Jay Paquette Email & Phone Number

Halifax, Canada Area

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Software Quality Analyst at ResMed

Kanata, Ontario, Canada

Halifax, Canada Area

Position Summary: As a member of the Umbian Quality Assurance team, Jay has provided various levels of QA test support for Umbian and ResMed projects both local and abroad"U-Sleep" Umbian Inc. Halifax, Nova Scotia • QA Prime for various U-Sleep features for multiple product releases• Participated in various test validation activities for live product deployments into production• Worked with the Umbian - Client Integration team to ensure project feature testing was performed for all product requirements• Defect Logging and verification in TFS• Product Website: www.u-sleep.com"S+" ResMed Sensor Technologies (RST) Dublin, Ireland• Travelled to Dublin, Ireland to provide QA test support for the "S+” product release• Provided QA test process recommendations to key stakeholders during product feature and functionality design meetings • Executed and reported test results from mobile (iOS and Android) and multi-web browser testing• Defect Logging and verification in JIRA tool• Product Website: www.mysplus.com• Tools/Technology: TFS, JIRA, MS Office Suite, Various iOS and Android handheld devices

Bedford, Nova Scotia

Projects: BlackBerry Mobile Voice System, Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger on various handheld platforms, tablets and the new BlackBerry 10 productPosition Summary: As an Agile Scrum Tester/Software QA Specialist for Software Verification & Validation Team, Jay's main focus was to collaborate with local and remote cross functional teams to ensure an overall successful quality product release was achieved• Participated in product requirement meetings, project planning, feature sizing activities and project retrospectives to help contribute to overall product quality for product releases• QA Test Prime for various product features• Test plan and test case writing for product functional test suites; Smoke, Sanity, Integration, Regression and Production Release Testing• Worked with fellow testers and development teams to investigate and troubleshoot hand held device, client/server and web component based issues with diagnostic logging tools• Defect logging and verification to resolution• Tools/Technology: Rally, JIRA, Perforce, Integrity, HP Quality Center, PRZilla, SQL Server

Halifax, Canada Area

Various Internal/External Client ProjectsPosition Summary: As the QA Test Lead, Jay worked with the Project Management Office (PMO) and staff on a series of internal and external client projects to help establish and improve upon test practices and overall process improvement initiatives• Participated in product requirement meetings and worked with cross functional project teams to help establish and standardize testing practices• Participated in various levels of project/product testing• Worked with the PMO to help identify and improve overall project release processes• Tools/Technology: FogBugz, SQL Server

Halifax, Canada Area

Project: AIME – Area Integrated Management Environment Department of National Defense - Web Based Financial and Resource Management Software for Army Operations PlanningPosition Summary: As the Senior QA Analyst/Test Lead, Jay's reasonability was to contribute to R&D product meetings with internal staff and external DND groups to help establish a QA testing frame work that would support the iterative military software releases• Test case writing and execution for product module features to ensure all identified usability cases performed accurately• Participated in various levels of Defect Management; defect standardization, logging and verification to resolution• Performed software training exercises for military staff at CFB Gagetown and Land Force Atlantic Area (LFAA)• Tools/Technology: AIME, SQL Server

Ottawa, Canada Area

Projects: Cognos Query, Decision Stream and other BI Series 7 Suite Applications in the R&D Business Intelligence and Performance Management Division Position Summary: Jay provided QA/QC test support for various product applications released for SQL Server and Oracle on both windows and UNIX platforms• Participated in product requirement meetings to establish a solid understanding of product features and functionality• Worked closely with fellow testers to identify test criteria for test plan and test case writing• Test Lab Environment – Test server, VM setup and maintenance of various product suite installations on both windows and UNIX platforms• Test case execution (manual/automated) for various product installs, feature test suites and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)• Defect logging and verification• Tools/Technology: HP Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, VM Ware, UNIX

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