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Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

1. Managing and assisting teams of offshore partners in their efforts to automate business processes.2. Managing relationships with business partners to help them understand how automation can assist them.3. Resolving technical challenges and escalating issues when appropriate.4. Designing test templates, creating reusable blocks, and aligning data elements to create test instances.5. Conducting risk analysis sessions for applications in SAP.

Dublin, Ohio, Us

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Implementing QA practices as part of the MLA group (My Loyalty App):1. Creating the QA strategy for a tribe of three agile lines.2. Conducting interviews for new QA candidates.3. Managing the current QA team and any future additions.4. Evaluating current manual and automated practices in search of Continuous Improvement.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Developing strategies for test automation and working with QA Managers to increase the scope and effectiveness of test automation efforts throughout the enterprise.Specializing in test automation leadership as part of an Enterprise Quality group:1. Guiding and mentoring groups that are trying to implement Ruby/Cucumber for test automation.2. Directing the automation effort for a SOA group that is using SoapUI and HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) Service Tester for their automation.3. Writing tutorials and training documents for automation in Ruby/Cucumber and HP UFT and conducting Lunch and Learn sessions for Ruby/Cucumber.4. Inventing new metrics and ratios to measure and manage test efficiency and return on investment.5. Researching difficult questions for automation and inventing solutions to fit unique situations.6. Managing relationships with vendors and partners for automation tools.7. Helping managers get the most return out of their automation investment by maximizing collaboration between different groups and sharing automation methods that have proven to be effective.

Dublin, Ohio, Us

Working as part of an agile team to complete the following objectives:1. Created new automated tests using the Gherkin language (Cucumber)2. Wrote new programs in Ruby to parse files for comparison3. Prepared a test plan and test strategy for the annual upgrade of an accounting software package; led the testing effort to a successful implementation.4. Organized and documented testing processes in Quality Center (received praise from NW release manager for this)5. Conducted technical screening interviews of QA candidates for CareWorks.6. Tested new bank loan process for Bloomberg software7. Tested the upgrade of Bloomberg software8. Created test scenarios for swaps and other derivative transactions

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Coordinating release testing across multiple teams and projects within the NSS program. Also pushing forward on the following initiatives:1. Automated Testing with Ruby/Cucumber and ATDD2. Critical Path Analysis and Optimized Test Bed3. New release-level status reporting and test deliverables4. Test Data Management5. Requirements traceability from story card to test cases and defects6. Training for associates and contractors on Ruby/Cucumber7. Information sharing and test coordination across programs.

1. Interviewed and hired three new contractors to work as part of a QA team; integrated the new QA contractors into separate agile teams; took responsibility for managing the new team; conducted weekly team status meetings and resolved any issues brought up in those meetings.2. Initiated a Quality Assurance practice in a 60-person IS department. Consulted with managers regarding the proper form of Quality Assurance processes and to encourage steps towards an integrated philosophy for software quality.3. Evaluated software testing tools for potential purchase and directed purchases where appropriate.4. Quality Assurance, Testing, Business Analysis, and Solutions Analysis for a large business-to-business project. Duties on this project included creating XML files for transmission to the client, analyzing requirements documents for accuracy and utility, writing test strategy documents, writing test scenarios and test plans, creating new Visio flow diagrams and modifying existing diagrams, and validating files for data integrity and conformity to business rules.5. Assisted with training for users of the new system, and helped with troubleshooting implementation issues.6. Integrated System Testing and UAT presentations for several other projects: This entails meeting with developers, analyzing requirements, creating test strategy documents, writing test plans and scenarios, executing test cases, preparing visual aids and meeting agendas, facilitating UAT sessions and acquiring sign-off to implement. 7. Conducted a demonstration of the UAT presentation strategy for all of the Business Systems Analysts so that they can adopt it for use in their future projects.

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1. Testing analysis and solutions analysis for the FIRM project, which is building a new Business Rules Management System for all Nationwide companies.2. Wrote and executed test cases and managed defects during each iteration of the first project increment.3. Reported on testing progress and statistics at regular iteration review meetings and advised managers about resource issues.4. Helped build use cases in order to establish the functional requirements of the system. Facilitated use case review meetings and solicited input from developers, business analysts, and the project manager.5. Ran the daily project stand-up meetings when the project manager and solutions analyst were away.6. Assisted the business analysts in unit testing the business rule object models.7. Worked with automated test scripts to run necessary jobs in the Unix environment for parallel testing.

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Software testing consultant at Nationwide (see description above).

Columbus, Ohio, Us

In addition to the assignment at Wendy's (described below), I also did some contract work at R.C. Olmstead Inc. (QA Manager/Lead)1. Managed 3 direct and 4 indirect QA resources, assigning them work and monitoring their results. Analyzed, evaluated, and corrected Test Cases, as well as clarified expected and actual testing results to help the testers evaluate their work. 2. Directed team activities to meet deadlines for important release deliverables including Test Approach document, Test Case construction and execution, and Analysis and Approval of requirements. 3. Established a Quality Assurance department, outlining Business and Technical requirement processes, project and testing phases, text execution, defect management, User Acceptance Testing, and implementation for current and future projects.4. Modified resource project descriptions for approval, organized a Test Case construction and execution process document assigning specific project responsibilities to team members, and assigned testing tasks during execution based on work load and skill levels. 5. Attended weekly management status meetings, and scheduled and facilitated requirements analysis and test approach review meetings. 6. Analyzed and reported defects during daily status calls. 7. Served as primary contact between Quality Assurance and Management team members, and interact with development to communicate and resolve issues. 8. Utilized TeamPlain (Team Foundation Server) and spreadsheets to track and manage project status, tasks, and defects, schedule Test Cases for execution, and execute when needed.9. Used MS Excel to write new test cases and organize all test cases into a matrix that was used to assign work and track progress.

Dublin, Ohio, Us

1. Tested new functionality and defect fixes for the BackOffice Generation 2 (BOG2) system. Reported new defects and managed them in Quality Center. Wrote new test cases and helped design the testing methodology for new releases.2. Tested a new store version of the Online ESR system, which interacts with PeopleSoft and Hierarchy Manager. Evaluated old test cases and re-wrote or discarded those which were no longer relevant.3. Led the testing effort for the Hierarchy Manager system. Wrote new test cases, executed them in the test environment, and opened defects when appropriate.4. Wrote new LoadRunner scenarios for load testing the BOG2 system.5. Wrote test plan documents for BOG2 projects.

New York, Ny, Us

1. Represented the entire CTO QA Test Team for enterprise-level release activities.2. Directed team activities to meet deadlines for important release deliverables such as: Test Approach document, Test Matrix, Test Case construction, Analysis and Approval of requirements, release participation forms, IST Readiness forms, and many others. 3. Scheduled and facilitated requirements analysis and test approach review meetings. 4. Served as Quality Center Admin for all projects residing in the CTO domain.5. Served as Test Lead for Research and Adjustments applications for 3 years. This involved serving as primary tester, in addition to attending all test status meetings and requirements analysis meetings. 6. Analyzed defects and reported on them during daily status calls. 7. Followed up on late testing tasks and analyzed test runs for progress. 8. Served as the primary contact on the Test Team for HP Quality Center training and questions. 9. Worked closely with developers to resolve defects and with project managers to explain the impact of the defects and project closing times. 10. Served as primary tester for Fraud Detection Systems applications. 11. Prepared test data and built test cases. 12. Scheduled test cases for execution and executed them. 13. Reported on status of execution tasks and opened defects when necessary.14. Used MS Excel to format data, store test case steps, prepare test data for Fraud Detection Systems, prepare budget data for future work, track deliverables during the enterprise release cycle, calculate variances between different sets of data, and track project tasks for testing a new version of the Adjustment Express system.

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Upper Arlington, Ohio, Us

Consulting assignments at:- Nationwide Financial as a software developer- AEP as a Project Coordinator