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Roseville, California, Us

Built the QA Team from the Ground up. Hired and trained all QA personnel. Brought Agile Mythologies into the company and became the Scrum Master running all ceremonies and tracking sprints to their completion. Mentor and coach QA team to test our product and assess it's quality for release.

Roseville, Ca, Us

Senior QA Lead. Organize and direct all QA efforts for each Sprint and Release. Develop and Design UI automated testing strategy and tests to validate each sprint and release. Scrum Master for multiple teams. Mentor other QA engineers in processes and methodologies. • Write automated test cases in C# using visual Studio and Selenium for both UI and backend. • Write automated UI Test Cases in Test Complete against our Web Portal and Microsoft Add-Ins. • As Scrum Master for multiple teams run agile ceremonies and manage Work Items for teams.• Run User Acceptance Test Program. Liaison between users and Development.• Shepard releases through all phases and maintain SOC compliance.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

QA Manager for entire Gupta Product Line. Evaluate project requirements and develop testing methodology. Write Test Plans to ensure proper resources are allocated to fully test products. Manage three direct reports to produce validated Major and Minor releases.• Developed Defect Tracking methodologies for submitting and closing defects• Developed Software Life Cycle specifically for Gupta Development, QA and Shipping to use.• Port Ruby tests to Java to enable putting them into the automated Team City build environment.• Expand current automated test suites to cover new areas to give better test coverage

Santa Clara, California, Us

QA project lead for new Business Intelligence indicator solution. Evaluate project requirements and develop testing methodology. Write Test Plans to ensure proper resources are allocated to fully test products. Present to upper staff readiness reviews at major milestones.• Designed new Defect Tracking GUI for QA issues to enable team to more efficiently track and resolve issues.• Developed Acceptance criteria for entrance into QA to ensure software submitted to QA is ready for test and reduce trashing in the development/QA relationships.• Chairperson for DRT QA Forum. Directed and defined the test methodologies across multiple teams to ensure comprehensive coverage and reduce duplication.• Participated in and coordinate the testing efforts, to provide high quality products to our customers. • Tracked defects thorough each phase of product life cycle, verified each defect was correctly dispositioned and resolved.• Wrote Troubleshooting Guide for project to assist engineers in problem solving quickly. • Developed new utilities to make team more efficient in their validation and debug tasks. • Member of IntelU. Taught “Intro to Software Security” Class.

Houston, Texas, Us

Wrote extensive Test Plans and Test Design Specifications, to ensure proper resources are allocated to fully test products. Participated in and coordinated the testing efforts, to provide high quality products to our customers. Tracked defects thorough each phase of product life cycle, verified they were fixed and verified correctly.• Consulted with Technical Support to resolve customer issues with products or environments. • Wrote extensive Trouble Shooting Guide for support to self-solve issues with the OVIS product• Designed and maintained websites to enable support organization to quickly get the information they need to resolve customer issues and provide electronic access to hot fixes.• Designed and planned Year 2000 testing for all MWA releases back to 1997. Guaranteed that all Y2K testing was done or made plans for the testing to be done and track to completion. Create all documentation for MWA Year 2000 compliance. Provided Certification to customers that our product would function through the critical time change. Remained on call for critical time change. • Created Quality Assurance web page, to teach about Quality and Quality Processes• Created documentation templates (Functional Design Spec, Test Plan, and Test Design Spec) that are easy to use, concise and provide enough information to accomplish Quality Products.• Mentored new employees to bring up to speed faster on our products and processes.• Interviewed and gave recommendations for hiring of Quality Engineers, Software Development Engineers, Software Managers and New College Grads to ensure we picked the best candidates possible.

Senior member of the Core Technology Quality Team. Wrote Test Plans and Test Design Specifications. Served as Team lead for various major, minor and patch releases of the Core Technology. • Wrote scripts to automate the QA Staging area which improved productivity and reduced errors.• Wrote instructions for using various Test Tools and methods of testing the core technology to establish standards for the test team.• Co-authored Web Test Spec template to provide a standard format for a broad spectrum of users.

Senior member of the Quality Assurance team. Wrote test specifications for major and minor client/server releases. Submitted and tracked bugs and verify they were resolved. • Brought in new software tools for running automated tests on GUI software and controlling multi-user tests, which enabled us to move from manual to automated tests improving productivity. • Wrote test specification template to enable the team to produce these documents in a timely manner. • Worked with engineering to identify and quickly solve defects in the product.

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Project leader for the Test Administration Group. Administered test ware standards. QA project lead for various projects. Organized and lead team to produce good practices and procedures.• Inspections coordinator for large QA groups, administer inspection standards, and participate in inspections to provide appropriate methods of inspecting any product.• Give presentations to QA groups on how to use test tools and testing methods. • Migrated test suites and ran them on other platforms to verify product functioned across platforms.

Houston, Texas, Us

Operating Systems Security QA group senior member. Responsible for evaluating quality of the OS security system (Safeguard). • Wrote test plans, test design specifications, and product requirements for the Safeguard Test Libraries. • Maintained, enhanced, and updated existing libraries, to keep them up-to-date and usable to the team.• Kept metrics on Safeguard releases to spot trends and take approprate action.• Produced documents on usage of test tools to enable team members to more easily use them.• Core Team member for NSA/NCSC C2 evaluation. • Trained new personnel on our practices and procedures. Enabling them to be productive faster.

Member of the Utilities, Tools, and Languages Group. Responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and updating systems utilities on Cray Computers.