Michael Chapman Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas

• Involved in meeting with clients to discuss their business challenges and helping them evaluate and arrive at the best-fit technology solution for software testing. This includes collaborating with delivery managers to.
• Evaluate client business challenges and work with the team to arrive at the best-fit software testing technology solutions.
• Design, document, develop, and test world-class applications leveraging the full spectrum of technologies and design patterns.
• Collaborate with clients and business analysts to translate business requirements into technical requirements for testing.
• Assist with estimating work efforts required for each phase of a project.
• Work on Proof of Concept projects with the latest cutting-edge technologies.

Houston, Texas

• Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst responsible for the following duties:Essential Functions
• Performed management and communication of testing efforts for the Collaboration Portal development team.
• Worked directly and collaboratively with a product development team.
• Assisted and lead the product test designs ensuring comprehensive coverage.
• Managed defect reporting and tracking of project.
• Effectively communicated with project leaders and Engineering management regarding the scope and limits of testing and analysis efforts.

Houston, Texas

• Trained, participated and implemented Software Quality Assurance testing strategy as a Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst for 30 software releases of the nMarket electricity trading software product for the PJM.
• Performed Senior Quality Assurance role and advised others on testing procedures and practices in an Agile development environment
• Lead and participated in determining all testing heuristics along with suggesting improvements to Quality Assurance practices.
• Understood and participated in troubleshooting and analyzing the software issues that were identified in the nMarket products.
• Created and maintained complete and detailed test scripts and files to be used during all the testing phases of the software life cycle.
• Attended and participated in all monthly Quality Assurance and weekly project team status meetings.

Houston, Texas

• Implemented overall Software Quality Assurance processes, change control processes, software defect tracking and software quality documentation standards leading to a promotion from Senior Software Quality Assurance.
• As Software Quality Assurance Manager, lead and performed all manual testing and development of automated test scripts/validation/test case documentation and defect tracking/metrics for financial stored value card.
• Performed project management role that led to successful production product deliveries.
• Managed the Quality Assurance team members on all development project deliverables in regards to software validation and verification testing for production releases including security compliance and functional.
• Configured and maintained the development group’s Bugzilla defect/enhancement reporting software for both production and test environments.
• Defined and implemented all test documentation, automation and methodology to be used by future Software Quality Assurance Analysts at FSV.

Houston, Texas

• Created the processes, testing methodologies and installation/deployment methods for testing 6 in-house client applications, a corporate web portal and 16 corporate lockdown Windows XP images as a lead member of the.
• Managed the inspection, documentation, change/version control and requirements analysis of source code along with creating/maintaining Windows/Linux installs for multiple applications at Epoch Well Services Inc.
• Performed a lead role on all Quality Assurance testing/automated test scripts/validation/test case documentation for the entire application line of Epoch’s deliverable software including Rigwatch (Instrumentation.
• Created and maintained all corporate locked down Windows computer images for 16 separate hardware platforms used in Drilling Rig environments including verification testing and creating all WinBatch install scripts to.
• Designed and created Windows-based application installs using InstallShield Professional.
• Designed, developed and supported the Rigwatch real time drilling instrumentation application written in C/C++/Java for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/XP.

Houston, Texas

• Consolidated Planning Systems (CPS) - Software Development Team
• Software design and development of a centralized planning and scheduling application for use by NASA flight controllers and planners on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs.
• C/C++ and Xmotif/Xwindows development on the Sun Solaris UNIX platform with delivery of software on the IBM AIX UNIX platform.
• Designed and implemented an Xwindows/Xmotif GUI class with callback methods allowing the union of simultaneous conditions to be created within a single timeline for CPS.
• Designed and implemented an external file compression utility into the CPS application that created MS-DOS self-extracting executables from UNIX environment.
• Performed Software unit testing and validation of the projects listed above on the IBM AIX UNIX platform using the ObjectCenter debugger.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Worked full time as Software Programmer at Lockheed Martin Space Mission Systems while completing a Bachelors.

Associate Of Arts, Social Science

Activities and Societies: Dean's List, Earned a Software Programming - Internship Position with Lockheed Martin Space Mission Systems.