SUMMARY

Experienced, creative, motivated professional with 20 years of it experience. QA, Release Management, Auditor.

CERTIFIED

ASQ QA Manager, Six Sigma Green Belt, CMMi Certified Interviewer.

EXPERIENCE

Associate Project Manager

Assisted the AVP and Program Managers in the planning, tracking, analysis, and reporting on projects of varying contract type, size, complexity, and level of risk. Communicates and coordinates with all disciplines across the business including Program Management, Technical Staff, Finance, Accounts Receivable, Contracts, Procurement, and Staffing of Resources. Maintained PPM WBS, Staffing, Sharepoint. Created All transformation Review Deck for Sr Leadership.

Confidential

Project Test Manager

Developed all Test strategies were in conjunction with analysis and design. Testers participate in analysis and design to understand project objectives and call out testing concerns. Ensured that test planning is accomplished according to program and project manager expectations. Ensured that test execution is free of variability within QA and testing execution processes and activities to avoid loss of testing time attributable to QA processes

Confidential

Release Specialist

• Oversees one or more large scale releases on an ongoing and regular basis. Takes projects from the start of the release planning phase through final implementation and 2 weeks post implementation. Work closely with the Project Manager and the Tech Leads to gather all information needed related to the project. Developed all detailed work plans, schedules, ensures resources are planned and develops status reports. Conducts release meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis. Works as a safeguard to production insuring the highest quality of product delivered to the business. Act as subject matter expert, in release methodology. Ensure that application release deliverables adhere to required standards and manage project, service request interdependencies to ensure release delivery and integrity.
• SOX focal Point for the Release Management Control Drive the process improvements with application owners, organization dept in support of the critical business processing need. Coordinate all SOX auditing activities for Release Management. When OCI's are received, work with application owners, and all areas involved and create the remediation plan.

Confidential

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created and worked with PM and Test Manager to ensure that all planning activities and artifacts were completed and resources were in place for each scheduled and non-scheduled release.
• Created and implemented all artifacts for each release, created the following, test strategies, test plans, and test scripts, etc.
• Accurately reflect business usage with effectively testing appropriate level of functionality, and meeting all business requirements, ensuring different types of testing and testing methodologies Systems Acceptance, Functional, Integration, Release, and Regression were in place.
• Ensured that all test scripts accurately reflected the test strategies and plans, added all test scripts with expected results and requirements into the Quality center.
• Assisted with Resource planning and staffing when planning and forecasting for a release, scheduled all walkthroughs with the IT and Business community.
• Effectively managed test execution for multiple applications and releases simultaneously.
• Worked effectively with outsourced, offshore resources and manage onsite team, tracked and logged all defects, facility all defect triage meetings, between the IT and Business communities.
• Strong understanding of testing cycles, their outcomes and their relevance to follow-on testing cycles and the ability to leverage prior test outcomes for defect management, risk mitigation, requirement verification and metric generation and reporting.
• Have the ability to put resulting test scenarios into action by creating those artifacts needed to set up, run, and maintain functional test integrity i.e. test cases, scripts, test data, defects logging, metrics generation, and reporting, etc. .
• Identifies all data requirements to cover high risk/high impact business scenarios.
• Mentored less experienced QA resources on the following activities: On writing test scripts and creating the master test plan and executing those test scripts.
• Conducted a training program for all new QA Testers, both on-site and offshore resources.
• As member of the QA Community working with the QA Test Managers in the IT Community to implement a standardization of Quality Assurance Methodology, created policies, procedures, toolsets and artifacts.

Confidential

Multi-Function Project Manager IT Auditor

Responsibilities:

Ensure that all projects were audited for internal documentation, product, process and requirements as required by Sarbanes Oxley and CMMI product and processes.

Audit areas included:

• Change Management, Release controls, security, and IT process controls against SOX compliance.
• Compared the Control activities to the APLC to ensure the policies, procedures and practices put into place met CMMI and business objectives, achieved and risk mitigation strategies are carried out.
• Confirmed the following SOX Controls listed below are some of the controls but not all controls that were confirmed where at least as good if not better then what is required for CMMI:
• The audit will consist of reviewing all project documentation: Project Plan, Statement of Work, Configuration Management Plan, Communication Plan, Master Test Strategy, Risk Assessment, Level 1 2 meeting agenda meeting minutes, Risks and Issue, and the validation to ensure that all risks and issues have been tracked to closure and many other required documents

Confidential

Quality Assurance Manager

Confidential

Senior QA / Business Analyst

Confidential

QA Lead / Co-Project Manager for CMM effort

Confidential

QA Lead/Tester