Geogy Philip

Hoffman Estates, IL

acpr42@r.postjobfree.com 847-***-****

Project Manager/QA Manager

Summary

High achieving and detail oriented QA professional with > 10 years of

experience in IT industry is looking for a IT QA/Project Manager position.

Expertise in all phases in Agile software methodology and project

management including creating strategy, planning, estimating, executing,

and quality metric reporting.

V Effectively collaborates with software development team, business

partners, and user community to define a comprehensive test strategy

for large scale complex applications.

V High adaptable, skilled in adjusting plans to accommodate unexpected

schedule changes and mitigate risks.

V Coaches, mentors, and trains Engineers for testing to achieve high

software quality.

Leadership Skills

Software Quality Assurance/Test and Project

Management/Automation/Functional/Performance/Capacity Testing

Team Leader/Talent Development/Mentor/Train/Coach/Sub System

Integration/Problem solving/Customer service

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Programming Languages: C,C++, HTML, SQL

Applications: CQCM, Insight, Vtrack, VersionOne, DOORS, VMsphere,

ClearCase Unified Event Viewer, MKS, Python, Cyclone,

Domain Controllers, Hardening kits, Anti-Virus

servers, Catapult

Process: Agile Software Methodology, iterative

MS-Tools: Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Professional Experience

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, Schaumburg, IL 2004 Oct - Present

Software Test Lead

Responsible for overall testing project of market leader dispatch emergency

system used by police and fire department, hospitals and the military

across the US. Accountable to manage software test teams through the

entire testing phase from estimation through release. Subject matter expert

for product configuration in the team as well as outside the team.

. Effectively managed the resources and testing projects and successfully

achieved the goals and milestones on or before time.

. Managed to achieve testing project goals without delay and maximizes

utilization of test environments and resources through effective

scheduling and planning.

. Effectively identified and resolved many blocking issues and risks early

in the project to continue the progress of the projects and achieved the

goals on time.

. Prioritized the test project activities resulting in improved product

quality without additional cost.

. Effectively escalated blocking issues and bugs to the responsible parties

and got them resolved.

. Effectively created testing plan and project guidelines and followed

them.

. Successfully participated in all stages of hiring process.

. Successfully installed and maintained test lab and associated hardware

and integrated new hardware.

. Managed to improve product quality by conducting comprehensive testing of

complex, high risk functions by expert blitz testing.

. Effectively collaborated with cross functional teams to get the

deliverables on time for the continuation of the project.

. Effectively integrated third party software and verified functionalities.

. Identified Automated vs functional test areas as well as analyzed the

risks and benefits.

. Works with off shore team to achieve the goal in timely manner.

. Recognized as the subject matter expert to test full connectivity between

third party audio recording system, NICE (Server client application), and

highly critical Dispatch Emergency Consoles.

. Go-to point of contact to resolve product configuration issues.

. Trains and mentors engineers in product functionality and testing best

practices.

. Conducts product demos for potential customers during the sales process.

. Mastered test setup needed to successfully maintain the test lab and

satisfy the needs of different customers.

. Experience in hardware installation, maintenance and testing.

. Experience in performance testing using Catapult and familiar with HP

Quality Center test management tool and Selenium.

WMS GAMING - Chicago, IL Software Test Engineer 2002 Oct - 2004 Oct

. Completed user testing for a variety of casino gaming products, ensuring

that the payout regulations are met.

. Analyze the business requirements and create test plan and implement and

maintain traceability between business requirements and test scenarios.

. Evaluate appropriate level of test coverage and review test cases and

process flow charts for accuracy and coverage.

MOTOROLA - Arlington Heights, IL Software Development Engineer 2000

May - 2001 Nov

. Developed a real time embedded cellular call switching program in C and

C++ that routes calls between cell phone towers.

. As a part of the team, participated in all stages of development cycle

for new software releases. Responsible for writing high/low level design

and test documentation.

. Involved in developing high quality software applications from analyzing

high level design, designing coding plan and extensive coding.

. Worked to solve numerous customer found defects, creating high quality

fixes with quick turnaround times to help improve customer satisfaction

. Created, validated and executed scripts to do automated software testing.

Education

B.S in Computer Science, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL

May 2000

Golden Key National Honor Society Membership

Continuing Education

Internet Protocol Computer Networking/Six Sigma

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