Dez Sims Email & Phone Number

Corpus Christi, TX, US

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Reported to the Product Manager. Responsible for correcting map institutions' data in order to be used correctly in the application filters.
• Transformed and pulled data from the correct tables and columns for aggregations to be visible to the end user upon deployment of application.
• Collaborated with other data engineers to construct the best practices required to bring new institutions properly and efficiently.
• Used GitHub as a version control repository to keep code from being overwritten, ensuring the company's compliance with SOX.
• Worked on multiple institutions concurrently (never less than 3).
• Created and ran workflows to build application in the staging environment, verifying filter counts on the application.

Austin, Texas Area

• Reported to the Quality Assurance Manager. Responsible for deploying applications and drops to test environment for further inspection and accurate testing.
• Created test cases and suites in Microsoft Test Manager from use cases and user stories to facilitate testing and ongoing progress.
• Participated in weekly meetings with Program managers, Engineers, and QA lead to become familiar with next releases and current releases.
• Queried SQL database to compare with result output of application.
• Used Team Foundation Server (TFS) to properly track, record, open software bugs, and view current documents pertinent to current release.

Greater San Diego Area

• Reported to the Lead Quality Assurance Engineer. Responsible for developing and executing software tests, cases and scripts to help improve accuracy of QA results.
• Performed extensive ETL testing to accurately transfer client files to database within expected timeframe
• Performed smoke, regression, performance, stress, and unit quality assurance testing to provide valid, usable data for clients to make adequate decisions on software implementation
• Used Team Foundation Server (TFS) to properly track, record, and open software bugs and Microsoft Test Manager to test the validity of data in reports
• Used Scrum Agile development methodology and maintained professional development in bug life cycle
• Created SQL scripts to query database for data validation, including using backend SQL database testing to verify data matches with front end application.