SUMMARY:

• Test Manager to the Confidential contract, overseeing two Project Managers and twenty five testers at the Washington DC.
• Leadership assets & knowledge of test processes, Independent multi - tasker, experience with SDLC process, Proficient with Test Strategy, Project Plans & Estimates of large scale multi-tiered enterprise applications.
• Adaptability to new technologies, team work, interpersonal skills, mentoring Project Leads/Analyst & direct high performance individuals, organizational and verbal/written communication skills, excellent analytical, problem-solving technical/non-technical abilities

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, Virginia

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Test Manager assigned to a critical and highly visible USCIS project to lead a test team with growth up to 30 test engineers.
• Responsible for conducting daily test status meetings and presenting to the government program staff on a regular and consistent basis.
• Demonstrate a strong background in testing, cost estimating and has very good soft skills managing a large team as well as interfacing with the customer.
• Project consist of seven work streams each involving test automation utilizing Rational test tools and Section 508 testing.

Confidential, Dulles, Virginia

Deputy Program Manager

• Support the IV&V Program Manager in the pursuit of his responsibilities
• Manage IV&V program risks
• Coordinate with IV&V Project Managers on the IV&V project risk management to ensure consistency
• Manage the IV&V financial resources
• Manage the IV&V program communications
• Coordinate with IV&V Project Managers on IV&V project communications to ensure consistency
• Manage the DC site IV&V operations
• Contribute to the IV&V Program Management Plan & its updates
• Collect & submit information to the IV&V Information Repository
• Lead weekly IV&V management team meetings

Confidential, Seabrook, Maryland

Senior QA Consultant

• Serves as central point of contact for quality assurance
• Participate in Program Management meetings to assure overall project compliancy
• Provides information related to applying the Quality System to the project, development of project QA processes, procedures documentation and schedules compliant to IS9000 standard and guidelines
• Produces and maintains the Quality Assurance Plan to established and developed QA process and procedures for SDLC
• Ensures that all project staff are familiar with the Quality Assurance Plan and its processes
• Schedules and participates in quality reviews
• Identifies quality issues and/or potential problems with products or services
• Communicates with United States Government Officials and project team to ensure quality issues are addressed and resolved via monthly status reports
• Creates and maintains a QA activity log for tracking all deliverables. Monitors progress of the deliverables to determine trending on process activities.
• Ensures WINS Team produces and delivers high quality products and services
• Verify and validate that all requirements are being satisfied within the application in accordance to functionality, performance, HIPAA and 508 compliance
• Manages the QA Integrated Project Team to include documentation reviews and walkthroughs, develop checklists, QA oversight, and performed QA audits

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Senior IV&V Consultant

• Reviewed DOC COOP and NTIS IT Security Contingency Plan and updated the IT Security Contingency section of the NTIS SSP
• Provided recommendations that identify and document potential threats, design flaws or weaknesses that could exploit HRWorX EOD Online System based on the latest security scans.
• Validate the identification of flaws or weaknesses in the security posture of the HRWorX EOD Online System and document them in the SSP and Security Assessment Report
• Complete discussion with Chief IT Security Officer concerning overall NTIS risk profile
• Complete assessment for the rescanning and verification of the security posture of the NTIS internal and external network segments and analyze and documented the findings
• Provided final review for the revised SSP, SAR and POAM to customer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior QA/Test Consultant

• Developed the Master Test Plan for the overall test approach enterprise wide as per IEEE standard and guidelines
• Established SQA/Test milestones and schedule using MS Project
• Established SQA process and procedures utilizing “Quality Checklist” forms to account for the execution status of all tested applications as part of the SQC “Quality Gate” activity
• Analyzed specifications and test plan for the testing process of all Desktop Applications
• Coordinated the development of test cases after analyzing the Specifications Document
• Developed Base line scripts for testing the future releases of the application using Mercury Quality Center
• Coordinated the developed test scripts for performance and data driven tests using Loadrunner
• Conducted Master Test Plan walkthrough as part of the Quality Gate activity to specifically address accessibility of the JAWS application to test 508 Compliance for Web base applications Mint wide
• Participated in the Configuration Control Board (CCB) and Technical Readiness Review (TRR) activities
• Performed QA reviews for all required project documentation as related to SEI-CMM level 3
• Conducted functionality, security tests, GUI tests and regression testing during the various phases of the application using Mercury QC
• Performed tests of the application on various versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator and MAC browsers.
• Tested connection between web, database and application server.
• Executed the test scripts using Mercury QC and analyzed the results
• Recorded field problems and defects into Heat system
• Managed project defects and issues in the PVCS Tracker tool
• Provided project management with daily on-going status
• Interacted with the development, test leads and business users to resolve issues
• Implemented a mentor/protégée program to assist the user community during UAT
• Provide project metrics as part of the test summary report to the program management team

Confidential, Silver Spring, Maryland

Senior QA/Test Consultant

• Managed and mentored a team of four (4) QA Analyst/Testers to in corporate HIPAA requirements throughout the SDLC test process
• Development of project test processes, procedures documentation and schedules compliant to IS9000 standard and guidelines
• Perform documentation reviews and walkthroughs, test script execution, test coordination, data validation and performed SQA audits
• Implement test cases/test scripts, map requirements, generate metrics for reporting using Test Director
• Participate in Program Management meetings to assure overall project compliancy
• Established and developed SDLC test process and procedures, test documentation,
• Versed with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) / Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Priority 1, Priority 2 and Priority 3 Guidelines and U.S. Section-508 Guidelines.
• Provided mentoring of testers and overall test management for the ASP.NET/SQL Server 2005 application.
• Test tools used were Mercury Test Director, Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server and Snagit.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior IT Consultant

• Development of test documentation, and performed quality review with project team
• Lead a SQA/Test team to perform test execution (Pricing work-stream), IP coordination with Integration Groups, managed a team to perform data validation, and provided direct reporting to Sr. Management.
• Other duties were to develop and implement test cases/test scripts, map requirements (RTM), generate metrics for reporting via the Mercury Quality Center tool and participate in Quality Gates to assure overall project compliancy.
• Implementation Release Manager for Multifamily Housing Community Development (HCD) CORE projects
• Provide production support via submit change requests, solicit approvals, track change tickets, validated implementation process for each release using Remedy tool
• Provide updated Problem Reports to entire project team utilizing Rational Clear Quest. System SQA Test Lead for Multifamily Housing Community Development CORE projects Oversee and managed test team for the Multifamily Housing Community Development CORE project, which includes a suite of applications (Slice & Dice, Reports & Comments, Sub-ledger, Asset Ratings, Lender Dashboard, and Syndicator Dashboard).
• Developed and implemented functional, system integration and acceptance test documentation for the HCD Core system.
• Conducted all SQA review activities for requirements, design assessment, test plan walkthroughs and test summary reports with the project team
• Managed all SQC activities during the project SDLC
• Verified business functionality for the HCD application (front-end) by performing quality review and QA audits of project documentation.
• Validated the data integrity of data flowing through the Extraction Transform & Loading (ETL) processes (back-end) from source systems to flatten files to (Oracle) IDB.
• Managed testers uses of the AB Initio tool set.
• Conducted Daily Test Status meetings with project core team in adherence with SEI-CMM level 3.
• Maintained the Functional Requirements Matrix (FRM) and provided to senior management weekly.
• Executed team building plan by conducting interviews of key technical members for hire

Confidential, Bowie, Maryland

Consultant

• Developed and implemented marketing strategies for maintenance contractor to procure business services contracts for commercial cleaning.
• Prepare cost assessments for clients (MS Excel spreadsheet).
• Oversee and manage business service projects (MS Project).
• Provide project management for various sub-contracts (i.e., AMC Theaters, Abercrombie & Fitch franchises, After Hours Formal wear franchises, etc.)

Confidential, Hanover, Maryland

SQA/Test Lead - Independent Consultant

• Provided gap analysis against AMS and SMRT applications and reported the results to the project manager.
• Developed the SMRT requirement document matrix with traceability to the design specification
• Provided design assessment for the SMRT User Interface mock-ups
• Developed the User Guide for the Corporate Calendar to AMS synchronization process

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Consultant -Quality Assurance Test Lead

• Conducted SQA review of project documentation and procedures prior to the start of testing
• Performed testing for interfaces of the AMCAS Post Submission Changes test items with other applications and systems.
• Performed testing for Phase I Mark Transcripts, Phase II SDS (Supporting Document System) and Phase III: OIT Workflow, OIT Verification Queue and Verification, database tables; cron jobs; Use Cases as scripts for testing each item, and status reporting. System contains Cold Fusion, Java, Java Beans, and XML.
• Tested both backend (via Quest System TOAD Test tool) and front-end processes. Verified data in SQL. Created SQL scripts for UML test plans and test cases.
• Performed functional testing and assisted user acceptance testing for all releases prior to acceptance into production environment.
• Tasks utilized WinRunner, Test Director, during RAD (Rapid Application Development)