SUMMARY:

Ten years of proven leadership in running Software Quality Assurance Projects. Possess strong command of project management methodologies and a proven ability to apply innovative approach to software quality assurance and compliance. Have effectively and successfully completed complex and multi - faceted projects across multiple geographic locations, on time and under budget. Highly skilled in prioritizing, organizing and planning project tasks. Able to develop and motivate exceedingly focused teams to successfully complete and deliver high quality software products.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager / IT Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project consisted of supplying farm equipments and training small farmers on modern technology- assisted farming, for high yield and sustainable production.
• Coordinated technology selection and level of automation and mechanization applicable for all 100 farms admitted to the pilot program.
• Oversee farm management software development activities.
• Supervised trainers and measured program success against pre defined goals.
• Trained farmers on assisted techniques of horticulture with the aid of mechanized engines, automatic irrigation systems, mobile computers, Geographic Information System and Global Positioning System (GPS) to grow the crops, and aid minimize the use of pesticides by monitoring their utility and effects on the environment.
• Completed project successfully on time and 10% under the 20 millions us dollar budgeted

Test Architect / Manager

Confidential, LaGrange, GA

Responsibilities:

• Develop and hire personnel for a newly created quality assurance department.
• Manage all aspects of software quality engineering policies and implementations, including legacy and web applications.
• Confidential the Quality Assurance effort of the increased web presence and the development of a new Online Order Management Application.
• Write policies and procedures pertaining to the day to day functioning and operations of the department.
• Cross train other IT members as testing resources.
• Develop test strategy, test plan, test scenarios and test cases for SQA project.
• Provide training on Requirements gathering and definition for the business team.
• Manage testing and defect management, along with daily reporting of tests status to project sponsors.
• Plan testing schedule and resource allocation.
• Lead End to End testing efforts, including application interfaces, new reports, new developments, data conversions and data migrations.
• Integrate process analysis and process improvement efforts into each phase of the software development life cycle.
• Managed software verification and validation (V&V), document control, requirements management, defect management, software process improvement, project management/coordination, write technical and end user’s manual, Generate progress and success metrics, manage a staff of 16.
• Educate and advocate stakeholders on the value and importance of QA.
• Define software QA and release management processes; apply industry best practices such as Six Sigma concept to product development.

Senior QA Architect

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Confidential Broadband Transformation test team responsible for the migration of active customer databases from the legacy systems, Oracle CRM and BizTalk to a new Siebel CRM.
• Confidential with Business Analysts and Technical Architects to help define, interpret and or clarify the system and functional requirements specs.
• Analyze and document existing business processes, identify issues, challenges and opportunities associated with business processes, testing processes, and related system activities.
• Create Test Strategies and Test Plans to map to every Business Requirement, including, business or operational scenarios.
• Define Test Approach for entire system, based on the V-Model. Design use cases using Microsoft Visio.
• Serve as defect administrator; designed and deploy a defect management process, and interact daily with development managers for defect assignments and resolutions, ensures fixes are retested successfully. Supervise the Test team and act as liaison between different teams. Maintain the metrics dashboard for reporting to senior management.

Senior QA Consultant

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Develop overall testing strategy and work plans for the validation of application enhancements and defect resolutions
• Design, Develop, Review and Update test plans. Serve as Subject Matter Expert for several functional areas (Retail Front-end Systems).
• Manage the escalation of defect assignments and resolution by reviewing all defects for validity, duplication and relevance (in accordance with documented requirements and specifications) prior to submission.
• Perform End-to-End Integration and regression testing for the POS System Software.
• Test web applications and measure end to end performance using LoadRunner, diagnose application and system bottlenecks.
• Assist with the cross-validation of test scripts executed by other team members, to include verification of test conditions, test data, and actual results.
• Log defect s and manage to successful resolution.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Review system requirement documents and system external specifications of new and/or existing systems.
• Develop and perform System, Integration and User Acceptance Testing. Escalate showstoppers to the Project Director using Test Director.
• Review test plans for the POS system enhancements; execute test scripts, enter and manage defects using Test Director.
• Perform extensive SQL queries to retrieve data for validation and verification.
• Determine project readiness for field implementation by testing systems, running simulations and approving user requirements.
• Perform Java based back end and front end testing. Write and execute test cases to ensure requirements have been met.
• Perform regression testing after new fixes & or modification of the POS systems software or its functions.
• Support about 2000 company retail stores with POS systems software and hardware problems.

Software QA Analyst / Application Support

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Gather and interpret requirements based on functionality.
• Develop test plan and test scripts.
• Perform manual functional and regression testing of web applications.
• Design new Quality Assurance processes and procedures.
• Define appropriate QA metrics to track testing and defect improvement progress to judge against software quality expectation.
• Communicate daily with developers regarding change requests and bug reports.
• Perform acceptance testing including Operating System and System Platform Compatibility Testing, Application Security Testing.
• Write user’s manual and provide help desk support for custom developed applications.