WAYNE R. MCFADDEN

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Apt.*

Washington, DC 20011

Home: 202-***-****

acpjxz@r.postjobfree.com

U.S. Citizen

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY AND ROLE

I am a Marine Corps Veteran who has 26 years of full life cycle software development, 7

years of solid SDLC using; Cobol, C, JCL, Informix, Oracle and VB5 and VB5 languages;19 years

of full life cycle testing applications written JAVA, J2EE, .Net and GUI. My testing and quality

assurance experience includes testing software application for commercial, telecommunications,

government, Insurance and finance usage. Formulating test plans from requirements and user

stories; creating test cases, scripts and data; setting up testing environments. Testing includes:

functional, performance, regression, integration, systems, unit and 508 testing. I have extensive

working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall development methodologies and a solid understanding

of Scrum and XP. I also have the ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS

• B.S., Data Processing Management, Strayer University, Washington, DC, 1989

• Certificates Program Villanova University Philadelphia, PA. 2012

• Certification cPrime, Santa Monica, CA 2014

Professional Certificates:

• Scrum Master Certification 03/2014

• SQA (Software Quality Assurance) Certificate 05/2012

• ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) Certificate 07/2012

• Six Sigma Greenbelt Certificate 09/2012

• Dimensions (PVCS) 10/2006

• Test Manager (Rational Suites) 04/2006

• RequisitePro (Rational Suites) 04/2006

• Clear Quest (Rational Suites) 04/2006

• Test Director Training (Mercury Suites) 04/2005

• Winrunner Training (Mercury Suites) 05/1995

• Microsoft VB Programming Fundamentals and Intermediate App Development

Training 01/1998

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Resource Performance, Inc., Fairfax, VA 09/2014 – 1/2015

Sr. Test Engineer

• Support assigned SCRUM Team in developing test cases and test scripts (automated and

manual), based on acceptance criteria, in support of test driven development for the EVSS

contract with the Veterans Administration for eBenifits and SEP.

• Facilitating and participated in test case and test scripts peer review

• Performed UAT, Smoke, Functional and Regression Testing

• Participated in the sizing of user stories

• Participated in daily scrum stand up meetings

• Participated in Sprint Review meetings

• Participated in Sprint Preplanning meetings

• Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Defects using Rational Jazz, RQM and

Clear Quest tools

• Used Jira to review other companies documentation and correspond and SharePoint for

interoffice correspondence

• Telecommute during this project

• Performed Traceability Matrix to verify the correlations between User Stories and Test

Cases

• Created Test Cases and Test scripts

• Mentor Junior tester on how to write test cases, test scripts and defects and the overall QA

testing methodology using the Agile and Waterfall methodology

SiloSmashers, Inc., Fairfax, VA 07/2014 – 9/2014

Sr. IV&V Tester

• Provide onsite support assigned to the IV&V Team in the testing of the Grants.gov

application for HHS (Health and Human Services).

• Created detailed test plans, test cases and defects.

• Used contour as the document repository for storing test plan, test cases and defect

• Performed IV&V and regression testing.

• Performed testing using XMLSpy to validate the xml code

• Attend weekly team status meetings

• Telecommute during this project

Dakota Consulting, Inc., Silver Spring, MD 06/2013 – 06/2014

Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer

• Support assigned SCRUM Team in developing test cases and test scripts (automated and

manual), based on acceptance criteria, in support of test driven development for the USDA

• Apply quality control/quality assurance management procedures, including implementing a

program of reporting, tracking and analyzing key metrics, monitoring quality procedures

and participating in software reviews and testing

• Performing 508 compliance testing using AChecker, Unit testing.

• Facilitating test case and test scripts peer review

• Preform testing using Soap UI

• Performed UAT, Smoke, Functional and Regression Testing

• Performing basic SQL queries

• Performed Webservices testing using Phisweb and PhisAPI

• Participated in the sizing of user stories

• Participated in daily scrum stand up meetings

• Participated in Sprint Review meetings

• Participated in Sprint Preplanning meetings

• Created documentation that set the standardization on writing on writing defects to be

used throughout the company

• Created Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Defects using Rally Agile Project

Management tool

• Performed Traceability Matrix to verify the correlations between User Stories and Test

Cases

• Telecommute during this project

Department of Veteran Affairs Washington, DC 02/2013 – 06/2013

Social Work Services (CWT) Office Clerk

• Promptly answer the telephone and email inquiries.

• Reroute messages to appropriate social workers as needed.

• Retrieve, deliver and distribute mail, faxes, packages and facsimiles or other special items

as requested.

• Perform clerical work such as copying, faxing, printing etc.

• Gather supplies for the company and order supplies when needed

Innovative Management Concepts, Inc., Dulles, VA 05/2010 12/2011

Sr. Level IV&V Scientist / Test Engineer

• Collaborated on the creation of the Master Test Plan for the Veterans Benefit

Administration (VBA) Web Site application which is written in J2EE, .Net and using Oracle

10g for the database.

• Created documentation using the ISO 9000 and ProPath methodologies.

• Designed and created the Test Case/Test Script form.

• Tested the web application using Agile methodology.

• Participated in the sizing of user stories

• Participated in daily scrum stand up meetings

• Participated in Sprint Review meetings

• Participated in Sprint Preplanning meetings

• Created documentation that set the standardization on writing on writing defects to be

used throughout the company

• Created Defects while testing

• Performed Traceability Matrix to verify the correlations between User Stories and Test

Cases

• Created the test scripts for the sprints.

• Documented defects using Rational Quality Manager RQM) and Clear Quest.

• Performed Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Unit testing.

• Created weekly status reports and participated in the status meeting/teleconference and

JAD meetings.

ClearView Associates Inc./ Softech Inc., King George, VA 09/2008 09/2009

Lead QA/QC Engineer

• Worked with the ADAPT system, a Web Site application that was created for the FAA and

currently being used by TSA, DHS, FBI. FEMA and DOD

• Created System Requirements Specification using the Program Specification template that

was inherited.

• Made recommendations to tailor the template to eliminate unnecessary sections for our

project and to add operational scenarios and to focus our efforts on describing system

functional needs.

• Supervised a three-person team performing integration testing of ship-based applications

for Military Sealift Command.

• Oversaw preparation of test plans, execution of testing, and preparation of test reports.

• Attended Weekly IR and CCB Status Meeting.

• Created test cases and test scripts for Military Sealift Command applications.

• Performed Peer Review on all test plans and test cases.

• Performed WSUS updates on lab machines.

• Performed Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Unit and 508 testing.

Self-Employed Contractor 03/2001 03/2008

Senior / Lead Test Engineer for: Science Applications International Corporation, Shiva

Information Technical Services Inc., CACI Inc., Target Labs Inc., FairField Technologies

Inc., Emagination LLC., Guardian Technologies International Inc., Occam Solutions Inc.,

Pyramis Technologies Vista RMS, Triad Management Systems Inc., RCM Technologies Inc.,

Housing & Urban Development and Kforce, Inc.

• Created Integrated Test Plan and Test Scripts for HUD Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC)

for the Public Housing Assessment System Scores and Status (NASS) 4.0.0.0 and 5.0.0.0 Web

Site application in a CMM Level 3 environment.

• Wrote plans and scripts in a Cold Fusion, Java EE Client/Server environment on an SQL Server

with Sybase on the backend as the database.

• Supervised a four-person team performing functional GUI and Web Site application built using

Perl, XML library, AOL Server, COTS product Seibel and (TCLTK) Server pages, Html and C that

allows the users to view general web page documentation or a package especially designed for a

specific client.

• Performed Black Box, White Box, Integrated, Regression, Systems, Unit, Functional and

Performance testing.

• Reported all defects by using a Software Change Request (SCR).

• Supervised a 4-person team perform testing on a Seibel application with a SQL Server database

for the HUD Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) system

• Supervised a three-person team performing testing on a data warehousing project that that tracks

the storage of refrigerated medicines for the US Military

• Created Test Plan and Test Cases and facilitated weekly QA team meetings

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