Summary

I’m a Software Quality Assurance professional experienced in writing modularized verification scripts with an in-depth application development background. Being a detail oriented and resourceful scripter in automating complex objects and applications plus extensive software development experience has provided me the insight to understand software architecture necessary to overcome unexpected results encountered during the automation process. I have delivered QA solutions with the following technologies:

Quicktest Professional

Quality Center

Loadrunner

Winrunner

VBScript

WMI

These have been used on the following types of applications:

Terminal Emulator

HTML

SQL

Java

Powerbuilder

EDI – Medicaid data

XML

Web services

Travel availability: 100%

Relevant Experience

Software Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Confidential,Tampa, FL 03/07-07/10
Confidential,tested and modularized Winrunner and Quicktest Professional validation and VuGen performance scripts: Perot Systems (Peradigm/Xcelys), a Powerbuilder/Oracle based system using PL/SQL for backend verification, EDI health care data verification and performance (such as 834 enrollment and 837 claims/encounters), HTML and web service functional and performance testing. Q Continuum functional testing. These were organized in Quality Center 10.

Software Quality Assurance Tester – Consultant

Confidential,St. Petersburg, FL 03/06-12/06
Coupon generation system: Wrote, tested and modularized Quicktest Professional validation scripts for a Windows/Oracle system using SQL to retrieve backend records. Multilingual data (English Japanese and French), Sheridan Data Widgets, Descriptive Programming and use of Regular Expressions in the Object Repository were involved in this automation and validation. These were organized in Quality Center 8.2.

Confidential,Warren, NJ 10/05-01/06
Government securities trading system: Wrote Quality Assurance automation scripts in Quicktest to test Java based and generic (unknown source) Windows based trading system used by major securities dealers involving $50+ million transactions.

Confidential,Atlanta, GA 07/05-10/05
Commercial banking system: Wrote Quality Assurance automation scripts to test Web based commercial banking system with Winrunner 7.6 (C based script) and organized them in Mercury TestDirector

Confidential,Dunwoody, GA 09/04-05/05
Confidential,Wrote Quality Assurance automation scripts to test the Holidex system with its Terminal Emulator interface using Mercury QuickTest Professional 8.2 (VB Script based), set up, administered and maintained Mercury TestDirector, wrote workflow scripts for customization to track and report the defects. Performed installation and technical support of Mercury products at the client and server level as well as trained company employees on the use of the scripts and defect tracking.

Windows Developer - Consultant

Confidential,Alpharetta, GA 04/04-07/04
Developed OLE (Excel to Access and Access to Excel) system in VBA for custom budgeting/reporting system

Confidential,Stone Mountain, GA 07/03-02/04
Built Bill of Material generator, model number builder by mapping compressor characteristics to digits, corrected invalid model numbers (validity checking) in MS-Access and VBA.

Confidential,Alpharetta, GA 02/01-04/02
Built various web based database interfaces using ASP, HTML, Javascript, ODBC to Oracle back end, wrote ETL processes in Ab Initio including implementation of multivariate regression, also some Visual Basic 6.0 front ends.

Confidential,Tucker, GA 08/00-01/01
Built electricity trade tracking system using Sybase, VBA including Excel and Word Macros, COM and ADO

Confidential,Earth City, MO 03/00-07/00
Built physician sample control system using Visual Basic 6.0, VBA including Excel and Word Macros, Crystal Reports 8.0, MS-SQL Server 7.0 with some simple ASP intranet reporting pages and exporting data to XML files.

Confidential,Creve Coeur, MO 01/00-05/00
Enhanced employee tracking system using Visual Basic 6.0, VBA (Excel and Word Macros), Crystal Reports 5.0

Confidential,Maryland Heights, MO 09/99-11/99
Built employee benefits reporting system using Crystal Reports 7.0 and Access 97.

Confidential,Fenton, MO 05/99-09/99
Made enhancements to a Visual Basic v6.0 three tier customer survey system using COM and Data Access Objects (DAO) and managed the components using Microsoft Transaction Server

Confidential,Maryland Heights, MO – 06/98-04/99
Built and Enhanced OLAP front ends using Visual Basic class modules that call the Essbase API with Excel as the front end using Excel forms as the GUI; Converted amateur built Access Databases into smoothly operating applications with a professionally functioning Graphical User Interface (GUI); Replaced a large unmanageable collection of stored queries with built in SQL strings and buttons with VBA code instead of macros

Confidential,Brentwood, MO – 03/97-06/98
Built nationwide mail list generator multi-user database with 98 million records and over 60 variables (25 Gigabytes) which used dynamically changing SQL Strings and temporary ISAMs in Visual Basic for Applications; This involved careful fine tuning indexes to produce reasonable response times; Set up 40GB SCSI hard drive tower with a fault-tolerant (RAID-5) configuration in Windows NT version 4

Confidential,Hazelwood, MO - 09/96-04/97
Developed high volume duplicate record trapping system in MS-Access including careful use of indexes, Visual Basic for Applications and Windows 32-bit APIs to make needed functions not native to MS-Access and enable faster more efficient processing; also used SQL code to build queries that could not be made with the QBE grid, including SQL pass-through queries. Built ddfs because the source data had to be extracted from Btrieve files; also installed and fine tuned Btrieve ODBC drivers in Windows 95 and made the system available to other computers using NetBEUI

Confidential,St. Louis, MO - 07/96 to 08/96
Build and troubleshoot forms, reports and macros for a large construction project job tracking system

Confidential,Town and Country, MO - 05/96 to 06/96
Build inventory tracking system for Monsanto

Confidential,Alton, IL - 02/96 to 10/96
Wrote, tested and trained personnel in a MS Access manufacturing/inventory system, hardware installation and configuration including hard drives, memory and motherboards, help desk for MS Office

Confidential,Hazelwood, MO 08/95 – 12/97
Wrote, tested and trained personnel in a MS Access accounting system, installed and trained personnel in Windows 95, installed network and Internet access using RAS in Windows NT v4

Education

Bachelors, Business Administration (Finance & Quantitative Analysis)