Summary

• Russell Van Rooy is a Software Test Engineer with over 12 years of experience in software testing. Russell has performed manual and automated testing for web - based, client/server, and shrink-wrapped applications. Russell equates the demands of software testing to that of musicianship: creativity, flexibility, and versatility, and discipline are the requisite characteristics of the software tester.
• Recent experience applying agile methodologies to quality assurance.
• Conscientious, customer driven attitude of responsibility toward quality.
• Experienced with performing QA / Testing within Agile/Scrum, Iterative, and Waterfall software development life cycles.
• Motivated Team Player, organized and detail-oriented with excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Mobile & Tablet testing.

Technical Skills

Operating systems

Windows 7,Vista, XP, 2000, Mac OS X, Linux - Ubuntu, Red Hat, HP-UX, AIX, Sun OS, Google Chrome OS, Android, iPad,iPhone

Languages

HTML, CSS,VB Script, JavaScript, Visual Basic,Smalltalk, Java

Databases

MS SQL, Oracle,MS Access, MySQL

QA Testing Tools

Rally,Jira, Team City,Fiddler,IBM-Rational ClearQuest, HP Quality Center

Methodologies

Agile, Waterfall, Black box, Ad Hoc, Exploratory

Software

MS Word, Excel, Access, Open Office,Google Docs, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox,Google Chrome

Experience

Confidential, a Gannett company, is the leading provider of digital marketing solutions and technology.

At Shoplocal, Mr Van Rooy provides quality assurance services for website based ads for large retail operations, including but not limited to Walmart, Staples, Radioshack, and several other well-known retailers. Quality Assurance at Shoplocal strongly adheres to the Agile/Scrum methodologies. As such, Mr Van Rooy participates in

• Daily scrum/stand-up meetings.
• Ten day long sprints (including Planning Day/Retro meetings and tasking).
• Translation of User-stories into test cases using Rally tools.
• Creation of design, user-interface, functional and regression test scripts.
• Manual execution of test scripts, recording of defects.
• Verification of API messages using Fiddler.
• Management of test source code and components using Jira and Team City.
• Communication of all progress and problems to Scrum Masters and Developers.
• Preparation of work-products for User Acceptance Testing.
• Mobile (Android,iPhone) and Tablet (iPad) testing.
• Primary environment was Windows Vista and .NET using the latest Microsoft,Firefox, and Google web browsers, Flash/Flex, HTML5, and JavaScript. Mr. Van Rooy gained considerable experience testing applications on the facebook MVC platform.

Confidential, provides consultants for software testing, quality assurance, project management, and IT services to ensure the success and quality of client\'s projects, applications, processes, and infrastructure.

Clients Served:

Consultant Confidential is the world’s largest futures exchange. provided testing and technical support for Brio, a test bed and execution application for testing the trading of futures and options within the CME Group environment. His accomplishments included:

• Manual and automated execution of test scripts for regularly scheduled regression tests.
• Documenting and reporting defects and enhancement requests using IBM ClearQuest.
• Providing technical support for Brio to a large group of professional software testers.

Environment: Windows XP, Excel,Word,Internet Explorer 7.0, IBM ClearQuest,Oracle,SQL

Consultant Confidential

OfficeMax, is an office supplies retailer founded in 1988 and headquartered in Naperville, Illinois.

For Office Max, Mr. Van Rooy worked on a large-scale Web site “re-skinning” project that involved testing of e-commerce components. The project deliverables were aggressively tasked with rigid deadlines. His accomplishments included:

• Manually executed test scripts.
• Wrote test scripts with HP Quality Center.
• Documented defects using HP Quality Center.

Environment: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Excel,Word,Internet Explorer 6.0, HP Quality Center

Confidential, is the industry’s leader in patent research.

Software Quality Analyst

Mr. Van Rooy was responsible for test planning and test script authoring for functional, regression, and validation testing in a production .NET/Client-Server environment. He attended triage meetings on all outstanding bugs and was responsible for supporting internal and external applications on multiple platforms. His accomplishments included:

• Worked closely with software developers, using Agile methodologies, to uncover and investigate program defects.
• Accelerated “emergency” testing of specific bug fixes.
• Spearheaded a move toward automation of regression testing using Visual Basic.NET and WatIn automation add-on for Internet Explorer.
• Conducted automated testing using automation tools such as iMacros, JavaScript, Visual Basic.Net.
• Used Visual Basic.NET to build automated smoke test that logged of exceptions and missing pages.
• Conducted software configuration using Vault.
• Co-developed the data center test plan and scripts.
• Created project documentation, IT Security training, and the testing of a SharePoint roll out.
• Defect documentation using the open source defect tracker FogBugz.

Environment: Windows XP, .NET, Internet Explorer 6.0, FogBugz, SharePoint

Confidential,

Consultant

The National Restaurant Association is a restaurant industry business association in the United States, representing more than 380,000 restaurant locations located in Chicago,IL.

Software Tester

Mr. Van Rooy worked on the ServSafe project which is a Flash-based application on-line course designed to instruct restaurant employees on all aspects of restaurant operation and on the serving of alcoholic beverages. His accomplishments included:

• Worked with a small group of developers and designers to test courseware.
• Performed manual testing of the web application to ensure that the back-end learning management system correctly scored student exams.
• Led the acceptance testing of new builds on all Flash modules.
• Performed regression testing to validate defect fixes.

Environment: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6.0, Internet Explorer 7.0, Adobe Flash

Confidential,

Inspiration Software, Inc. of Beaverton, Oregon, develops and publishes visual learning and thinking software for educators, students and business professionals.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Inspiration Software develops and publishes visual learning software for educators, students, and business professionals. Mr. Van Rooy was responsible for end-to-end testing effort of two shrink-wrapped software products, “Inspiration” and “Kidspiration”. His accomplishments included:

• Developed ad-hoc and scripted manual tests for all aspects of application functionality, test script writing, and “menu walk” tests.
• Analyzed and executed tests for project specifications and requirements.
• Conducted black-box and regression tests of Inspiration and Kidspiration software packages.
• Co-lead project testing of Inspiration and wrote manual test scripts.
• Conducted user interface and installation testing.
• Participated in department test planning meetings.

Environment: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Mac OS 10.x

Confidential,

QualityLogic Inc. provides Software Quality Test Tools and Testing Services that are the standard used for compliance and performance in Digital Imaging and Telecommunications.

Consutant at Hewlett Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly referred to as HP, is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Software Test Engineer

Mr. Van Rooy worked on a large-scale HP Desk jet printer testing project that involved a built in WI-FI component. The project deliverables were aggressively tasked with rigid deadlines. His accomplishments included:

• Manually tested printer firmware releases.
• Produced and reviewed printed materials on project requirements.
• Conducted automated tests using Visual Basic scripts to execute test suites.
• Performed functionality testing of printer firmware.

Environment: Windows XP, Windows 2000

Confidential,

Quardev Laboratories of Seattle, Washington is one of the industry\'s premier providers of software testing, Web testing, and technical writing services.

Software Tester

Quardev is an onshore testing lab that specializes in rapid, heuristic, exploratory rapid testing of software applications on the Windows and Macintosh platforms. The projects consisted of rapid application testing of multiple third party applications. Mr. Van Rooy was responsible for conducting various manual testing initiatives on educational and customer service applications. His accomplishments included:

• Developed test scripts and used Java and Flash to test web browser compatibility.
• Tested program functionality as regular part of daily maintenance.
• Ran tests on site at corporate locations and at Quardev\'s computer lab.
• Performed Regression testing.
• Attended regular tutorials in structured and experimental test techniques.

Environment: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Mac OS 10.x, Mac OS 9, Java, Javascript, HTML

Consultant, Confidential

T-Mobile is a German mobile telephone provider, owned by Deutsche Telekom.

Software Tester

Mr. Van Rooy was responsible for working with a small franchised group of T-Mobile corporate subsidiaries operating under the ownership of Deutsch TeleKom. This project entailed the testing of a multi-tier web-based customer service application using automated and manual test methodologies.

His accomplishments included:

• Performed manual tests on customer service applications using Rational ClearQuest as a container for manual test scripts.
• Iterative manual and regression testing.

Environment: Windows 2000, Rational ClearQuest

Consultant at Confidential

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. McGraw Hill\'s primary areas of business are education, publishing, broadcasting, and financial and business services.

Software Tester

Mr. Van Rooy worked on a project involving a series of on-line Flash implemented educational games for elementary and middle school aged students. The Flash modules were intended to run on Windows and Macintosh platforms. This project consisted of approximately twenty developers and QA professionals. His accomplishments included:

• Performed manual black-box testing to ensure that Learning Management System correctly scored student exams.
• Used iterative testing methodologies with particular attention given to scoring module interface with SQL back end.

Environment: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Adobe Flash

Confidential,

Confidential,was founded by Microsoft founder Paul Allen in 1984, and produced software products covering web, presentation, and e-learning markets. In 2004 it became part of SumTotal Systems..

Software Test Engineer

Confidential,was a developer of on-line courseware and on-line learning management systems. Mr. Van Rooy worked on the Toolbook project, which consisted of the development and maintenance of an Asymetrix authoring system for developing on-line courseware. The application would allow users the ability to build courseware without the need for programming expertise via a built in scripting language. While on this project, his accomplishments included:

• Performed manual testing as part of the QA team.
• Tested various user-interface elements of the application, including menus, dialogs, drop down boxes.
• Tested the scripting and visual programming features.
• Updated for product release the InstallShield setup program for product add on ‘Synergy\'.

Environment: Windows 2000,Windows 98, Internet Explorer

Confidential,

Confidential, (acquired by IBM), developed software to help enterprises manage their content and business processes.

Software Test Engineer

Filenet was a developer of document management software. Mr. Van Rooy worked on two large projects that ran concurrently. One was the web-enabling of Saros Document Manager, a stand-alone Windows client-server application for the version control of disparate documents and data across network environments. The second project was qa for Panagon, a COM/Active X based document management system to replace Saros Document Manager. While on this project, his accomplishments included:

• Conducted end-to-end testing of both applications that included manual, black-box testing, acceptance testing of new builds, manual load testing, and data-driven web testing of the CGI search component.
• Tested ActiveX application components by calling their APIs using Visual Basic.
• Built web test bed using VB Script and ASP to test Panagon web components.
• Performed regular smoke tests on new builds.
• Participated in group “bash/crash” load tests on Panagon server component.
• Wrote small feature test plans.
• Maintained QA department\'s web servers.

Environment: Windows 2000,Windows 98,95, Internet Explorer

Confidential,

Environment: Windows 2000,Windows 95, Internet Explorer, Spry Mosaic

Confidential,

Technical Support/QA

Express Systems was a developer of Express Meter software license management software. The company developed a client/server product that monitored and controlled the allocation of software application licenses across enterprises and multiple network environments. Mr. Van Rooy began his testing career on this project and his accomplishments included:

• Performed end-to-end testing of the entire Express Meter application which included manual and black-box testing of all functionality.
• Worked with the development team to address user-interface issues and network compatibility of the application.
• Provided technical support for the entire line of Express Systems products including Express Meter and Power Launcher, Windows Express, First Apps and Icon Designer

Environment: Windows NT,Windows 95,3.11 .

Confidential,

Consultant at Confidential

Software Tester

Microsoft Corporation is the world’s largest software developer. The Select Group was a Microsoft project dedicated to packaging all of Microsoft\'s products for convenient CD distribution to all of its foreign and corporate customers. Mr. Van Rooy was part of a 20 person Quality Assurance team whose primary function was to validate that the CDs correctly installed the appropriate Microsoft product. His accomplishments included:

• Performed cyclic redundancy check (CRC) tests on all CDs.
• CD install acceptance tests of foreign language versions of Windows and Office.
• Ran manual and automated test installations and CRC tests.
• Documented defects using the MS Raid defect documentation system.
• Setup multi-OS systems: all then current versions of Windows.
• Used in house testing tools.

Environment: Windows 3.11