Software Tester
SR, IT QA/Testing System Analyst (1997 – 2008) • Lead member of a large company project budgeted at 50 million dollars that consisted of 70,000 hours of testing resources in which received an A+ rating from our business partners.• Mentor for newly added team members on the quality assurance methodologies and best practices. • Managed, planned, and defined testing of small projects less than 100 hours.• Developed and implemented QA test plans, scripts and procedures.• Implemented all test phases: black box, functional, integration, system test, regression, stress, performance, and user acceptance testing. • Close integration with requirements and development domain to ensure traceability, phase containment, test planning, issue escalation and resolution. • Experienced in multi-site project coordination of on-shore teams in multiple time zones and geographic locations in a large scale IT delivery project. • Used test harness to simulate integration testing with third party interface systems/vendors.• Leveraged multi-site delivery capability to ensure around the clock testing.• Used defects (Mercury Quality Center) to track/enforce/retest change(s).• Utilized requests for change (RFC) via Rational ClearQuest to track/enforce change requests.• Familiar with V-Model of software development life cycle.• Lead Analyst responsible for transitioning the legacy system testing efforts from corporate office in Columbus OH to Regional office located in Portland OR.• Responsible for setting up processes and procedures related to testing needs which included estimating, scheduling, creating test strategies and designing tests.• Trained team members in testing processes and procedures.
