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Richmond, Va, Us

Working with multiple projects within the team, I provide leadership and direction to the technical projects. My role is to manage, facilitate, and coordinate all project management duties and tasks by following standard project management industry practices (PMI's framework). Understand the business and technical objectives of the project and work closely with the management team. Establish project organization and methodologies and define roles and responsibilities. Document risks and develop mitigation plans. Manage scope. Negotiates resources.Communicate to stakeholders and the project sponsor.Identify, track, and ensures the resolution of issues and removal of barriers. Management responsibility over the achievement of performance, and objectives of a project, its contracts, and expenditures. Ensures that the project plan is updated and maintains tasks, schedules, estimates, and status. Disseminates information to team members and customers and agency management.

Greenwich, Ct, Us

As a QA Team Lead on the Sapphire project, I am responsible for the organization and formal reporting on testing activities, progress, and defects related to the Sapphire project. Create process improvements to allow more efficient reporting and collection of metrics. Create written and oral reports and deliver those reports to Sr Management. As a Project Manager on the Sapphire project, I was responsible for coordinating and driving the completion of end-to-end testing in preparation for cutover and go-live. As a project manager, ensure the execution and completion of technical tasks related to the HR Year End project.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Laurel, Maryland, Us

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Provide QA leadership and support to development, BA, PM and user work streams for the Kronos upgrade from version 6.2 to 8.1 and for Kronos to Cardinal payroll interface changes.Create the testing approach, strategy and plan for both the Kronos and Cardinal upgradesCoordinate the team members at 15 DBHDS facilities for testing and working on Cardinal related tasks.Execute and perform outcome validation of executed test plans/scripts. Create and report test results via both written and oral formats.Champion the defect resolution process by creating a defect resolution management process, implementing that process and executing that process to include collaborating with developers/testers to resolve undesired test outcomes.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Essential job functions include the following:• Create and review test plans, staffing plans, estimates and resource allocation to ensure project success in terms of both quality and budget• Integrates QA activities and mind-set throughout the software development lifecycle and• Setting QA vision and growing existing QA capabilities to encompass best practices• Working with senior management team and cross-functional project teams to ensure implementation of the overall QA strategy• Developing internal and external training plans for the QA team• Create and maintain comprehensive testing metrics and reporting to reflect progress against the overall strategy as well as the success of individual projects• Helping to coach a team of agile testers, developers and business users toward collaborative, cohesive testing that result in measurable quality improvements across projects.• Reviewing test plans, staffing, estimates and resource allocation to ensure project success in terms of both quality and budget• Develops and maintains excellent working relationships with development, project management, and business analysts in order to foster quality environments within all teams• Conducts port-mortem and lessons learned meetings with the goal being to identify and practice processes that work well and to amend processes that need improvement – continuous process improvement.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Manages the operation of the organization's total quality management (TQM) program.Oversees the development of systematic approaches for assuring high quality services that meet customer needs.Coordinates program communications to employees.Develops training and related reward systems.Develops, implements, and leads key process improvement efforts and influences cross-functional efforts.Develops systematic approaches for assuring high quality services.Identifies the interface of key activities within and between the functions of the organization.

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Richmond, Va, Us

Responsible for leadership and oversight of UAT testing. At a high level, my job is to define and champion initiatives that support the ongoing quality improvement of all elements of the agency’s business solutions. • create testing methodologies and standards, and ensure compliance• Evaluate quality and appropriateness of testing performed by vendors to give recommendation that vendor testing was complete and accurate and software is ready to move to UAT • Train team members and ‘guest testers’ from the operational areas in the methodologies and standards• Manage and help create test coverage matrix and test cases/plans • Research, implement and educate on best practices for software life cycle management with focus on quality assurance• Coordinate with other VRS entities (business owners, solution architects, development lead, etc.) in order to successfully prepare for the test • Create test acceptance criteria for the Modernization Program• Manage test environment including test data• Develop the testing task plan and staffing plan for User Acceptance Test • Coordinate and provide senior level testing guidance to analysts, developers, business users and project managers • Provide overall defect resolution management across the project• Created and implemented a defect resolution management process • Establish quality metrics for software development, and report out on them

Round Rock, Texas, Us

While serving as a QA Team Lead, I am responsible for not only ensuring quality software and software development processes, but also coordinating the software releases for the QA group. While operating in this capacity, some of my major accomplishments include analyzing and streamlining the defects resolution management process, conducting effective WAR-ROOM sessions to flush out and resolve difficult issues and working directly with the customer to identify opportunities to strengthen the teams testing efforts. Responsibilities include the following

As a QA Test Lead I was responsible for ensuring and improving the product quality of a suite of Mortgage mainframe and client/server products. My contributions on the project will help Suntrust cut its mortgage loan origination time from 60 days down to 1 day. The primary duties include the following:analysis of project requirements and design documents for financial applicationsdevelopment of test requirements, plans and casescreation and management of test dataleading execution of test caseslogging and tracking of defects found during testingprovide status to Sr. Mgmt of the testing projects.

ScholarOne provides Web-based workflow solutions for scholarly publishers that accelerate the time to market of journals, meeting abstracts, and conference proceedings and deliver significant productivity gains to our customers. As a quality assurance analyst, it was my responsibility to regression test numerous bug fixes on those web based, Java coded workflow solutions. Responsibilities include defect reporting, defect verification and metrics collection/analysis, working closely with Application Developers, Database Administrators and IT to identify breakpoints and verify bug fixes.

Developed a strategic testing strategy to fit the development practices of Saxon Mortgage. Tested multiple web based software applications that were developed in Java, ASP, and Visual Basic. Developed a working knowledge of Saxon's business process as well as the mortgage industry. Defined the QA Team Mission, Role-Responsibilities, testing guidelines and standards, test plans, test cases, defect tracking tools, and metrics based on industry best practices, thus leading to effective and streamlined software testing and documentation.Developed a reputation for quick learning, independent working, and delivering a quality product.Successfully served as test lead of the REIT Table Funding project whose timely and successful implementation saved the company 2 million per quarter.Effectively and efficiently automated various web-based applications using QTP, thus following the company to execute thousands of test cases that were previously out of scope for manual testing.

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Created and maintained test cases and scenarios liaising with internal customers and Development Teams to ensure on-time product delivery to stores while meeting all quality requirements. Tested Java coded GUI applications, had specific responsibility for Magellan point of sales functionality, and was secondary owner for QA automated regression testing and client testing using WinRunner.Conducted effective testing on new Magellan point-of-sale (POS) system that allowed the company to deploy four very large builds of software that all met defined quality standards.Reputation for quickly creating and maintaining effective test cases and scenarios that fully exercised the application under test.Consistently met tight deadlines for posting test results and producing management reports.Recognized for high standards in reporting all critical defects to appropriate Development Group within an hour of detection, ensuring speedy detection, fix and regression testing of all defects.Participated in a variety of reviews - Project Charter, Vision and Strawman, Use Case Functional Requirements, Analysis & Design Domain, and Code Reviews, ensuring that defects were detected as early as possible in the software development life cycle.Process ImprovementSelected to develop and document testing strategies specific to our environment and the needs of the project thus increasing the testing cycle by 50%. Chosen to serve on Domino.Doc Focus Group to research and propose MIS wide document storage solutions to streamline document storage and increase work productivity.Developed, maintained, and promoted flexible best practices and guidelines for document management throughout the enterprise.Recognized by Senior Management for success in promoting effective training on Domino.doc.Represented Store Systems Department coordinating team ideas and feedback to create consistency in document storage for the MIS Department.

Tasked to create and document test cases and perform integration testing for the company website, Homebase Redesign, and the administration tools. Completed QA analysis on numerous versions of the Homebytes.com website. Involved extensive use of "Request Tracker" to document bugs and track their repair progress.Worked closely with developers to identify and rectify defects.Quickly acquired in depth knowledge of real estate processes.

London, Gb

Created and executed tests necessary to verify that Tomahawk Missile software met all given requirements. Supported Formal Qualifications Testing, Top Level Design and Detailed Design development through inspection support, using the FAGAN inspection process. Performed the analysis, composition, and presentation of results using Interleaf, MS Access and TIMES (Tomahawk Information Management and Engineering System)Gained Secret Government Clearance in order to satisfy job qualifications.Acquired in depth knowledge of Naval terminology, and DOD processes.

Ms, Mathematics

Bs, Mathematics/Computer Science