SUMMARY:

• Test Architect Testing Validation Build - Out Solutions Stakeholder Engagement Cross-Functional Team Lead Automation Tooling
• Seasoned test manager and test architect possessing abilities to lay out pathways of improvements to affect change across testing communities as well as authoring frameworks and evaluating environments to create effective, complex tests.
• Drive quality resolutions involving identification of complex and problematic infrastructure deficiencies.
• Capable of bringing innovative schematic proposals while focusing on long-term outcomes improving quality practices for engineering teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Testing Plan & Design | Defect Management | Pushing testing to the left | Test Automation | Test Architect | Custom Testing Solutions
• Stakeholder Engagement | Quality Assurance | Agile Methodology | Process Improvement | Vendor Management | Proof of Concept
• Code Refactoring | Performance Load Testing | Scrum Master | Service Oriented Architecture | Automation Framework | Project Manager
• Java | PERL | Selenium Webdriver | SOAP UI | Quality Center | Jira | Python | Node.JS |
• VBA | UFT | Rest Services | MySQL | SQL Server | AWS | Hadoop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Researched and developed plans to implement Test Driven Development in NDX Oneview program.
• Designed end to end testing data strategy to allow 35 scrum teams to share one continuous flow of data including ingestion, update and client delivery.
• Conducted POC’s on Node.JS and Java Selenium frameworks to select acceptable tools aligning Tool Stack placement for NDX NES and NDX Oneview.
• Mentored and guided quality and efficient coding for technical team.
• Developed testing strategy for two NDX towers to lock together testing efforts.

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed 10 different, mostly offshore, teams over a four year period. The team sizes ranged from 2 - 20 with a maximum of four teams at any given time.
• Represented testing efforts for each project in weekly project meetings as well as quarterly tower meetings.
• Developed manual and automated testing strategy and test results for each project.
• Developed performance testing strategies, developed scheduling roll out, and documented results.
• Aligned with global stakeholders to validate testing strategies to overcome stated requirements, presented findings of test status, and determined improvements to testing protocols.
• Mentored offshore leads to ensure that they could successfully work with onshore project team.
• Delivered process upgrading endeavors in preparation for automated test cases involving review and refactoring to lessen script maintenance.
• Smoothed the progression of test efforts for Music Connect, NISP, Answers Desktop, DIPE, RTLA, Answer Portal, Light HHT environments.

Confidential, Fairfield, OH

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Converted file transfers from company’s homegrown antiquated system to Metastorm Integration Manager MFT consisting of 140 transfers among 20 development teams.
• Steered agile project to improve customer interfacing online web services portal by delivering a PCI compliant payment engine enhancing usability to payment site.
• Secured and negotiated vendor contracts and coordinated the contribution between multiple departments.
• Deployed electronic notifications and electronic billing, improved policy holder’s experience, and maneuvered IT towards a Service-Oriented Architect (SOA) framework.

Automated CoE Manager

Responsibilities:

• Championed CoE concept with in IT and then built the team once funded.
• Launched and led software C# development team focused on creating tools for enterprise testing team.
• Managed a team of 5 functional automation testers, 4 performance testers, 2 tool administrators and 6 C# tool developers.
• Dotted line managed additional 10 automation engineers and approximately 80 manual testers from other teams as it related to test design and automation.
• Instituted formalized code reviews to ensure quality code was delivered reducing defects, increasing quality, and improving customer satisfaction.
• Championed a $750K project to replace previous Compuware toolset with Mercury/HP and conducted POC trials for multiple vendors.
• Laid foundation of automated functional testing practices encompassing initial design and coding.
• Instrumental in architecting automated testing design to enforce reusability of code pushing business logic to functional testers and pioneered automated testing practices reducing inefficient manual regressions.
• Created performance testing team and championed performance testing across the enterprise.
• Resolved performance issues on high profile, troubled projects persuading buy in from IT team.
• Continued working with Senior Manager to grow enterprise group into 5 teams representing the business areas of the company. Participated in the selection and hiring of each of the managers for these teams.
• Assisted with interviewing and hiring of approximately 200 resources in all teams in the group.

Testing Manager

Responsibilities:

• Administered guidance to 40 test team associates releasing company’s flagship project prior to production release.
• Developed and implemented all processes and procedures for new testing group.
• Defect Tracking, Test Planning, Test Design, Post release review and improvement.
• Mentored senior manager and other associates on testing processes and procedures.
• Crafted test tracking tool to reduce labor intensive archaic method of reporting failed test cases.
• Designed strategy to improve testing effort to be more stable and reliable.
• Partnered with project management on wholistic approach for the new test team since it was being inserted project already in flight.
• Worked with Senior Manager to begin growing group from the initial 5 employees to a total of 120 employees.
• Interviewed and hired 10 manual testing resources to fill in gaps in the team.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Tester/Developer

• Collaborated with extreme programming team to plan, test, implement, and execute code development utilizing LAMP tool stack.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Programmer

• Gathered technical requirements and developed PERL and Oracle interfaces for Chartmax system and workflow applications for Optimax system.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Technical Tester

• Contracted through Indecon to design, document, and develop automated testing for medical management systems via Rational’s SQA database driven framework based design.