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Topeka, Kansas Area

Topeka, Kansas

Currently QA lead on all Farm Bill and Compliance projects. Assists with Accounting QA primarily by answering questions from other QA analysts and reviewing Accounting functionality and issues.

Topeka, Kansas - Heartland Crop Insurance (Contractor)

QA Analyst on the Heartland Crop Insurance APS application. Responsible for QA on the APS Compliance module from its inception. Responsible for AR Payments re-write, Premium Refunds and Journal Entries QA tasks on the Accounting team. QA lead on all Farm Bill projects.

Lawrence, Kansas Area

Project lead QA for the Educator Portal application that facilitates student enrollment in a variety of assessments and functions as an administrative reporting tool for state wide educational testing. Duties include writing test cases, reviewing user stories, executing tests, documenting defects and re-testing defects to verify fixes. Testing includes: functional, regression, database validation, ad-hoc testing among others. Subject matter expert for Educator Portal functionality. Assists as needed with other department projects as an additional QA resource.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

QA support to the Kansas City Sports Commission project for an event registration/fundraising system (Event United). Duties included writing test plans, test case documents, executing a variety of tests, documenting defects and testing defect fixes. Testing included: functional, regression, boundary, security testing, load testing and cross browser testing. Created and executed automated test scripts through Selenium and load tests through Jmeter. Lead QA for the development of the Event United 2.0 (Verge) application utilizing the Agile process. Lead QA on the TeamUSA site re-write and assisted on other small projects such as XEROX site updates.

Vml - Kansas City, Mo (Contractor)

QA support to various web based digital marketing projects. Tested wide variety of online projects such as: marketing campaign websites, e-commerce sites, Content Management Systems (Drupal) and marketing banners. Duties included writing test plans, test case documents, executing a variety of tests, documenting defects and testing defect fixes. Testing included: functional, regression, boundary, security testing and cross browser testing. Worked on projects for a variety of clients including but not limited to: Southwest Airlines, Western Union, Sprint and Gatorade.

Olathe, Ks

QA support of web based MLS listing applications (Paragon and reInsight) for real estate associations. This includes: Conduct analysis of product changes for quality and usability. Plan test approach for enhancements and defect resolution. Conduct full testing of enhancements to include but not limited to functional, performance, regression and UI testing. Reproduce defects in the test environment prior to code fix. Verify defect resolution after the code fix has been implemented. Test numerous other areas as needed such as new test environments, operating systems, browsers and databases.

Kansas City, Missouri

Ran Access Database queries on daily transactions and researched mainframe transaction errors. Provided daily client support such as issue resolution, system functionality questions and provide business input for project teams.

Kansas City, Missouri

Utilized background in testing to advocate for numerous changes in the way NSCC testing is conducted. Researched and analyzed project development methodology, process improvement and business analyst roles and responsibilities. Maintained enhancement projects in the project tracking system, generated the project productivity index monthly and assisted with other ongoing projects.

Kansas City, Missouri

Responsible for creating and submitting mainframe NSCC mutual fund regression test transactions on the TA2000 system as well as researching and escalating any issues uncovered. Conducted additional testing on the NSCC Desktop, a GUI front-end product for more efficient semi-automated test transaction submission and verification. Trained project teams how to test in the NSCC mainframe environment and assisted them throughout their project migration through all of the test platforms (MFD – system/string testing, MFA – regression testing and MFB – client acceptance test platform). Served as a subject matter expert to project teams and client service representatives for both development and support issues related to testing mainframe NSCC functionality.

Kansas City, Missouri

Responsible for creating and submitting mainframe (CICS region) NSCC mutual fund regression test transactions on the TA2000 system as well as researching and escalating any issues uncovered. Conducted additional testing on the NSCC Desktop, a GUI front-end product for more efficient semi-automated test transaction submission and verification. Trained project teams how to test in the NSCC mainframe environment and assisted them throughout their project migration through all of the test platforms (MFD – system/string testing, MFA – regression testing and MFB – client acceptance test platform). Served as a subject matter expert to project teams and client service representatives for both development and support issues related to testing mainframe NSCC functionality.

Kansas City, Missouri

Conducted defect testing and client acceptance testing on the MFB client testing platform. Tracked and resolved mainframe system issues by testing on TA2000 and using the PTS (Project Tracking System) and Magic databases, advocated for clients regarding system changes, served as a subject matter expert and provided testing assistance and business input on NSCC mainframe functionality to project teams.