SUMMARY:

• Resourceful and collaborative QA leader / manager with 15+ years of experience in QA Architect/Engineer, QA/Project Management and technical solutions in the area of software test & automation and test automation management. I possess an extensive background in all phases of test automation, test automation tool evaluation, test management, process evaluation/creation, process optimization, and implementation of tools and processes to provide business solutions. I have in - depth knowledge of a wide range of operating systems, layered products, and software languages. Skilled in hiring,, mentoring and leading engineers/developers/testers. Adept at identifying, communicating and addressing process with the Scrum/Agile SDLC process and application improvements, resulting in reduced costs, increased efficiencies, and the completion of projects and tasks in a timely manner, for delivery of Quality, & on time, company software products.
• Performed many in depth evaluations and implementations of Automation Functional Test Tools: (such as SilkTest (MicroFocus), TestComplete (AutomatedQA), WinRunner/QTP (HP), and Rational Functional Tester (RFT), (IBM) ) for use with many unique company Applications, Client/Server, and Web testing activities.
• Planned, documented, & delivered thousands of automated test cases for Transparity & OMNI, Mutual Fund Search, Advisor Tools, Xng/Inventory, WorldServer software & hundreds of automated test cases for Confidential M, TransViz, CPOF, MeterNet, & AutoCAD Civil Desktop software, including many others.
• Hire & Build QA Team, define process, create Testcase & Regression documentation format as well as train all QA Engineers, that report to me as QA Manager. Define Test Automation Priorities & Process as Automation Architect.
• Reduced testing time from hours to minutes, along with ensuring repeatability, decreasing cost, and eliminating human error.
• Decreased the cost of quality by capitalizing on onshore & offshore resources for manual and automated test execution and development.
• Suggested the integration of testability reviews and hooks to software on a regular basis.
• Expert in all aspects of Silk Product suite ( SilkTest, SilkPerformer, SilkCentral )
• Established the use of the development source code control system for all manual and automation test artifacts.
• Enhanced the quality of products by decreasing testing and development time through effective developer and QA engineer code/script debug along with .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OTS Testing Tools: QAWorkBench, QAPartner, SilkTest, SilkCentral, Test Complete, WinRunner/QTP, Rational Functional Tester (RFT),Rational Quality Management (RQM), Rational Team Concert (RTC), Testopia, Test Partner, EggPlant

Software: ~ 4Test/Visual 4Test; Silk4J, Silk4N, Visual Basic, Java, DotNET, cUrl, Ruby, Perl, Python, AutoCAD Civil DeskTop,HTML,XML;TSL;TestMaster/MRT/STE (Teradyne);C++;Perl; MS Office Suite

Application Servers: ~ Tomcat; Websphere; WebLogic

Enterprise Applications: ~ Transparity/OMNI, Confidential, TransViz, CPOF, Granite-Xng/Inventory, Oracle Enterprise Manager;SQL Sever Enterprise Manager,WorldServer;MeterNet, AutoCAD, (Mech. & Civil)

Databases: ~ SQL Server 2003/2000; Oracle 7*, 8i, 9i. 10g

Operating Systems~: Windows 7/Vista/XP/ 2003/2000/98/95/ NT; MAC (10.n),LINUX; UNIX; Alpha/Open VMS

Source Code Repository: ~ GIT, SourceTree, RTC, Perforce, ClearCase, CVS, SCC, PVCS, Corp. specific.

Product Issue Tracking: ~ Mingle, Jira, RTC, ClearQuest, Siebel, Bugzilla, Corp. specific.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Test Automation Architect/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate & select test automation tools, Define & Build framework (Hands On), process, format, & structure of all QA activities & documents. Architect, Design, Create, and Execute test automation framework, harness & testcase workflow for Transparity & OMNI Software development/test efforts. Define manual & automation test case structure & development process with cloud based images/servers with selected automation tools. Built 1000’s of testcases including automated Installs of local & remote, client & server company products, shortening new build testing times. Using Confluence, Jira, Gliffy, TPS, and SVN with the Agile/Scrum processes to communicate and manage the Test information and data for both Manual and Automated test. Rebuild All Transparity Apps. Kit Installs (WIX) to InstallShield Suite installs

Confidential

QA Manager / Test Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

• QA Engineers to grow the QA Department to 10 (on & off Shore). Define process, format, & structure of all QA activities & documents, Architect, Design, Create and Execute test automation framework, harness & testcase workflow for Confidential M’s (Modular) new development effort. Define automation test case structure & development process inside VMWare images/servers with SilkTest (MicroFocus). Create TestPlan & over 800 Testcases, also access API with cUrl command tool, with documentation & gave daily status of manual & automated testing activities in the Scrum/Agile SDLC process with tools, Mingle, JIRA, Google Docs, Wiki, Confluence, & Lucent Charts.

Confidential

Senior Lead Test Automation Engineer / Manager

Responsibilities:

• Design and Execute test automation testcases, enhance test automation framework & harness for Intuit / TurboTax web site. Defines automation test case structure & development process with TestComplete (AutomatedQA) & SilkTest (MicroFocus). Recommend enhancements to their existing framework code, & script source code. Create TestPlan & over 500 Testcases with documentation & gave daily status of testing activities in the Scrum/Agile SDLC process.

Confidential

Senior Lead Test Automation Engineer / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Evaluates tools & processes, recommends, designs, & develops an automation test framework & harness for SRC Mutual Fund Search & Advisor Tools/fi360 web site enhancement projects. Defines automation test case structure & development process with SilkTest (MicroFocus). Establishes automation, framework code, & script source code to be included with development’s SCC tools. Creates TestPlan & Testcase documentation in MS TFS along with Testcase execution, presenting schedules, demos, & status of testing activities in the Scrum/Agile SDLC process.

Confidential

Senior Lead Test Automation Engineer / Architect / Manager

Responsibilities:

• Evaluates tools and processes, recommends, designs, and develops an automation test framework & harness for GD’s BMSD CPOF & TransViz product suites thru several Engineering Sponsored Projects (ESP’s). Defines automation test case structure & development process for WinRunner/QTP (by HP),
• Rational Functional Tester (RFT), and SilkTest (by MicroFocus). Establishes automation code & script source code to be included in the development’s ‘Perforce‘, CC, or RTC code trees. Creates automation software to cover test automation for all company software products. Hires, trains, mentors, leads and manages QA/I&T engineers in automation use and the creation of additional test cases using this designed framework. Migrated thousands of Testopia test artifacts to RQM, including Requirement data, BugZilla bug data, and full ‘TestPlan’ documentation along with the use of RQM’s Work Items. Organizes test case Management, Lab Management, & establishes priorities for the automation team at all on-site & off-site locations, presented schedules, demos, & status of testing activities.

Confidential

SQA Test Automation Architect / Manager

Responsibilities:

• Review and evaluate current test automation processes, test cases, and usage. Recommend, develop, implement, and upgrade test automation software, processes, framework, and harness. Creates automation software to cover test automation for all company software products. Hires, trains, mentors, leads and manages 6 QA on-shore and 4 off-shore engineers in automation use and the creation of additional test cases using the redesigned framework. Generates corporate test case & test plan format for all manual and automated test case development. Organizes test case development and establishes priorities for the automation team on-site and at many offshore locations, presenting schedules, demos, and the status of testing activities and automation test case development for all products/supported versions to management and developers.

Confidential

SQA Test Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assesses current test automation processes, test cases, and usage. Develops and introduces test automation software, processes, framework, and harness. Creates automation software to cover test automation for all company software products. Hires, trains, mentors, leads and manages 14 QA and development engineers in automation use and the creation of additional test cases. Generates a corporate test plan format for all manual and automated test case development. Organizes test case development and establishes priorities for the automation team on-site and at two offshore locations, presenting schedules, demos, and the status of testing activities and automation test case development for all products/supported versions to management and developers. Designed a bug tracking DB/system to track testcase issues or requests for enhancements.

Confidential

SQA Test Automation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated, recommended, designed, and developed an automated framework with Borland’s SilkTest and SilkPerformer for MeterNet products. Defined the automation process as well as test case development and automation source code control system usage. Organized and established objectives for test case development. Documented bugs discovered during the testing of corporate products. Recommended the use of testability reviews and testability hooks to facilitate test case development. Secured and administered offshore resources. Trained, mentored, and led two QA and two developers in automation use and test case development. Created a central process for test automation activities, providing related for all developer and QA engineers. Formed & managed test automation central group for all test development, set priorities & coding standards.

Confidential

SQA Test Automation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the company’s current automation usage in addition to redesigning the framework, harness, and process to facilitate better use of existing test cases. Designed and provided for the use and coding standards related to a localization tool used in English automation test cases to view and test other language user interfaces, presenting the tool to management and engineers. Localized versions of the AutoCAD Civil CAD tool kit.

Confidential

Principal QA Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and proposed test automation software, processes, framework, and harness based on process and test case assessments. Hired, trained, and managed 14 QA and development engineers (local/offshore). Designed the corporate test plan format for all manual and automated test case development. Suggested the addition of testability reviews and testability hooks to product software. Created and implemented Unicam test automation standards for the company regarding processes,, and documentation. Developed and instituted Automated SilkTest regression test processes for Assembly Expert machine outputs for 120 machines and Assembly Expert CAD and BOM inputs for 60 interfaces as well as an automated process for Quick Acceptance testing of new builds and implementations of Assembly Expert software.

Confidential

Principal Test Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting services for SilkTest contract opportunities. Evaluated the utilization of automation tools to test Storage System RAID Enterprise Management software at LSI Logic’s QA department, recommending tool purchases/improvements, providing, and creating related framework/harness. Initiated the use of a Source Code Control system for all tests (manual/automated), scripts, and documentation.

Confidential

Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as the administrator/lead QA test automation engineer for Oracle Enterprise Manager GUI testing projects using Borland/Segue’s SilkTest/QA-Partner/Visual 4Test GUI test tool. Designed OEM SilkTest framework to test the company’s suite of applications, including custom Java objects. Generated SilkTest, C++, and Java codes as well as test scripts, allowing multiple Win32, C++, and Java codes to work within the OEM J2EE Java development environment. Developed scripts used for all OEM applications to measure performance. Created and facilitated SilkTest/QA-Partner/QAWorkbench basic courses for internal company groups.