quality Center Administrator

Assisted in developing a test plan for LabSystem in accordance with the following regulations and guidelines: ISO 13485, ANSI/AAMI SW68: 2001 and Guidance for FDA Reviews and Industry Guidance for the Content of Premarket Submission for Software Contained in Medical Devices
Developed over 1,000 combined manual and automated test cases and created and customized numerous functions using WinRunner and QTP until all requirements were covered
Utilized QC to manage the entire testing process including the creation and execution of tests, entering and updating of defects and requirements mapping of tests to the appropriate sections of the functional specifications
Administered QC

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