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Working on the sustained engineering team, helping to resolve customer issues.

As a QA engineer, I tested dev fixes to customer defects for regression as well as interoperability. Helped design monthly test plans and manual test cases for updates to previous versions of Tableau.

Veteran singer, songwriter and performer working on music from home.

Perform "Thrift Shop" with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.

Feature test planning, test case development, interoperability, regression testing in an Agile environment.

Currently contracted to the Office Communicator End 2 End team.

QA Team ~ Mike Stewart, Mgr.Create test plans and test cases based upon sometimes limited design specificationsDevelop automated application UI tests using C# Work with dev and stakeholders on UI, usability, deployment and documentation issuesDocument detailed bug reports in MSVSTS (including environment, repro steps, expected behavior, screen shots if possible, error log attachments)Configure, manage and test in VM test environment

Windows Sustained Engineering-Application Compatibility Triage Team ~ Ernesto Febles, Mgr.Verify bugs by setting up a duplicate test environment, following repro steps to determine severity of the bug, then assign it to the proper developerVerify code fixes from developers by smoking private bitsManaging OS installation on a variety of machine platforms (x86, x64)

Protocol Documentation Tools Team ~ Bradley Yamauchi, Mgr.Verification of end to end document construction between 3 automated build toolsBuilt a C# app to gather and report daily build resultsManually verified developer code fixes

Buescher, Test Lead Verified end to end functionality of Next's in-house web based mortgage loan creation applicationTriaged incident reports that were received from customer service, wrote and assigned bugs to developers then verified and regressed their code fixesWorked with PM to create test plans for feature requestsCreated test cases to measure and document functionality of new featuresIntegrated new features and verified proper data collection, manipulation and transfer across 2 different Oracle databases

STE IIInternet Explorer Team ~ Willie Lai, mgr. Executed scripted manual tests to verify the functionality of legacy HTML code with new versions of IECreated ad hoc test cases to expose more code deficienciesPerformed manual integration, upgrade and migration testing on new IE builds STE IIShell BVT Team ~ David Yee, mgr.Configured and administrated 25-40 machines in a lab environmentRan daily automated XML script installations of OS buildsPerformed scripted manual testing to confirm basic OS functionalityWorked with various teams to drive open bug issues to closureSTE IIShell CoreUX/AppCompat ~ J.D. Davis, mgr.Configured and administrated 6 machinesPerformed scripted manual test cases to verify 3rd party and MS games and applications installed and executed as expected with new Windows OS releasesGot exposure to creating automated BVT tests in J# leveraging Windows Accessibility handlesSTE II Printing & Imaging Team (WIA Test) ~ Mike Leon, mgr.Manually verified printer, scanner and digital camera hardware and driver functionality in new Windows OS releasesTested Scanner/Camera Wizard UI and functionality in Windows XPVerified over 150 device manufacturer drivers for inclusion in the upcoming retail OS releaseManually tested MS and 3rd party imaging programs to verify their expected functionality with new Window OS releases STEDirect Music Team ~ Christian Carroll, mgr.Verified sound card installation and general functionality with new Windows OS versionsConducted manual tests to verify MIDI data transfers and sound performance expectations were achievedVerified interaction between OS, Direct Music and 3rd party games, dolls and interactive programsVerified various 3rd party musical devices and programs performed as expected with new Windows OS releases

Providing vocalization over composed musical content for internal and external Microsoft projects.