SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Approximately 5 years software development experience in C and Fortran.
• Utilized Object-Oriented programming in automated test products.
• Formally recognized for excellent work as the primary Quality Assurance resource for requirements definition, requirements traceability matrix, test development, test data, test execution, user acceptance testing, and deployment for a highly successful very low production defect rate enterprise wide project that saved company in excess of 1M.
• Developed test plans and automated and manual test scripts and then conducted tests for acoustic, petrophysical, and geophysical software on a relational database, enterprise retail financial systems, security, system operating system and control center software, software applications, microprocessors, Video and Audio encoding and decoding, firmware, printed circuit boards, motherboards, CAE/CAD gate array and PCB software, multimedia and Internet protocol, and GUI interface software.
• Led combined software and hardware projects to completion within the time allotted by customer.

LANGUAGES TECHNOLOGIES

Oracle 11g, Oracle VM VirtualBox, SQL, and DBA I II, HTML and Java Programming, Webmaster Series, Microsoft Certified System Administrator MCSA - Microsoft Certified System Engineer MCSE , Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server TFS , Microsoft Test Manager MTM , Coded UI, QA Partner, Test Director, QTP, Quality Center/ALM, Visual Studio/ Visual Basic, Assembly Language instruction sets for Microprocessors, Java, C, C , XML, FORTRAN, GUI, Pascal, DOS, VAX/VMS, UNIX, Solaris, DEC/Ultrix, Interleaf, Apollo/Aegis, Point of Service POS , WordPerfect, Microsoft Windows 3.1, 4.0, 95, 98, NT, Windows 2000, XP , OO Design, NextStep, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Products Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project, Windows Server 2003 , RAID, SCSI, Adobe Framemaker, ClearCase SQL product , Microware OS, MPEG, Sarnoff Compliance testing, Video and Audio encoding and decoding, Low level network theory and algorithms, PAL, NTSC, TCP, UDP, IP, Telnet, FTP, PPP over serial, DSL, ADSL, Gaming, SCART, IR Keyboard.

PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY

Confidential

Technical Professional, Software Testing

• Developed and executed manual and automated tests for acoustic, petrophysical, and geophysical well logging applications.
• Led 2 offshore testing teams from team inception using Agile/Scrum methodology with Microsoft Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server TFS , and Microsoft Test Manager.
• Developed manual regression test suite from ground up.
• Trained myself and team members in Coded UI automated testing.
• Designed geophysical test cases by manipulating data in a relational database.

Confidential

R and D System Software Tester, Engineering Scientist

Developed and executed tests for the GPS Monitor Station Network on Solaris systems in a secure environment.

Confidential

Software Quality/Test Analyst

Analyzed requirements, procedures, and processes in the HCP Fee Program.

Confidential

Business Analyst/Quality Analyst

• Wrote requirements for 4 different application improvement projects.
• Tested defect corrections in 4 different ASP .Net applications.
• Implemented HP Quality Center/ALM projects for 16 different applications.
• Developed automated tests on Visual Studio platform in Visual Basic for 2 different applications using HP QTP tool.

Confidential

Substitute Teacher

Confidential

Senior IT Quality Analyst/Software and Systems Testing

• Store Associate
• Formally recognized for QA/Test excellence for 18 month project with special achievement marks for Deliver Results , Champions Business Processes , Works to Improve the Business , and Helps Our Customers . Coached development engineers from service providers on the XML interface to Home Depot systems and User Acceptance Testing.
• Wrote test plans, test cases, and test scripts for requirements traceability and then executed tests in Test Director/Quality Center on enterprise-wide user applications and systems architecture for dozens of releases and at least 30 different applications including POS.
• Held daily defect meeting and sent out daily defect metrics report with risk threat assessment during test execution cycles.
• Led Offshore QA teams through at least 5 successful new software/hardware development and defect fix test projects.
• Found >66 of the defects approximately 74 out of 90 with 3 other engineers in test group during one major phase of a project.
• Taught at least three PowerPoint Lunch 'n Learn sessions on legacy systems which had SQL database interfaces and the legacy systems relationship to the new custom Siebel interface systems. These presentation materials became essential training for new test and development engineers.
• Developed test data beds in custom Siebel databases.
• Trained development engineers on user scenarios and collated cheat sheet with links, data, and processing information which was widely used by test and development team during development and system testing.
• Conducted security testing based on user profiles with various access privileges from low to system administrator rights.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer/Test Equipment/Software and Systems Testing

• Held weekly Defect Meeting. This meeting primarily involved working with all functional managers and project managers to advise defect status and to obtain and maintain current information in defect database. Pushed issues through resolution with development.
• Tested software, firmware, and hardware in advanced video streaming set-top box, the Streamaster product line. The Streamaster hosted many newer technologies at the time, including Microware OS, MPEG, Sarnoff Compliance testing, Video and Audio encoding and decoding, Low level network theory and algorithms, PAL, NTSC, TCP, UDP, IP, Telnet, FTP, PPP over serial, DSL, ADSL, Gaming, SCART, and IR Keyboard.
• Researched, devised, and gave presentation to test team on ATM MPEG-2 video, audio, and data streams and which packets in these streams were utilized by which components on the Streamaster motherboard and peripherals.
• Primary system administrator and procurement engineer for system lab setup. While the need for such a twenty station stable configuration was initially doubted, the decreased development time, increased defect detection and replication, and increased product quality even had the development team converted and demanding test time on the lab stations.
• Wrote RFP for 2 test projects, sent out RFP to multiple contract companies, monitored the companies and answered questions during their proposal development, presented proposals and made recommendations for successful bid to management. After contract was awarded, served as technical liaison to clarify and resolve issues.

Confidential

Software Consultant/Software and Systems Testing/Project Management

• Led ICS08CP20 Development Tools Project to completion on time. Earned complement from experienced manager, who said many seasoned managers wouldn't have done as well. This effort required coordinating outside vendors and internal effort to provide a combined HW, SW, documentation, and test solution for approximately 25 deliverables encompassing project stages from development through manufacturing.
• Wrote test plans, procedures, and reports for multiple successful OTP ICS microprocessor development tools projects. The development tools exercised assembly language instruction set inputs and outputs from newly and specifically designed test Printed Circuit Boards PCBs and custom interface software to the new microprocessors.