SUMMARY

• I has a well - rounded IT background in Software Development, QA, Business Analysis, and Project Management roles wif extensive experience in a wide variety of application areas and vendor supplied Software Products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• COBOL II
• VSAM
• IAM
• CICS
• DB2
• SQL
• SPUFI
• Endeavor
• Microsoft Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Test Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and execute all phases of application testing ensuring all software developed and modified works effectively and per the functional requirements. Agile Development. SDLC.
• Attend daily QA Scrum call and daily development stand up.
• Tested web applications on mobile devices.
• Support Web and SAP application.
• Provide testing progress, defect reporting, and project metrics.
• We use Azure Devops to define and execute our Quality Assurance activities.

Confidential - New Port Richey, Florida

Software Quality Lead

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on QA Manager which ensured all software developed and modified worked effectively and per the functional requirements. Agile Development. SDLC/ALM.
• Began work as a Sr QA Analyst and was promoted to QA Manager.
• Mentored, Lead, and Trained a combination of seasoned QA Professionals and entry level QA Testers brought in from the Business Operations Staff.
• Assisted Project Office wif requirements gathering and writing User Stories.
• Prepared test plans from user stories and acceptance criteria
• End to End Testing - Writing and Execution of manual test cases.
• Build library of regression test cases
• Extensive database and API Testing using Postman and SOAPUI to test the XML and/or JSON.
• Wrote SQL to do backend DB testing and maintained a library of SQL queries.
• Tested many Workday Interfaces.
• Tested web applications on mobile devices.
• Performed both SIT and UAT testing.
• Was part of 3 Agile development teams dat worked using 2 week sprints . Conducted daily Scrum calls.
• We used TFS and Microsoft Test Manager to perform our Quality Assurance activities.

Confidential

Software QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Was the Hands-on QA Manager responsible for testing and certifying our Hospice applications.
• Worked closely wif Project Managers defining requirements and ensuring user stories had valid testable acceptance criteria.
• Support Service Pack distributions as well as separate Critical Updates to the 200 plus Hospices dat use our software.
• Work wif the Product Owners to define their requirements and then participate in the entire agile life cycle development and testing of their applications.
• Worked in TFS to provide QA metrics to Management for testing status and Defect reporting.
• Led defect calls and participated in daily scrum meetings.
• Wrote SQL for DB testing.
• Performed high volume performance testing.

Environment: Microsoft Visual Studio, Test Manager (MTM), and Team Foundation Server (TFS).

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of QA Analysts and Testers who Test and Certify their healthcare applications.
• Support monthly software releases to our many healthcare provider clients.
• Tested Obamacare interfaces wif several Health Exchanges. XML API Testing.
• Worked wif the clients to define their requirements and then participate in the entire life cycle development of their applications.
• Maintained a SPUFI library of DB2/SQL used for DB validation testing.
• Conducted daily defect calls.
• Participated in weekly planning/estimating calls.
• Conducted both SIT and UAT testing.
• Used Quality Center Dashboard to generate metrics to show project progress.

Environment: HP Quality Center to manage our testing efforts and associated metrics.

Confidential

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Confidential Bank performing Requirements gathering and SIT (System Integrated Testing) efforts for a major program, Rainbow USA, which reengineered the Core Banking Applications across the board for Confidential Bank and made them Global applications.
• Traveled to both Singapore and China to meet wif Subject Matter Experts and Developers there. Also had nightly Project calls wif Team Members at those locations.
• Led QA Test Analysts across multiple locations both on and off shore dedicated to the testing of Rainbow USA.
• Before moving from Confidential to Confidential Bank I functioned as a Senior Lead Analyst / Team Lead and led a 13 person Team (7 onshore and 6 offshore) dat tested Credit Card Customer Communications (DCF Letters and Emails).
• Testing Teams participated as Subject Matter Experts during Project Development Life Cycle activities and then used the Rational Tool Set and Mercury Quality Center to build test scripts and track the progress of Project, Release, and Regression testing.
• Attended weekly planning and estimation meetings as well as daily scrums and defect calls.

Confidential, Saint Petersburg, Florida

Lead Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Worked multiple Contracts at FIS through my own Consulting Corporation.
• Worked on the design, development, and implementation of the Accounting portion of a new system they implemented. dis check cashing application was entered into in conjunction wif the 7-Eleven corporation.
• My portion of the application would capture detailed information relative to the checks cashed at the 7-Eleven Kiosks, balance dat information to what was removed from the Kiosks by Brinks, and to what was deposited at our various bank accounts.
• dis entailed a combination of batch and online processing and the design of five new DB2 Tables.
• Involved coordinating the development and testing across several organizations.
• Also functioned as the Project Lead for a six person Development Team.
• Performed Analysis and Programming on the TBS, BASE2000, and Pass Thru Applications.
• Provided data mapping and extracts to the Data Warehouse for loading.
• Worked on several upgrades to comply wif the Visa mandated Regulatory changes which included the development of 10 new CICS Screens and 7 new Batch Reports.

Environment: COBOL II, VSAM, IAM, CICS, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, Endeavor, Microsoft Project.

Confidential - Tampa, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Systems Analyst in the Data Warehouse & Merchandise Reporting Group.
• Performed Data Mapping and Extract Processing for the Data Warehousing Application.
• Created several new Batch Processes and Reports.
• Developed some new CICS Socket Call Processing Programs.
• Provided Beeper and On Call Production Support.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois.

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the conversion of their Legacy Financial and Logistics Applications to Oracle 11i Software.
• Involved in the data mapping, extraction, and load of information from the Legacy Systems into Oracle.
• Modified Legacy Forecasting and Planning Applications to run "stand alone" after conversion and built interfaces to the Oracle Applications.

Confidential - Jacksonville, Florida

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an individual contributor performing research and preparing design documents for automating their Work Order System and enhancing their Car Ordering Applications.
• Wrote several programs to collect and analyze various metrics they were researching for their various applications.

Environment: COBOL, IMS, DB2, CICS, Xpeditor, Microsoft Project.

Confidential - Tampa, Florida and Irving, Texas

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consultant at Confidential Data Services in Tampa, Florida and Confidential Supply in Irving, Texas on multiple assignments concerning the same applications.
• Data Services does the development and support of the mainframe applications while Supply is the user base and maintains some peripheral applications.
• I began the project as an Analyst for Data Services then later took a position as a Business Analyst / Project Manager for Confidential Supply.
• Conducted Requirements Gathering Sessions for Confidential Supply.
• Managed a Team of 95 Technicians and Business Analysts.
• After years of using and modifying the VSAM version of the ASI, American Software International, Materials Management and Financial Accounting Software, Confidential purchased the DB2 version of dis software. We re-engineered previous in house modifications made to the VSAM versions of the software into the new upgraded DB2 version.
• My duties included the Architectural Review and Signoff of all system modifications, Preparing and Monitoring of the Microsoft Project Plans, Leading the Requirements Gathering Sessions and Documents Preparation, Prioritizing Projects and Monitoring their progress against the Plans, Assigning Resources, Coordinating Meetings and Conference Calls, and acting as the Project Leader for the Performance Improvement Team.

Environment: IBM 3090, COBOL, DB2, SQL, VSAM, CICS, OS/MVS/ESA, MS Project.