Alan Freedman Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada Area

Enterprise Enabling Technology Solutions Testing Centre of Excellence (EETS TCoE) is the provider of testing services across the EETS group. TCoE is responsible for providing appropriate testing solutions and quality control for IT-owned projects by EETS. The goal of the TCoE is to create a best in class testing team, focused on leveraging industry best.

1201 Wilson Ave.

• To manage and co-ordinate system testing and release management services for the ministry’s very large and complex road user safety (RUS) multi-platform environments.
• To support critical program business needs for a large division in both legacy and web-based technology, which includes responsibility for systems testing, coordination and support of User Acceptance Testing (UAT),
• Production promotion of Road User Safety Application Solutions in-house developed applications and… Show more
• Production promotion of Road User Safety Application Solutions in-house developed applications and changes/enhancements to the technical infrastructure and management of all software configuration items within the.
• To co-ordinate and participate in major projects for the testing improvements and development testing methodologies, standards and tools.
• To co-ordinate and participate in multi-ministry and jurisdictional projects having broad application and impacts across government and industry.

• Oversight for testing shared service operations global service team of 275. Create and execute strategy for maintaining and promoting test methodologies and tools across IT and 12 business units. Ensured effective.
• Established testing shared service team to support all testing initiatives across all business units. Provided testing consulting, automation, performance, SOA, mobility testing, and vendor resources to support testing.
• Collaborated with BA CoE, SDLC CoE and Architecture CoE to ensure consistency and integration.
• QA expert and visionary in interconnection of QA practices with SDLC, PMF, Governance, and CMMI.
• Monitored Change Requests and determined risk impact.
• Established methods to increase effectiveness and efficiency of projects and programs to provide additional benefits to project stakeholders. Monitored use of testing and performance automation and checked results for.

Totonto

• Full accountability for success of QA program, establishing and driving strategic and tactical QA initiatives and plans. Led creation and adherence to QA processes and methodologies, setting vision and direction for.
• Centralized testing groups, creating a Test Center of Expertise. Justified additional cost of quality, using roadshows to communicate benefits of testing services. Improved consistent processes, tools, and metrics.
• Contributed to development and implementation of common QA governance processes and associated reporting metrics, development, and implementation of common continuous improvement criteria and measurements.
• Partnered with Process and Methodology CoE, Infrastructure Services, Process Project Office, and other QA groups.
• Researched emerging trends/best practices and determined implications of proposed methodologies on meeting strategy.
• Member of application design team. Directed software automation effort, identifying applications that benefit from automation, and developed and implemented test cases. Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

• Directed entire operations for QA department, including hiring, HR issues, performance, training and development. Oversaw deliverables to operations and implementation teams and assisted in development of individual.
• Revamped quality initiatives to bring Capability Maturity Model (CMM) rating to next level.
• Oversaw production of high calibre, functional, integration and regression testing, including preparation of metrics.
• Reviewed Engineering Change Requests for validity and project start-up estimating to deliver at a low cost and on time.
• Managed User Acceptance Test (UAT) and assessment/interpretation of test results and oversaw test automation.
• Provided consultation and reviews, including written analysis of conceptual and logical models, risks and mitigation strategies, and impact analysis of quality defects and process/product deficiencies. Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed all aspects of quality/testing methodologies for design, development, implementation, and maintenance of applications. Supervised 18 Testers/Analysts, including performance, training, and development. Ensured.
• Scheduled team activities with Microsoft Project for product testing/release of software/hardware to support DOS, Windows 3.x, OS/2, Windows 95, Windows NT and international versions.
• Oversaw regression script automation using Mercury Tool Suite, resulting in reduced regression costs and provide reusable scripts.
• Reviewed daily defect integrity information in database and team’s test plans and results for overall coverage. Held code and documentation walkthroughs.
• Enforced compliance with ISO standards for documentation, unit, and integration tests.
• Reported monthly QA/Testing report of project costs to VP, including project resources costs, hardware, and software purchases. Show less