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Lenexa, KS

Provide analysis, develop test plans, cases, and provide business analysis for web-based blood industry software. This includes areas in blood management software and cellular therapy software solutions in the health care industry.

Overland Park, KS

• Responsible for all aspects of testing a web based.NET system for a consortium of four states. The Women Infant and Children WIC program is funded by the federal government and administered by the states. It provides.
• Managed 14 Software Quality Analysts in various complex aspects of the whole testing effort including functional, system, integrated, end to end, reports, interface, and data conversion testing. Ensured all testing.
• Collected metrics used to alert upper management of progress and issues on the project.
• Successfully introduced standardized test scripts and test result gathering. Filled in writing test scripts and tesing areas of the application as needed.
• Reviewed and analyzed Functional Detailed Requirement Documents for ambiguities in business requirements and business rules for the various modules of the system. My analysis directly resulted in a better quality.
• Used SVN and Sharepoint for documentation version control and central repository of documenataion.

• Managed up to 15 software testing analysts covering mainframe, claim processing, finance, reporting, pricing, and web development systems. Proficient in all aspects of performance management and interpersonal relations.
• Collaborated with business analysts and development groups to create standards, service level agreements, and tracking tools that reduced time to market by 40%. In addition, increased customer satisfaction and improved.
• Led effort to enhance the department’s regression test coverage. Effort increased testing coverage by 50% and added test cases for features that hadn’t been tested in over 2 years. This greatly improved the quality of.
• Gathered and used metrics from past testing efforts to plan resource capacity for year-end surge in work. Despite a 61% increase in work, the team effectively completed everything on time without sacrificing quality.
• Presented training to various departments over a 2 year period on how to identify ambiguities in requirements. Resulted in improved quality throughout the development process and reduced rework testing due to unclear.
• Introduced comprehensive test plan templates and test cases. This allowed for more comprehensive test documentation and re-usable tests which the department did not previously have.

• Conducted business analysis manual test case creation of PeopleSoft HR, Procurement, and Finance modules. Wrote requirement trace matrices, test plans, and test scripts.
• Successfully project managed testing efforts on a software upgrade to PeopleSoft Finance version 8.8.
• Matrix managed users in testing PeopleSoft modules. Involved scheduling resources, documenting defects, updating documentation. Resulted in 0 defects found after implementation of software.

• Managed software testing of enterprise mainframe, client/server, and web based systems. Testing covered the areas of new development, operating system upgrades, and production support to the order entry and billing.
• Directed efforts to ensure operational readiness for expansion into 16 new markets. This included leading a team in business analysis, planning, logistic setup and testing end to end business processes through billing..
• Directed the testing efforts of merging a 150,000 customer database into existing company databases and systems. An effort of this size had never previously been attempted by the company. The effort was so successful.
• Led the development of an integration test environment including hardware and software analysis, test tools, and development of the financial plan. Previous testing was conducted in the production environment. Resulted.
• Introduced best practices test methodology to testing group and business units. Resulted in better testable requirements than were being created at the time and reduced test errors mapped back to requirements by 20%.