Objective A contracting/permanent position in the areas of requirements analysis, software integration, automated testing, and/or test verification/validation

Summary

• 30 years experience in all phases of the software development life-cycle, Project sizes ranging from small to very large.
• Broad industry experience that includes Government, Telecommunications, Aerospace, Marketing, and Servicing of Mortgage Backed Securities,
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience in:
• Test Automation
• Cucumber/RSpec, Capyabara
• Selenium WebDriver
• IBM Rational Functional Tester RFT
• IBM Jazz Suite of tools
• HP LoadRunner
• Java, Ruby, C
• Requirements analysis
• Use Case RUP and Test Case Agile
• Functional/Non-functional
• Six years experience in the secondary mortgage market
• The Agile life cycle Extreme Programming development process
• Web application requirements and test
• Path Analysis approach to determine test cases from use cases
• Functional system and user acceptance testing, all phases
• Independent Verification Validation
• Performance Engineering LoadRunner
• Proposal writing
• Formal training in the Business Consulting process with an emphasis on improving the software development process
• IBM Consulting Group, Application Development Practice
• Engagement leader
• Software Development Lifecycle SDLC
• Software Configuration Management SCM
• Skilled at interviewing individual clients to extract requirements
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Linux, Git, Jira, Oracle PL/SQL , Microsoft Transact-SQL ,Quality Center Test Director , HP Load Runner, FitNesse, Faucets, TeamCity, ClearCase ClearQuest, Windows, Office Suite, MS Project

Experience

Confidential

Contract: Automate the Presto application using Cucumber, Capybara, and Selenium WebDriver Duties included: Preparing training materials Preparing common reusable methods and patterns Developing automated tests for two major portions of Presto including testing Presto's interface to the UX application

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Software Test Lead. Duties include:

• Wrote ran all automated tests using IBM Rational Functional Tester. Scripts are written in Java.
• Wrote, executed, and analyzed all load performance test scripts using HP LoadRunner. Scripts are written in C.
• Apache/WebLogic Server and MS/SQL based system over firewalls
• Path Analysis on use cases to derive System Test Cases
• Wrote and managed defects using Jira and IBM Rational Team Concert
• Used IBM Rational Team Concert to plan and manage test team tasks
• System Test Cases and Test Scripts written using IBM Rational Quality Manager
• Technical lead for two junior testers
• Reviewed requirements, use cases for correctness and testability using IBM Rational Requirements Composer
• Linked requirements to test cases
• Generated Requirements Traceability Matrix and wrote all System Test deliverables
• Have sold off four contract increments, including the final increment

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Led a team of 4 automated test developers

• Lebowski is a Ruby, RSpec, Selenium based framework for creating automated tests for Sproutcore applications
• Developed a scriptlet based intermediate coding technique that dramatically reduced costs
• Extensively used Jira, CruiseControl, and TeamCity
• Large batch tests were automatically scheduled for overnight execution
• Worked extensively with the sproutcore JavaScript based framework developers and the remote server team to identify bugs and validate bug fixes
• Reason for leaving: Contractor's whose assigned task is complete

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• Most recently, lead tester on an agile effort to develop a GPS crew training system. The V5.3.5 release is now in regular use by the Air Force. Work is wrapping up the V5.5 training system.
• Verification Validation activities on existing GPSIIF Ground Control software as assigned
• Kalman Filter ephemeris estimation testing
• Responsible for the execution of the 30-Day Unexplained Range Error Test, a key measure of the accuracy of the GPS Kalman Filter
• 12 hour hands on test
• Run at least monthly
• Complex test
• Failover testing
• Oracle Data Guard
• HA IP addresses NFS
• Lead tester on a tiger team to improve restoration of Oracle Data Guard and shared file systems following a failover
• Lead a successful effort to trouble shoot performance problems in a classified lab
• A dozen Sun SPARC servers with VERITAS file systems Quick I/O
• Responsible for writing new and maintained existing Test Case documentation
• Create problem reports ClearQuest as necessary and verify PR Fixes
• Support VBA dxl macro based tools to format Test Cases, Test Reports, and Qualification Cross-reference Reports from DOORS
• Recoded one report to reduce execution time from 56 minutes to less than 15 minutes
• Streamlined and documented process for exporting test cases from DOORS into Word
• Executed DOORS export tools in the classified labs for delivery to Boeing

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• Instituted Independent Verification Validation Acceptance Testing
• Wrote automated GUI based Acceptance tests using FitNesse, AutoIt, Watir, and Faucets
• Applied extensive customization using the Ruby object-oriented programming language
• Created Acceptance test suites and test scenarios for the Site Profiler 4.0 product
• Executed test suites across three major iterations of the Site Profiler 4.0 product
• Developed a Software Quality Assurance and Quality Control process
• Documented the Agile Development process for the entire project lliefecycle
• Modified to add CMMI compliant Quality Assurance review points
• Wrote Software Quality Assurance SQA Plan
• Developed a Quality Assurance process for the Services side of the business
• Authored User Story based requirements including User Role modeling
• Documented Roles and User Stories in XP Tracker

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In charge of QA, reporting directly to the director in charge of requirements, integration, configuration management, and system test

• Wrote use case based requirements for 65 major interfaces
• Previously, Senior Consultant in charge of verification testing of the Loan Processing Component, the core of core . This included integration and system testing.
• Designed and implemented an Excel/VBA application to automate the creation of expected results for loan and packet pool setup and the comparison of expected to actual results. This resulted in a large cost saving in the system testing of loan-packet setup.
• Worked with Business experts to refine the software requirements
• Organized and lead a technical testing effort for Servicing
• Developed a training course to provide an introduction of Fannie Mae's Servicing business to new FTEs.
• Other assignments with Fannie Mae included:
• Lead performance testing of eCommitting,, an Enterprise Java Beans EJB web based application utilizing WebLogic, Sybase and iPlanet. eCommitting is currently in production handling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of commitments each week from lenders. I used Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner as my performance tool. I helped the client determined the business requirements, designed and wrote the scripts, and executed the tests and analyzed the results. Significant performance bottlenecks were identified and solved prior to eCommitting going into production.
• Senior analyst in charge of writing business requirements for a rewrite of the POOL application.
• Senior consultant on the eDelivery project. I assisted the project manager on requirement analysis, integration planning, and test.
• Senior consultant assigned to the Consumer Loan Pilot. I was tasked with developing and writing the test strategy for Fannie Mae's initial push into web based application development.

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Lead Systems Engineer for the Planning Management segment of the GIMDE2000 Operation and Maintenance contract. The National Imagery and Mapping Agency NIMA was the customer and Harris corp. the Prime. My focus was on Engineering Change Proposal evaluation and extensive validation testing of the GIMDE2000 software. Manufacturing Planning APS interfaced with all other management segments so I had to resolve engineering issues in those segments that impacted planning. My last task was to design and execute a major load test of the web-based system using the LoadRunner, WinRunner, andTestDirector tool suite from Mercury Interactive. I used the Vugen robot to record a complex script, parameterized the dynamic HTML, and parameterized the inputs to be read from files.

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Lead Systems Engineer for the Manufacturing Planning management segment of the GIMDE2000 Workflow/Production Planning Program. I evaluated three different Manufacturing Planning tools Manugistics AMS SupplyC, before finally settling on Adexa's Paragon's MCP as well as evaluating two Forecasting tools Manugistics DP and DPEE . I have worked with domain experts from InSynch and the customer to craft the architecture for the Planning management segment. I wrote 21 Use cases describing how to interface a converted customer Oracle RDBMS to the Adexa Material Capacity Planner MCP product. These 21 Use Cases consisted of a total of 498 steps described in 95 pages. I thoroughly tested Verification Validation the resulting software. This task required extensive customer interaction involving one-on-one discussions, Technical Exchange Meetings, Customer Design Reviews, and Engineering Change Board reviews and approvals. I became the Oracle expert for large areas of the database. I created a large amount of the system test data and I worked with the Harris DBA's in an ongoing relationship to make needed changes.

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Lead architect/tester on AIN-IF, a 7 person project to build an interface between WinStar's Customer Service Program CSP andBellcore's ASMS flow-through provisioning product. ASMS provides flow-through provisioning of mass-market AIN services and LNP Local Number Portability services. The Generic Data Interface GDI message interface was bypassed in favor of a direct interface to ASMS' native Oracle RDBMS, greatly reducing the complexity of the solution. I wrote the Requirements Document, the Interface Control Document, and the Acceptance Test Plan as well as numerous white papers and presentations that communicated the architecture to teammates and customers. I successfully sold off the system.

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Lead architect on the Multi-Tier Application Architecture Project MAAP . MAAP's mission was to define the architecture to be used on two top priority distributed projects and by all follow-on projects. FDIC is a Microsoft shop. The focus was on Windows NT 4.0 servers talking to Win95 clients. Technologies utilized included Microsoft Message Queue Server MSMQ , Microsoft Transaction Server MTS , COM/DCOM, SQL Server, and Visual Basic 5.0.

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As a Template representative, consulted on the requirements definition process for a major phase of WinStar's order entry system. Introduced Use Case analysis and an IEEE 1233-1996 IEEE Guide for Developing System Requirements Specifications compliant requirement document geared to support object-oriented development. At Template Software's request, I developed a concept and business plan for a new Template product.

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Used MicroFocus Revolve and GenSys AnalyzeR tools to understand and restructure a large COBOL billing system with the aim of changing how access to data is serialized. Required a detailed understanding of how fields in over 70 production databases are updated across the system. Modules were recoded in both COBOL and Natural.

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Wrote the proposal and then became the Project Manager of a five person team to develop and deploy a Systematic Entomology System SELIS . I wrote the requirements and test plan. I also performed the data conversion, testing and sell-off phases. SELIS was developed using PowerBuilder 5.0 for MS Windows 3.1, Win95, and PowerMacintosh client platforms. The Windows NT server ran Sybases' SQL Anywhere. SELIS has 30 clients.

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Served on an RFP creation team for a large strategic initiative. My role was to help structure and write the RFP and to develop evaluation criteria for RFP responses. Respondents included IBM and Andersen Consulting.

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Interviewed and assembled a team from several consulting companies to write a proposal on behalf of an internal development organization within MCI. Project plan and proposal methodology including formats for deliverables were delivered. A high level architecture was created and work begun on creating the proposal deliverables when the internal customer lost their funding.

February 1996 April 1996 Client: Department of Housing and Urban Development

Developed a Client/server strategy for HUD IT. Results were reported in a 22 foil executive pitch that expanded to a 41 foil software management pitch, that further expanded into a 71 foil developer's pitch. Topics included X/Open Distributed Transaction Management standard, data warehouses, middleware, and object-oriented language choices.

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Project manager and lead architect for World-wide courts Public Safety and Justice . Played a key role in developing the core infrastructure for use across all government industry vertical solutions. Technologies included Template SNAP, Rational/Rose, IBMVisualAge/Smalltalkj, DB2/2, DB2 PE, DB2/AIX, TCP/IP, Lotus and Microsft Suites, and IBM alpha and beta products.

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As an architect and lead consultant, performed on engagements that spanned biomedical e.g. Business Area Analyst for the Red Cross National Biomedical System , insurance, trucking, and utilities with an emphasis in Application Development Effectiveness, an IBM methodology based on the Software Engineering Institute's SEI Capability Maturity Model CMM . Developed an object-oriented mass customization strategy for IBM.

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Lead a team to analyze the feasibility of utilizing Bachman and Knowledgeware products to reengineer IBM's Order Management system. The team built a working prototype before the end of the one-year study.

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Roles included lead troubleshooter during the initial operations of a large, classified system. Presented to the customer'sSoftware and Project Change Control Boards on a regular basis to gain approval for needed changes. Lead the implementation of many of these changes.

• Lead the team that implemented a new, state-of-the-art Software Configuration Management tool. The product, The Software Configuration and Library Manager SCLM is now part of ISPF/PDF for MVS.
• Various roles on the Global Positioning Satellite GPS project:
• Lead trouble shooter.
• Developed a VSAM based database management system for the production system.
• Created a logging and delogging service to aid debugging efforts.
• Designed a high-speed S-band telemetry system.
• Created software development standards for the project.
• Designed, implemented, tested a radar simulator for Cobra Judy.