Project Manager Quality Assurance
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Peter Metelski
Experience
**** - **** ********* ***** ******
Stamford, CT
Director of Quality Assurance / Project Manager
Initiated QA Testing: process, planning, hiring and
training a team.
Moved to Project Manager Role while also managing the
QA effort.
Initiated company performance and load testing using
Jmeter.
Developed project planning process for the company:
Plans, Meetings.
Managed Development Staff in lieu of a Development
Manager.
Managed all UI personal both onshore and offshore.
Aided in nightly site maintenance operations.
Managed company site redesign with Chief Creative
Officer.
Developed company requirements gathering process and
artifacts.
Reported to senior management on planning, progress and
status.
Worked with development, marketing and editorial on
planning releases.
Ran Company Change Control Board.
2007 - 2008 Symphony Marketing Services
Southport, CT
Quality Assurance Manager / Project Manager
Initiated a QA Process: test cases, test planning and
test strategy.
Hired and managed a 3 person staff in Bangalore India.
Reworked Customer Service incident tool into a bug
tracking system.
Worked closely with Director of Development to improve
overall process.
Worked with Development staff to formalize unit
testing.
Developed and manage Development process review
meetings.
Completed an automation tool evaluation.
Evaluated and purchase a Test Case Management tool.
Incorporated a Triage Process for defects.
Planned and executed a multi layered approach to
testing.
Project Managed varied Company initiatives.
2004 - 2007 Computershare
Shelton, CT
Quality Assurance Manager / Release Management
Managed QA Staff of 15, working on multiple Products
and Projects.
Brought focus to the team on Regression, Test Cases &
Test Planning
Worked as a liaison between Development and our
Production Team
Computershare (continued)
Played a key role in Coordination of releases for all
departments involved
Aided the team in creating good relationships with
other departments
Hired and trained 10 people in a year and half
Modified QA processes to successfully work on multiple
products
Worked with the Automation team to resurrect regression
automation
Developed layered approach to testing based on risk
assessment
Incorporated more accountability to the testing process
Created and hired for a System Test Position
Motivated the team thru some major releases
Created a Financial Reports Test Team
Acted as Regional QA Manager for our North American
Region
2001 - 2004 Apelon Inc.
Ridgefield, CT
Quality Assurance, Documentation, and Configuration
Manager
Hired and developed the Quality Assurance team.
Develop all QA processes.
Researched, purchased, and configured new bug tracking
system.
Manage Documentation group.
Developed company documentation standards.
Managed the Development and implementation of Training
materials.
Manage the build process.
Aided the design of automated build process using Java
Web Start.
Act as a liaison between Development and Product
Management.
Created Product Management Requirements Template.
Acted as liaison between customer service and
development.
Helped develop company Application FAQ database.
Aided in the development of the company's Human
Resource policies
2000 - 2001 Notara Inc.
Stratford, CT
Software Quality Manager
Responsible for managing a quality team of 7 Quality
Engineers in Connecticut and in the New York City
headquarters.
Implemented Quality processes throughout the company.
Documented and educated the company on the new
processes.
Initiated and developed Performance testing using Seque
Performance Tool.
Improved, Maintain and Manage defect tracking.
Designed and create a Test case database.
Project Managed specific development releases including
development, documentation and Quality Assurance.
Acted as liaison with Customer Support and the ASP
Server management team.
Managed the product regression-testing suite using
Seque Silk.
Run Triage, Project Planning, Documentation Review
meetings.
Interact with Product Management on creation of Use
Case Scenario's.
1997-2000 Hyperion Solutions Stamford, CT
Software Quality Manager
Responsible for managing four separate quality teams.
Comprised of 12 employees of nine Quality Engineers,
and three leads.
Responsible for the quality of the company's web
products, and reporting products.
Worked directly with Development, Project, Product,
Marketing and Services management in ensure quality
releases.
Implemented all quality processes, release criteria and
metrics, post mortems, documentation and code coverage
reviews to all tools teams.
Created a Software Quality Web Site to better deliver
team information throughout the department.
Implemented a Quality documentation database.
Maintained and managed all tools teams defect tracking
databases.
Aided in the creation of a new company wide
defect-tracking system.
Took over the project management of one of the
company's most widely used web products.
Acted as mentor to the Quality Engineering group in the
Toronto and Orlando.
Created group wide automation plans for regressive
testing.
Created a team lab that handled performance, stress,
multi user, clean machine install, and automated
testing.
Implemented the use of Ghost Imaging software to better
organize automated testing.
1996-1997 Hyperion Solutions
Stamford, CT
Lead Software Quality Engineer
Supervised a team of analyst on the company's top Web
Product.
Created quality process for the team.
Approved software for release to production.
Managed the Defect Tracking database.
Acted as a contact for Services, Marketing, consulting
and Sales
1993-1996 Medco Services Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Business Analyst
Worked with the contract specialists and customer reps
to aid in creation of the clients' software
requirements.
Responsible for creation and execution of specific
scenarios in order to test client requirements.
1986-1993 Volvo Finance North America Montvale,
NJ
Software Quality Engineer/Technical Support Engineer
Responsible for implementation and control of project
standards.
Created a video training program for the company's
mainframe system.
Responsible for all creation and execution of all
system test cases
Education 1991 Saint Thomas Aquinas
College Sparkill, NY
B.S. in Marketing
1985 Center for the Media
Arts NYC, NY
Degree in Audio Engineering
Software I've Jmeter, Mantis, Silk, Silk Performer, Junit, WinRunner,
worked with Quality Center, Test Track Pro, Soffront Track,
Vantive, QA Partner, Quality Works, Microsoft Visual
Studio, Microsoft Project, Visual Intercept, Jmeter, MS
Was, Test Track Pro, Siebel Outtask, Gemini, Seapine QA
Wizard, HTML, Perl, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Project,
Web Servers VSS. Subversion, Clear Case, Rational Rose,
IIS, Netscape Enterprise Server, Apache, Domino, Tomcat
O/S
Windows (all platforms), Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX,
Macintosh
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