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National Capital Region, Philippines

National Capital Region, Philippines

PROJECT - Disneyworld Parks website• Worked with the product owners, BA's, and developers to Define and implement an agile QA strategy covering functional, non-functional scenarios• Provides relevant quality reports/updates and analysis that is used by clients and upper management• Drives QA effort in multiple projects, managing the timelines, and coordinate test automation activities• Defined the automation framework on which the automated test suite will be built on.• Works closely with scrum teams and management to remove obstacles that impact the testing effort.• Own the quality gate for test coverage in the development process • Did oversight for the integration of automated test into a Continuous Integration Process using Bamboo and Jenkins• Mentors, guides, and coaches junior team members • Responsible for staff recruitment, selection and allocation for testing teamsTechnologies Used:Serenity, Selenium Web Driver, JAVA, Github, Jenkins, Groovy, Jbehave, Gradle, Jira, ALM, Intellij IDE, Serenity, Bamboo, Amazon Web Services, Maven

Project - Walt Disney World CorporationSr. Automation QA- Creates Automation Test Plan and strategy- Creates / Maintains / Executes automation scripts- Manages defects and coordinates with concerned stakeholdersProject - Modirum (Estonia)Automated QA Testing- Collaborates in test plan creation and test procedure implementations- Creates and develops automated test cases for web applications and updates test scripts as needed- Generates and analyzes automated test results- Manages and tracks bugs/defects, actively monitoring outstanding issues until completion and closure.

Singapore, Singapore

Projects: PriMo Adapt (.Net C#) – Derivatives Risk Management system that produces risk numbers for traders, front and middle office teams. Role: Senior Test QA/Support (Lean Sigma certified, ITILv3 Foundation)• Prepares Test Plan/Strategies for various testing activities and processes in an Agile environment.• Leads testing activities such as test script creation/execution, test data preparation, results documentation and defect tracking, doing post mortem after testing cycles to improve testing process.• Leads the overnight production support which oversees production batch jobs, fixes critical production issues, and maintains all production processes.• Ensures timely delivery of testing assignments, managing daily testing activities, and monitors status reporting at end of day testing.• Provides coaching, mentoring, and guidance for the less senior testing team members.• Manages/tracks outstanding issues and defects using JIRA, and takes proactive measures to resolve them (with previous experience for HP Quality Centre as well)• Communicates with various stakeholders like developers, traders, front office, middle office, and back office in managing expectations regarding SLA’s, escalations and/or other issues.• Maintains documents/knowledge base on QA best practices, processes, and workarounds for various issues.• Analyze and discuss business requirements prepared by business analysts and developers located in London

COMPASS-TI/TOGW Imagine Project Production Support – OFFSHORE (April 2008 – Present)The team analyzes and remediates orders/system issues that all other helpdesk teams could not fix through the use of the GUI. Our fixes are delivered through methods using the user interface, underlying systems and finally the database of the production environment with live data. Methods may be done in succession or in tandem. Position: Team Lead – Senior AnalystResponsibilities:• Submit/monitor/track defects for the fixes from the dev team that are impacting a lot of stuck orders so the workarounds could be implemented and applied.• Manages 15 Jr. Analysts and 3 Java developers and is responsible in managing their workloads/tasks, performance assessments, attendance• Leads the biweekly client calls with the Toronto team for project updates and issues that the Manila team is experiencing.• Initiated and implemented performance measurement metric to the whole team that shows productivity of each individual in a certain period or duration.• Provides support in scheduled and unscheduled system downtimes ensuring business is still operational.• Is involved in system releases, monitors and ensures stability after code release in production environment.• Sent to Toronto for technical training, to be familiar with TELUS business, and to have an in depth understanding of the systems involved in the project. • Was responsible in training and doing a knowledge transfer to Manila team for its operation readiness.• Daily monitoring of systems and ensures that Order Management Stuck tickets are within SLA’s.• Also helps out in resolving Escalations that needs to be cleared within 24 hours.Methods/Tools/Technologies:Mercury Quality Center 8.2, AMDOCS, Remedy, Oracle 10g, TOAD for Oracle, NetCracker, SAP frontend.

Projects:ESM - TELUS QA LYNX Project - ONSHORE (Vancouver, Canada February 2007 – January 2008)Position: Siebel QA TesterQA LYNX Project is a National (TCI), integrated trouble management system for TELUS Service Assurance for the complete trouble lifecycle: ticketing, customer relationship (SLAs, appointments, callbacks) and diagnostics.Responsibilities:• Participate in Test Planning activities for various LYNX projects• Prepares Test Plans/Strategies for testing activities• Create and manage work plans and project estimates• Create and execute manual scripts and test conditions for the TELUS Lynx project, in accordance with TELUS standard methodology• Ensure that test results are accurately recorded• Provide all required test documentation as specified by the TELUS QA Prime• Automate a subset of manual scripts as defined by the QA Prime, using tools as specified• Perform performance/load testing using LoadRunner 8.2• Provide regular, formal status reports to the QA Prime• Create and execute automated performance test scriptsMethods/Tools/Technologies: Mercury Quality Center 8.2, Siebel 7.7, Mercury QuickTest Pro 8.2, Mercury LoadRunner 8.2, UNIX scripting

Bank of New York – SFA (October 2006 – February 2007)Position Title: Test Analyst The Bank of New York Company, Inc. (NYSE: BK) is a global leader in providing a comprehensive array of services that enable institutions and individuals to move and manage their financial assets in more than 100 markets worldwide.Brian is currently assigned as a Test Analyst in the BNY SFA Project. This project provides continuous enhancements and production support to their Siebel 7.5 Sales Force Automation application. Responsibilities:• Review all available Test References• Develop/Update Test Specifications (Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Data) • Perform Integration Test for the Siebel Application• Report defects and issues encountered during Test Execution• Coordinate with Test Team Leader regarding issues or problems encountered during test preparation, execution, or defect handling• Report progress on work assignments to the Test Team Leader• Coordinate with Developer Team regarding defects, issues or inconsistencies with the Siebel ApplicationMethods/Tools used:Siebel 7.5 Sales Force Automation, Mercury Test Director.

Bscs, Information Technology

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