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Dundee, Or, Us

Portland, Or

I supported the development and improvement of the Web MD One platform to ensure the highest quality health and lifestyle improvement experience for millions of admin and end users acrossmassive commercial, civic, financial, and medical organizations. I worked daily on individual and team projects in an agile environment to deliver rugged, innovative, efficient, and user-friendly software within the contractual deadlines of the project. I managed regular software development and deployment efforts, organized major testing efforts, and coordinated across the organization to ensure smooth deliverables within a demanding schedule. I contributed towards the development and enhancement of various infrastructure and team practices, as well as deepening the impact of quality assurance across the organization including investing in improved automation, routine security scans, accessibility testing, and multi-lingual support.

Tigard, Or

Highlights: I supported several major releases of PacStar’s IQ-Core software managing numerous mission critical communication components across a wide variety of organizations within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) as well as numerous commercial organizations supporting unsecured, Secret, and Top Secret communications.Duties: I worked on a variety of teams to develop and improve the quality, functionality, and infrastructure of PacStar’s IQ-Core software, which is responsible for unifying and streamlining the management and configuration of numerous networking components across a variety of hardware manufacturers, environments, and end user demographics. My responsibilities included back and front end testing, configuration, and troubleshooting of the IQ-Core software in complex environments and operating conditions with up to hundreds of simultaneous device interactions in near-real time. I worked with a wide variety of customers and end users to streamline complex networking tasks and workflows into simple and user-friendly interface steps to create a unified experience while supporting dozens of manufacturers including Cisco, Aruba, Palo Alto, Redcom, Curtiss-Wright, Microsoft, Linux, and Brocade. Additionally I worked with tools such as VMWare Workstation and vSphere to create, configure, and simulate unique customer environments for complex testing needs.

Beaverton, Or

Highlights: I supported key software quality assurance, process improvement, and infrastructure development efforts that allowed the company to successfully acquire, support, and scale to millions of new and existing customers and end users across numerous systems. I have been the primary software quality assurance resource for the General Purpose Credit Card platform; soon to be the platform responsible for generating the company’s largest customer base across all business areas. I also worked with management and various areas of the business to develop and implement numerous process-improvements across multiple teams and departments.Duties: I have worked across multiple Agile/Scrum teams to contribute to the development of numerous software solutions that have allowed multiple business areas within the company to establish a scalable and sustainable infrastructure for its rapidly growing ambitions and needs. The culminations of these efforts include the wildly successful implementation and ongoing support of the Direct to Customer mail campaign infrastructure, responsible for record setting customer originations month after month as well as the acquisition of a major retailer partner, effectively tripling the existing customer base. During these times of intensive growth, I collaborated with the management team and department heads as both a Scrum Master and a Scrum team member to streamline existing processes, discover and determine action plans for addressing and overcoming challenges, as well as implementing processes to improve interactions between the different departments and teams. I also managed the vast majority of testing efforts within the Scrum/Agile Sprint methodology to continuously produce deliverables to the satisfaction of the stakeholders and product owners.

Hillsboro, Or

Highlights: I assisted with testing efforts for several major releases during Umpqua Bank’s transition to all new core systems and a completely new online banking system in addition to managing and handling the primary testing efforts for various Scrum teams’ areas of focus.Duties: I performed and managed various testing efforts involved in the conversion process of Umpqua Bank’s core systems involving a transition to a new online banking system. Responsibilities included manual black-box and limited white-box integration, regression, accessibility, and user-acceptance testing across various browsers and Android and iOS mobile devices. I prepared and managed clear and organized testing documentation in the form of defect reports, test cases, spreadsheets, and other forms in order to provide upper managers, peers, and those I supervised with clear direction and an accurate status across various stages of testing. Additionally, I provided the primary testing coverage for numerous internal and external applications being covered by several smaller Scrum teams to advise, document, and test changes or updates being implemented. Across all of these efforts, I worked with tools such as Jira, Version One, and TFS to manage and track project and application progress.

Gresham, Or

Highlights: I worked as part of a team to manage testing efforts across US Bank’s ACAPS mainframe system and the various related applications. This included collaborating with developers, business analysts, or other project members to coordinate and produce project documentation related to testing. In addition, I performed test case execution, defect management, and testing status reporting.Duties: I performed various testing efforts including coordination with business analysts, developers, fellow testers, and other project members to ensure quality project deliverables in proper compliance with bank and governmental laws and regulations across US Bank’s ACAPS mainframe system and its connected applications. During the earlier stages of projects, this included attending planning meetings to ensure proper quality assurance perspectives are considered in project and application development, test case creation including some efforts to allow test cases to become automatable, and planning and mapping testing efforts for the rest of the project duration. During early code implementation up until the move into production, my duties involved test case execution, defect reporting and coordination, and routinely communicating or escalating necessary testing updates to the rest of the project team.

Beaverton, Or

Highlights: I provided support to the Nike Legal team to ensure proper deployment of the 10.3 patch of the internal Nike DocIt system, to ensure the most stable and consistent experience for Nike users across the various global headquarters.Duties: I worked as part of a team to ensure thorough testing of the 10.3 DocIt patch including defect tracking, collaboration, and resolution, using tools such as Sharepoint and Microsoft Office. I performed manual testing of various existing and new functionalities following very detailed test plans as well as intensive Ad-Hoc testing. I collaborated daily with team members to ensure continuous progress throughout the project while also managing defect resolution and production-support issues as they arose.

Beaverton, Or

Highlights: In order to ensure an exceptional customer experience through the entire production process, I contributed to the testing and data validation efforts across numerous teams and interconnected systems. In addition, I helped ensure the success of multiple product launches with hard deadlines.Duties: I worked with various system tools to analyze, study, and creatively approach multiple product lines throughout the entire production process. I used tools such as HP Quality Center to record, track, and document defect areas and their eventual resolutions. In order to deliver products to customers in the most time and cost efficient manner, I performed exhaustive data validation tests requiring an extreme attention to detail in order to ensure order accuracy and optimize system performance. I collaborated daily with team members using Scrum/Agile methodologies to help ensure a balanced and efficient workload while effectively communicating and managing resources.

Portland, Or

Highlights: I assisted with three major releases for an Enterprise level web application entailing the incorporation of major technology adjustments and quadrupling the system’s potential capacity.Duties: I used tools such as HP Quality Center, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, and Splunk to help ensure an exceptional level of quality and stability for a rapidly expanding Enterprise level learning assessment web application for numerous school districts around the country. During this time, my team worked under Scrum/Agile methodologies as the entire company shifted to this development approach. My tasks included providing clear and helpful insights that assisted in the development process of application functionality and defect resolution. I also coordinated team and cross-team efforts to accomplish challenging goals while meeting strict deadlines and aiding in the creation, maintenance, and execution of in depth test cases for manual black-box, limited white-box, regression, user-acceptance, and integration testing.