Kevin Avery Abel

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Pembroke Pines, FL 33027

646-***-****

Summary:

●Automation developer and framework architect for more than twenty years. I have hands on experience with QTP, UFT, Tosca and open source tools such as Selenium/Java Webdriver with TestNG.

●Stays involved with many other aspects of QA automation technology such as SQL, API and load testing.

●I have worked successfully as an employee, consultant and contractor on many projects in various fields.

●Waterfall and agile and other methodologies.

Education:

Bachelor of Science Electronics Engineering Technology, DeVry Institute of Technology, Phoenix, AZ

I just installed MicroFocus UFT One and I’m reviewing the upgrades to the product. Open Text Corporation just purchased MicroFocus so I’m expecting another name change soon. I have been using QTP/UFT/ALM all the way back to when it was Mercury Interactive.

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools: HP /Micro Focus / Quality Test Professional (BPT/QTP/UFT) HP ALM 12.5, TOSCA 14, JIRA, SoapUI/Ready API, Putty, Beyond Compare, WinScp, Autosys, TIBCO, Gems,Oracle Live and SQLFiddler

Languages: VBScript, VBA, .bat and Java.

Databases: Oracle, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server Management Studio, Sybase

O/S: MS Windows up to 11, UNIX, MVS and DOS

Experience:

Fannie Mae (return engagement), Remote Mar 2022 – Oct 2022

Technical QA Engineer

Worked with Business Analysts, Developers and other Subject Matter Experts to maintain and perform complex data transformations for individual loans, pools and home loan deals.

●I met with Business Analysts and Developers to understand both the functionality and technical portions of each Story within two week Sprints. I searched for existing Jira Issue pieces with advanced searches. I constructed and linked Criteria, Test Case Descriptions and Test Steps within Jira.

●I taught the Team how to connect the Test Plan, Test Cases, Stories, Test Sets, and Executions together as a unit.

●I used Jira with advanced JQL, Unix, Bash, Beyond Compare, TIBCO Administrator, TOAD, Confluence, SharePoint, Putty, WinScp and Autosys. Demonstrated my collected Test Evidence to an audience containing System Users, BAs and senior management.

Fiserv, Remote Jun 2021 – Oct 2021

Senior QA Automation Developer/Architect

●The Contract began using Selenium BDD technologies. I observed that the best Java Developers were less efficient than a junior Tosca developer.

●I built a demo using Tosca and noticed a time savings of about five fold compared to the open source tools. I was offered the opportunity to create Tosca scripts for an application that had moving features as well as data changes.

●We worked as a team in an Agile environment using the Tosca shared repository.

Health Services Company, Remote Dec 2020 – Jan 2021

API Test Developer

●Repaired and updated existing Smartbear Ready API scripts.

Wells Fargo Bank, Remote May 2020 – Oct 2020

Senior QA Automation Developer/Architect

●Used SOAPUI and Postman to test the API layer of a complex banking application used for International Tax Tracking.

●Designed and created Excel VBA code that makes thousands of API Posts in a batch. It receives requests and compares actual to expected results programmatically. Other departments recognized the productivity increase and will use my work as a template.

Kevin Avery Abel

Department of Information Technology, Raleigh, NC Sept 2019 - Nov 2019

QA Automation Temporary Contractor

●Built a solution to launch Selenium Scripts from inside of ALM as well as store the results of the UFT run back into ALM. This functionality is not built into ALM.

●Used a combination of .bat and .vbs files to communicate the line command of the Eclipse editor. The solution required to work with Orasi UFT Support and to use knowledge of Selenium.

●Upgraded and documented changes in the existing UFT test harness. Provided recommendations based on the overall strengths and weaknesses of the Harness. Coverage was for the overall design down to the details of the library and calling code.

●Was replacing an employee on medical leave so this was a short term project.

Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

Software QA Analyst Mar 2019 – Jul 2019

●Designed and coded a detailed End-to-End Modular Tricentis Tosca tests. The System Under Test(SUT) was used for moving documentation through fourteen levels of authorization. As data was populated on each screen objects would be removed, added or altered on the current screen as well as future screens. The xScan had to be able to recognize objects in all situations. In addition to this challenge the developers were simultaneously changing the SUT.

●A Table Constraint Tosca Feature did not work for locating rows of data with specific qualifications in the type of Table in the System under Test (SUT). I created a complex loop with conditions to locate rows with matching qualifiers.

●Trained a manual tester employee that had never written code or any automation tool to use Tosca.

Deloitte, Lake Mary, FL

Senior Solution Specialist Jan 2018 – Sept 2018

●Critiqued and upgraded software install guides, classroom training, and PowerPoint decks

●Initialized and ran independent automation testing study groups to build our knowledge of tools such as UFT, Selenium, Qualatia, Appium, Octane and TOSCA for the Testing Center of Excellence.

Defence Health Agency (DHA), Falls Church, VA May 2017 – Nov 2017

Automation Developer

●Wrote UFT scripts using VBScript along with Descriptive programming

●Automated Windows based/Desktop AHLTA and CHCS applications

●Communicated with vendors, system administrators, clients, team, and system owners

●Developed an independent UFT launching platform written in Excel VBA and VBScript. The REDDi Launcher keeps track of data, scripts and run statuses.

TD Ameritrade, Columbia, MD Oct 2016 – Mar 2017

Automation Lead

●Demonstrated the value of Selenium WebDriver for browser testing. Was also promoting Appium to test mobile devices.

●JIRA was used for management and communication among Business Analysts, Developers and Test Teams.

CSRA/Social Security, Baltimore, MD May 2016 – Sept 2016

Automation Developer

●Ran Mainframe batch jobs and traced down errors. This was a repeat client where I previously created a Test Harness in UFT so I was familiar with their software and environment.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, NY Nov 2014 – Dec 2015

QTP/ UFT 12 Architect

●Refactored an automation framework built using Excel VBA Forms & Macros.

●Framework was hybrid-keyword/data driven & used descriptive programming to identify objects in the Applications Under Test. Managed the project using SCRUM Methodology with JIRA and ALM.

Fannie Mae, NY/VA/DC Jan 2014 – Sept 2014

QTP 11 Architect

●Designed and co-developed a keyword data driven architecture that moved the business logic & data into Excel Workbooks. The test framework was implemented in UFT.

Kevin Avery Abel

Verizon Wireless, NJ Jun 2012 – Nov 2013

UFT 11 Architect

●UFT Test Architect

●Childobject & childobjects communication were used.

●Tested APIs by creating XML transmit files and then parsing received responses.

●XMLUTIL and MSFTDOM XML parser code was used to verify XML elements and properties.

EVO Transaction Processing Services, NJ Feb 2012 – Jun 2012

UFT 11.0 Developer

●Designed, hand-coded, documented, debugged and demonstrated UFT scripts and function libraries.

ADP, NJ Sept 2009 – Nov 2011

Lead Consultant

●Led a team that was responsible for creating and maintaining a suite of UFT deployment scripts.

●Trained an employee and three other contractors on how to build scripts while following best practices.

●SQL queries were called from QTP to verify DB2 data on the IBM mainframe after a transaction was performed on the GUI.

Consultant Projects Jan 1998 – Sept 2009

In developed automation code(and harnesses) in Unified Functional Test(UFT) and WinRunner(WR) at these organizations:

●Federal Reserve Bank of NY

●UBS Warburg UFT

●Fidelity Investments WR

●The Princeton Review UFT

●CBS Television UFT

●Lockheed Martin UFT

●IMPATH UFT

●Barnes and Noble.com UFT

●New York Mercantile Exchange UFT

●Bay View Financial UFT

●JP Morgan Chase UFT

●Social Security Administration UFT

●Deutsche Bank

●Lucent Technologies UFT

●The City of New York UFT

●TRAX WR

Certifications

AS1, AS2, qTest, SAP Tosca and several other Tricentis Certifications

Udemy Tosca Training including SET using C# for custom controls (Dec 2019)

On-line Selenium and open source Training (Nov 2014 – Sep 2017)

Edureka Selenium/Java/Eclipse online class (Jan 2018 – Sep 2018)

Defense Acquisition University Online classes (May 2017 – Oct 2017)

HPE Business Process Testing(BPT) UFT ALM for SAP (Dec 2018)

Udemy Oracle SQL Certification (Aug 2018)

Udemy Salesforce Introduction (Sept 2018)

Udemy Microsoft Project (Dec 2018)

Udemy Selenium/Java (Feb 2019)

Udemy SoapUI/ReadyAPI with Groovy (Apr 2020)

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