Quality Assurance Software

Roger Bower

Email: abptv9@r.postjobfree.com

Address: ***** *********** ****

City: Peyton

State: CO

Zip: 80831

Country: USA

Phone: 719-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $40,000

Primary Skills/Experience:

See Resume

Educational Background:

See Resume

Job History / Details:

Duty Title: Systems Test Engineer 2/05 to Present

Integral Systems, Inc. part of KRATOS Defense Systems

980 Technology Court

Colorado Springs CO 80915 Supervisor: Jon Rubinfeld 719-***-****

Creates and executes manual and automated system integration tests and formal acceptance tests for the CCS-C satellite ground control system at Schriever Air Force Base for Milstar, AEHF, DSCS and WGS satellites using Quick Test Professional, Task Automated Operations (TAO), and Auto-IT scripting tools. Documents results in accordance with DOD Standards and ISO 9001. Maintains and updates the flatfile orbital analysis databases that support CCS-C. Executes and modifies satellite simulation scenarios in KDE and Red Hat Linux environments interfaced to the Windows environment through Hummingbird Exceed session emulation.

Clearance Level: SECRET.

Duty Title: Team Lead / Software Tester 5/97 to 7/02

MCI/Worldcom

1175 Chapel Hills Drive

Colorado Springs CO 80919 Supervisor: Judi Smith 719-***-****

Manages testers and develops Level of Effort estimates for software project testing. Creates and executes automated test plans written in Korn shell with Perl constructs to support billing systems and marketing software in the Solaris UNIX and Windows NT environments. Maintains and updates call suppression databases using SQL queries and directives on an Oracle Database. Automates audit processes with TestRunner in the UNIX environment.

Duty Title: Programmer 10/96 to 4/97

Sterling Software

1406 Ft Crook Road South

Bellevue NE 68113

Ported the Satellite Data Handling System (SDHS), an Air Force advanced weather analysis and prediction system from FORTRAN77 to a C/MOTIF environment.

Duty Title: Chief, Satellite CCS Simulation Support 09/91 to 10/94

50th Space Sys Squadron

Schriever AFB CO 80912 Supervisor: Richard DiGiacamo, GS-13

Supervises and directs four systems analysts responsible for hardware and software support of satellite command and control simulation software. Directs and performs model upgrade installations, performance analysis, and disk storage maintenance for three IBM 3090 mainframe computer systems using IBM JCL, TSO and CLIST.

- Developed operating instructions and training plans for satellite simulation support.

- Directed contractors and support personnel for five successful database installations.

- Maintained a RACF security database, controlling access and permissions for over 100 users.

- Automated process to allocate storage blocks to disk packs a" cut optimization time from 30 minutes to seconds.

Duty Title: Chief, Test and Quality Assurance Section 05/88 to 09/91

Air Force Global Weather Central

Offutt AFB NE 68113 Supervisor: Douglas A. Story, Lt Colonel

Leads an eight-person team providing software analysis, design, programming, and testing of over 1100 weatherjsupport programs totalling over two million lines of FORTRAN 77 code, and Unisys and Cray JCL. Advises senior management on software quality assurance and testing. Directs review of life-cycle documentation, test plans and test analysis reports for baseline changes on a network of six mainframes.

- Directed and performed the audit of an 1800-hour FORTRAN 77 project to acquire and validate new satellite data into weather prediction models.

- Directed final acceptance testing and audits to complete a 260,000-line, $4.1 million contract.

- Introduced the use of automated auditing and formatting tools to reduce audit time.

- Taught classes to programming sections on application of Structured Programming standards.

- Formally briefed two division chiefs (Colonels) on a daily basis.

Duty Title: Systems Analyst, Cloud and Numerical Models 04/86 to 04/88

Air Force Global Weather Central

Offutt AFB NE 68113 Supervisor: John C. Pace, Capt

Provides programming support to Air Force numerical weather prediction facility. Applies programming, advanced mathematics and statistical methods to develop and enhance FORTRAN 77 weather analysis and forecasting models using Fourier analysis methods.

- Developed BASIC code to translate coordinate systems and incorporate moisture into a new prediction model.

-Developed program in Machine Assembler to format and transfer data between Unisys 32-bit and Cray 36-bit systems.

-Primary development programmer for cloud model in $20 million weather prediction system.

- AFCEA Honor Award for Outstanding Educational Achievement.

Certifications:

Certified Software Test Engineer (QAI) 2010

Formal Education:

Master of Science in Applied Mathematics 1993

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Omaha, NE 68182

Bachelor of Science in General Studies 1984

United States Air Force Academy

Colorado Springs, CO 80841

Professional Courses:

Software Test Automation (IIST) 2008

Principles of Software Testing (IIST) 2008

Disciplined Software Testing Practices (IIST) 2008

CISCO Network Associate Level 1 2003

Advanced AutoCAD 2002

Technical Leadership 1998

Fundamentals of Software Engineering 1996

Software Metrics 1996

C Programming Language 1996

Ada Programming Language 1996

Team Member Leader/Facilitator Course 1995

Advanced Communications-Computer Officer Training 1995

Fundamentals of ADA Programming/Software Engrng 1994

IBM OS/MVS/JCL TSO/CLIST Datbase Mgt ISPF RACF 1992

Software Quality Assurance 1989

Unisys Meta Assembler 1989

Structured Software Development 1987

Models Computer Vector Programming 1986

ASCII FORTRAN/ECL/CTS/Numbering Systems 1986

CRAY Fortran/JCL 1986

Contact this candidate