Quality Assurance Engineer

Dan Neubecker

Senior PeopleSoft Software Engineer

USDA/ Unisys

EMPOWHR 01/2008 - Present

Sr. PeopleSoft Software Engineer

Work with NFC to design and develop solutions to production issues

identified by EmpowHR customers related PeopleSoft HRMS 8.8/9.0 for the

following components:

HR /Par Processing, ESS/MSS, ePerformance, Position Management, custom

Performance Management, Application Engines/SQR/Peopelcode/Java, Legacy

System Interface, Worklist processing

Work with USDA Helpdesk as both a technical and functional resource to

design and develop software enhancements based on customer requests.

Support Helpdesk to help resolve customer functional and technical

questions

Responsible for planning, processing and performing all jobs in an

efficient manner with no assistance from the supervisor

Analyze, design and coordinate the development of software change to an

interface to use xml with NFC HRAS staff.

Use Structured Query Language (SQL), Structured Query Reporter (SQR),

PeopleCode, and PeopleTools to provide end-user support

Apply knowledge of PeopleSoft HRMS suites to support end users through the

user interface as well as through queries of underlying data structures.

Apply knowledge of and experience with the MS windows operating system,

utility software, Web services, Web-based and database applications

development in a multi-user system to provide end user support. Conduct

studies to develop alternative and cost-effective approaches to satisfy

customer requirements.

Maintain data conversion programs for converting agency legacy data into

PeopleSoft.

U.S. Navy/ Eventure Tech

TFARS PeoplSoft HRMS and Financials 02/2007 -12/2007

PeopleSoft Software Engineer

Develop and maintain custom PeopleSoft pages related to Position

Management and workflow related to approval of changes to positions.

Develop and maintain custom PeopleSoft pages related to custom valid values

for Position Management.

Developed and tested several SQR interfaces for Legacy systems

Developed system for automated testing of legacy interfaces

Maintain scripts for the conversion and load process to convert legacy data

into PeopleSoft database

Apply knowledge of and experience with the MS windows operating system,

utility software, Web services, Web-based and database applications

development in a multi-user system to provide end user support.

New York State/ QSS, LLC

FOCUS 11/2006-02/2007

Quality Assurance Coordinator

Responsible for developing a master test plan for implementation of several

PeopleSoft Financials modules.

Met with Development manger to document development and unit testing

processes

Met with IT Manager to document hardware used in development and testing

environments. Facilitated test team in developing and documenting formal

testing process from creation and review of test cases to test case

execution and formal sign-off procedures.

Mentored the test team in use of HP QuickTestPro software to develop test

automation

HCR Manor Care

Software Quality Assurance Supervisor 11/2005-11/2006

Responsible for acquisition of new PeopleSoft test engineers in support of

HCM HR, Benefits, North American Payroll along with interface to Kronos

time keeping systems and Financials GL, AP, Billing and some Budgeting.

Supervise/Lead a Team of 4 software test engineers in testing PeopleSoft

HCM and Financials along with several other applications.

Worked with manager to create a monthly department Software Testing

workshop to improve team building and improve work practices

Mentored team to develop test strategy and plans and testing techniques

Create test procedures and test Enhancements and issues related PeopelSoft

Financials including reviewing test results with end users.

Work with end users to conduct User Acceptance testing and sign-off.

Upgraded Rational Robot test automation framework to work with PeopleSoft

8.8 (web based) from 7.5 (Client server based)

Work with users to analyze issues to help define and review requirements

for change requests.

Developed and provided training, advice, and assistance to end users in

BETA and SAT testing for major enhancements. Work closely with product

managers and engineering to establish and update testing schedule based on

the release schedules.

Supervise team providing end user support for PeopleSoft HRMS and

Financials

Motivate and manage employees in cross-functional project teams

Assign work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of

the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of

employees.

Responsible for supervising the daily operation of test team in support

PeopleSoft HRMS, PeopleSoft Financials software providing continuous

availability and support of interfaces and databases Apply knowledge of

PeopleSoft HRMS suites to support end users through the user interface as

well as through queries of underlying data structures.

Apply knowledge of and experience with the MS windows operating system,

utility software, Web services, Web-based and database applications

development in a multi-user system to provide end user support.

PNM/ Teksystems

PeopleSoft 8.8 Financials upgrade 4/2005 - 11/2005

Software Quality Assurance Manager

Provide Project Management support in the areas of personnel activities of

staff (i.e., hiring, schedule, training, appraisals, rewards, motivation,

etc.).

Held meeting with accounting department to document month end and year end

accounting processes to be used during testing.

Work with accounting department of about 20 accountants to develop and

execute test plan for upgrade of PeopleSoft Financials 8.4 to 8.8

Accounting General Ledger module and PowerPlant 8.0 to 9.04 software.

Mentor accounting staff in developing and implementing sarbanes-oxley

compliant test procedures for test case creation, review and execution

Responsible for establishing and updating testing schedule based on the

release schedules.

Demonstrated proficiency in leading and mentoring individuals to maximize

levels of productivity, while forming cohesive team environment. Apply

knowledge of and experience with the MS windows operating system, utility

software, Web services, Web-based and database applications development in

a multi-user system to provide end user support.

U.S. Navy/ QSD, Inc.

TFARS PeoplSoft HRMS and Financials 7/2004-4/2005

PeopleSoft Software Analyst

Part of a team of Analysts to review requirements and validate

implementation of Peoplesoft Position Management and General Ledger to

replace legacy system.

Responsible for testing data integrity of data conversion process to

transfer data from legacy system to Peoplsoft

Developed automation scripts using Perl for testing of web based data

management and reporting tool.

Developed test scripts using Perl to build tree structures in PeopleSoft.

PHDX Systems

Software Test Engineer Lead 2/2003-7/2004

Designed test processes and documentation templates based on industry

standards from IEEE Association's standard for software documentation (EEE

Std 829-1998)

Developed several Microsoft Excel VBA macros to for the generation of test

data for testing medical survey software.

Developed several Microsoft Excel VBA macros to retrieve requirements data

from Microsoft Word documents and build test data to be used to validate

software met customer requirements

Designed and developed a program using Perl to automate testing of web

application, which improved the test coverage and the amount of time to run

the tests.

Developed and provided training, advice, and assistance to end users in

User Acceptance Testing..

Applied Biosystems

Software Quality Assurance Manager/Test Automation Engineer 4/2000-

2/2003

Supervise/Lead a team of 9 testers responsible for testing several

software projects including ABI 7900 Sequence Detection System, ABI 7700

Sequence Detection System and several others.

Designed and developed Java API test harness that outputs test results in

HTML format.

Designed and developed C++ API test harness using MS Visual Studio

Designed and developed Perl program to automatically execute and validate

human genome reports created by Unix command line reporting tool, which cut

the testing time by more than fifty percent

Designed and developed several test automation frameworks using Segue

SilkTest

Headed a committee to developer standards and guidelines for the

development of test automation programs

Developed and provided training, advice, and assistance to end users in

User Acceptance Testing.

Responsible to establish and update testing schedule based on the release

schedules

Motivate and manage employees in cross-functional project teams

Assign work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of

the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of

employees.

Prepared analysis of costs and benefits for implementing an upgrade to

testing software SilkTest and presented to upper management.

Developed project plans including estimate of schedule and testing

resources.

Worked with upper management to develop IT strategy for software testing

department. Facilitated team in conducting SWOT analyses to develop goals,

objectives and strategies for the software testing department.

Skills Overview

PeopleSoft HCM 8.X, 9.0, PeopleSoft Financials 8.8, SQR JAVA, SQL,

Perl, Visual Basic, VBA/ Microsoft Office Macros, XML, Oracle, Microsoft

SQL Server HP QuickTest Pro, Rational Test Suite Windows, Unix,

Rational Unified Process

Federal Regulations: HIPAA, 21CFR Part 11

Education

Michigan Tech. University

BS Computer Information Systems

Henry Ford Community College

AAS Computer Information Systems

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