Career Experience

Confidential

• As the Senior IV V consultant responsible for establishing an Independent Verification and Validation program with testing.
• Responsible for creating an IV V Charter, design and create a standard operating procedure document for the IV V program. Developed and reviewed test plans, cases, designs, scripts and reports and executed tests against client server and stand - alone windows applications.
• Developed IV V review checklists, and deliverable item Descriptions, describing the methodology to be used to complete the task and the deliverable s to be produced.
• Possess extensive knowledge and experience writing and editing professional, technical documents, such as procedures, manuals and training documents.
• As IV V conducted full life cycle engagements on four different Agile software product lines, reviewing documents, test artifacts and assessments.
• Worked closely with the Quality Assurance Manager to establish plans, standards, and procedures that will add value to and satisfy the constraints of the IV V program.
• IV V services include: Management Support Engineering Support Testing Support Review and Audits Support and Process/Procedures Support. Thus the client organization can acquire all or some of these services.
• Implemented IV V methods and processes for custom applications, enterprise technology solutions, and third-party software in use at HHS. Assisted in the development, strategy and design of the IV V program for large projects, complex, and/or enterprise-wide IT projects.

Confidential

• IV V Services included: management, engineering, testing in developing scripts and scenarios, review and audits, and process/procedures support.
• Established a program from Ad Hoc for IV V in the Enterprise Architecture EA . The EA defines the operational and technical framework for all capital assets of the Program. It describes the agency's current and target architectures, as well as the transition strategy for moving from the current to the target architecture.
• The IV V of critical work products and products were premised on the EA infrastructure roadmaps, which supported the Program and its operational concepts.
• Developed user acceptance test plan and process assessment: As a member of the IV V, conducted assessments and a thorough review of the plans for final testing of the system as a pre-requisite for final system acceptance. These assessments supported mitigating the risk of granting final system acceptance prematurely in the program.
• Developed test plans, cases, designs, scripts and reports and executed tests against client server and stand-alone windows applications.

Confidential

• IV V services included: management, engineering, testing, review and audits, and process/procedures support. Thus the clients could acquire all or some of these services, too include assessments giving snapshots of quality at given points.
• As the Senior IV V consultant responsible for establishing an Independent Verification and Validation program.
• Responsible for creating an IV V Charter, design and create a standard operating procedure document for the IV V program. Developed test plans, cases, designs, scripts and reports and executed tests against client server and stand-alone windows applications.
• Developed IV V review checklists, and deliverable item Descriptions, describing the methodology to be used to complete the task and the deliverable s to be produced.
• Possess extensive knowledge and experience writing and editing professional, technical documents, such as procedures, manuals and training documents.
• As IV V conducted full life cycle engagements on four different Agile software product lines, reviewing documents, test artifacts and assessments.
• Worked closely with the Quality Assurance Manager to establish plans, standards, and procedures that will add value to and satisfy the constraints of the IV V program.
• IV V services include: Management Support Engineering Support Test Support Review and Audits Support and Process/Procedures Support. Thus the client organization can acquire all or some of these services.
• Implemented IV V methods and processes for custom applications, enterprise technology solutions, and third-party software in use at HHS. Assisted in the development, strategy and design of the IV V program for large projects, complex, and/or enterprise-wide IT projects.

Confidential

• IV V services included: management, engineering, testing, review and audits, and process/procedures support. Thus the clients could acquire all or some of these services, too include assessments giving snapshots of quality at given points.
• Developed a repeatable T E process from ad hoc and established rapid testing to meet a fast schedule.
• Served as a coordination lead, for the Joint Interoperability Test Command JITC and Marine Corp Operational Test and Evaluation Agency MCOTEA .
• Helped provide input to Government Test Lead, trained 15 SME testers on test techniques and improved a non-documented T E program using Best Practices, developing a process matching CMMI level 3 for documentation and established Design of Experiment DOE testing.
• Worked closely with Oracle development team in improving Unit/Integration testing and establishing the Developmental Test Evaluation DT E process in accordance with DoD regulations for software acceptance into operational release.
• Developed test plans, cases, designs, scripts and reports and executed tests against client server and stand-alone windows applications.

Confidential

• IV V services included: management, engineering, testing, review and audits, and process/procedures support. Thus the clients could acquire all or some of these services, too include assessments giving snapshots of quality at given points.
• Developed test plans, cases, designs, scripts and reports and executed tests against client server and stand-alone windows applications.
• Managed a team of 5 testers for the project.

Confidential

• Developed a repeatable T E process with rapid testing for a short T E schedule, using capabilities based approach. This was after the first two managers failed and as a coordination lead for the Joint Interoperability Test Command JITC from DISA .
• Hired/trained and managed a team of 15 system testers, developed a T E program from scratch, developing a process matching CMMI level 3 for documentation and testing using Best Practices and repeatable.
• Developed test plans, cases, designs, scripts and reports and executed tests against client server and stand-alone windows applications.

Confidential

• Interoperability of any DOD IT system is certified by JITC.
• When the system is ready for ODT E, JITC will review the application to determine compliance to the Net Ready-Key Performance Parameters NR-KPP . NR-KPP is divided into two evaluation areas: data strategy and services strategy. Each strategy has corresponding Measures of Effectiveness MOE to address the DOD Net-Centric Data Services Strategy NC DSS requirements and Measures of Performance MOP to test the system's ability to meet the requirement.
• T E Team Lead, was ultimately responsible for all aspects of T E within the Program and thus should coordinate all test activities into an efficient continuum through close collaboration with MCOTEA and JITC.
• The primary objective is to execute integrated T E throughout the development process to validate system performance while concurrently reducing program risk.
• The program I was assigned to was a Army Biometrics software application.

Confidential

• Test manager for a team of 5 increased to 20 testers, conducted IV V, QA, System/Acceptance testing for several windows and client server applications
• Execute the V V, T E and QA/QC processes by testing and reviewing work products for correctness, and adherence to the design concept and standards, and reviewing program documentation to ensure adherence to standards and requirements. Responsible for all activities involving quality assurance and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements conducts audits and reviews/analyzes data and documentation.
• Analyzed and tested DTRA applications like IMEA, HPAC, IWMDT and ACES/ACIN from early alpha builds through the acceptance phase in accordance with IEEE
• Extensively tested HPAC and VAPO that includes the tracking nuclear radiation and chemical/biological plumage
• Helped create DTRA's Directives and Instructions for T E, V V and Quality Assurance for all developed software product lines, saving the agency millions in reproduction costs
• Used Rational Clearcase and Clearquest to track bugs with the developers and play tested many open source tools for V V testing.
• Managed Software Testing projects and resources.
• Conducted integration system, performance, acceptance, pilot, 508, usability, CSCI/HWCI System Integration Testing, Integrated CSCI Qualification Testing, System Qualification/Operational Tests and some security testing.
• Provided development of project Software Quality Assurance Plan QAP and the implementation of procedures that conform to the requirements of the contract.
• Provides an independent assessment of how the project's software development process is being implemented relative to the defined process and recommends methods to optimize the organization's process.
• Serves as subject matter expert, possessing in-depth knowledge of test methodologies, networked environments, tools and software applications.
• Provides technical knowledge and analysis of highly specialized applications and operational environments, high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation and implementation advice on exceptionally complex problems that need extensive knowledge of the subject matter for effective implementation.
• Responsible for all activities involving quality assurance and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
• Conducts audits and reviews/analyzes data and documentation.
• Create test suites and executes testing on a variety of IT systems and applications.
• Analysis test data and interprets the results to access the stability of the software, hardware, system that is under test
• Works closely with engineering team to review functional and design specifications to ensure the development of proper test procedures.
• Creates metrics to capture trends of system, software, applications under test.
• Develops and implements procedures and test plans for assuring quality in a system development environment which supports large databases and applications.
• Worked with a variety of bug tracking tools including Remedy, Rational QC
• Maintains the level of quality throughout the project life cycle.
• Reviewing, with the Development Manager and the Project Team, all IV V TS high level processes for IV V and Performance Engineering testing throughout all necessary points of the software life cycle.
• Reviewing, with the Development Manager and the Project Team, the IV V TS Entrance Criteria artifacts as submitted by the Development Manager and the Project Team and defined in the Testing Service Entrance Criteria.
• Coordinating an environment review of the hardware and software components including any dependency application s /service s and/or their components that comprise the system under test.
• Ensuring all appropriate builds of the application project as well as dependency application s /service s and/or their components as provided by the Project Team adhere to the proper versioning procedures for the Program.
• Verifying that all builds delivered from the Project Team as one complete package are viable and ready for IV V TS testing before entering IV V TS and have received SQA certification. Builds are defined as being the application project with its associated dependency application s /service s and/or their components.

Confidential

Developed test plans, cases, designs, scripts and reports and executed tests against client server and stand-alone windows applications.