Daniel Whiteside Email & Phone Number

Various (mostly Thailand)

Greater St. Louis Area

• Perform mobile functional testing.
• Perform mobile verification testing.
• Perform mobile interface testing.
• Facile with all Agile ceremonies
• Conduct test analysis, data design, test case development for an Agile mobile development project.
• Conduct defect management, retesting, and defect error resolution in an Agile mobile development project.

Greater Denver Area

• Implement, conduct, and document test solutions for software applications
• Test within rabid Agile philosophy and Scrum methodology
• Participate in day-to-day scrum activities for the team; work with Scrum team members to design and develop tests, elicit user stories and requirements
• Maintain a current, working knowledge of technical and quality requirements; comply with Charter Quality Management Protocols
• Solid knowledge of software testing methodology and strategy and revision control
• Develop and mentor team members and give input on technical testing direction of project

Greater St. Louis Area

• Implement, conduct, and document test solutions for software applications
• Test within Agile philosophy and Scrum methodology
• Assist with escalations of customer issues and requirements
• Participate in activities for improving engineering practices, tools, infrastructure and other quality system processes and deliverables
• Guide team and develop strategies for testing, test documentation; guide and mentor test and quality engineers
• Participate in day-to-day scrum activities for the team; work with Scrum team members to design and develop tests

Greater St. Louis Area

• Design test plans, scenarios, scripts, and/or procedures for the core and scalable IT solutions;
• Define Testing and QA activity content together with the development teams to ensure quality delivery of application solution changes prior to promoting them into production including areas such as: database impacts.
• Promote procedures, standards and rules in place and seek for opportunities to improve them for QA activities to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, and completeness, or to mitigate risks.
• Perform manual, and/or automated testing tasks as required.
• Identify, analyze, and document problems with program function, output, online screen, or content.
• Monitor bug resolution efforts and track results.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Consulted on Testing Process – Acting as fresh set of eyes on current testing process.
• Wrote Test Documentation (Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases).
• Tested web interfaces built on JAVA, linked to 30+ year old mainframe/data streams and databases.
• Wrote test plans from Requirements/Business documentation and Owner/developer discussions.
• Wrote test cases for mid-sized project with ~220 cases (3 iterations/regressions).
• Wrote test cases for small project/updates with 50-75 cases (usually with one or at most two iterations).

Greater Omaha Area

• Regression testing Web financial front-end developed in JAVA.
• Documented issues in JIRA 6.0 defect tracking tool.
• Met daily with team in stand ups.
• Collaboratively helped guide our team on good testing process/methodology.
• Helped leverage contract/bank resources up to gaining full benefit from Agile methodologies
• Collaborated with BA and developers to fully understand development effort and issue resolutions.

Grinnell, Iowa

• Taught co-workers about CMMI, QA processes and procedures, requirements, test cases, good error tracking and reporting processes, and more.
• Helped guide QA manager/QA project.
• Lead automation engineer on large in-house development project.
• Created automation test plan
• Evaluated two test suites, made recommendations to management on purchases.
• Learned web automation framework/system from ground up.

• Support/Troubleshoot computers (PC and Mac), Repaired, troubleshoot, replaced AV Equipment
• Troubleshoot software (technical software (sciences) and usual Windows software as well)
• Installed and removed software to insure smooth usage of AV Carts during teaching time.
• Created podcasting presentation to show available possibilities for campus health initiatives
• Performed as Drupal Poweruser for campus (one of 15 or so for the college)
• Troubleshooting, technology support, and general computer/technology researcher.

Greater Denver Area

• Understood, supported, and enforced the Standard Test Process (following SDLC, CMMi & IEEE) and helped ensure that other testers understood and used the Standard Test processes so they were consistent with the goals.
• Assisted individual contributors in resolving immediate problems (e.g., guidance to applying the Standard Test Processes to their project). Ensured that the results were reported correctly to deliver the value expected.
• Trained and mentored testers on all facets of the Software Development Life Cycle as well as testing and testing tools. Estimated time and testing resources necessary to support/produce successful end-results of.
• Managed additional testing resources to bring slow/late projects back on track and get them delivered within deadlines. Functioned as QA Manager when he was off-site. Perform Lead Tester and Analyst duties as.
• Peer reviewed and edited many documents for team-mates and management.

Greater Denver Area

• Performed Software Change Management support between personnel leaving and their subsequent replacement.
• Used agile methodology, performed Web testing of customer-facing interfaces, Integration testing of patches.
• Analysis Lead of Data Migration/Data Evaluation/Comparison Team.
• Gathered requirements from planning discussions.
• Assisted with SQA project documentation and process creation.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Consulted with BJC Healthcare (Medical), Charter Communications (Cable), Nestle PetCare (Manufacturing) and more.
• Provided QA coverage for a Kronos WorkForce Management implementation.
• Provided end to end QA coverage for a special project showing Sarbanes – Oxley due diligence progress.
• Created QA Test plan from project documentation and test cases from use cases and product reviews.
• Performed integration testing of patches, new builds, new versions, OS changes.
• Built Wet Plant, Dry Plant, and Non Plant images to specification.

Downtown St. Louis

• Managed multiple moves of user/workstations/servers through different Active Directory Organizational Units (OUs) to simulate and test updating Security changes in production.
• Installed software to duplicate production builds in the Breweries.
• Managed and tracked issues/defects via custom Access database.
• Worked directly with SMEs to test their products in new environments and gathered info to enhance processes.

Greater St. Louis & Milwaukee Areas

• Consulted with Northwestern Mutual Life (Insurance Industry), A.G.Edwards (Financial Industry), Intelligent Optimization (Software Developers), USPS, and more.
• Too much to detail, suffice it to say I have excellent written communication and editing skills as well as a very high facility with Office applications.

• A.G. Edwards
• Performed integration testing on 100+ plug-in software applications against many Roles (large groups of applications packaged for delivery to specific business divisions) and three Base operating systems.
• Collaborated with fifteen testers and six test analysts to design tests, test plans, and testing standards.
• Partnered with software packagers to ensure that the packages met standards and functioned properly.
• Performed Preview Installs for all packages tested with attendees from Software Deployment and SIS.
• Trained teammates on how to SMS a package and utilize a CD Burner to save images.