Quality Assurance Project Manager

SUMMARY: Over ** years of Quality Assurance experience, which includes:

managing internal and offshore test teams, Quality Center/Test Director

Administrator, prepared budget estimates, employee evaluations, ensure

testing is within budget and on time, facilitate the design of master test

plans, assign and manage test projects, maintain requirements traceability

metrics (RTM). Understand and adhere to SDLC (Agile or RUP). Manage and

assist in various phases of testing including: functional, user acceptance,

regression, performance and integration testing as it relates to manual

testing using Quality Center/Test Director, and have coordinated automation

testing.

EXPERIENCE:

Independence Blue Cross, Philadelphia PA

2008 - 2010

Lead Systems Test Specialist (Management)

Supervise support staff of 10

Manage the workflow of internal and offshore test team resources

Prepare project budgets (HLEs)

Ensure testing is within budget and on time

Develop and facilitate kick-off meeting presentation for large projects

Facilitate the design and development of master test plan

Maintain MS Project Plan

Coordinate and facilitate test meetings

Report statuses to upper management

Led testing efforts for assigned projects in accordance with established

testing methodology

Implement and evaluate testing procedures

Export Business Requirements into HP Quality Center (QC) for the purpose of

creating an requirement traceability metrics, and test script linkage

Implement standard setup procedures for HP QC

Led manual and automated testing efforts for applications coded in HTML,

JAVA and DB2 for Member Portal, WebMD, and FutureScript projects

Distribute test assignments to automation testers to prepare and run

scripts using WinRunner and LoadRunner testing tools

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA

1996 - 2007

Lead Quality Assurance Analyst (2000 - 2007)

Led testing effort for the following projects:

U.S. Treasury Web-Based applications (GWA and PAM)

Federal Reserve Bank - Centralize Operation Environment (COE)

FedLine - Automated Clearing House (ACH)

Utilize Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Implemented and managed test procedures

Quality Center Administrator - Setup projects, assign access rights,

generate reports, etc.

Imported requirements using Quality Center / Test Director for the purpose

of creating requirement traceability matrix

Report statuses to project manager

Attend requirement and development walk through.

Facilitated WebEx and Sametime online conferencing with utilizing

QuickPlace

Utilized Rational ClearQuest as a defect repository

Prepared training material and provide Quality Center/Test Director

training session for new hire

Performed white box and black box testing

Performed testing using Netscape and Internet Explorer Browsers

Utilize tests in the following platforms and servers: Windows XP, NT,

Websphere Application Server, Thin Clients, IBM Mainframe

Tested applications coded in the following languages: Visual Basic, COBOL,

C, JAVA, DB2

Daily operations also includes working with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

Lotus Notes, and MS Project, Kronos Timekeeper

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - (continues)

Sr Quality Assurance Analyst (1996 - 2000)

Utilized Test Director testing tool for assigned projects

Performed white box and black box testing

Performed Hardware and Software Certifications.

Provide Host related technical support for the execution of message

trafficking

Performed testing using Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers

Report testing results to management

Tested applications coded in the following languages: Visual Basic, COBOL,

SmallTalk, C, DB2

Daily operations also includes working with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

Lotus Notes, and MS Project, Kronos Timekeeper

SASI Inc., Bristol PA 1995 -

1996

Quality Assurance Analyst

Tested COBOL programming code against client's specifications

Installed, configured and operated gas interfaces with convenient store

Point of Sales (POS) systems

Designed and executed test scripts

Performed operations using DOS and UNIX operating systems and AutoTester

for DOS

Archdiocese of Philadelphia - Office for Development, Philadelphia PA

1989 - 1995

Office Manager

Managed and supervised daily workflow of office staff.

Prepared fiscal forecast, and generated monthly financial reports

Performed daily duties using the: MS-Excel, Harvard Graphics, WordPerfect

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Applied Science - Management Information Systems

Rowan University of New Jersey, Glassboro, NJ

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Platforms: nTier,, Windows 2007, 2000, XP, NT, Unix and DOS, WebSphere

Application Server, Thin Clients, J2EE. Applications: JAVA, HTML, DB2,

Visual Basic, COBOL, SmallTalk, C, SQL, Quality Center/TestDirector,

WinRunner, Quick Test Pro, Rational Requisite Professional (ReqPro),

SharePoint, ClearQuest, MS Office Suite, Lotus Notes, MS Project,

PeopleSoft, Sametime, Quickplace, WebEx, Visio.

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