SUMMARY

• 5 years of IT experience in areas of Software Quality Assurance, Data Migration, and Configuration Management.
• 1 years of Recruiting and marketing experience in IT field.
• Knowledge of SDLC Software Development Life Cycle and Agile methodologies.
• Understanding of automated testing tools.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving skills and attention to detail.
• Good team player with excellent communication skills.
• Experience working with federal applications, with an understanding of time and data sensitivity.
• A skilled communicator able to maintain cultural sensitivity, establish rapport with members of diverse groups, and promote team cohesiveness.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work with time constraints while paying attention to details.
• Performed portfolios of clients and assignments and key client relationship, develop and deliver services and value charters.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Confidential

Recruiter/ Marketing Consultant

Responsibilities

• Ascertain requirements by evaluating organizational development plans.
• Confer with management to identify recruiting needs.
• Develop effective recruiting plans and strategies.
• Assess assigned positions to develop job descriptions and job candidate profiles.
• Review and clarify job specifications, competencies and skills required.
• Align job candidate profiles with staffing objectives.
• Source applicants through various methods including advertising, recruiters, job sites, career fairs.
• Maintain effective relationships with social and professional networks to source qualified candidates.
• Pre-screen job candidates.
• Review resumes and qualifications to determine suitability of candidates.
• Schedule and coordinate interviews cooperatively with hiring managers.
• Inform candidates fully about the job and company.
• Brief and debrief candidates before and after interviews.
• Verify references.
• Manage all communication with candidates.
• Provide regular updates and feedback to managers.
• Maintain accurate and current applicant data base.
• Manage the job offer including negotiation and administration.
• Conduct and train new employees.

Confidential

Configuration Manager

Responsibilities

• Maintained internal environments and provided CM support using SVN.
• Prepared installer scripts and builds.
• Managed release schedules and supported production deployment.
• Implemented CCNet for automated build scheduling and build creation.
• Deployed releases and patches on Production and Production Test Servers. Ensured that common modules were deployed on internal environments following each release.
• Setup new internal environments, Webservers, Report Servers, Solution Servers.
• Provided support such as software updates, monitoring RAM usage etc. on all internal environments.
• Documented CM processes and procedures, and information on builds and environments using the Confluence WIKI.
• Utilized JIRA for monitoring all tasks related to CM and environment support.
• Maintained build scripts on various internal Utility, Staging, Test and Production directories.
• Used Subversion SVN to manage directories, tags and branches and administer project repositories.
• Conducted periodic audit and validation of CM directories on build machines.Coordinated with product teams to identify issues early and optimize production releases

Confidential

QA/CM Engineer

Responsibilities

Quality Assurance Engineer

• Analyzed business requirements and technical designs to prepare testing strategies. Used JIRA, Jama Contour, SharePoint and Confluence WIKI tools to understand the change requests.
• Developed test plans, test cases and scripts and subject them to lead and peer reviews.
• Performed functional, sandbox, integration, and regression testing using issue tracking and issue management tools such as JIRA and ApTest Manager.
• Performed backend data testing and data migration testing using SQL queries and Excel.
• Performed Section 508 testing using tools such as JAWS Reader and Wave Web Accessibility tools.
• Used LoadRunner to conduct load testing.
• Conducted test case team peer reviews to ensure quality of test coverage and correctness.
• Prepared User Acceptance Testing UAT scripts and provided UAT support.
• Conducted basic automation testing using tools such as Selenium.
• Worked on multiple projects related to various stages of a Federal Grants Management lifecycle.
• Worked on projects that were CMMI L3 and ISO 9001:2008 compliant and followed the federal Enterprise Project Life Cycle EPLC methodology.

Configuration

Management Engineer

• Created CM Plans, procedures, directories and build scripts for new projects.
• Maintained build scripts on various internal Utility, Staging, Test and Production directories.
• Used Subversion SVN to manage directories, tags and branches and administer project repositories.
• Conducted periodic audit and validation of CM directories on build machines.
• Coordinated with product teams to identify issues early and optimize production releases.
• Deployed releases and patches on Production and Production Test Servers. Ensured that common modules were deployed on internal environments following each release.
• Setup new internal environments, Webservers, Report Servers, Solution Servers.
• Provided support such as software updates, monitoring RAM usage etc. on all internal environments.
• Documented CM processes and procedures, and information on builds and environments using the Confluence WIKI.
• Utilized JIRA for monitoring all tasks related to CM and environment support.
• Used CCTray for managing a schedule of daily builds by products, creating and managing user names and passwords, and creating jobs for new products.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities

• Tested the MailNow branded solutions for businesses such as Home Depot, Midas Auto, John Deere, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Signs by Tomorrow etc.
• Prepared test cases using QTP.
• Performed browser compatibility and configuration testing on various operating systems.
• Used HP Quality Center to report and track issues.
• Developed Test scenarios, Test Scripts and Test cases based on Requirements, Detail Specification Document's and GAP documents
• Running smoke tests and daily health checks in QA environment to ensure services are up and running
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using QTP
• Performed backend testing for data validation using SQL Queries.
• Document request/response XML's, test procedures and functional/technical findings from the test run
• Analyzed mandatory and the situational fields and compared with the user manuals for EDI.
• Used Quality Center to run test scripts and log defects.
• Conducted the defect report using Quality Center