J.R. Howell Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Transitioned from a contract position during the development stage to a full time position immediately prior to Go-Live.Enterprise Products is a leading provider of mid-stream services in the Oil and Gas Industry. The Evolve project was designed to be the primary line of business application for end to end management of the company’s services. Provided QA leadership to the QA team as well as to the project in general.• Instrumental in building the QA team including recruiting and hiring… Show more Transitioned from a contract position during the development stage to a full time position immediately prior to Go-Live.Enterprise Products is a leading provider of mid-stream services in the Oil and Gas Industry. The Evolve project was designed to be the primary line of business application for end to end management of the company’s services. Provided QA leadership to the QA team as well as to the project in general.• Instrumental in building the QA team including recruiting and hiring a staff of over 20 QA professionals with an overall attrition rate of less than 7%.• Designed and developed QA department policies, procedures, and best practices• Trained and mentored QA staff in project and departmental policies and procedures• Analyzed QA needs for the different components of the Evolve project and allocated QA personnel based on the analysis• Interfaced with the business analysts to help tailor BA deliverables for QA needs• Liaised with development to foster their understanding of QA in the development process• Developed and maintained several sets of metrics to enable senior project management to quickly grasp QA status• Helped the automation team streamline the automation process while increasing dependability, as well as generating and maintaining metrics to measure automation coverage, progress, and stability• Designed and developed a PowerShell utility to rapidly test engines in an agnostic fashion• Directly managed QA effort for two components with a staff of four to six QA professionals as well as an off-site team Show less

Enterprise Products, Houston Texas

Enterprise Products is a leading provider of mid-stream services in the Oil and Gas Industry. The Evolve project was designed to be the primary line of business application for end to end management of the company’s services. Provided QA leadership to the QA team as well as to the project in general.• Instrumental in building the QA team including recruiting and hiring a staff of over 50 QA professionals with an overall attrition rate of less than 7%.• Designed and developed QA… Show more Enterprise Products is a leading provider of mid-stream services in the Oil and Gas Industry. The Evolve project was designed to be the primary line of business application for end to end management of the company’s services. Provided QA leadership to the QA team as well as to the project in general.• Instrumental in building the QA team including recruiting and hiring a staff of over 50 QA professionals with an overall attrition rate of less than 7%.• Designed and developed QA department policies, procedures, and best practices• Trained and mentored QA staff in project and departmental policies and procedures• Analyzed QA needs for the different components of the Evolve project and allocated QA personnel based on the analysis• Interfaced with the business analysts to help tailor BA deliverables for QA needs• Liaised with development to foster their understanding of QA in the development process• Developed and maintained several sets of metrics to enable senior project management to quickly grasp QA status• Helped the automation team streamline the automation process while increasing dependability, as well as generating and maintaining metrics to measure automation coverage, progress, and stability• Designed and developed a PowerShell utility to rapidly test engines in an agnostic fashion• Directly managed QA effort for three to four components with a staff of eight to twelve QA professionals Show less

Houston, Tx

Design and document technical specifications for new product features and enhancements. Work with business representatives in requirements specification as well as development in implementation. Provide guidance to all members of the solution and design team surrounding testability. Consult with QA team members to develop innovative approaches to minimize testing overhead, maximizing coverage and test depth where needed. Ensure that all solutions developed are optimally designed to enable… Show more Design and document technical specifications for new product features and enhancements. Work with business representatives in requirements specification as well as development in implementation. Provide guidance to all members of the solution and design team surrounding testability. Consult with QA team members to develop innovative approaches to minimize testing overhead, maximizing coverage and test depth where needed. Ensure that all solutions developed are optimally designed to enable accurate test planning and development. Work with other solution architects, serving as an ombudsman for Quality and the quality team. Show less

Houston, Tx

Maintained the QA and PSR environments. Worked with the automation team to design the automation infrastructure. Designed the deployment procedure for QA, Performance, Stability, and Reliability (PSR) and Staging environments to ensure complete deployments. Helped design and implement test strategies and approaches for large and\or complex initiatives.

Houston, Tx

Designed, implemented, and maintained the common testing environment for the Control Compliance Suite of products. Designed and implemented the automation infrastructure harness that allowed extremely rapid and simultaneous build acceptance test (BAT) execution, which was responsible for an increase in over 500% of test cases executed as well as a significant increase in the breadth of the BAT suite. Designed and coded tools to be used by QA to ease test case setup as well as execution.

Houston, Tx

Performed manual testing on the bv-Control for Windows product, including test case design and requirements review. Worked with the automation team to design and implement the automated regression and BAT test suites for the bv-Control for Windows product.