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Los Angeles, Ca

Served as Quality Assurance Manager of Engineering responsible for defining and implementing the overall QA strategic and operational approach as well as an operating model to align with the company’s business goals for Defy Media’s public facing multimedia websites and mobile applications. Managed teams in Los Angeles and Shang-Hai. • Manage teams across multiple geographic locations, releases and projects.• Set the overall QA test strategy that includes all the various types of testing being performed by the QA team.• Provide input from a testing perspective to the delivery release roadmap and project schedule plan, capacity, and deployment to production schedule.• Maintain the QA team’s capacity planning, utilization and assignment allocations, and overall Project Plan.• Identify overall QA milestones, external milestones, dependencies, issues, risks and assumptions.• Assign release/project work to the various QA teams and ensure that test deliverables are met.• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with all the areas engaged with the overall QA team.

El Segundo, Ca

Lead Quality Assurance Analyst/Software Quality Assurance Manager for Mattel’s Global Digital GroupSoftware Quality Assurance Manager for all of Mattel's Public facing product websites. Websites included Barbie.com, HotWheels.com, MonsterHigh.com, EverAfterHigh.com, MaxSteel.com, and other assorted game and product promotional websites. Led the User Acceptance Testing of the new Fisher-Price eCommerce storeResponsible for all load & performance testing and at my direction implemented automated regression testing based on a continuous integration platform, Jenkins. I also was Responsible for implementing improved QA standards and policies. Also Negotiated contracts for load & performance SAAS, and an automated diagnostics platform for expanded web security testing.Managed six software quality assurance analysts in El Segundo and an additional ten quality assurance analyst offshore in India. Able to run 4 to 6 concurrent Software Quality Assurance projects, 2 major multi-month projects with 4 medium 30 day projects, by balancing QA staff allocation across all projects by level of effort required per project.

Disney Interactive Media Group, North Hollywood, Ca

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer for Disney’s Family.com, Senior Quality Assurance EngineerDisney’s Family.com -- Disney’s flagship website for moms, who want reliable and inspired tips for raising kids, running the household, and taking care of themselves.Responsible as the Lead QA Engineer, for:• Represents QA Engineering to Family.com’s Director of Technology, Development Managers, Project Managers, and Development leads• Quality assurance functional testing, load & performance testing, and regression testing of each Family.com release,• Supervises the daily activity of a 5 person off-shore functional test team• Mentors and trains QA Engineers on Family.com technology stack• Works with individual developer’s to resolve release issues• Promotes Family .com releases to the Preview (staging) environment• Advises Disney Online Quality Assurance on a release’s qualification for promotion to production• Load & Performance scenario design, test script implementation, load & performance testing, results analysis, and performance recommendations• Responsible for maintaining, refining, and expanding QA standards, polices, and procedures for the Disney Mom’s web sites portfolio.• Authorship of the Load & Performance Test Specification documentation and Load & Performance Test Results documentation• Creates test plans and test cases• Reviews off-shore team’s test plans and test cases• Maintenance of Family.com’s QA and load test environments• SQLServer DBA for Family.com’s load test environment• Resolves Family.com’s central services request for creating new virtual servers, granting access to developers on Windows and LINUX servers, • Installs Family.com applications in QA engineering environments, • Installs IIS, SQLServer 2005, Apache, Tomcat and other system utilities on QA servers

Fox Interactive Media, Digital Publishing Platform Group, Century City, Ca

Quality Assurance Load & Performance Lead, Quality Assurance Engineer Digital Publishing PlatformThe Digital Publishing Platform (DPP) provides a revolution in content management for published media websites..Digital Publishing Platform’s Content Management System, CMS, allows web producers and content editors to manage content centrally. Content is created once and then dragged and dropped and re-used on demand. The platform was used to host all Fox owned My Fox local market broadcast news websites and 22 additional affiliate My Fox websitesResponsible as the Load & Performance lead, • Load & Performance test suite design, test case implementation, load & performance testing, results analysis, and performance recommendations.• Authorship of the Load & Performance Test Specification document and Load & Performance Test Results documentPerformed as a Quality Assurance Engineer: • Performed manual testing on DPP generated web pages and DPP’s CMS user interface• Designed, implemented, and executed test cases for CMS story detail web page interface• Designed, implemented, and executed test cases for weather components and modules• Verified by SQL query CMS content creation and updates against records in the corresponding database tables• Created DPP’s Manual Test Plan including QA resource allocation

Brea, Ca

QA Analyst -- eBusiness departmentLead quality assurance analyst responsible for the development and execution of test plans, test cases, data analysis and automated scripts for Beckman Coulters eBusiness applications and systems.Beckman Coulter’s eCatalog/eStore eCommerce Web Site• Created test plans, test cycle result reports, project test result reports.• Created test cases and test sets in Mercury’s Quality Test Center (TestDirector). Executed test sets.• Created Mercury’s LoadRunner automated load and performance test scripts.• Created Mercury’s LoadRunner automated web services test scripts for TIBCO services• Performed Data Analysis and Verification using SQL Scripts and Oracle ERP utilities• Maintained requirements to test cases traceability matrix with Borland’s CaliberRM softwareCatalog Syndication• Created test plans, test cycle result reports, project test result reports.• Created test cases and test sets in Mercury’s Quality Test Center (TestDirector). Executed test sets.• Performed Data Analysis and Verification using SQL Scripts and Perl based Cron scripts• Created new validation process to validate list and contract pricesTraining Survey Automation • Created test plans, test cycle result reports, project test result reports.• Created test cases and test sets in Mercury’s Quality Test Center (TestDirector). Executed test sets.• Performed Data Analysis and Verification using SQL Scripts• Decomposed report queries and corrected table joinsLSRT, CELeader.com, CoulterCounter.com, ImunoAssay.com (.NET ASP web microsites)• Created test plans, test cycle result reports, project test result reports.• Created test cases and test sets in Mercury’s Quality Test Center (TestDirector). Executed test sets.• Performed Data Analysis and Verification using SQL Scripts and Perl based Cron scripts• Created and executed Mercury’s Quick Test Pro automated scripts

Fountain Valley, Ca

Payment Solution Systems Stabilization Enhancements Project, Fraud Mitigation project, Flexible Spending Account program enhancementsLead quality assurance analyst responsible for the development and execution of the test suite for Fraud Mitigation, and Payment Solution Systems. • Created test plan, test cases, and test summary for Employer Reimbursements release for PSS. Conducted integration testing, regression testing, • Performed grey box testing including data flow verification, creation and manipulation of test data via SQL Server’s Query Analyzer and Enterprise Manager, and the analysis of the Fraud Engine code for requirements compliance. Created custom UNIX shell scripts and Cron batch Perl scripts to execute ACH file processing for end-to-end testing. Verified GL records posts and offset credit/debit processing to GL journal accounts.• Test plan, test case document, and test results documents followed a modified Rational Unified Process. • Also responsible for accepting builds into the QA environment including analysis and comparisons of delivered build objects to their SourceSafe archives.• Quality assurance analyst responsible for testing Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) enhancements to the Source Tax Online web application. • Performed validation of FSA SOAP based web service query results with ad hoc queries via SQL Navigator

Santa Monica, Ca

Principal quality assurance analyst performing integration testing and user acceptance testing for Symantec’s “Nitro” world-wide e-commerce subscription renewal web site. Performed section 508 compliance testing for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) using Jaws, Dolphin, and XP Narrator screen readers on BEA WebLogic storefront application. • Tested SKU rollout process through QA’s role and responsibilities in ATG’s ACC utility, Oracle 11i financials, and Oracle 9i databases. • Developed automated SQL*PLUS scripts, PL/SQL scripts, and UNIX shell scripts to validate SKU promotion from storefront database to subscription renewal database. • Designed and implemented automated testing scripts using Mercury Interactive’s Quick Test Pro.• Responsible for executing build acceptance and performing integration testing of Symantec’s registration wizard and live subscription service components (LiveSubscribe). • Liaison for subscription testing to Norton Antivirus 2004 OEM product and Norton Antivirus for Handheld PDAs, coordinated all component testing with each product team. (Symantic Corporation, continued)• Performed build certifications on all Microsoft operating systems including Windows 95, 98, 98SE, and ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. • Certified builds with appropriate service packs for NT, 2000, and XP. • Certified builds for localization in fifteen different languages. Modified and analyzed registry keys in all Windows operating systems. • Performed “white box” testing and analysis on XML posts generated from registration client and server’s XML response.

Mountain View, Ca

HP's "U.S. Business Store" B to B e-commerce siteResponsible, as the Lead Quality Assurance Engineer for:• Test design, test case implementation, regression test design, performance testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing• Day to day management of four QA engineers for the “Business Store.” • Performed “black box” testing on all JavaScript web pages, all batch data load processes, and order processing posts. Implemented and personally executed all load and performance testing scenarios using Mercury Interactive LoadRunner and TestDirector tools. • Designed and implemented regression test suite using WinRunner 6.x with TSL Also participated in code reviews and performed code checks for best practices. • Reviewed and tested all database modifications including schema changes, triggers, stored procedures, tablespace modifications, dbspace modifications, logical log modifications, and physical disk allocations as Oracle 8i DBA for the QA/integration test Oracle database server. • Performed data audits against pre-production Oracle database server by writing and executing ad hoc complex queries to test referential integrity and audit trail accuracy.Directed the packaging of all releases into the Business Store: • Performed and directed installations into the integration test environment for signoff of release package integrity. • Monitored and advised on all installations into staging and production. • Reviewed and edited all release documentation.• Implemented process for the review of all UNIX shell scripts and Perl scripts and established guidelines for modifications for their execution in the UNIX cron utility. • Developed configuration documentation for development Broadvision environments and Netscape CGI web services. • Maintained over thirty development environments with independent Broadvision services connecting to development’s web server and Oracle instance.

San Mateo, Ca

QA Team Lead, QA Software Release Manager, PVCS Librarian• Performed “white box” testing for Visa’s Merchant Management System’s (MMS) telecom communications server for point of sale (POS) terminals. • Conducted load and performance testing for POS terminal program and parameter downloads. • Performed software configuration management and repository librarian duties for Visa’s MMS development and test areas. MMS is Visa’s point of sale (POS) terminal configuration manager and merchant service support tracking system. • Performed DBA duties for MMS QA’s Informix instances and tested Informix database conversion scripts prior to their execution against the production environment. • Implemented and executed ad hoc queries against production Informix database instance to analyze data flow and insure audit system data integrity. • Became team lead for MMS QA and handled task scheduling, resource assignment, and the day to day direction of five test engineers. • Collateral responsibilities included requirements decomposition into test plans and test designs. • Also led MMS QA’s effort to transition MMS QA function to customer in Tempe, Arizona.

Palo Alto, Ca

Principal designer of a utilities information management (UMD) system using Informix On-line version 5.0 and Informix 4GL The system manages data entry on all meter readings for over 3000 steam, electricity, chilled water, domestic water, and sewage meters. The system also calculates the corresponding consumption on each meter. In addition, the system automatically reports utility consumption and cost to Stanford University's cost accounting system and generates 900 monthly statements to faculty and staff living on Stanford University. Supervised the migration of the UMD system from a SUN Sparc2 to a SUN Sparc5, an Informix installation of Informix On-line 7.1, and a database conversion from Informix On-line 5.0 to Informix On-line 7.1.

San Francisco

Assigned as a production database administrator in the DBA group of the data management district. Was personally responsible for over 100 databases on 40 Informix 7.1x and 7.2x On-Line instances located on 30 UNIX file servers (mainly HP9000s running HP-UX 9.04 and 10.01, IBM RISC6000s running AIX 3.2.5, and DEC Alphas running Digital UNIX 3.2). • Installed Informix products, creating new instances, databases, and tables, and was on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for production support. • Made recommendations to other departments in the bank on database design issues, performance strategies, Informix-4GL programming, dasd and memory requirements for database implementation, backup strategies, and disaster recovery strategies. • Conducted query plan analysis, created views and custom queries, and advised on application complex query strategies.

Redwood Shores, Ca

Informix 4GL ConsultantAssigned as an Informix 4GL consultant on DHL’s EXPORT system redevelopment project. • Implemented and unit tested over ten thousand lines of 4GL code. • Was responsible for analyzing 4GL coding styles, resolving implementation issues, and formulating coding standards. • Had system integration responsibilities for combining over 50 discreet 4GL applications.

Santa Clara, Ca

Applications programmer and database administrator for the Crescent Demonstration Project, a pilot system that encompasses 120 motor carrier transportation companies and 5000 vehicles. Crescent sites generate approximately 75,000 records a day and over 1 million records per month into distributed databases. • Maintained the regional and six state databases (Informix On-line 5.0 upgraded to On-line 7.1). • Was the principle programmer for Crescent's motor carrier application (Informix 4GL). Developed custom reports for the regional database as needed. • Conducted query plan analysis, created views and custom queries, and tested application query performance.

Tysons Corner, Va

Technical Lead, Task Manager, Senior Systems AnalystTask manager that directed the daily technical effort of a system analyst, two programmer/analysts, and two LAN engineers.• Acquired and installed over 2.1 million dollars in computer equipment including a DEC MicroVAX 3900, five Compaq Systempro file servers, and over 200 Compaq 386 workstations. • Produced custom software to support the Society's casework processing and loan management (in Oracle ver. 6 under VMS and Foxpro under Novell 386) while integrating various off the shelf packages for accounting and personnel administration. • Co-authored the overall integration design. • Personally responsible for the design and implementation of the central and field databases, the field information management system, communication and file transfer programs, existing data conversion programs, overall test and evaluation, and the NMCRS headquarters' LAN. Technical lead for the implementation of HQRPLANS (Headquarters’ Real Property & Analysis System) for the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Department of Army headquarters’ staff. Created the data load and verification routines for five outside data sources. Also conducted an on-site survey of ten U.S. installations in Korea and developed automated data validation procedures for U.S installations located in Korea.

Crystal City, Va

Software Specialist, Programmer/Analyst, ProgrammerDesigned and implemented an information management system for Sensor and Acoustics transducer/hydrophone procurement program manager (63X11), NAVSEA. The system estimates the number of needed transducers and hydrophones from manufacturers and government transducer refurbishment facilities for new ship construction, overhauls, and scheduled maintenance availability of all Navy, Coast Guard, and Military Sealift Command Ships. The system produced reports that were directly incorporated into budget request documents.

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