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Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

Grapevine, Texas, Us

Grapevine, Texas, Us

• Collaborate with different constituencies within the organization in order to build consensus around ideas for improvement and other initiatives. • Manage the development lifecycle and technical risks. • Communicate and enforce coding standards; perform code reviews. • Ensure/facilitate effective communication between team members and teams. • Manage technical resources within budget and schedule commitments. • Identify opportunities for improvement and make constructive suggestions for change. • Manage, coach, train, mentor, recruit and discipline others to build a successful team. • Challenge others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model. • Remain on the forefront of emerging industry practices • Model the behaviors expected of all GameStop leaders including, but not limited to, a drive for results, with a demonstrable bias for action; high levels of emotional intelligence, maturity, and professionalism; giving, receiving and responding to feedback effectively; a consistently high service orientation; and demonstrable commitments to diversity, inclusion, a respectful workplace, and integrity • Drive outstanding business results through traditional management functions including, but not limited to, sourcing and selecting talent, coaching and development, workforce and project scheduling, performance assessment, and general talent planning • Create a productive, collaborative work environment by developing a common vision, setting clear objectives, facilitating teamwork, recognizing and rewarding outstanding performance, encouraging risk tolerance, and maintaining open communications

Grapevine, Texas, Us

Application Architect embedded with the Corporate Systems development team handling the architectural design, implementation, governance and rails for the Finance, Accounting, Real Estate and Human Resource application portfolios. Following principals defined with TOGAF as an enterprise architecture framework, created solution architectures for small to medium system implementations. Worked heavily with SaaS, iPaaS, IaaS solutions as well as legacy financial systems. Cataloged more than 40 applications and became a subject matter expert on several of the applications within the department. Provided the business and IT with solutions to optimize and automate redundant business and flat file integration processes to ensure repeatable and automatic ingestion of critical data. Provided perspective for business requirements, functional requirements, delivery, testing and operations throughout the SDLC and related processes. Additionally, worked with fellow application architects on creating serverless application rails and standards for full CI/CD using Amazon Web Services. This project encompassed the ability to use a template engine to create a fully functional application scaffolding that could be built, deployed, tested and monitored with little to no involvement outside of the development team. The realization of a microservices architecture with the building blocks to implement it. Major contributions included developing the serverless application test strategy, Node.JS test framework focused on testing applications using AWS and implementing into the serverless application templates.

Grapevine, Texas, Us

Provides foremost technical and strategic leadership to the Enterprise QA organization. The Senior QA Architect evaluates test tools, automation frameworks, STLC/SDLC processes and methodologies to provide cost and time effective solutions. Additionally responsible for providing test strategies for department and intern-departmental integration test and data dependencies to the QA teams to maximize test effectiveness. Apart from Senior Architect duties, David also manages a team of automation framework developers and offshore test engineer contractors who expand, maintain, enhance and architect two in-house automation frameworks which support the major revenue impacting channels for the multi-channel online properties and point of sale systems. The team is also responsible for constructing tools to serve specific needs of the QA teams such as automated utilities, test data management, automated file compare tools, work item synchronization between multiple repositories and automated metrics reporting.Successes over the years have been largely attributed to the individual delivery teams and overall company culture to allow for innovative thoughts to become realities in the test automation and progressive QA processes. The test automation team provided 80% of the www.gamestop.com automated regression test bed which runs on a nightly cadence before training test engineers and developers on constructing BDD style test specifications. This movement to SDET/TE's facilitated the ability to support continuous integration by following the DevOps philosophy and providing the mechanisms and resource talent to automate functional stories within an Agile sprint cycle.More to come...

Grapevine, Texas, Us

Responsible for providing technical and strategic leadership to the QA organization. The QA Architect role evaluates test tools, both the manual and automated flavors, being used by the organization and in the marketplace. Additional responsibilities include QA Governance, including but not limited to test strategies, metrics definition, monitoring automation implementation, overseeing test case libraries, implementing and enforcing coding standards and auditing of QA practices. Also manages the test automation team consisting of automation framework & tools developers and onshore and offshore test enginners for the enterprise QA organization.

Grapevine, Texas, Us

Lead QA Analyst for GameStop.com initiatives.QA Analyst for several implementations including exposing Commerce Server's application functionality by way of public REST and application SOAP services and integrating the Tridion CMS for product and content management. Led the QA effort for the successful launches of http://m.gamestop.com and the GameStop native application on iOS and Android. Implemented and maintained a JRuby based automation test framework for testing GameStop.com and the supporting SOA services. Experience in using VS2010 for web performance and load testing. Assisted in implementing Microsoft's Test Manager for tracking SCRUM 1.0 projects, tasks, test cases and defects which was later migrated to the Agile 5.0 template.

Grapevine, Texas, Us

QA Analyst for several implementations including exposing Commerce Server's application functionality by way of public REST and enterprise SOAP API's, integrating the Tridion CMS for product and content management. Lead the QA effort for the successful mobile initiative launches of http://m.gamestop.com and the iOS GameStop application. Specializing in API testing and mobile applications. Implemented and maintained a Ruby based test framework for testing both REST and SOAP API endpoints. Experience in using VS2010 for web performance and load testing. Assisted in implementing Microsoft's Test Manager for tracking SCRUM 1.0 projects, tasks, test cases and defects.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Responsible for release planning and systems validation for the integration project using a purely Oracle product solution.

Irving, Tx, Us

QA Lead Analyst for the Handango device team. Handle all QA tasks for new direct to client and partner builds of the InHand client as well as the Mobile Web Framework for all supported mobile platforms. In addition to interface testing, worked intimately with the core services team in testing the API requests sent from the client on device and through the mobile web site to the Restful web services. Managed the contracted QA resources when needed for expansive projects. Modified and initiated several testing methods exclusively for testing clients in a grey box methodology to ensure absolute quality across all functionality.

Verified the multiple listing services through frontend, SQL database and by various automation techniques.

Responsible for validation of Pocket Express on J2ME handsets.

Verified vendor content could be installed and ran on a matrix of available Sprint J2ME and Palm handsets.