SUMMARY:

Confidential is an intuitive software engineer with a proven record of performance across large scale technologies to maintain IT initiatives that support key business processes. He offers nineteen years of experience and strong functional and systems knowledge. Focal industries include federal agencies, financial management, clinical healthcare, online travel services, and mortgage securities.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Project Management (PMP in progress); Team Leadership; IT Infrastructure Design
• Performance Engineering; Performance Testing (HP LoadRunner, HP Performance Center)
• Functional Test Automation (Selenium, Cucumber, Watir, HP Quick Test Professional, HP Quality Center)
• Software Development (Agile, Scrum, Kanban; Waterfall; Ruby, GIT; MS Project, SharePoint)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lanham, MD

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Performance Engineering projects across multiple releases to production.
• Developed policy and procedures pertaining to requirements development, quality assurance, and change management.
• Analyzed data to demonstrate Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance and to develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Presented weekly summaries to federal executives.
• Reviewed work requests for schedule, resource, and cost impact to project plans.
• Worked closely with external system development and test teams (Agile and Waterfall) on program implementation, project execution, and guidance.
• Provided leadership to engineering teams across the software development life cycle to achieve on time delivery.
• Provided guidance and implemented best practices towards the development and maintenance of automation frameworks (HP and Selenium).
• Developed a working cadence with internal teams to review and update program plans and initiatives.
• Performed analysis of project data on program impact and conducted lessons learned activities to determine future program direction.
• Coordinated activities to support clear communications with internal and external stakeholder groups.
• Maintained project schedules and budgets per existing processes.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed a test automation framework for regression and functional testing of a wide variety of Enterprise applications.
• Designed the architecture of the automation framework for a modular approach to automation.
• Created schedules for test automation and created requirement traceability matrices.
• Mentored functional test analysts to follow automation scripting standards.
• Coordinated the development and maintenance of automation code.
• Participated in daily Scrum sessions with development and stakeholders.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Chief, Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Directed Quality Assurance efforts for the certification of regularly scheduled system upgrades, major functional changes, and new application releases.
• Managed a test team consisting of manual and automation testers.
• Initiated and managed projects to implement HP Quality Center and HP Quick Test Professional.
• Developed standard operating procedures related to quality assurance, specifically test case development and automated script development.
• Managed various test cycles including quality assurance, security, user acceptance, and pilot application release.
• Coordinated security testing activities and security compliance milestones with the agency security chief.
• Developed and maintained automation scripts to regression test web based applications.

Confidential, Falls Church, Virginia

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed automated test scripts to perform end to end clinical encounters.
• Provided back end test support to manual and automated test teams.
• Created SQL scripts to regression test database processes.
• Researched database performance and process improvements.
• Developed requirements and test plans for database processes on remote servers.

Confidential, Vienna, Virginia

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the automated regression testing of 3 builds of a web based application.
• Coordinated regression test runs prior to build deployments.
• Presented regression test results to the PMO.
• Mentored test automation engineers to follow code development standards.
• Documented test activities using Mercury Quality Center.
• Trained manual testers to use Mercury Quick Test Pro and Mercury Quality Center.
• Assessed manual test cases to identify tests suitable for automation.
• Developed automated scripts to query the application database and verify test data.
• Tracked and reported PTRs generated by the test automation team.

Confidential, Washington, DC

IT Specialist - Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed automated scripts for Confidential applications.
• Trained manual testers in the development of business test components to be utilized with Quick Test Pro.
• Created and managed application projects within Quality Center to track functional test plans.
• Utilized Mercury Quick Test Pro 9 for the development of functional test scripts.

Confidential, Washington, DC

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of test engineers to develop functional and load test scripts for PeopleSoft HR applications.
• Collaborated with production liaison teams to develop functionally accurate test procedures.
• Prepared extensive test data sets based on actual production data.
• Utilized Mercury Quick Test Pro 9 for the development of functional test scripts.
• Utilized Mercury Load Runner 7 for the development of load and performance tests.

Confidential, Fairfax, Virginia

IT Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Developed Mercury WinRunner test automation scripts for an online travel application.
• Utilized SQL Server Enterprise Manager to manage automation script parameters.
• Utilized Secure Shell Client on a UNIX platform to validate script results.
• Completed an upgrade from Mercury Test Director to Mercury Quality Center.
• Administered the Quality Center environment for the system test team.
• Refined system processes to optimize the collection of project metrics.

Confidential, Chantilly, Virginia

IT Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Managed a Mercury WinRunner automated test project for online government immigration applications.
• Completed an automation upgrade from Mercury WinRunner to Mercury Quick Test.
• Developed automated test projects for PeopleSoft Human Resources and Financial applications
• Performed automated system load testing using Mercury Load Runner.
• Lead the implementation of test automation in a web publishing environment.
• Configured and maintained a Windows NT server for use by Quality Assurance.
• Managed the automated regression testing of a clinical healthcare application.
• Consolidated all field data for periodic application performance summary reports.
• Developed manual and automated test scripts for a People Soft Human Resources application.
• Completed a quality assurance transition from Rational to Mercury test tools.
• Automated the manual test plan for a life insurance management application.
• Developed COBOL programs for a state department financial system.
• Compiled program requirements and performed peer code reviews.