SUMMARY

• I is a career Software Tester motivated, energetic, collaborative, proven team player, strong leader with an inherent passion for software testing.
• Software Test Architect, hands on Test Lead or Senior Contributor.
• Extensive Agile Scrum experience. Hybrid tester performs Manual and Automated testing. Big Data testing.
• Worked internationally. Continuous process improvement.
• Efficient at building effective, productive working relationships with business and development staff.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: /Technology/Standards: SaaS, Mobile, ATDD, MS TFS/Test Pro, HP QC suite, Automation (QTP, Loadrunner, Selenium IDE), Rally, Atlassian Suite, VersionOne, Virtual Box, VMware, Agile Development (Scrum, Kanban, and RUP), Offshore Dev environments, IBM Rational Suite, UNIX, vi, MS Tools (Project, Office, SharePoint, Visio), graphics tools (OmniGraffle, Gimp), Databases (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, dB 2), BO Webi, SQL Validation scripts, n - tier system architecture, Middleware, Oracle Financials, Cygent, and DO200A Industries/Domain Areas Advertising, Healthcare, Insurance, DW/BI, Financial, GIS, Internet Business, Aviation Navigation, Satellite Television, POS, Telecommunications, Teleconferencing, Document Management, Shipping, Banking/Finance and Scientific

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boulder, CO

User Interface Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project culminated in 1.0 release
• Assigned testing tasks to testers in Costa Rica to complete project
• Created test data through teh UI and SQL for functional and regression testing
• Clarified user story acceptance criteria for complete testing
• Executed Functional, UX, White, Black Box and Regression tests for CM Administrative and Reporting app
• Tracked defect trends and reported test status

Confidential, Louisville, CO

Senior Tester/Automator

Responsibilities:

• Created acceptance tests in Rally for ATDD for Market Intelligence reports, Extracts, Dashboards and UI
• Performed data driven testing using QTP 11.0; automated tests utilizing drivers to call user defined functions and reusable actions, utilizing teh shared object repository for nightly regression testing via QC 9.0, data driven using teh global data sheet, created automated tests for each iteration
• Set up VM's for cross browser testing
• Performed demos of features and automated to product owner and team

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Agile Data Warehouse Quality Architect

Responsibilities:

• Coached team members on Agile DW process, and teh use of SharePoint and VersionOne
• Created processes for, coached and monitored unit testing on Informatica development and eventual test automation
• Assisted with sprint demos to business
• Performed Integration testing; including test planning, creating SQL validation scripts, creating test data and tracking defects
• Documented and shared defect tracking and other processes on SharePoint EDW Testing site
• Reported on Test Status using VersionOne

Confidential, Ranch, CO

Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Scrummaster on web projects moving to Scrum from Waterfall
• Created vision with manager for new QA team and socialized it
• Assessed testers and skillset and identified training and trained junior testers as well as test leads
• Created and Implemented processes for test planning/execution, and metrics reporting including tips sheets and checklists
• Planned and implemented test data strategy for projects utilizing Business Objects Webi
• Created automated test cases (smoke) with Selenium IDE
• Performed peer review of test cases and requirements with testers
• Tested alongside testers on teams, planning and executing white box tests, defect tracking, creating sql validation queries
• Performed Mobile testing on Manage My Account project
• Created SharePoint site for Test team for project to share information as well as schematics I created (test data process, environment pictures, and testing process on Scrum team)
• Implemented TFS Test Pro on web team

Confidential, CO

Senior Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created test cases from user stories utilizing QC and Rally
• Created JMS messages and simulated responses sent via test harness and ActiveMQ
• Ran regression tests on EPW UI and EPW messages
• Created custom dashboards in Rally for tracking progress and shared with team
• Updated regression tests in QC utilizing BPT/QTP
• Decomposed user stories into test cases and entered into QC
• Executed tests and iterated through defects in Rally with developers
• Set up virtual boxes for cross browser testing on Windows and Mac (12 browsers total)
• Tracked test status including defect trend reports and test case bar charts

Confidential, Fort Collins, CO

Senior Tester

Responsibilities:

• Documented Software Test Artifacts: Test Cases, and Regression Test Suite, Discrepancy Reports, utilizing Rally, TeamTrack, and SVN
• Performed both White and Black box testing on VMs for CU modification, Sag and Tension and Structural analysis
• Collaborated with test team on automation strategy and framework
• Created dashboards and reports for team in Rally and TeamTrack
• Documented Test Artifacts in Rational Quality Manager; Master Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Trace Matrix, and Regression Test Suite, Discrepancy Reports
• Performed structured and exploratory testing on individual applications (white and black box)
• Verified System Integration testing including EAI records processing verification
• Created Software Test Status Report Template for test leads

Confidential - Broomfield, CO

Senior Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed structured and exploratory testing on UI and Back End for monthly releases, including: o ACH, Credit Card and PayPal processing
• Coded regression tests utilizing Selenium and J-unit
• Implemented process improvements for test status including dashboards in Jira
• Documented Software Test Artifacts; Test Cases, Functionality Notes in WIKI, SQL Scripts and Discrepancy Reports
• Produced on-boarding documentation for test group and mentored testers
• Perform software builds for test environments with ANT

Confidential, CO

Senior Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirements and use case review and refinement
• Documented Software Test Artifacts; Master Test Plan, Test Procedures in QC, and SQL validation scripts
• Created test data utilizing XML Spy, UNIX and vi
• Performed Test execution in UNIX
• Automated regression tests in QTP
• Implemented WIKI for Test Status reporting and metrics
• Produced on-boarding documentation for test group and mentored testers February - June, 2007
• Senior Tester for quarterly releases of legacy Aviation Database application (JAD, QC Tools); Created and executed Test Procedures in QC