EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

QA Lead, Automation and Strategic departmental problem solving; with skills in departmental management, Software Testing, Lab Management, Network administration, Team Management, business and client support in the development process. Defining deparemental strategies, processes and standards for implementation of small and large QA projects.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS OR SUMMARY:

• QA Lifecycle management, scope, goals, requirements, managing schedules, process creation and resolution of tactical and strategic issues. 10+ years in a top 25 enterprise company Symantec.
• Testing requirements based on User Story Boards (customer supplied), Product Back log items, acceptance criteria, development requirements and service agreements.
• Code management of multiple QA software \ utilities and script versioning with Visual Studio 2010,, 2015, 2017, Desired State Configuration (DSC), Powershell and other build management software programs 10+ years
• Lead of Multiple Projects 5 + years
• Network management, domain design, implementation and configuration of multiple variations of forest, and domains on physical, VMware workstation, VMware server, ESX servers and VSphere. 15+ years
• VM administrator and implementation, use and support, image creation (client and server), image implementation, domain snap - hot, and cloning 15+ years
• Web Client interface testing and maintenance 15+ years
• Scalability and load testing of thick and thin clients through automated scripts and programs 15+years
• Web development, PowerShell, selenium in C# framework, SQL, psake and Git with open source tools
• Automated \ Manual testing of all aspects, including positive and negative paths for enterprise class software (Selenium)
• Administrator of Mercury Quality Center and QTP installations 6+ years

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibities:

• Evolve Project (code name)
• Test case creation, execution and management through Team Foundation Server \ Visual Studio
• Automation through selenium with a harness in the solution
• TSQL for validation and creation of migrations of data to be added to the solution
• Desired State Configuration (DSC deployments)
• PowerShell - Creation, execution, testing and validation purposes
• Preparing for Go Live of the multiple year development project, Evolve.
• Working on multiple parts of the solution for cross track support, reporting & release management Duties.
• Cross track support involved testing and working on system wide solution issues.
• Creation and execution of Manual (TFS) and automated test (Selenium).
• Testing covered security testing, solution testing, full regression and support testing, user \ role creation and testing.
• Creation and manipulation of user’s \ roles and data through TSQL and SQL migrations.
• PowerShell scripts were created for AD user management across multiple domains.
• Creation and execution of multiple TSQL queries joining multiple tables for validation.
• Reporting duties included testing the reports and creating data sets for the reports.
• Data sets required exercising the entire solution and generating multiple day, week and month long data set.(TSQL)
• Release Management.
• Preparing the production environment for Go Live and supporting current development, build and deploy activities.
• Duties including setting up Application and Web Servers for preproduction testing and production deployment.
• Working on deployment scripts which are based on Visual Studio and TFS integration.
• For the production and preproduction deployments DSC is used.
• Creation and manipulation of PowerShell scripts and PSD1’s used by DSC.
• Duties also included management of the build system (Visual Studio integration).
• Testing of new deployment strategies and regression of the solution to verify full functionality.
• Creation of Pester test for the PowerShell scripts to verify functionality and allow for regression validation as the project continues.

Confidential

QA Lead

• Evolve Project (code name)
• Integrating Confidential systems into one online web page interface.
• Over 80 legacy applications consolidated
• Test case creation \ testing \ management via TFS
• Automation through selenium with a harness in the solution
• Enterprise level software department Quality Assurance Lead (manager) for multiple teams with over 50 QA engineers on the project. 
• Initial founding member of the department, including interviewing and hiring of the Quality Assurance Engineers.
• Over the life cycle of the project there was only a 6% involuntary and 2% voluntary staff change.
• Duties included creating and defining new QA process, strategy and standards for the startup QA department.
• Implementation was for an agile development plan with daily scrums that involved over 11 development \ QA teams.
• The planning stage involved working with business and development architects and the technical lead developers of each team.
• Training the business on how to take there user stories and turn them into product backlog items (PBI’s) with proper acceptance criteria.
• Mentoring the QA department on acceptance criteria grooming, dynamic effective test suites, and test case matrices built off of the PBI acceptance criteria.
• Defining the strategies for implementation of test suites for both manual and automated efforts.
• Test case management and execution is performed through Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), Visual Studio \ Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Creation of strategies for End to End functional testing along with End to End business validation.
• Automation testing with Selenium in visual using a c# framework implementation.
• Code management was performed using Visual Studio \ TFS through posh-git commands and command line unit and integration test validation.
• Creation, execution and management of manual and automated test across all lines in the solution.

Confidential

QA Automation Engineer

• Lab Manager Duties include: removing the existing VM \ Hyper V environments for QA \ DEV and creating fresh systems using VSphere.
• Also creation of a new test bed for ad hoc and destructive testing that I will perform on the Solution.
• Creation of all clients required for testing the solution, versions of XP, 7 and Vista with all IE versions and .net framework configurations.
• Server installations included windows 2003 x86 and 2008 64 bit Servers.
• Maintenance and additional pages to the QA\ DEV lab management web interface (coded ASP pages), to allow for testers to check machines in and out and verify current build status in the testing environments.
• Departmental Coordinator duties include: I am the only employee in DEV\QA that has access and privileges to make changes to the Production customer facing environment and Company Infrastructure.
• Creation of new user accounts for QA \ DEV, joining machines to the production and test environments.
• Arranging test beds for interdepartmental testing or demonstration purposes.
• Environment Specialist duties included: Trouble shooting the Solution if QA is blocked. This requires TSQL to diagnose issues, physical logs on servers, dump logs, and solution logs. Installation of new deployments and defect code drops into the QA Environment.
• Senior QA duties include: Testing all aspects of the solution when a team needed an extra person to bring a deadline in. Testing includes execution of automation, SQL queries, manual test validation and execution.

Confidential

Verification and Validation Engineer (QA) contractor

• Quality Assurance lead for a medical project (non-disclosure on specific details of project).
• Project scope includes transcutaneous widget in the body, external widget to read the insert, and an application on a handheld device.
• Scope of work includes creation of project documents, specifications, hardware, and software test protocols for all aspects of the project.
• Execution of testing is performed through manual software testing, physical manipulation of hardware, external software testing tools and external physical hardware an example is an oscilloscope.

Confidential

IT Contracto

• Installation of Windows 2008 SQL server used to host images and other client files.
• Maintenance and administration of 4 Windows 2003 servers and 11 end user machines.
• Creation of backup routines and procedures were established for critical client and company data.
• Base images for end user machines were created with restore data procedures from the backup routines.
• Updates were pushed to the machines on a monthly base. Daily incremental and full weekly automated backups were scheduled and verified every 2 weeks.
• On call support for restoring lost files and machine hardware failures \ repairs \ imaging

Confidential

Outside Sales Representative

• Sales duties included traveling to ports across Texas to meet with ship captains, engineers and officers to provide any goods or arrange any services needed while in port.

Confidential

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• Mercury Quality Center (QC) and Quick Test Professional (QTP) administrator: duties included project creation, maintenance, user creation and support. QC: creation of users, groups, projects, test case infrastructure layout, maintenance and execution of both manual and automated tests.
• Design and implementation of manual tests to provide positive path testing of thick consoles, web consoles and back end support. Back end support ranges from domain and server modifications to verification of data in right assignments, repository management and creation, creation and maintenance of QTP repositories for both thick and web clients used for basic and advanced automation.
• Automation was created with reuse in mind. Automation was used to create Build Acceptance Test (BAT), which verified basic functionality was available and the build was ready for QA consumption and further advanced automated testing.
• Senior Quality assurance engineer: responsibilities included development, implementation, automation of testing and execution throughout the life cycle of projects.
• Testing included basic, advanced and destructive scenarios.
• Automation creation and implementation using Mercury Quick Test Professional was required on multiple projects.
• The enterprise software testing required the manipulation of all Microsoft domain architectures and server platforms.
• Projects included multiple releases of bv-Control for Intellipacs, bv-for Active Directory, Policy Manager and the Control Compliance Suite.
• Development of testing tools using multiple scripting languages.
• Project lead on multiple upgrade and department infrastructure updates, this included creating a program to export all information from the old defect tracking system and modify it for importation into the new defect tracking system.