Christopher Kerr Email & Phone Number

Middletown, Maryland, United States

Serve CMS - Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. Support quarterly Rebate Calculator. Develop and refactor SQL code to comply with business rules. Analyze data for conformity to business rules. Validate software meets acceptance criteria. Analyze pl/sql stored functions and Java code and correct code defects.

Owings Mills, Md

Extract, transform and clean data based on business rules for new software development using PostgreSQL, Spark.SQL and Spark. Create and maintain the library of input data for the software. Provide data models to programmers. Create ad hoc data sets for programmers. Using applications on AWS, validate computed data on DAG nodes. Develop and maintain dashboards for reporting progress to customer. Business analysis, resource for business rules for programmers and testers. Implement fixes for code defects. Provide data scenarios found in production for automated testing. Domain is healthcare End-Stage Renal Disease(ESRD) Quality Reporting for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS). Team is SCRUM. AWS components used: EMR, ECS, RDS, S3, Redshift.

Owings Mills, Md

Facilitate SCRUM meetings. Plan and execute ceremonies. Facilitate planning at PI planning events. Represent teams at solution demos. Coach and encourage team members. Remove impediments to progress. Attend SCRUM of SCRUM meetings and report to RTE and other SCRUM masters.

Columbia, Md

Software Test for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS) - Test back-end applications developed in PL/SQL Developer and Web applications. Write and execute test cases in HP ALM in an agile SDLC. Review and provide feedback on requirements which are used to write the test cases. Design and implement complex PL/SQL code for independent validation of data outputs. Troubleshoot bugs in PL/SQL code and develop fixes which are provided to developers for implementation. Mentor developers on implementation issues.Manage a team of testers, assigning tasking, reviewing test cases and monitoring progress. Report statuses and progress to management. Maintain record in HP ALM. Interact directly with stakeholder community. Defects coming from UAT have decreased by 90%.Automate execution of testing using Selenium WebDriver for web-based applications. Built and maintain an automated library of SQL scripts for regression testing.

Leadership- Managed test teams for Lockheed Martin, provided mentoring, monitored progress and collected and collated results. Communicated progress to managers. Provided final results to customer.- Developed expertise in satellite image files by reading specifications, examining metadata using parsers and testing data performance in a variety of applications. - Represented Lockheed in many meetings as an expert on satellite IMINT data.- Proposed concept of a managed library of Quality Assured data for program use. Program managers approved this library which I implemented and maintained.- Teamed with many personnel with diverse capabilities.Software Test- Authored test plans to be executed by testers. Test plans were thorough and included many quality criteria.- Executed test plans and wrote detailed Defect Reports (DR). Provided consultation to programmers in remediation of DRs.- Provided troubleshooting by phone and in person to customers. Reproduced problems in test lab and delivered reports to management with recommended solutions.Authored and executed software test cases. Troubleshoot software, data and system problems. Assess quality of incoming data using parsers, specs and performance in benchmarked applications.Documentation- Created and delivered course on Satellite Image Formats. - Developed and documented processes to improve efficiency and quality of production. Documentation included high-level software design for automated data browser and a How-to guide to correctly classify data based on its constituent metadata.- Provided technical content to proposals to government customer for IT support.

Authored and executed software test cases. Troubleshoot software, data and system problems. Assess quality of incoming data using parsers, specs and performance in benchmarked applications.

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Course of study was Computer-Integrated Design and Manufacturing. Focused on CAD, programming algorithms, FEM.

Bs, Naval Architecture And Marine Engineering

Activities and Societies: Society of Naval Architects and Marine EngineersReceived 2 bachelors in a 4-year program of multi-discipline.