Aaron Dempsey Email & Phone Number

Watertown, MA, US

New York, New York, US

• Ensure the achievement of strategic initiatives by supervising and mobilizing high-quality performance from a team of more than 40 resources, including Managers and Leads.o Provide ongoing mentorship and leadership.
• Create and deploy User Acceptance Testing discipline and team for business customers.
• Evaluate status of start/stop/continue items in partnership with Managers by participating in monthly one-on-one reviews.
• Contribute to financial performance strength, operational excellence and exemplary customer satisfaction and employee engagement.
• Impact solid integration planning and product and business acquisitions in alignment with Quality requirements.
• Coordinate QA programs related to the Predictive Model initiative and facilitate the establishment and migration of QA toolsets to a centralized group of tools, including adding standardization to ensure refined.

• Charted successful course for the performance and outcomes of an offshore test team of 5-10, providing effective teambuilding, mentoring, performance evaluations, and corrective procedures as deemed necessary.
• Facilitated collaboration between offshore and local teams, trained employees in manual and automated testing techniques, and discovered talent and assembled a team of manual and automated Testers from scratch.
• Leveraged IaaS and Security protocols to test cutting-edge technology.
• Assessed design and requirements provided by Product and Development units to communicate a clear interpretation.
• Played key role in the optimization of the testing cycle by analyzing test data.
• Utilized HP UFT 12.0 to apply Agile SCRUM methodology and automation framework.

Zurich, Zurich, CH

• Spearheaded requirements gathering starting with the JAD session phase.
• Kickstarted test plan and formulated test cases using a standardized test template created in Excel.
• Integrated the user level of the UA Testers upon completing QA test cases to generate applicable UA test cases.
• Delivered clear overviews of testing efforts through the creation and presentation of daily progress reports using a burndown chart.
• Performed QA testing and supported UA Testers, including but not limited to training on new features and assisting with entering defects in Jira.
• Garnered and consistently employed a strong understanding of web-based applications with SQL backend and.NET/Java.

New York, NY, US

• Directed and virtually delegated the assignments of an offshore team of 20 Testers, including by hosting weekly status calls to review outstanding issues.
• Tested LAN-based and web-based applications built upon PowerBuilder 12.0 and.Net.
• Navigated migration of 400 manual test cases to automation using QTP 11.0.
• Throughout release schedule, held responsibility for composing and maintaining automated and manual test suites for new functionality.
• Reported daily and weekly progress on assignments via Excel spreadsheet or query-based reporting within Microsoft TFS.
• Aligned performance efficiency of all commodity trade functionality with strict guidelines.

Bachelor Of Science In Information Systems Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Business

Diploma