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Norristown, Pa, Us

Audubon, Pennsylvania, United States

Audubon, Pennsylvania

At their request, returned to PJM to resume work on a small agile multi-functional team working to re-design and implement Java-based applications that adhere to the NAESB, FERC, and NERC standards.• Analyzing and extracting key functional components from government guidelines and tariffs to create scope-driven requirements within Confluence and Jira from which the team can use to drive their work within 2-week agile sprints.• Creating of small automation tests in JMeter to send/receive data payloads between various APIs• Training of other team members on various aspects of the application design, test tools, and test writing.

Malvern, Pa

Part of a small agile development team working on integrating Siemen’s Sorian Financials application to interface with Cerner’s Revenue Management Cycle application though multiple APIs and databases within a multi-tenancy environment. This leverages the ability to support a single source while supporting multiple customers and their preferences and adhering HIPAA compliance.• Created and executed tests within HPQC relying heavily on knowledge of API structure, RESTful services and Microsoft SQL databases• Lead efforts to automate functional and performance tests utilizing Apache JMeter within a Jenkins environment resulting in successfully executing tests each time new code was checked-in ensuring no degradation quality and performance.

Audubon, Pa

Part of a small agile multi-functional team working with the client as a partner to re-design and create both internal-facing and external-facing applications built with Linux, SQL and Java for the world’s largest competitive wholesale electricity market.• With various client representatives across multiple departments, studied current applications, uses and procedures resulting in a better understanding of the client’s needs and roles within wholesale electricity market.• Lead efforts to gather and document requirements, create use cases, as well as identify expectations to create clearly defined test-driven designs for implementation of updated and new applications maximizing current technologies and minimizing resource overhead.• Drove multiple application development projects simultaneously.• Managed stories in Pivotal Tracker & Jira, created Epics and stories in Behavior Driven Deployment (BDD) format.• Created and managed requirements and managed a traceability matrix to monitor coverage.• Wrote, executed, and managed over 800 test cases in HP Quality Center.• Actively participated in functional, system, and integration testing of newly developed software for Markets and Operations and coordinated release deployments.• Created and reviewed various training documentation.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Collaborated with Development, Infrastructure and IT leaders to create and maintain a Development and Testing environment mirroring a production environment resulting in the creation of new products. Served as SME for Motorola RF network on both Native and OCAP frameworks.• Developed and executed test automation for WSDL-based applications and Comcast cloud-based applications, including Pandora, utilizing Java methodologies within the Comcast Automation Testing System (CATS) framework via TestNG resulting in increased testing accuracy and reducing manual testing errors.• Served as an on-site liaison with external partners including Samsung, Panasonic, Motorola, and Sony, as well as a lead QA role in helping to identify, diagnosis and resolve issues related to new products on vendors’ platforms.• Served as a QA Team Lead, collaborating with other leads to develop and implement departmental QA policies and practices to streamline testing and defect resolution.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Team leader engaged in the design and implementation of new testing methodologies, testing procedures, test automation, and defect tracking via HP Quality Center (HPQC) leading to a more unified testing practice within the Comcast CVS division. Diagnosed and troubleshooted product field trial issues, as well as the identification of work-around or corrective procedures resulting in an increase in positive trial customer feedback.• Collaborated with other department leaders in the creation and adherence to test schedules and other project deadlines within an Agile environment, resulting in more timely product deliverables and improved status reporting.• Trained new team members and internal groups in testing and trouble-shooting techniques to improve familiarity with departmental practices and procedures.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Teamed with other QA Leads to design and implement a standardized testing methodology resulting in a more unified QA department within a newly growing organization.• Appointed sole QA Lead to Back-Office development and deployment teams requiring white-box, black-box, and end-to-end testing across multiple systems and platforms ensuring cohesive delivery of product with minimal impact to 10 million home users.• Served as a QA liaison with TV Guide. This included travel to TV Guide in Tulsa, OK, and the Comcast Media Center in Centennial, CO to gain better insight into product requirements & development environment, thus ensuring quality development and execution were met.

• First QA person employed to create testing methodologies and execution of testing.• Developed and executed test procedures.

• Consulting position with First USA Bank in Wilmington, DE serving as a Team Lead working several other team leads and bank representatives to create and implement formal QA processes.• Lead consultant and SME responsible for training other QA personnel on methodologies and tools such as Mercury LoadRunner, WinRunner, and Test Director.

B.S., Marketing / Management

Activities and Societies: Kappa Delta Rho

Certificate, Project Management

The Project Management Certificate Program is a structured sequence of courses to prepare students for careers in the planning.

B.S., Education