John L. Schoen -Software Test/Verification Engineer,Agile Qa Lead Email & Phone Number

Columbia, Md, Us

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Silver Spring, Md, Us

• Infrastructure Test Verification Engineer (December 2019 – March 2021) in Greenbelt, MDFederal Contractor, US Census Bureau (USCB), 2020 Census, Technical Integrator (TI) Program• Supported IT modernization of over 50 large-scale systems for the USCB's reporting, infrastructure, collection, and business processes, using hybrid-cloud architecture to facilitate cost saving technology, including the first ever internet self-response for a U.S. decennial census. • Verified deployments and migrations by DevOps to all lower environments as part of the Software Deployment Test (SDT) team, by ensuring correct versioning, server restarts, and functionality across all affected systems prior to their release to the application development and test teams, often using automated scripting techniques.• Validated all server & database decommission service and provisioning change requests as part of the Decomm/CRQ test team to independently ensure complete resource removal from and/or configuration settings within various tools such as Active Directory, DNS, AppDynamics, SolarWinds, VMWare vSphere & vRealize Network Insight, Infoblox, OEM, AWS, NetBackup, Cylance, and ASA/NSX firewalls, as well as using PowerShell, UNIX, and AWS CLI commands.• Provided dozens of demos and hands-on trainings to co-workers, authored test cases, process documents & access instructions, and documented all test findings in SharePoint.• Maintained defects using HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management), reported incidents using BMC Remedy, attended daily stand-ups, and updated project task boards and backlogs.• Demonstrated that systems, databases, and application servers were recoverable as part of the Backup & Restore test team, using Amazon EBS snapshots and Veritas NetBackup restorations from the Network Operations Center (NOC), Cloud, On-Prem, DBA, Windows, Linux, and Enterprise Backup Branch (EBB) teams.• Public Trust clearance obtained November 2019.

Columbia, Md, Us

• QA Lead for the Audio Factory-Tech Strategy & Delivery agile program team. Maintained epics, features, stories, tasks, and defects in various Atlassian products and add-on tools, including Jira, Confluence, Zephyr, and AgileCraft.• Managed 4 concurrent scrum teams, some with over 10 members each. Led, facilitated, or participated in daily, weekly, and quarterly agile ceremonies, such as stand-ups, backlog grooming sessions, sprint demos, sprint planning, retrospectives, and planning increments.• Responsible for starting and closing sprints, maintaining quality across all areas of development, ensuring story availability for upcoming sprints, including acceptance criteria, and providing business clarifications as needed when meeting with in-house business partners.• Managed product and technical backlogs, prioritized epics/features based on inputs from product leadership and portfolio teams, and protected scrum teams from scope change and unplanned tasks, by ensuring change requests and Sev incidents follow the backlog process.• Monitored execution progress to plan, tracked user acceptance testing, reported status progress toward planned release dates, hotspots, action items, and team changes, escalated risks to budget and schedule changes, and interviewed new test hires.

Columbia, Md, Us

• Helped launch one of Time magazine’s Best Inventions of 2007–the Portable People Meter (PPM). Provided all aspects of software testing for the Sample Management and Program Management applications for recruiting PPM households to participate in the nationally accredited, media ratings service in the top 50 radio markets in the United States.• Led several in house QA test teams, as well as dozens of off-shore software testers, working with several consulting companies, including Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and testing across large numbers of Oracle databases and UNIX (Solaris, Tru64, etc.) servers.• Authored and reviewed test plans, test cases, and test strategies documents, as well as high-level design, detailed design, code review, software requirement specifications (SRS), and business requirement specifications (BRS). Acted as main liaison between in-house business users and the IT development department. Maintained defects in ALM and Quality Center.• Developed test automation scripts using WinRunner, QTP, and LoadRunner to perform functional, regression, smoke, build acceptance, and performance tests. Oversaw creation of job scheduling development using AppWorx to manage over 100+ overnight, batch jobs.

Grasonville, Maryland, Us

• Provided all phases of software testing for cryptographic solutions that used TecSec’s patented and standards-based Constructive Key Management (CKM) technology to address information security for Homeland Security, Healthcare, and Digital Rights Management.• Test lead for Enterprise Builder and Active Directory Link applications, UNIX-based Runtime Environment (RTE) for Linux and Solaris, as well as the CKM Software Developer’s Kit (SDK).• Developed and maintained detailed test plans and test cases, which along with requirements traceability matrices, were submitted as part of TecSec’s National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) certification process.• Reviewed functional requirements, user documentation, and online help. Provided internal demos and training. Used Power Quest’s drive imaging software to “ghost” various test platforms and servers in QA lab. Worked closely with configuration management to provide install testing for our products’ Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)-based InstallShield scripts.• Helped use Mercury Interactive’s WinRunner GUI testing tool and other in-house test kits to perform various automated benchmarking, build acceptance, and API & COM wrapper tests.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

• Used Mercury Interactive’s WinRunner and LoadRunner testing tools to automate all phases of operational and domain testing for the FAS suite of Windows-based financial client/server applications. Led the calc engine automation task force. Assisted with manual functional and regression testing, test case peer reviews, and provided internal demos and training.• Maintained hundreds of XML scripts to “unit test” application-level COM components before their release from engineering. Often helped smoke test builds before release to QA.• Implemented dozens of Rational Visual Test automated scripts for the utilities, customization, and security functional areas of FAS. Re-designed the prior scripting infrastructure using object-based custom libraries, taking advantage of VT’s pointers to functions capabilities.• Wrote and developed automation test plans and schedules. Reviewed in-house and 3rd-party tools for the department’s next-generation Windows front-end and web-enabled applications.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

• Performed maintenance bug fixing and added program enhancements to all FAS products using Borland C++, Seagate Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Visual C++.• Implemented and helped design a Visual Basic test engine and drivers to validate the FAS Import API (an application-specific SDK).• Developed code path coverage test plan for system’s business rule base. Authored a code analysis document to help QA and PM identify areas affected by product-line name changes.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

• Developed a suite of automated scripts using Segue’s Silk (previously called QA Partner), including domain-reports and calculation testing. Total running time was over 100 hours, with over 1 GB of output generated and analyzed. Led a team of 3 automation engineers.• Instrumental at bringing Ghost disk-imaging software in-house to help with all types of configuration, environment, and platform testing. Helped train and interview new QA staff. Performed client/server installation, database conversion, and product integration testing.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

• Provided all phases of software testing for the new Windows-based FAS product line. Performed functional and regression tests including GUI testing (standard and custom controls), company utilities testing, report testing, and benchmark/performance testing.• Lead tester for the Novell NetWare and Windows NT WinFAS Network projects. Instrumental in designing, setting up, and maintaining the department’s first QA testing lab. Presented at the company’s annual users’ conference.• Developed dozens of test automation scripts using Eleverex’s Evaluator hardware- and software-based record/playback tool. Found several memory leaks and helped pinpoint performance problems previously undetected using manual testing techniques.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

• Lead C programmer for the QuickFile project, an add-on to DOS based Tax Partner product line, allowing customers to input hand prepared tax returns into our main application for electronic filing purposes with the IRS.• Wrote Microsoft Word macros for the Corporate R&D department to convert Ventura publishing formatted documents into rich text format (RTF) and then into RoboHelp format to provide an online help guide for internal programming class libraries.