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• Provide direct support to the Defense Health System Services (DHSS) and Military Health System applications as a Technical Test Lead, responsible for matters concerning plans, test and evaluation, operation, training, coordination, and exercises. • Assist in supervising, controlling, evaluating, planning, and organizing the functional areas of Test, Configuration Management, Risk Management, and Quality Assurance. Compiles, consolidates, and coordinates in developing management plans, policies and procedures, including internal SOPs and project schedules.• Work with developers and database administrators to refine the understanding of business and technical requirements, and develop a test solution that can validate the requirements.• Coordinate and facilitate weekly meetings with the client, business owners and developers to discuss and manage software releases and prioritize defects.• Estimate and report the LOE required for testing applications and manage testing events and releases for various applications.• Coordinate/conduct front/back end testing and verification to encompass functional, operational, and performance criteria to ensure business model, functional and data design, and technical architecture are consistently implemented and maintained.• Review and provide comments on several artifacts developed concurrently with the software, including System Requirements Specifications (SRS), System Design Specifications (SDS), Software Version Description (SVD), Development Integration Testing (DIT) Plan and DIT Results documents and Defect Reports following the completion SIT testing. • Attend Product Development Reviews, Critical Design Reviews and weekly status meetings with the program office and development contractors.• Coordinate frequently changing project priorities, timelines, requirements scope creep, in a very dynamic environment amongst several teams. • Created a step by step training session for clients.

• Performed tasks relating to the Configuration Management and database administration.• Established Software Configuration management (SCM) and Software Quality Assurance (SQA) policies and procedures for all applications to integrate under the Enterprise CM Program. • Performed a key role in the CMMI appraisal team to achieve CMMI level three for the company. • Administered and maintained Visual Source Safe and administered access for the developers.• Scheduled and performed software builds, provided releases to test teams, updated change records, and created software deliverable CD’s. • Facilitated the Configuration Control Board meetings and kept track of all the CCB approved items in the Serena Tracker system. Developed and implemented software change control forms and procedures to ensure uniformity and conformity across all applications.• As a DBA analyzed user requirements for designing, building and maintaining databases for several applications and created a database system. Developed graphical entity relationship diagrams, data security, data backup, and data recovery. • Wrote SQL scripts, created data model diagrams using Erwin. Performed system administrative functions such as database backups and monitored user’s performance.

• Created a Configuration Management department. Created and maintained standard operating procedures for defect management, change control management, and requirements management.• Implemented and maintained the CM tool used to track software baselines, release processes and procedures for the software and discrepancies.• Evaluated and analyzed the requirements for the releases according to the customers needs.• Worked closely with java developers and CCB members. Created and maintained the java repository for the source code in CVS and performed system administration functions, backups, user account management and trained new hires.• Developed scripts using UNIX, sed, awk, SQL and cron jobs to automate functions for database updates, backups, builds, releases, and database status reports.

Bsc, Computer Science

Associate, Computer Science