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Independence, Ohio, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

• Created and implemented test strategies and release plans to migrate from 3 month releases to weekly releases• Helped the organization move from On-Prem to Cloud based virtual environments while maintaining existing test environments • Developed team members and helping them achieve their career goals• Reduced licensing costs by migrating performance scripts from LoadRunner to Microsoft WebTest• Hired and worked with SDETs to adopt a TDD process to improve automation coverage• Helped push for team to move from Coded UI to open source automation tools• Managed a team that consist of both contractors and full time employees

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Created test plans, manual test cases, and Web UI automation• First experience with open source tools for project management (Mingle), WebUI Automation (WatiN)• Created and built test automation framework to test ad telemetry reporting data• Conducted usability studies to improve UX design

New York, New York, Us

• Hired as senior tester to head up building of test framework architecture• Created/reviewed all test plans, manual test cases, and WCF Web services automation• Built infrastructure and automation test approach for performance testing leveraged by rest of the performance team using TFS Load Agent and Load ControllersWorked with an test engineer to develop automation skills leading to their transition to an SDET

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Created test plans, manual test cases, and Web services automation written in C#• First experience with A/B testing of hosted environments, using diagnostic data feedback to determine feature adoption• Liaison to vendor QA team members located in Ukraine and Brazil, assigning work tasks/reviewing results• Development cycle moved from waterfallAgile resulting in a need to change test strategies to allow for max test coverage in < 2 weeks ship cycles• Helping organize UAT testing

Redmond, Washington, Us

• API Automation written in C# focusing on service-to-service communication contracts• First UI automation experience against both WinForm and Web UI controls. o Web UI automation specifically using an internal tool, WebAuto (C#) o WinForm automation based upon Microsoft accessibility control automation• Load and Performance Testing of SharePoint lists using Microsoft VS' LoadTest, WebTest• QFE Lead responsibilities: o Created report template on feature level production issues o Produced and distributed weekly reports on production issues to the CMS team o Worked with Program Management to identify higher risk areas for feature improvements• Created database schema and data comparison tool to validate the data migration between versions• Nominated twice as mentor for summer interns • Responsible for upkeep of local Server farms used as part of team test infrastructureContract - XBox Reporting services, Legal IT, Siebel Customization• Worked on 3 separate projects within Microsoft department requiring creation of test plans, manual/automated/performance test case lists• Implementation of API automation• Wrote SQL Scripts as a means to generate customer data as part of test automation• First experience working as part of a team with members situated globally

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

• Project required a solid understanding of SQL Analytics Server (a v1 product at the time). My experience was to ramp up quickly to:o Implement cubes and utilize MDX queries written for this producto Demoed software and cubes structure as a part of the pre-sales demo meetingMaintained DB backups of customer and sample databases

B. S, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science