Systems Engineer Visual Studio
Resume:
Larry Nelson
Sr Systems Engineer/QA Analyst IT/SDE QA
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EDUCATION: California State University at Long Beach - Business and Computer Sciences - 1 year
Golden State Jr. College, Westminster Ca. - Business – 2 years
Orange Coast Jr. College, Costa Mesa Ca. - Business – 1 year
Computer Learning Center, Anaheim Ca. - Degree – COBOL and ASSEMBLER languages.
TECHNOLOGY: Tools: Agile/AZDO pipeline, Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2022, Oracle SQL Developer, Toad, QuerySurge administrator,Visual Studio Team Foundation server 2015, Microsoft Test Manager 2013, MS SQL Server Management Studio 2008, 2012 and 2015, Access, Microsoft SharePoint, TFS, SDLC, Agile, Jira, Eclipse, Selenium, IntelliJ, HTML, Postman(API execution), SOAP UI Pro, Toaster, Testify, Quality Center, QTP, MTM, TestRail, TestLink, Juniper, Pulse VPN, Cisco VPN, Remote Desktop Connect,TSO/ISPF, DB2 SPUFI/QMF, DB2 Connect, VSAM utilities, IBM Utilities, Platinum utilities, BMC utilities, MAX utilities, ROLY/CEMT/CECI, AFCS, Endeavor, Librarian, Panvalet, MQSeries Manager, CLIST, REXX, ESP, Tivoli, CA7, CA11, RMS, NDM, FTP, TMS, Dumpmaster, Tracemaster, XPEDITOR, Strobe, Omegamon, SYNCSORT, INSYNC, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, SAR, JHS, UNITECH, CA-View, VB, and VBA.
Operating Systems: OS/390, OS/MVS/XA, OS/MVS-ESA, AMDAHL 5990, IBM 9000-820, IBM 3090-400J, IBM 3390-3, Tandem, Windows 95, 98, 2000, Windows 7 and 10, NT, UNIX, Linux and Relay Mail, Web and App Servers
Applications: Hogan and Umbrella.
Databases: SSMS, DB2, IMS and VSAM
Languages: COBOL II, CICS, COBOL, IMS, CICS, DB2 SQL, JCL, MQSeries, ASSEMBLER, C++, C#.Net, Java, DYL260/280, EZtrieve and RPGII
File Management: DB2 SQL, IMS, VSAM, ISAM, KSDS, ESDS, RRDS, IAM, DFHSM, Tape, Cart, Access and SSMS
EXPERIENCE:
9/2016 – 4/2024 GM Financial – Automotive Loans – Conversion projects
Quality Assurance Analyst IT/SDE
Used Oracle SQL developer daily to produce production error reports.
Started managing projects with TFS then moved over to ADZO pipeline.
Attended daily Kanban meeting which transitioned to Sprints.
Achieved certification or AZ400 and AZ900 working on AZ204.
Tested in Salesforce, Payments, Default Manager, AutoSuite, Titles. Liens, Repos, and some Bankruptcy and Originations.
Used Postman to verify code changes were working and were accurate.
Used Soap UI to execute test BW batch processes.
Verified QA and Production batch completed daily using Tibco Administration.
Learned GIT command prompt, Java script, C# with BDD to support automation testing.
Scheduled and attended meetings with the business and developers to discuss requirements, acceptance criteria.
Estimated effort, and hours for items on the backlog, refinement, and testing categories of the Azure board.
Create test plans and execute test cases for UI functional and end-to-end integration testing.
Collaborated with offshore team when needed to resolve production and test issues.
Create and troubleshoot MFT file transfer jobs to internal and external customers.
Troubleshot ETL process flow with developers to identify and explain defects.
Managed defect/bugs via Azure board items.
Completed post-production deployment verification and posted results to Service now Change Ticket and project on the board.
Completed conversion of several hundred tables from iSeries platform to CICS/Oracle DB platform.
Used QuerySurge to compare the conversion data and identified lost data.
Used Citrix and Toad to logon remotely to where data was stored to determine missing data.
Worked on California Consumer Privacy Act account de-identification.
Worked remotely from home last 4 years.
Great attendance record.
2/2016 – 7/2016 Ambit Energy – Electric and Gas provider
Quality Assurance Analyst IT
Performed customer enrollment integration testing for Electric and Gas customers in over 15 states and over 100 providers.
TFS was used to manage backlog, current projects and stories estimated hours, detail modifications, attached test plans and test case results, defects and their resolution using an Agile methodology approach.
Review story details and recommend changes if needed.
Developed and executed test plans and scripts to verify system changes, continuity, integration functionality and efficiency with include positive, negative and regression tests.
Created and managed manual test cases with Microsoft Test Manager 2013.
Create, execute and maintain automated test scripts to verify application GUI and functionality.
Execute SQL queries to create, update and verify test cases. Setup raw HTML or json for tests.
Provide assistance to testers, developers, project managers and business analysts.
Manage defects with business, development and QA analysts.
Complete assignments using various Microsoft tools such as MS SQL Server Management Studio 2008, 2012 and 2015, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Foundation server 2015 and other Microsoft Office suite products.
Support integrated Rest Web related and client server testing.
Involved in peer review process with QA lead.
Provide and reviewed test results with QA lead then submitted for UAT review by Business partners.
Completed all projects within time and budget estimated.
Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication skills
Commitment to time management and project delivery commitments
Verify PUC documentation when for regulatory compliance.
Agile/Scrum SDLC practices were used to complete daily activities.
Completed post-production verification duties included planning, testing and defect resolution.
Review customer document changes on Terms of Service, Disclosures and Contract Summary in English and Spanish
12/2014 – 1/2016 Lanyon Solutions (hospitality events, hotel and travel)
Quality Assurance Analyst IT
Worked on transition of Production, Stage, UAT and QA servers, from Shanghai to U.S. Responsible for testing new server integration and configuration. Reporting problems via Jira tickets and facilitate the resolution.
Worked on transition of Legacy system to a Cloud based system moving towards SaaS. Automation testing was started using Eclipse but switched to Selenium and IntelliJ.
Responsible for Tier-3 Production Support tickets initial review, trouble shooting and decision on course of action.
Responsible for test case writing and testing for Sprint stories. Report daily activities in a Stand up meeting each morning. Review story with developer and determine test cases.
Migrate, update and maintain TestRail test cases and test runs repository. Created various documents and attachments to help with the test cases.
Participate in SDLC/Agile/Scrum activities such as backlog grooming, planning, points estimate, hour’s estimates, standups, review, demo and retrospective.
Configured laptop to work with different DNS servers emulating the same URL’s but different IP addresses.
Built code on local and vm machines to test developmental code before it was pushed.
Logged onto servers and determined that jobs, stored procedures, permissions, DB data and services were enabled and accessible.
Executing Microsoft SQL server queries to validate testing results.
Tested various type of payment methods like PayPal, Discovery, Master Card, Visa and American Express.
Executed SOAP UI testing to execute service requests and verify responses and logs.
Testing was done on all the common browsers Chrome, IE, Firefox and on Widows and MAC.
Language templates had to be loaded, tested and verified.
Managed project moving 20,000 test cases from QC to TestRail
Extensive manual test cases completed for Stage, UAT and Production environments.
Types of testing were integration, api, white, black, regression, penetration, smoke and other types depending on products.
Worked with QTP product relocating test scripts to TestRail.
Completed writing test cases on Quality Centre, TestRail and TestLink
8/2010 – 9/2014 Companion Data Services part of Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina
Contractor for Sentari Technologies
Team Lead/Tech Team
Managed transition of Medicare Exclusion Database DB2 system to BCBSSC data center. Handled loading and unloading of DB2 data bases to facilitate QA parallel testing. Wrote programs to make testing setup easier. Setup Endevor libraries and testing to assure DB2 elements successfully distributed to proper processor groups for development, validation and production environments. Created EZTrieve programs to do compare QA parallel tests with outgoing data center. Built Tivoli applications to run batch. Tested EFT file transfer and sweep file process.
Managed transition of Medicare Mainframe systems from BCBSSC to HP to balance the claims processing load. The team successfully transitioned 6 Part A workloads using HP supplied software. Conducted QA testing and reviewed results on each of three data moves software per workloads. All the workload required Ancillary data moves as well. Title XVIII and MAC Ancillary tapes had to be transferred to HP as well.
Transition of Medicare Medical Mainframe systems from Outgoing contractor to BCBSSC.
Our team successfully transitioned around 12 Part A and 9 Part B workloads consolidating a fragmented legacy into a cost effective and competitive enterprise. Types of transitions included HIGLAS, Split/Merge, Renames, Non-HIGLAS and Mac-in-place. Conducted QA review of data moves to verify all files needed for first batch cycle in each of the environments were present.
Determine Project Schedule requirements and timeline.
Create Integrated Implementation Plans for UAT, Production Simulation and Production cutover.
Modified Next Generation Desk top mainframe test system for GUI, C#.Net platform.
Learned REXX tools that perform JCL explodes and Sweeps report distribution process.
Built REXX programs to create special test Hybrid environments.
Request RACF access for CICS Online systems and transactions, Mainframe DASD/VSAM HLQ’s, Endevor libraries and internal and external NDM/FTP transmissions.
Managed transition of all Endevor Elements from one contractor to another.
Modify Endevor Elements to the new current contractor specifications.
Learned the Higlas general ledger conversion and batch process systems which included Higlas conversion.
Verified X12 835, 276 and various other transactions were on EFT files converted properly.
Learned CCP process to change contractor number.
Learned Visual Basic TSO Reflections Emulator for Tivoli Screen Scrapper to support cycle schedule verification process. Recommended Tivoli Schedule changes when necessary.
Learned EZtrieve to support the process that creates Tivoli schedule reports.
Manage all test and production online systems and batch cycles,
Create ISO 9001 documentation to support transition activities.
Provide 24/7 support as required from work and from home.
Monitor government compliance related to processes and procedures.
Learned VBA 2007 and 2010 ACCESS to support the Transition Training Database
Completed training on Access 2010 Tables, Queries, Forms and Reports
Completed training on Linux Installation, System Architecture, Shell Customizing, System Services, Security, Permissions, Networking, Text, Files, Packages, and Storage Administration
Completed training on UNIX System Architecture, Shell Scripting, Security, Network Administration, Files and Directories.
Most of the above was learned via LMS training classes.
1/2008 – 10/2009 Companion Data Services part of Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina
Contractor for Avail search Group
SME and Team Lead
Managed transition of Medicare Medical Mainframe systems from one contractor to another. Our team successfully transitioned around 40 Part A workloads consolidating a fragmented legacy into a cost effective and competitive enterprise.
Determine Project Schedule requirements and timeline.
Create Integrated Implementation Plans for UAT, Production Simulation and Production cutover.
Create and QA test the Next Generation Desk top mainframe test system for GUI, C#.net platform system verifying all logon id’s pass RACF authentication, and the batch system processes correctly. Extract claims information to populate the VSAM files.
Manage and train the team working on the transition projects.
Lead and attend internal and external meetings, create agendas and minutes for meetings.
Used REXX tools to perform Data moves and Ancillary copies and restores.
Request RACF access for CICS Online systems and transactions, Mainframe DASD/VSAM HLQ’s, Endevor libraries and internal and external NDM/FTP transmissions.
Transition all Endevor Elements from one contractor to another.
Modify Endevor Elements to the new current contractor specifications.
Review and approve all aspects of work done on the project.
Create, modify and review Tivoli Schedule applications for the new workload.
Execute and monitor all UAT, QA and Prod Sim testing for production online systems and batch cycles,
Used a Lesson Learned approach to limit release, online and batch issues.
Create ISO 9001 documentation to support transition activities.
Provide 24/7 support as required from work and from home.
Monitor government compliance related to processes and procedures.
10/1999-12/2007 Verizon Data Services
Sr Systems Engineer and Architect
Investigate business and system requirements.
Determine financial and manpower order of magnitude of multiple projects.
Create detail design documents of project updates.
Maintain Web based documentation vital to life cycle of current and past projects.
Apply mainframe COBOL II coding changes related to development and trouble tickets.
Conduct Code Review sessions.
Conduct QA and regression testing of all online and batch program updates, software release changes, table modifications or enterprise configuration changes to determine if internal or external impacts occur.
Identify and support data point and modeling requirements for off/on shore clients due to the sensitivity of data.
Perform Change Management distribution activities.
Coordinate and execute unit, user acceptance and system testing between IBM mainframe DB2, CICS, MQSeries and IMS applications mainframe and ORACLE, Visual Studio TFS, Visual Basic C++ and C#.NET client server system.
Update implementation documentation used by production support teams and review production updates after release installs.
Improved performance of online programs by replacing inefficient code, changing bind options, changing load balances, adjusting index keys or indices use, investigating buffer pools, number of threads or regions running and isolation of process.
Performed Primary pager duties to assure 24/7 online availability.
Build and maintain ESP events for daily, weekly, monthly DBA activities.
Remove obsolete processes.
6/1994-10/1999 Verizon via Keane Inc. (consultant)
Senior Consultant
Consulting business providing worldwide integrated technologies services for fortune 500 companies across the globe. My assignments were located on and off site in California and Florida for GTE Data Services.
Completed the development, testing and implementation of the DB2/IMS online training system.
Provided Production Support for Online, MOG, batch jobs, DBA utilities, IMS utilities which included 24/7 pager support, bridge call support, problem determination, incident investigation/resolution and maintenance of QA support procedures and documentation.
Built and maintained ESP networks to control all activities.
Used Telon for order system in a user interface role.
4/1990-6/1994 Great Western Bank
Programmer Analyst III
Provider of financial services including checking, savings and mortgage services using a HOGAN based system under Umbrella.
Worked with the development team coordinating changes to the HOGAN system with in-house changes.
Completed quality assurance environment set-up, script creation and regression transaction case execution for Checking, Savings, ATM, EFT, Credit Card and Mortgage transactions.
Provided presentation support of the quality assurance testing results for the users entering banking and ATM transactions.
Supported production online systems and batch jobs investigating discrepancies on daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly reports and determining the process causing the out of balance situation.
6/1984-4/1990 GTE California (Verizon)
Programmer
Developed polling system to pull customer calling data off all central office switch equipment types using Tandem based programs/tools which sent file packets to the IBM mainframe for billing and usage processing.
Developed packet file tabling system to record which files had been processed.
QA tested updated polling and billing system code using various tools and script writers.
Developed, tested and implemented local code requirements using MicroFocus technology.
Provided Production Support for billing, usage, financial and network systems.
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