Frank Watts Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Serve as Team Lead QA on my current project. Duties include:• Supervise a QA team performing manual and automated testing of the project.• Design and create test automation using Selenium. Supervise others in the creation of test automation.• Design REST API specifications. Give guidance to other teams who are implementing those APIs.• Platforms and technologies used include SQL Server, Python, JMeter, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon Step Functions, Amazon SQS, NodeJS, RedwoodHQ, API Testing using Postman.

New York, Ny, Us

Preferred Systems provides total outsourced IT support to small and medium-sized businesses including:• Application support for custom-developed, industry-specific applications• Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server support• Specify, Procure and Install Hardware and Software• Management of technical projects and staff

Greenville, Sc, Us

During part of my time at Condrey Corporation, I served as a test lead. I also was a tester and developed software to fully or partially automate parts of the testing.Condrey Corporation is a small startup that produces several enterprise products in the Storage Management and Reporting space. These products allocate, manage, and report on the storage of millions of users worldwide on Windows, Linux and NetWare servers. One of the products used Office 365 and SharePoint Online.Perform as Test Lead for several multi-user, multi-server Enterprise software products• Create Test Plans• Determine level of testing required for each release or new feature set• Have meetings with the stakeholders to apprise them of testing status• Sign-off when product was ready to shipDevelop test automation software• Automate a series of the core tests for one of the enterprise products. Each run of this test saved hours of manual testing• Develop PERL and PowerShell scripts to populate test servers with hundreds of millions of files and millions of users and groups• Develop PowerShell scripts to interact with the SQL Server or PostgreSQL databases used to facilitate test automation• Maintain a Python wrapper around some of the test automation components• Use Selenium IDE to help initialize the applications being testedSet up Test Environments• Install and configure VMware ESXi to create test environments• Create virtual servers hosted on VMware ESXi, including Windows Servers (various releases), SUSE Linux servers, OES servers, and NetWare servers• Populate test servers with millions of files and up to a million users to create the most realistic recreation of a customer environment possibleSoftware Tester• Manually test software according to a test plan• Perform exploratory testing on the software• Report and Track bugs in Mantis and JIRAI provided these services contracting through my company, Preferred Systems.

During this period of time I had full responsibility for the IT environment for a medium-sized law firm.Planning• Create an IT Strategy Master Plan and Schedule• Create budgets for specific IT projects• Specify, procure and install Hardware and SoftwareImplementation• Setup Microsoft Windows and Exchange Servers• Setup Microsoft SQL Server• Convert email system from POP email to Exchange server• IT Infrastructure overhaul including router, switch, and firewall replacement• Complete desktop hardware replacementSupport• Upgrade to latest version of Microsoft Office• Ongoing desktop and laptop support• Maintain network security by keeping the Cisco PIX firewall rules up to date, establishing secure password policies, updating server and desktop security software as needed and verify that security best practices are being followed• Provide user assistance as neededApplication Support• Install and configure ProLaw software• Write complex SQL Server queries as needed to allow custom reportsI provided these services contracting through my company, Preferred Systems.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Psychology