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 assess work effort for a solution, working with highly skilled Slalom Build team members to design and develop cutting-edge solutions for projects.Responsibilities:• 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. • Communicated and documented testing efforts and technical aspects of projects. Analyze Business Requirements• Assessed compatibility of requirements with the company quality standard and helping to ensure the consistency, completeness, accuracy and testability of product requirements.• Developed detailed acceptance requirements for use cases (user stories).Test Planning• Designed, developed, organized and maintained accurate and concise test plans as well as automated and manual test cases.• Understood the full system under design to contribute to the development of the project and to ensure the quality of the result.• Identified potential risks and saw all testing approaches to manage that risk.Software Testing• Developed, implemented, and maintained automated test scripts written in Selenium.• Executed test cases for the following types of testing: Functional, Regression, Performance, Load, Integration, System, GUI, and Installs along with Database Validation.• Identified potential risks and seeking all testing approaches to manage that risk.• Analyzed defects with the goal of being isolated and reproducible.• Clearly documented all issues and bugs found for resolution.• Worked closely with developers in debugging and fixing defects along with monitoring systems and database issues.• Suggested and negotiated all product testing enhancements.• Certified Scrum Master

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 ISO market at Ventyx.•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.•Proactively raised issues to project management during all phases of the testing cycle so that software release milestones were always achieved on time.•Developed and maintained a full working knowledge of the nMarket products.

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 Analyst to Software Quality Assurance Manager within 4 months of starting employment with FSV Payment Systems Inc. Lead project delivery planning that completed delivery of 12 major projects at FSV.•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 software written in C++, .asp, Java and C#/.Net running on Sun Solaris/Windows/Linux platforms and connected to an Oracle 10g data base in an Agile development environment.•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 requirements overall.•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 Software Quality Assurance team while at Epoch Well Services Inc.• 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 software), RigReport (Reporting software) and multiple real-time web applications in an Agile development environment.•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 install these images.•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.•Managed development file administration within CVS/SVN and lead the coordination of all documentation in existing source code along with creating a coding guideline to be followed by the current and future developers of the Rigwatch application.

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.•Wrote design documents and end user manuals.Resource Utilization Planning and Systems Modeling (RUPSM) - Software Development Team•Software design and development on the Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) model for NASA flight planners to use on the International Space Station program.•C/C++/Xmotif/Xwindows development and delivery of software on the IBM AIX UNIX platform.•Designed and implemented several Xwindows/Xmotif classes with callback methods allowing for English to Metric unit conversion to be used in the ECLSS application.•Designed and implemented a file log class in the ECLSS application to output formatted run time information on the model parameters set by the user.•Fixed various Xwindows/Xmotif GUI, output formatting and file handling errors in the existing ECLSS code.•Created and implemented, unit/unit integrated test procedures and performed software validation of the above projects on the IBM AIX UNIX platform.•Wrote design documents and end user manuals.•Trained and certified in the Lockheed Martin/NASA ISO 9000 Software Standardization Program.

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.