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Quality Assurance Project Manager

Location:
7643
Posted:
March 25, 2011

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Leslie Schur Gottlieb

***A Liberty Street #***

Little Ferry, NJ 07643

201-***-**** (home)

917-***-**** (cell)

******.********@*******.***

Summary:

Resourceful, proactive technical professional with nearly two decades of

experience in quality assurance testing. Able to work on own initiative and

as part of a team with onshore and offshore members. Performed both

Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing. Built and managed problem

tracking systems. Developed test plans and test cases and executed them

manually as well as using automation tools.

Experience:

Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation

Sr. Test Analyst 11/2010-

03/2011

Manually tested web based mortgage backed securities clearing application.

Used Clear Quest to document product defects and HP PPM for project

management and tracking. Managed testing with developers, product

management and offshore team. Formulated and distributed daily testing

results to project stakeholders

Misys plc

Quality Assurance Engineer 1/2002-

10/2010

Performed manual testing on LoanIQ, a client server commercial lending

system with Oracle and DB2 back ends. Utilized HP Quality Center for

writing and executing manual test scripts to for testing product

functionality. Tested specific development projects, new releases, and bug

fixes often multitasking with multiple priorities.

Performed ad hoc and scripted manual testing on new Java version of LoanIQ

identifying problems that were related to the conversion of LoanIQ from the

Smalltalk programming language.

Lead Q/A on LoanIQ Swaps project - liaison between Q/A, business analysts

and development. Participated in design reviews and wrote test plans.

Oversaw test plan and test case development by other Q/A group members.

Tested user API's (in C++ and XML) which interfaced into the commercial

lending system. Considered internal subject matter expert on API's.

Reviewed user documentation for technical accuracy and interfaced with

documentation team.

Proactively worked with developers, customer support and product

specialists to troubleshoot complex customer problems and test solutions.

Acted in a team lead role to manage high priority customer fixes for major

international clients.

Estimated project time allocations for various Q/A projects and completed

projects within the allocations which was recognized by project manager.

Helped train and oversee offshore team members on complex areas of the

system. Involved in knowledge transfer as well as project tracking of

offshore team members.

Spherion 8/1997 -

11/2001

Consultant

Deutsche Bank 7/2001-

11/2001

Member of six-person team manually testing web based interface to display

client financial data (trust accounting and custody). Utilized Test

Director to manage tests and record defects.

Journal of Commerce 6/2001

Acted as team lead on 3-person team to develop a test plan and test scripts

for a CD-ROM based shipping data report generator. Evaluated and

recommended automated test tools to fit clients' needs.

Citibank Private Bank 2/2000

- 4/2001

Assisted in requirements decomposition and writing UAT test scripts for an

internal web based credit platform application.

Worked on a three-person team, which developed test plans, test cases, and

over 100 test scripts for the client's web site. The scripts were updated

for new releases of the website.

Performed manual regression testing using test scripts of the web site and

the various systems it interfaced with. Testing was done using both

Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers on PC and iMac computers.

Reported results of testing to bug tracking database and worked with client

staff and external developers on problem resolution.

AIG 2/1999

-2/2000

Developed SQA version 7 scripts using data-driven techniques to streamline

the regression test process on Window NT client server software for

insurance underwriting. Documentation was developed for each script.

Enhanced, added to and maintained library of 90+ SQA Robot Version 6 test

scripts used in regression testing on Window NT client server software for

insurance underwriting. Developed data-driven test scripts in SQA Robot to

simplify regression test maintenance.

Regression tested scripts during server conversion from a Windows NT server

to a Unix based one.

Reported results of testing to bug tracking database and worked with

developers on problem resolution.

RIA Group 8/1998 -

1/1999

Wrote 500+ test cases for Y2K installation and platform testing of three

Windows CD-ROM reference products.

Installed and administered the SQA Robot automated test tool. Scripted and

executed over 500 cases using SQA Robot on standalone PC's under Windows

95, Windows 98 and Windows NT. Developed a report matrix to track

progress.

Administered bug tracking database and worked with development on problem

resolution.

Wrote 100+ test cases for Y2K data testing of 20+ Windows CD-ROM reference

products. Simulated Y2K data was used to verify that Y2K data would

produce the same results as current productions CD's. These CD's were

manually tested under Windows 95 both standalone and network versions.

Results of testing including defects were documented and reported.

Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation 9/1997 - 6/1998

Wrote 100+ automated scripts to regression test client server software used

in trade clearance applications under Windows NT using WinRunner.

Supported automated testing of the affirm/confirm function of the clearance

("ID") application.

Muze, Inc. 7/1995 - 8/1997

Q/A Tester

Administered quality assurance testing of monthly releases of 5

entertainment reference products (both DOS and Windows 3.1 based).

Developed test plans and procedures by working with the software

development, data, and operations departments.

Tracked problems and issues resulting from testing and worked the

appropriate department to resolve them.

Beta tested products at customer sites on a monthly basis, handling on site

problems and dealing with customer questions and issues.

Developed and performed procedures for hardware certification of systems

and replacement parts before sending to customers.

Developed Access database to log certification records and produce a

monthly report of certified items.

Scripted automated testing with Visual Test for Windows 95 applications

under development.

Certifications:

1 Quality Assurance Institute, Orlando, FL 1998

Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE)

Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA)

Education:

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

MS - Computer Science

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

BS - Computer Science



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