Active involvement in an organization offering the opportunity to use my 10 years of QA software testing experience in a software testing or support environment.

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• Self-contracted to CC Intelligent Solutions, Inc for 4 months to do software quality assurance testing.
• Tested a fairly large configurable application for the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs for the District of Columbia.
• Testing involved a large number of pages for the registration of corporate entities in the District of Columbia and consisted of manual, black-box testing of component functionality, user interfaces, back office configurations, and online corporate registrations and reports.
• Written requirements were initially sketchy and/or non-existent, so did quite a bit of collaboration with development, the architect and program manager to ferret these out.
• Used TFS in Visual Studio 2010 for creating user stories from requirements , tasks, test cases, writing and tracking defects.
• Simple database queries using SQL 2008 were used to verify the correctness of data written to it.
• Participated in weekly scrums.
• Provided to Project Management defect status reports weekly.

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• Contracted to SRA International, Inc for 2 months.
• Tested a survey web application that required the creation and updating of 11 different forms.
• For these forms, testing was based off of general and specific Process Instructions that were the requirements for the application.
• Usability, functional, content testing, field range validation, negative scenarios, and ease of navigation were some of the testing done.
• Simple database queries using SQL 2005 were used to verify the correctness of data written to it.
• Testing also involved the exporting of data from the database to an Excel spreadsheet for distribution to SRA's client.
• Used the tool Bugzilla for defect tracking.

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• Tested Portal software on wireless phones for various carriers whereby users had access to such information as News, Theatres, Stock Markets, Social Networks, etc.
• Tested marketplace content storefronts that sold Ringtones, Wallpapers, Games, Videos, Themes and Applications for carriers such as Alltel, AT T and Tracfone.
• Continued as a temporary and then full-time employee with Motricity testing mobile content solutions for wireless phones.
• Wrote and executed functional test strategy plans, test scenarios and test scripts for assigned functional areas of the storefronts.
• Participated in UX design and test plan reviews.
• As a QA Test Engineer I performed Functional, Device, Smoke and Regression testing.
• Wrote test cases and executed them using Compuware's QA Director.
• Wrote and tracked defects with the tracking tool Bugzilla.
• Later, used Mercury Quality Center to write test cases and to execute them as well as write and track defects.
• Participated in a major testing of the storefronts when migrated from Motricity's Fuel platform to Motricity's Mcore platform.
• Used VSTS 2010 TFS for creating and associating user stories, tasks, test cases and defect tracking for the storefronts and a QA internal project.
• Participated in Sprints and Scrums for QA test projects and for our commercial storefronts.
• Used VSTS 2010 MTM for writing and executing manual test cases.
• Did some QA testing on an enhanced Content Management System that allowed content administrators to input content from content providers.
• Wrote simple SQL scripts to aide in testing when needed. Used SQL Server 2005 and MS Access.

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• Tested software that supports the provisioning of content to mobile devices via WAP browsers, and WEB storefronts that are an integral part of the content storefronts for those devices.
• Executed manual test cases using spreadsheets and for defect tracking, Bugzilla.

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• Applications were developed using skills in classic ASP, SQL, Stored Procedures, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and VB Script.
• Helped to write software for a Donor Management System for a North Carolina state agency.
• Developed and tested software for internal Rolodex, Bookmark, Weblog, Message Board and Auction Site web applications.
• Performed Unit, Integration, System, and Regression tests of the applications.

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• Responsible for library updates, development of code fixes, and testing.
• Set up and configured equipment for recreates of customer problems and provided answers to customer configuration questions and fixes for field problems.
• Contracted to IBM as a member of the Network Hardware Level 3 Support Group.
• Configuration protocols included OSPF, IP, PPP, FR, X25 transport, ISDN, Ethernet, and Token Ring.

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• Researched third party vendor apps for Y2K compliance.
• Contracted to MCI Worldcom in Cary, NC as a Y2K Remediation Analyst
• Analyzed test cases for required MCI Y2K compliancy and created formal Y2K docs for MCI's Project Management Office.

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• Designed and wrote test cases for fault isolation of the data link control hardware part of the product to be tested.
• Contracted to Nortel as an ISDN Primary Rate Tester.
• ISDN Primary Rate Tester
• Wrote a test strategy for the software testing of a new peripheral in the DMS family of voice and data switches.