QUEST SOLUTIONS INC State of Iowa Department of ManagementDivision of Information TechnologyBureau of HHS Enterprise SystemsDes Moines, IATest Manager/ QA (Contractor)Lead the Regression Testing Team and manage the overall testing efforts for Medicaid Eligibility Systems and Food & Financial Assistance Applications. Monitor application upgrade efforts include load and performance testing. Architected regression testing framework.Managed the project to replace a comprehensive automated test suite from WORKSOFT with Tosca. Provided comprehensive test coverage with a significant reduction in turnaround time and less test cases with expanded test coverage.Hands on management of automated regression testing regression testing effort using Tosca. Including new test development, distributed test execution, and the management of the Tosca environment.Inspect all artifacts associated with the SAFE (Structured Agile Framework) Ensure all test case development provides appropriate test coverage and follows critical standards defined by CMS. Oversee comprehensive load, performance, and endurance testing efforts for ELIAS product upgrades.

Manage company wide testing efforts for a leading provider of Life Insurance and Annuity products.Scaled up the QA team from a group of 6 to as much as 30 and still maintained a high level of success minimizing the number of defects encountered in the UAT and production phases.

Manage the Quality Assurance Team for the Facets Solutions Group which provides customized software solutions for Dental and Complex Medical Care. The size of the testing team has varied from 10 to 20 resources.

Managed the Quality Assurance Department that consisted of 25 employees, who were responsible for testing on-line ticket sales, back office ticketing systems, interactive voice recognition systems, gate access control and attendance reporting systems, and ticket printing drivers.

Managed a Testdirector help desk and developed WinRunner scripts that were used for automated functional testing and test data loads.

Managed the Quality Assurance group with testing responsibilities for an on-line financial planning system.