Principal Quality Assurance Engineer Resume
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Framingham, MA
SUMMARY
- Led a major team effort in launching a brand - new Staples International website from the ground up in Canada, UK, and Germany.
- Coordinated testing activities for all International Staples projects on all stages of Software Development Life Cycle: participated in reviews to define testability for requirements, systems integration, release acceptance test, functional testing, and User Acceptance testing.
- Designed an automation framework for major Staples applications using SilkTest automation.
- A highly effective Technology and Quality Assurance Leader, with 18 + years of experience and an outstanding record of delivering critical projects within aggressive timeframes.
- Success is achieved through a proven ability to direct and improve quality programs, reduce defects, and improve overall efficiency and productivity.
SKILLS
- Project leadership throughout all QA and Dev phases
- Management and execution of APIs and Service - oriented test automation
- Manage implementation of Automation framework
- Extensive knowledge of QM Methodology, Agile, and SDLC processes
- Manage, train, and motivate effective cross functional teams
- Parasoft SOATest, SILK test, TALEND, Zeenyx automation tools, JIRA, Confluence, MS Office
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential,Framingham, MA
Principal Quality Assurance Engineer
- Managed day-to-day activities of offshore/onsite teams conducting automation testing of various Enterprise, Web Services, and Mobile API across different Staples Business divisions.
- Led and managed a team of 20 engineers working on the largest customer-impacting project that helped to improve the customer experience in Staples’ largest business units - Quill, Staples Business Advantage, and Staples.com.
- Collaborated with Development SCRUM teams to design and develop effective automation solutions, troubleshoot issues and resolve bugs.
- Provided cost estimates and LOE for assigned projects.
- Collaborated with senior management teams throughout Staples to provide a clear vision, and facilitated the execution of a results-driven Quality Management Process focused on customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, employee development, and business growth.
- Managed onshore and offshore Engineering teams to successfully release high impact projects.
- Discovered new and improved testing methods, processes, tools, and systems.
- Built a high-performance team by hiring, training, and mentoring engineers globally.
- Managed multiple Test/UAT environments and coordinated release schedules.
- Actively participated in the product requirements and use case review meetings for Staples Identity Access Manager project.
- Initiated research and implementation of the data validating tool (Talend) which led to a decrease in test creation and execution as well as cost savings on training and Silk licensing.
- Led testing for the Staples Identity Access Manager project which provided an important step towards delivering a standard mechanism to provision all North American associates and contractors into the Staples network.
- Established new test methodology in the SBD OMS area.
- Collaborated with project management and development teams to resolve issues during multiple testing cycles.
- Managed the SBD OMS regression test suite and automation. Worked with multiple DB to extract test data using SQL queries.
- Provided technical leadership and mentoring to team members including offshore QA.
- Led a major team effort in launching a brand-new Staples International website from the ground up in Canada, UK, and Germany.
- Coordinated testing activities for all International Staples projects on all stages of Software Development Life Cycle: participated in reviews to define testability for requirements, systems integration, release acceptance test, functional testing, and User Acceptance testing.
- Designed an automation framework for major Staples applications using SilkTest automation.
Confidential, Brookline, MA
Quality Assurance Engineer
- Performed manual and automated testing for Comparison Shop Web Application.
- Utilized the SQA SiteCheck to perform automated testing.