Engineer Project Manager

QA Development

Allan Whitworth ******@*****.***

Software, Mobile Devices, Database, Automation, Web

System Analyst offers ten years of excellence in Requirements, Test Plans, Automation, and

Localization over the full Life Cycle of Client, Server, Database and Web applications.

Skill Set:

General QA Skill Set

QA Functions: Quality Center and JIRA Test Strategies, Automation, Regression, Execution

Applications: Web, Database, JIRA, ClearQuest, Quick Test Pro, Selenium, jMeter, Toad, SQL

Systems: Linux, iMac, Microsoft, iOS4, Unix, PalmOS (BASH, Perl, Python, PHP)

Teamwork: Work collegially with development teams, mentor and cross train test teams

Metrics: Collect data and present with Excel, PivotTables, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Access

Full Life Cycle: V&V, Document Control, Requirements, Configuration, Execution, Maintenance

QA Models: Agile, Iterative, Spiral, Waterfall in FDA, FCC, Industry and Military environments

Scripting: BASH, JavaScript, Perl, Python, PHP, VBA, VBScript, Visual Basic

Automation: LoadRunner, QuickTestPro with Descriptive Programming, Selenium, Sahi, jMeter

History

TeraData October 2011 to Present 2011 Technician II, Agile QA Development

o Develop Test Scenarios, Plans in Agile environment

o Test and BASH automation of Backup, Archive, Restore services

Prototyping with Excel, VBA, Perl All-Pair

Integrate BASH and BTEQ functions

o Project Tracking and Test Management with JIRA, Glass Factory, Viewpoint

CardioNet February 2011 to July 2011 Senior QA Technician in FDA environment

o In FDA Class 3 environment, Create, Manage, Update Document Specifications, Protocols

and Test Results for personal Mobile Electrocardiogram devices to FDA standards.

o QA of Sensor/Monitor system includes

Execute and report test cases for firmware, FHSS, CDMA, software tools

Verify data from Bluetooth to CDMA WinCE Handset to Database's Web UI

Test data flow from Device via WinCE GUI, to Middleware to databases serving

production, business and end-users. Evaluate logs, confirm end to end transactions

FloTV (a Qualcomm Company) - Oct 2007 to Feb 2011 Senior System Analyst

Design and Execute Test Plans for Oracle driven Intranet / Extranet Websites.

Analyze, document, configure, test and report in the following areas:

o General QA

Test Setup and Management: HP Quality Center, JIRA, Salesforce

Validate Requirements, create test strategies, Test Plans, Test Labs, Test Cases,

SQL queries, PL/SQL ETLs, UNIX scripts, Excel sample data, Metrics, JavaScript

Automation Link HP's Quick Test Pro (QTP) with Descriptive Programming,

Automate Smoke, Deployment and feature tests with QTP, Selenium, Sahi

Confer with LoadRunner team to automate SilverLight solution

Confer with development, management and QA teams in Agile / Scrum environment.

Plan strategy, identify Requirements, execute tests, and report within Quality Center

o Tools: VBA, BASH, jMeter, SQL, PL/SQL, SOAP, XML payloads, and WSDL validation

o Oracle to Internet - PL/SQL - Verify Transaction Flow in Linux, Oracle, Web front end

o Finance - Invoices, Vouchers, D2C Supply Chain Interface to Oracle Financial -> TIBCO

o ETL Whitebox testing with Toad. Informatica execution of scheduled ETL sequences.

o Intranet / Extranet Website tests with XML / SOAP validation

Program Guide - Automated XML Ingest of Vendor Schedule changes

Link and Content quality for 17 department website

Salesforce Call Severity Site Map interoperability

BING Coverage Map validation and reporting

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Contract : Startup and Short Term Projects

Teleca USA, Sr. QE Consultant - March 2007 to August 2007 - QA Engineer

o QA Design and Test Case Execution: Smoke, Integration, Full, Regression & Verification of

Flash User Interface on GSM (TMO) and CDMA (VZW) Handsets

o Integrate and automate Call Log, Messaging. GUI tests with Flash / ActionScript

o Verify and configure firmware and drivers on Windows, Linux, Perforce, Citrix

HDSupply Websphere QA August 2006 to February 2007 - QA Lead

o QA Management Initiate QA for upgrade of hdsupply.com s ERP components: Order

Management, Account Management, Inventory interface

o Quality Center - publish policies: Assign, track & report issues until completion.

o Excel: randomize accounts, inventory items and track to fulfillment

Ocean Systems Engineering Corp - QA Lead, US Navy ATFP Jan 2006 to May 2006

o Test Java GUI / JSP / JBOSS interface to Linux interface for cameras and sensors.

o Document Control: Create Test Plans, User Manuals, Metrics, pivot table statistics

o Admin Sharepoint Web Portal linking live data to Excel pivot tables for bug tracking

o Create and executed cyclic schedule of Test Cases. Round-the-clock team stress testing

o Served on delivery team deploying product to Navy SIL Lab, Baltimore, Maryland

Symwave - QA Startup Development Contract Sept 2005 to Jan 2006

QA Lead: Biometric (fingerprint reader) device, firmware, USB drivers, and software

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o Create Plans, Suites, and manuals for Product, Engineering and Processes

o Program MS-Access system to track bug ownership, replacing uncontrolled emails

o Liaison between sales, customers and US and China development teams.

o Create installer. Turn over new system to new QA Lead, interns and management.

Kelly Engineering QA Engineer assigned to:

o Nokia Mobile Phones QA Engineer 9/04 to 9/05

Handset QA of SMS, PTT, Call Waiting, IOTA, GUI, Browser, Bluetooth, IrDa

Assist in conversion to Mercury Test Director (later HP s Quality Center)

Convert Perl Script for handset crash dump from Perl to Python, Tk/TCL

Document, peer review and track documents with eRoom, DOORS, Lotus Notes

Program MS-Access tools for handset flash and NAM history.

Siemens Mobile - NAFTA QA Engineer 2/04 to 9/04

o Create, execute tests, verify results on UI: MMS, SML, WML, SMS, PoC, PTT, GPRS

o Test Push to Talk (PTT/PoC) on OEM and Competitive devices,

o Test NAFTA compliance of GUI, menus and messages

Automate test cases of SMS for modem drivers using Python and AT commands

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Run SMS scripts on Rhode & Schwarz equipment including HTC s WinCE model

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o Programmed utilities to convert German text files to MS-Access and Excel test suites

o Track bugs from detection to resolution with ClearQuest (web version).

o Report to project manager via MS-Project, MS-Access and regular status reports

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Kelly Engineering - QA Engineer assigned to:

o Nokia Mobile Phones - QA Engineer - 2/03 to 2/04

Write and execute Build Acceptance and Interoperability Tests of handset components,

including GUI, data modems, BREW, USB, headsets, Bluetooth

Modify Perl, Python, VB and BASH scripts on CDMA2000 Agilent / HP simulators

Create IOTA Specification and Tests and delivery to test teams. Served four member

development team in Sprint's Kansas Acceptance Lab

Develop OMA DRM, MMS, WAP push Test Plans. Deliver to and train test teams.

Kyocera Wireless - QA Engineer accelerated Smart Phone project - 8/02 to 2/03

o QA CDMA / PalmOS GUI handsets with Tektronix, HP tools and Test Expert to:

Perform ad hoc, full feature, integration, regression and verification tests.

Used results to create formal test specification of scenario, test cases,

Create and execute formal tests of GUI and accessories:

Palm OS, mobile phone, browser, 911, SMS, PC sync, headsets, IrDA (install,

integration, contention, stress) on 2G, 3G, AMPs

o Leverage previous outlines and other model's documentation to create new product test

plans. Test embedded Linux GUI on CDMA prototype.

Kelly Engineering - 1997 to 2005 QA Engineer assigned to :

o Intel Wireless Lab QA Engineer 9/01 to 6/02

Test of 802.11 driver, NDIS5, Proset, miniPCI, and throughput. Web / Help QA.

Error tracking, bug scrub triage meetings between test & development teams

Lab & Ghost inventory management, WHQL, Ethereal (now WireShark), Help Tests

Configure APs to test frequency overlap, hand off, throughput, firewall functions

Create MS-Access Lab Inventory for laptops, network appliances, Ghost images

Test help files and download websites in localized browsers and encodings

Hewlett-Packard San Diego Software Test Center 6/98 to 6/01

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Create, edit, and execute Test Cases: leverage and annotate for future projects,

Localization smoke test software & firmware drivers on Euro and Asian Windows

Full test cycles of I/O, MSI, PnP, Contention, Win9x, NT, ME, XP, MS-Office.

Create / Manage inventory of supported Ghost images of Operating Systems: NT,

Win9x, Win2K, and WinXP. Flash firmware and burn CDs of new builds.

Software and Drivers: Photo editing and card readers for Sony, MMC, and others.

Special projects: Test and install corporate builds. Katakana LCD testing.

Lotus Notes: Report and track bugs, Develop macros, searches and reports

Education

A.S. Degree Computer Science (Microprocessors, Calculus, Pascal, Assembly, C, etc.)

Columbia Basin College, Washington

Experience greater or equivalent to BS/CS. Independent study of Perl, Python,

C++, QTP, Selenium and other automation.

Japanese for Business (University of Washington Extension), 1997

Society for Software Quality (SSQ San Diego) - seminars on Agile testing

Security

Recent secret security clearance for US Navy (2008)

Security clearance for US D.O.E Hanford Project. Nuclear clearance and service to WPPSS

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