Quality Assurance Project Manager

YAN REZNIK

***** ******* ***** ( Castro Valley, California 94552

510-***-**** ( *********@*****.*** (

http://www.linkedin.com/in/yanreznik

QA, Testing IT professional

Results-driven innovative, dynamic IT management professional with 16 years

of diverse hands-on career experience and outstanding record of

accomplishment for providing Software Quality Assurance, Quality Projects

Management, and testing solutions that meet demanding time restraints and

exceed expectations.

o Extensive expertise and experience in high-profile companies and a top

6 consulting firm in the finance, health care, pharmacy systems,insurance, communication and retail sectors. Wide-ranging experience

in managing operations, leading change, identifying and implementing

solutions and achieving quality, cost reduction, control and won

client appreciation.

o Track record of establishing world-class QA Teams from the ground up.

Using expertise to develop scalable solutions that dramatically

improve quality, efficiency, productivity and profitability.

Demonstrated ability to define and implement Test Methodologies,

Quality Assurance and automation processes and also implemented Six

Sigma skills, Agile/Scrum methodology, CMMI.

Professional Experience

PG&E sAN fRANCISCO, CA

Consulting Specialists QA, TESTING and Requrements

2009-current

Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is

one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the

United States. RTSM-Real Time Settlement Monitor project display

operational and functional data as well as approximate settlement amounts

at the charge code level for the Generation Units under PG&E's control.

Utility, energy, power, gas, electricity.

o Head of group responsible for Quality Assurance, testing and

requirements concepts to the team- testing, implementing and improving

a comprehensive and innovative financial systems solution.

o Demonstrated leadership skills to improve quality of projects and

influence timelines forecasting expertise, developed test plans, use

cases and test scripts, and created metrics. Analyzed the changes in

applications to identify critical areas of testing. Coordinates and

track progress of HP defect management and Reporting. Risk management

of all testing activities.

o Evaluates and identifies the scope, priorities and deliverables of a

project's test effort.

Environments: Windows XP, HP/Mercury Quality Center 9,Quick Test Pro

9,Load Runner 8.1,J2EE,Java,XML,UNIX shell, Oracle 10,MS Office

Professional, Excel, Access, Project, Power Point, Visio professional,

Visual Basic 6.0, SQL 92, Toad, MS SQL Server

Longs Drugs (acquired by CVS Caremark), Walnut Creek, California 2004 -

2009

Senior QA Manager

Promoted and encouraged QA and testing activities for the core product

development team. Improved and optimized service delivery process by

reducing project SDLC by 25% and sped up time-to-market. Successfully

implemented $10 million EPF Project: Modernization of the health care

system with a primary focus on getting paper medical records into

centralized EMR/EHR. Managed multiple projects simultaneously of Global

Pull, Mail Rx, and COB in depth expertise on complex data conversion.

Driven software quality initiatives to successful conclusion to make a

higher quality product, delivered ahead of schedule at a lower than

expected cost. Motivated team members and assigned quality resources,

including test planning and execution. Trained, recruited team members

and mentored QA engineers on test automation, new testing techniques and

methodology.

o Head of team responsible for implementing Agile/Scrum QA Test driven

development and projects management. Successfully implemented test

methodologies, quality assurance, procedures, and standards for a QA

department. Solid ability to understand long-term strategies and the

day-to-day results needed to realize them. Planned all resources and

schedules for various types of QA work, including new and ongoing

Pharmacy Systems projects used by over 521 Pharmacy Stores.

o Proposed testing automation, achieving reduction in overall testing

time by 50%, positively impacting job productivity, improving product

quality with delivery at a much faster release cycle and lower cost.

Process improvements resulted with 35% productivity increase by

individual QA engineers, 25% reduction of internally reported

application defects. Demonstrated successful achievement of

department goal with help of test automation; new feature test cycle

was reduced by 30% and QA

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o Release Fixed Cost was reduced by over 60% due to reduction of rework.

Significantly decreased time and expense required to execute test

cases which integrate management requirements, test planning, and test

execution. Successfully achieved department goal:"Zero defects,"

reducing risk and maximizing ROI. Experience in agile system

development methodologies, including Test Driven Development and

Scrum. Instrumental in delivering high quality releases ahead of

schedule and under budget

o Saved Longs Drugs $450,000 a year by implementing software test

automation approach for regression and acceptance testing for

centralizing patients, doctors, and Rx.

o Implemented test strategy solutions for enterprise products and play

major role of Test Architect and steps involved in the management of

software life cycle. Foremost authority for the overall quality of the

deliverables including design of the testing architecture, functional

and non-functional parameters (performance, scalability, security,

usability, etc).

o Defined and implemented work schedules, budgets, time lines for

projects and metrics to lower costs, improve efficiency, and enhance

revenue in pharmacy operations. Prepared weekly project status

reports for VP and auditing.

o Strong project management, customer service and conflict management

skills. Created and reached project management milestones and

processes to develop, maintain, conduct project meetings and report

project status metrics.

o Coordinated testing efforts and worked with the on-shore and off-shore

teams to develop and run data extract and data conversion testing for

CVS Caremark acquisition. Directed multiple strategic Information

Technology projects to improve performance in the Pharmacy system.

Defined, developed, and implemented detailed test plans and test cases

specifications based on requirements, design, and functional

specifications.

o Leadership role in evaluating IT QA and testing tools,

developing IT solutions, and making strategic

recommendations to the corporate leadership team. Administered

HP Quality Center workflow customizations, build verification,

interact with developers to resolve technical issues and Bug

reviews.

o Completed multiple quality initiatives: multiple build process

improvements, switched to acceptance testing (including automatic

build deployment in virtual environment), improvements to QTP

automation framework (improves on traditional test automation

techniques by enabling non-automation experts to create automated

tests via Action-Based Testing (ABT) methodology), enhancing

performance test processes, switch to HP Quality Center and QTP and

retiring of old defect system Vantive and automation tool Certify.

Environments: Windows XP, HP/Mercury Quality Center 9,Quick Test Pro 9,Load

Runner 8.1,J2EE,Java,XML,UNIX shell, MVS, Oracle 10,Informix 10.X,DB

Visualizer 5.0,MS Office Professional, Excel, Access, Visio professional,

Visual Basic 6.0, SQL 92,Telnet, Doors, Toad, Rumba, Putty, HL7

Accenture Technology Solutions, San Francisco, California 2003 - 2004

Senior Systems Analyst - SQA Lead

Accenture is one of the world's leading business management consulting,

technology services, and outsourcing companies. Joined as a Senior QA

consultant of the financial services and managed Providian Financial

Projects. Performed testing of Providian internal applications, which

provides customer's access to online products and authorizations of

accounts. Applications in care of Providian Home Loan, Membership

Products, and Credit Card Protection.

o Head of group responsible for Quality Assurance and Quality Control

concepts to the organization- testing, implementing and improving a

comprehensive and innovative financial systems solution.

o Demonstrated leadership skills to improve quality of projects and

influence timelines forecasting expertise, developed test plans and

test cases, and created metrics. Analyzed the changes in applications

to identify critical areas of testing.

o Achieved 35% improved productivity from individual QA engineers while

cutting costs 25% through appropriate management.

o Managed and participated in all activities of the QA Team, including

project management, test planning, execution, performance, and

automation testing for more than 20+ different web and client server

applications

o Successfully implemented, coordinated, and developed functional and

conversion test cases for front- and back-end. Implemented quality

professional groups to promote quality when building application

software to meet customer requirements. Proposed testing automation

and achieved reduction in

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Overall testing time by 30%, positively impacting job productivity,

improving product quality delivered at a much faster release cycle and

lower cost. Maintained test coverage statistics and bug trend

analysis, analyzed, documented, and verified system defects, conducted

bug review meetings.

o Managed all QA engagements, client expectations, including reporting

to the business, assessing delivery risks, guiding the development

team on QA builds, and managing the project plan. Performed

all types of testing, including but not limited to unit,

acceptance, functional, performance, load,

regression, sanity, end to end, security, and user acceptance.

Environments: Windows 98/NT/XP/2000/2003/4.0 (Workstation and Server),

UNIX, PVCS, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, PL/SQL, Rational Robot, IBM

DB2, Access, HTML, XML, C++

Kaiser Permanente Information technology, Oakland, California 2001 - 2003

Senior QA Analyst

The purpose of the Kaiser Permanente Clinical Information System $1 billion

project was to enable healthcare providers to view and update electronic

medical records (EMR/EHR).

o Analyzed requirements interfacing with Hospital Information Systems,

Pharmacy Applications with HL7 standards and specifications to develop

functional system workflow integration, regression, user acceptance,

negative and boundary conditions, end-to-end test plans and test cases

based on HIPAA requirements to protect patient information and provide

privacy and integrity.

o Back-end testing using SQL queries to retrieve and verify various

information in database.

o Coordinated, analyzed, and distributed defect information for a

product across multiple regions.

o Epic application training: Cadence, Ambulatory, Inpatient, Resolute

Professional and Hospital Billing, ADT (Admission discharge transfer),

Tapestry (RFL). Knowledge of clinical data, architecture, patient

management systems.

Environments: Windows NT/XP/2000/2003/4.0,Unix, TCP/IP, MS SQL Server,

Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, Web sphere app server, MQ Series, SQL 92,

Pharmacy mainframe applications, Win Runner, Test Director, 4Test Language,

HTML, XML, HL7

InterPro, Pleasanton, California 1999 - 2001

Test Project Manager

Developed, implemented, and made improvements in QA process. Increased

productivity over 50%.

o Managed and motivated QA team of nine+ SQA resources in a multi-shore

development environment.

o Implemented and customized bug-tracking system, Silk Radar, which

improved result tracking and reduction in maintenance cost by 25%.

o Developed test script using Silk Test 5.0.3, Win Runner 7.0 and Load

Runner.

ADP (Automatic Data Processing-Claims Solution Group), San Ramon,

California 1997 - 1999

QA Test Engineer/Lead

o Worked with staff and clients to increase product quality and turnover

by 35%. Built configuration solutions for Allstate and Farmers.

Responsible for managing enhancements in the development cycle and

elevated it to CMM Level 4.

Newsantara Communication Inc., (acquired by Noller Com.), Petaluma,

California 1994 - 1997

Product Test Lead

o Developed test scripts and tested OAM&P and integrated wireless switch

software and hardware. Led ISO 9000 efforts, obtaining and

maintaining external and internal audits 'ISO-aligned' status from an

independent consulting company.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Minor Computer Programming, State

University, Tashkent

Certificate in Quality Control, State University, Tashkent

UC Berkeley class: Software testing & Quality Assurance Techniques

Certified Test Manager - CTM certification - in progress

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