Objective

In a senior or lead quality assurance engineering position utilizing my leadership skills in system integration and mobile software testing as well as gain exposure to new technical environments and increase skill sets in quality assurance. Will not consider any sales or sales management opportunities. Please do not contact even if you think I would be interested in the sales opportunity. Technical

Skills

Operating Systems Unix, Windows 3.11 Windows 2000, XP, Vista, OS/2. Mac OS 6-10.3 Mobile Systems: Windows CE, iOS, Android Database Systems Sybase, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server Languages SQL, C , Unix Scripting, Perl, HTML, XML, Visual Basic Applications IBM Rational Robot Testing Tool, ATF Testing Tool, DB Artisan, TOAD, Microsoft Access, Agile Advantage, McCabe Test Coverage Software

Specialized Skills

Superior analytical problem solving skills, ability to learn a skill and apply to new situation as needed, excellent communicator, team player who is quick to share knowledge, orator/presenter, consistent and continual participant in garnering industry knowledge throughout the SQA community utilizing own contacts.

Work Experiences:

Confidential

Senior Software Testing Consultant

Responsibilities: 2nd project - created a new software process flow for the development and testing team to help a vendor more efficiently meet client needs. Mentored test team and test management on software process practices to better suit their clients. Analyzed and offered consulting on creating test cases to get more thorough test coverage while allowing testers to be more efficient. 1st project - Implementation of a test coverage software application for a large health insurance corporation's client/server and web applications. Use test coverage McCabe Software providing analysis of code vulnerabilities and complexities via scripts through CLI per software build. Create customized reports for further test coverage analysis per application's programming language. Providing test coverage consulting to client to improve more complete testing.

Confidential

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst short contract

Responsibilities: Testing consultant on FDA regulations for a document management software system to be implemented into the quality assurance process for the entire company. Analysis on custom built features, tested to meet regulations, document findings, wrote and tested bug reports, participated in status meetings. Provided full testing and test case documentation in compliance with Part 11 of Title 21.

Confidential

• Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer Supplier of Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry real time analysis of ECG transmissions. diagnostic heart monitor mobile medical device
• Responsibilities: Design and implement test processes for the Quality Assurance team as well as software engineering team. Initiated new Software Development Lifecycle methodology within two different software engineering groups. Mentoring new SQA Engineers and provide support for all team members. Create validation and verification test case documentation for embedded software on Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry devices as well as analytical client/server software. Created test documentation which must meet FDA and ISO regulations and standards. Create documentation for SQA knowledge transfer in order to facilitate better training methods. Software tests implemented include: data gathering, data transfer from device to device and utilizing a communications server for the data to communicate between the analytical client/server application that displayed the ECG data and the mobile device. Types of testing include: hardware to firmware to software functional tests, general software functional tests, usability, communication protocol testing, data validation, performance, smoke, unit and build tests. Conduct research into appropriate automation test software which could be applicable to certain aspects of the client/server application software and some of the embedded software testing. Provide leadership amongst the SQA group in better estimation of project deadlines. Initiated and ran weekly status staff meetings to ensure project completion. Initiated and ran a Creative Conceptual Thinking meeting every week to help the software test team generate more complete test coverage cases. Created, designed and a major contributor to the Knowledge Base for QA team and throughout IT Dept usage. Maintain and build QA environments utilizing proper equipment and mobile devices.

Confidential

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Engineering Project Based Consulting Firm

Responsibilities: Design and implement test processes for both QA and User Acceptance Testing on web applications utilizing web services as well as testing with hardware devices. Document software bugs, assist development in resolving bugs, created documentation for clients on product software. Types of testing include: code analysis, functional, usability, performance, smoke, unit and build tests. Participated in design of web application before coding began. Created documentation of command codes for programmer's guide, review and revise developer's documentation for client's use. Lead on documentation project for web application. Training was conducted at client site for hardware devices the use of the software and hardware. QA Lead for a couple of projects, one which included mentoring 3 people at a client's site on how to conduct all phases of testing including user acceptance testing.

Confidential

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer biotechnical instrument analysis company

Responsibilities: Created Quality Assurance formal processes for Bug Reporting, Test Case writing, Test Plans, Functional Specifications. Designed, created and completed Test Cases, Test Plans and Functional Specifications for two different biotechnical DNA genotype analysis software applications which were dependent on a camera type instrument. Implemented test cases on both software applications. Analyzed and implemented software development lifecycle processes. Created a development lifecycle process for the engineering team.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer manufacturer of medical emergency calling systems.

• Responsibilities: Plan, create and execute test cases on data warehouse data by writing SQL queries utilizing TOAD software on an Oracle database and Unix servers. Data analysis, pattern analysis, process flow analysis, execution of Unix scripts, documenting bug reports, diagnosing problems and offer possible solutions. Confidential
• Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Publisher School K-12, Supplemental Materials, College, Trade, Reference Materials Responsibilities: Design standards processes within a software lifecycle, design and implement test processes for both QA and User Acceptance Testing, documentation for training within QA team and project processes with other departments. Created, designed and a major contributor to the Knowledge Base for QA team and throughout IT Dept usage. Maintain and build QA environments, document software bugs, assist development in resolving bugs, train team members in various technologies, and continue own training to increase skill sets. Back end testing of databases writing SQL queries utilizing DB Artisan. QA Lead for several projects including client/server to unix to mainframe applications and mentoring/training 3 to 4 QA staff members. Types of Testing include: manual and automated - GUI functionality, execution of Unix batch scripts to populate databases, execution of Unix batch scripts to send data to various operating systems including mainframe, inter-dependency of a 3 tier system, verification of layout of data files, usability and performance testing, security testing

Confidential

Voice Communications Software Company Retail Management Software Technical Support Specialist Responsibilities: Front line phone support for retail stores, analyzing and resolving customer problems directly in database management and company's own software. On call 24/7 support for Windows, Unix and Microsoft SQL Server environments. Manipulate customer databases by writing SQL to resolve problems.