Michael Hightower Email & Phone Number

Herndon, Virginia, US

• Manage two test teams, the Component Test Team, responsible for testing individual software components and the Integration Test Team, responsible for testing the system once those individual components have passed.
• Hire, train, coach and provide performance management for two teams of Quality Assurance testers.
• Collect and organize team statuses, risks, metrics and accomplishments for Sprint Reviews and brief those items to the customer during Sprint Review meetings.
• Create test team epics in Confluence based on customer priorities prior to PI Planning and submit to the Program Management Office (PMO) for approval. Revise, update, and add to the epics as necessary during PI.
• Conduct reviews of Engineering Change Requests (CRs) for completeness and thoroughness, particularly regarding test artifacts.
• Participate in Engineering Review Board (ERB) meetings where new CRs are evaluated, approved/denied, assigned, and prioritized.

Reston, Virginia, US

• Perform software testing related activities on the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) including creating, maintaining and executing test scripts in an agile software development environment.
• Create, maintain and execute manual and automated test scripts.
• Conduct automated UI, integration, and regression testing using Selenium WebDriver for Java, Maven and Cucumber.
• Conduct automated API testing using Python.
• Conduct Elasticsearch queries using Kibana.
• Conduct manual regression testing for those test scenarios that are not automated.

• Perform a variety of software testing related activities on the Momentum Financials solution, including creating, maintaining and executing test scripts in an agile software development environment.
• Create, maintain and execute manual and automated test scripts.
• Perform manual functional and regression testing.
• Perform automated functional and regression testing using HP Unified Functional Testing.
• Review customer requirements to determine if they are applicable and testable.
• Verify that test scripts satisfy all appropriate customer requirements.

Woodbridge, Virginia, US

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Falls Church, VA, US