Paul Powell Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, WI

Automated Testing: Unit & Integration testing (MSTest), Selenium - Java/C#, SpecFlow, HP ALM/UFT Hybrid frameworks - Modular & Data Driven; Keyword, Data Driven & Page Object Model.Visual Studio 2019, MS Visual Web Developer, VB.Net, C#, ASP.net, C++, Java, C, VB, VBScript, JSP, ASP, J++, HTML, COBOL/400, RPG/400, PASCAL, BASICApplications: Azure DevOps.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Consultant at American Signal Corporation doing Software Quality Assurance manual and automated testing.
• Web application using Linux, Busybox, Karaf application server, Postgres DB, VHF/UHF radios, Subversion, JIRA, TestRail and Selenium – Java.

Software Quality Assurance - Test Analyst, Test Lead for manual and automated testing in Client/Server and web environments. Agile coaching and technical support. Contracting at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance.

• Computer Associates,Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Lisle, IL September 2010 to January 2015
• Scrum Master
• Senior Quality Assurance Engineer working with CA Chorus product. (Web portal to CA mainframe back-end DBA, Infrastructure, Security and Storage tools.)
• Manual and automated testing using ALM/UFT/QTP and WOLF Excel scripting layer for automation.
• Trained and mentored QA automation developers. Automation using ALM/QPT/UFT/WOLF. (WOLF is a proprietary Excel scripting layer over UFT.)Computer Associates, Senior Quality Assurance EngineerSouth San Francisco, CA.
• Testing of the CA Plex C++, Java & RPGIV generators.

• Self-employed as a Software Consultant, September 1998 to September 2000
• Worked for Odyssey Consulting of Federal Way, WA on the Weyerhaeuser BMD Customer Service Center back-office rewrite.
• Provided technical support for design and construction as well as pattern development and design and construction of some sub-components for the project application.
• The project used the CA Plex Windows BackOffice variant with C++ clients and servers over a Microsoft SQL 7 distributed database.

• Synon, Inc. Larkspur, CA Senior Technical Support Specialist 1990 - August 1998
• Supplied customer support for Synon Obsydian (CA Plex, Windows/AS400, AS/400 5250, ODBC and BackOffice generators). Obsydian is a Windows workstation based CASE tool that supports full cycle development (graphical.
• Obsydian comes with Class Library objects of business applications and can be used to create your own business Library objects.
• Obsydian Clients are generated and compiled in C++ or RPG (5250) and the Server functions can be C++, RPG or Java. I have also supplied support for: Synon/2E, Synon/Client Server for Windows & OS/2, Synon Change.
• Other responsibilities included: Problem Analysis & Resolution, Beta Coordinator, and Compatibility testing of new products and O/Ss, Internal systems design, construction and maintenance and mentoring.

• System One, Inc. Larkspur, CA 1987 - 1990 Quality Assurance Analyst II
• Worked on IBM AS/400 /38 /36 Airlines reservation back room accounting/management product written in DDS/RPGIII.
• Responsibilities included: Test case creation and execution, Design and Code walkthroughs, Alpha testing, Technical edits on documentation, Corporate QA education and training, Beta project management.
• Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) through Quality Assurance Institute of Orlando, FL.

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Computer Science Club

Ba, German Language & Literature

Associate In Business Administration

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