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Rome, New York, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Renton, Washington

Lead test engineer pivotal for quality assurance of a cloud-based modern, intuitive, multilingual and responsive extranet serving information to 150,000 users in 17 locales at a leading truck manufacturer's dealerships, suppliers, fleets and service centers worldwide.Created test plan, testing templates and metrics for functional testing, white-box.

Redmond, WA

• Performing UAT level testing using various mobile devices and networks to verify SMS, MMS and Visual Voicemail functionality.
• Android Mobile Device Testing
• Messaging Application Testing o MMS o SMS o Visual Voicemail o Phone Dialer o Contacts
• 3rd Party Application Testing
• Device Log Collection
• Device OS Build Flashing

Bellevue, WA

• Waterfall with Iterative Development Environment
• HP Application Lifecycle Management/Quality Center 12
• QA Lead role for 6 projects for an Enterprise level Telesales application
• Worked with Business Analysts, Developers and other stakeholders to create test plans that support the business requirements, including the following: o Billing o Customer Care o Finance o Engineering
• Methodologies included: o Functional o Regression o User Acceptance
• Deliverables included: o Test Strategies o Test Plans o Readiness Reports

Seattle, Washington

• Agile Development Environment
• Microsoft SharePoint 2013 - Internal Enterprise Application
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2012
• Participate and provide input during sprint planning events
• Participate and provide input into feature/story review meetings
• Participate product verification planning and execution from the test through production environments

Greater Seattle Area

• Agile Development Environment
• Manage UAT process for a Multi-Tier Web based Single Sign-On Solution
• Review Product Specifications and Wireframes
• Develop Comprehensive Testing Scenarios for Features
• Develop UAT Scenarios for Client BU
• Verify features during release cycle prior to UAT Pass

Greater Seattle Area

• Limited Details due to NDA
• Agile Development Environment
• Sprint Planning/Grooming/Bidding
• QA Validation Task creation
• Embedded QAE on several scrum teams
• Area Owner of Core Components

Greater Seattle Area

Review Product SpecificationsReview Test Plans, Test Specifications and Test Cases for completeness and coverageConduct test passes on products as requiredProducts IncludedDevice Management application which included Web, database and mobile device applicationsA two tiered Internal tool for tracking customer resourcesTrack InventoryTrack Deployment and.

Greater Seattle Area

• OneCare Test Team
• Review Product Specifications
• Review Test Plans, Test Specifications and Test Cases for completeness and coverage
• Conduct 9 test passes on 3 Product and 3 OS SKUs
• Run Automated scripts as part of each test pass
• Enter and track bugs/defects in a bug database

Greater Seattle Area

• Windows Fundamentals PM Team - Vista Velocity Project
• Tracked issues for the Windows Fundamentals team that were discovered at Vendor events
• Maintain a SharePoint site with current documentation and reports that were generated by myself and others
• Created Reports and Power Point presentations for upper management
• Owned triage with fundamentals team, and drove issues to closure with TAMs, PG owners and Vista Readiness Working Group as appropriateProgram Management tasks
• Document Control for the Velocity Fundamentals Team

Greater Seattle Area

• Windows Mobile Division
• Review Test Specifications and Test Plans for accuracy, completeness and testing requirements
• Developed test cases from Project Specifications
• Write/Review test cases
• Run automated test passes
• Flashed test images onto Smartphone and Pocket PC platform devices

Greater Seattle Area

• Windows Vista Self Host Test Team
• Lead in lab for 10+ people
• Designed and implemented scalable test bed to expand test coverage from 10 test passes a day to as many as 22 test passes a day
• Expanded test coverage from 55 cases run on 3 VBLs and WinMain to 98 cases run on as many as 7 VBLs and WinMain including Clean, Build to Build and XP upgrade test passes Critical Projects
• Worked with IT and Core Windows division to verify CM/RAS functionality on a daily to weekly basis
• Worked with Windows Sustained Engineering to verify update packages prior to deployment to the Production environment

Greater Seattle Area

• Test Lead for Internal Projects
• Managed 5+ people to complete multiple multi-week test passesJob Roll included;
• Managing testing schedule to complete project on time and on budget
• Meeting with stakeholders on a weekly basis to review progress and discuss bugs
• Providing daily status reports to management with updated project completion expectations

Greater Seattle Area

• Mouse and Keyboard Group
• Feature owner for several components in IntelliPoint and IntelliType Pro 5.3
• Managed the creation of test plans and test cases for IntelliPoint and IntelliType Pro software on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms
• Wrote test requirements documentation, conducted test spec and test case reviews and incorporated feedback in future revisions of the specs and test cases
• Provided feedback to feature teams to better define functionality in feature spec reviews
• Tested device drivers for mice and keyboards on the Macintosh and Windows platforms

Greater Seattle Area

• Office Live Meeting
• Worked with the Placeware QA team to define testing implementation in Redmond
• Tracked daily verification tests and published a summery of the results to the Office Live Meeting organization
• Helped define and streamline the processes for software deployment and improved the efficiency of the software deployment process
• Collaborated with the development team to track down and resolve any blocking issues related to daily build and deployment scenarios
• Deployed and verified backend components on Solaris for test and development environments

Greater Seattle Area

• Windows Printing and Imaging Team - Windows Image Acquisition
• Developed and managed test plans for Mass Storage class camera testing and Windows Update testing
• Coordinated Cross Team Testing Efforts
• Drove to unify the set of customer scenarios for Mass Storage Camera Devices across the Windows Image Acquisition Team, the Shell team and the Windows Base Team
• From the customer scenarios worked closely with Program Management and Development to hone the User Experience for this class of Cameras
• Managed/Mentored Lab Personnel and resources

Greater Seattle Area

• Internet Explorer Administration Kit
• Performed UI testing on the IEAK wizard to verify that the end user had a functional package for deployment when the wizard was complete
• Assisted the Office team in testing the IE customization portions of the Office Resource Kit used by Corporations to implement custom branded versions of IE
• Assisted the Group Policy team to verify GP implementation of IE customizations used in a corporate environment
• Worked with PM staff to test and validate SMS deployment of IEAK customized versions of Office and other applications

• Windows 98SE
• Developed test plans and test cases for testing Windows System Tools
• Ran weekly and milestone regression passes on 17 different System Tools
• Communicated with the development team to drive issues to resolution

B.S, Molecular Biology And Biochemistry

Certificate Of Completion, Biomimicry And Design Workshop - Costa Rica

Certificate In Project Management, Project Management