Cassandra Gordon, Istqb, Csm, Itil, Safe Agilist Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

St. Louis

Work directly with the HRIS team to lead quality assurance efforts the Enterprise Holdings global HR platform, Workday, application release. •Define test plans, test scenarios and manual test scripts, as well as utilize testing tools for functional and regression testing•Test the products, measure test coverage, compile test metrics and provide test status•Drive the invention and adoption of tools, techniques and advanced test methodologies•Function successfully independently and in a team environment to overcome ambiguity and deliver results•Responsible for analyzing and translating complex business requirements into processes, designs, and solutions that balance business needs and technology strategies, specific to Workday Assess and evaluate quality assurance test requirements to determine the scope of the functionality to be covered by testing.•Participate in daily standups/status meetings and contribute to the completion of the Workday release by driving the quality assurance process and product validation.•Establish a reliable testing infrastructure including a defect tracking tool to support the test phases•Facilitate testing execution•Manage daily test status reporting•Identify, escalate and assist in resolving issues related to testing•Manage test exit – all criteria, reporting and signoffs – for all testing cycles •Document test results

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for leading senior and junior level test engineers on a Shared Quality Assurance Test Team. Includes the design, development and implementation of testing procedures; the collaboration of test plans, test strategy, test cases and test scripts to support testing objectives; and the implementation of quality assurance and testing methodologies, processes, standards and tools• Supervise the technical aspects of all quality assurance testing work activities• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for test methodology and tools.• Manages staffing; provides performance feedback on team and may assign, directs and monitor work of team participants• Coordinates with QA Manager to ensure tasks are aligned with and follows the appropriate project delivery process.• Work with business to determine the acceptable range for test results and performance.• Contributes to creation of test plans, test cases, and scripts for most complex applications and ensures they support testing objectives• Ensures tests are executed and analyzed properly• Supervises test case development, documentation and execution of tests• Ensures any unresolved problems or issues are properly documented, escalated and monitored• Tracks problems identified during testing activities• Reviews testing documentation deliverables• Identifies, documents, and communicates issues and risks• Conducts and participates in team meetings to ensure information is communicated across the team

Greater St. Louis Area

Design, execute and analyze the results of system performance test scripts using HP Performance Test Automation Tools to measure and improve the performance of the United States Postal Service commercial bulk mailing IT financial system. Responsibilities include coordinating pre-tasks and post tasks related to application performance testing• Ensure performance test requirements are received, establish performance test objectives and determine scalability and load virtual users; develop performance test plan• Develop key metrics for measuring and monitoring performance and reliability. Monitor, measure and report production performance and reliability and troubleshoot production problems. • Review application design requirements to identify the features that will contribute to resource consumption, performance and reliability based on transaction volume and subsystems interaction. • Develop, implement and maintain system performance monitoring solution and reporting system to proactively analyze and identify trends and problems to mitigate production issues. • Script development, debugging and extending code• Execute performance and other non-functional tests based on user models identified in the test plan• Monitoring impact of the load on the application and database• Address all technical issues, facilitate the resolution and necessary follow up• Gather various reports and statistics from the application to generate performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation and analysis• Publish results and receive appropriate sign offs• Prepare detail status reports, and monitor of all defects and issuesTechnical Environment: ALM v12.x; Performance Center v12.x; LoadRunner v12.x; Analysis v12.x; Virtual User Generator v12.x; Sitescope v11.x; UFT v12; Compuware QALoad; Serena Business Manager; Subversion, VersionOne

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for cultivating and disseminating knowledge of software testing best practices and tools while performing Quality Activities across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, to include providing detailed analysis of Requirements and Project Plans, active participation in Code and Design Reviews, detailed Manual and Automated testing planning, and testing execution• Lead a team of software quality specialists through requirements analysis, test script development, integration testing, defect management, regression testing and application readiness• Responsible for scheduling of resources and over-site of work for onsite and offshore (India) team members• Coordinated Functional and Performance testing activities of testers – I/S personnel on-shore and off-shore with the business• Managed the development of a growing suite of Manual and Automated test scripts• Maintained Test Plans for Staging, Pre-Production and Production environments• Used the following: Rational Application Performance Analyzer, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, and Rational Quality Manager for automation, load/stress/ monitoring and storing test scripts• Used Rational Clear Case tool for revision control of source code and other software development assets• Used Rational Clear Quest change management software for defect tracking purposes and to process automation across the software development lifecycle.• Provided summary reports and sign off information for “Go/No Go” discussion to the project teams• Ensured Project functionality was incorporated into regression testing for future releases

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Computer Resource Information Management