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Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:
Irvine, CA
Posted:
February 05, 2013

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Anna Rogachov

Email: abqpkv@r.postjobfree.com

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City: irvine

State: CA

Zip: 92614

Country: USA

Phone: 916-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $120,000

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ANNA ROGACHOV 7 Flaxwood Irvine, CA 92614 916-***-**** abqpkv@r.postjobfree.com

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

COMMITMENT LEADERSHIP INTEGRITY

I'm a proven QA director and strategic leader with 10+ years of experience in the field, who translates engineering and business projects into maximum quality with the best interest of Customers, Management and Employees. I have gained expertise in directing multinational QA teams and a wide variety of product lines, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, GUI/Web, wireless connectivity, mobile devices and embedded software. I ensure successful execution and delivery of engineering projects, and continuous improvement of the organization's ability to execute them. I'm dedicated to maintaining a reputation built on quality, excellent communication, service and uncompromising ethics.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Strategic and Tactical Planning

Regulatory Compliance

Complex Operations and Project Management

Leadership and Management Skills

Verification and Validation

Project and Organizational Development

Human Relation and Communication Skills

Test Plans, Test Cases and Complete Test Cycles

Agile Development Life Cycle

Waterfall Development Life Cycle

QA Methodology Vista Test Tools

Test Track

SCM

Test Director

Jira

Test Automation tools - QTP,Ranorex

MS SQL Server 7

MS Office Suite

MS Project

DICOM EHR/PM

HL7

ERP - SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MergeHealthcare 2011-2013

Director of Product Quality Assurance

Directing the day-to-day activities with multiple QA groups, in various geographical locations: US (California, Florida and Wisconsin), Canada and India.

Managing 40 employees and over 40 lines of software and hardware products.

Strategy & Planning

* Lead the development, establishment, and enforcement of quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles.

* Ensure that software quality measures comply with regulatory standards, industry standards, and accepted best practices.

* Create methodologies and processes for the collection and analysis of data for ensuring software, systems, and product quality.

* Develop service metrics and reporting.

* Direct the analysis of formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.

* Provide input into the change control processes, practices, and guidelines for new and existing technologies.

* Schedules and conducts regular QA meetings. Develops and follows through on quality initiatives.

* Develop and implement programs to improve quality.

* Work closely with product and project managers on the implementation of new projects and infrastructures including operational readiness, change preparation, change execution, and post-change QA validation.

* Introduce, develop, maintain, and periodically update the QA Procedures Manual and objectives and philosophies.

* Develop, maintain, and periodically update written policies and procedures that govern the day-to-day tasks of the PQA function.

Operational Management

* Establishing and maintaining a robust testing environment, test labs and servers.

* Leading and supervising the company`s QA process, detailing and conducting all formal testing activities, preparing resource estimation and testing schedules with MS Project, responsible for establishing and maintaining a robust testing environment

* Determine the selection and appropriate usage of automated test tools and data collection tools.

* Lead the development and documentation of test plans and scripts for tracking defects and fixes in product development, software application development, information systems, and operations systems.

* Apply established metrics to determine the readiness, quality, and operability of software, systems, and products due for release to clients and/or within the enterprise.

* Create and communicate test plans and scripts that will determine optimal application performance according to specifications; revise as needed.

* Conduct internal audits to measure and assure adherence to established QA standards for software development, application integration, and information system performance, and corresponding documentation.

* Coordinate testing of new software to ensure integration into company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and technical specifications.

* Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and executive management.

* Manage all members of the quality assurance team, and ensure that aggressive deadlines are met.

* Train, coach, and mentor QA staff and other junior staff members.

* Plan and conduct performance appraisals of QA staff, administer disciplinary action, raises, bonuses, and promotions when necessary.

* Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of quality assurance best practices.

* Maintain ISO Security Compliance Requirements.

* Responsible for setting, reviewing, and execution of the operational plan that compares well with industry best practices for comparable environments.

* Manages, leads or supports any transfer or integration activities as assigned

* Participates in establishing annual goals and objectives.

Additional Activities

* Pursues a program of self-development through the use of selected reading, seminars, and participation in continuing education.

* Identifies and communicates possible improvements in the work process for customers and peers.

Performs other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor or upper management

OIS Global (Ophthalmic Imaging Systems) Sacramento, California 2010- 2011

Israel 2007-2010

QA Manager

Established QA department, methodology, testing tools and hired team of 5 employees.

Leading the Quality Assurance processes for ophthalmic medical devices systems and applications for image processing based on Web platforms.

Lead and supervised QA processes with a team of five QA engineers, detailing and conducting all formal testing activities, preparing resource estimation and testing schedules.

Was responsible for establishing and maintaining a robust testing environment.

Performed SQL Server database integrity testing, database migration, upgrades for new releases, data uploads, population data monitoring (via executing SQL statements).

Organized and administered Seapine TestTrack Pro bug tracking. Customized fields, field relationships, defects, field levels and user privileges.

Established Automation testing team.

Reviewed and analyzed software requirements, designs and product specifications.

Developed and executed qualification test plans, test procedures and test scenarios.

Ran complete test cycles for integrated Fundus cameras device with image processing software.

Monitoring and analyzing test results, collecting test metrics and conducting test reporting.

Performed verification, validation, simulation, end-to-end testing, debugging, defect isolation, and fixes of new software that provide control, communications, and power distribution for virtually any remotely operated system with multi-carrier real devices.

Make recommendations on test tool product and strategy.

Test Pro (Outsource Quality Assurance company) Tel-Aviv, Israel 2005 -2007

GE - General Electric healthcare company

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Performed testing of medical devices using the standalone review station Xeleris.

Analyzed the system`s functional specifications, developed and implemented test plans, test cases, test scenarios and test metrics. Ran complete functional, regression and sanity test cycles

Wrote and executed SQL queries for database purge testing using the Eclipse platform.

Executed SQL queries to verify that the DB had been populated with the correct data.

Validated XML messages of the activities' exchange protocol.

Developed and implemented a Web interfaced test case management database intended to streamline the process of test case creation.

Verified Backup and Restore functionalities of the file system using third party tools.

Intel Haifa, Israel 2003-2005

QA Engineer

Initialization of QA process in software development department.

Tested important functionalities, new features required for subsequent releases, GUI, and functional areas of the application suggested by developers as having greater risk exposure.

Performed verification or resolved issues.

Performed release acceptance testing for many major and transitional releases.

Involved in preparing test plan, designing test cases for Functionality, GUI, Boundary, Load, Performance testing and smoke testing using Quick Test Professional, and Test Director.

Developed test cases based on the business requirements and technical specifications.

Reviewed test plans for various functions.

Document all phases of QA process, prepare testing environment, minimal acceptance tests criteria (Entry / Exit ), Functional Testing, UI Testing, Regression Test, Linguistic Test. Bug reporting and tracking. Training junior members in QA Methodology

Executed software test cycles and reported defects to the Test Director.

Worked with the developers to reproduce and resolve defects.

Tescom (Quality Assurance Company) Haifa,Israel 1999-2003

Senior QA Consulter

Handled projects for various (below) customers

Given Imaging - manufactures and markets diagnostic products for the visualization and detection of disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.

* Reviewed business/functional requirements and technical specifications of the application and written test cases.

* Worked with software development team to find the best solution of software, hardware and GUI problems.

* Developed test plans, test cases for Functional, GUI and Regression testing using Test Director

Biosense - Cardiac medical devices company:

Developed tests for new features, including the cost based optimizer enhancements.

Contributed to regression test planning and rollout of new platforms.

Developed test plans, test cases for Functional, GUI and Regression, system, hardware testing.

Took charge of setting guidelines for testing standards, procedures and support (overall QA methodology) and provided a more robust and organized testing environment as a result.

Managed control of test case reviews, bug review meetings and all other testing/QA/change management meetings.

Mentoring of testing team and provided training & support that resulted in a more adequately equipped testing team.

Mobilitec:

Tested numerous web applications and web sites developed by the company for business clients.

Configured test environments (browsers, OS, settings, options, etc.) based on test documentation.

Tested browser (MSIE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome) and operating system compatibility. Utilized VMWare virtual machines to execute tests.

Analyzed business requirements and created all types of test documentation including test suites, test cases, check lists, etc.

Performed verification and resolved issues.

CreoScitex:

Tested real time digital printing system.

Responsible for creating test documentation.

Participated with the Engineering team in the design of functionality.

Monitored regression testing on multiple platforms for full functionality of the product. This included rollbacks of checking for which regressions were found.

Electricity Israel company - Y2K Business Integration Testing Coordinator:

Joined the Project Team for the testing stage of Y2K readiness verification.

Provided technical and administrative coordination for verifying Y2K compliance of six mission critical applications on four different platforms.

All projects completed on time with no problems found in year-end rollover.

Managed cross-functional groups (8-28 people for each application tested) in several geographical locations.

Introduced and implemented new forms and procedures. Performed network testing such as functional, configuration, concurrency, stress, load, performance.

Worked with development engineers, QA team and management to address quality problems in all phases of software product cycle.

Designed and maintained system test lab, performed installation and setup of entire test and network environment.

EDUCATION

2001

Developing Software in C++ at Sivan College, Raanana, Israel

2000

Software QA Certification at Tescom Training School, Tel-Aviv, Israel

1996-1998

Technical Engineer (Production Management) at Technion, Haifa

Candidate Resume - robert anastasi

Contact Information -

Email: abqpkv@r.postjobfree.com

Address: 125 martingale dr

City: warwick

State: RI

Zip: 02886

Country: USA

Phone: 508-***-****

Skill Level: Senior

Salary Range: $200,000

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Job History / Details:

ROBERT E. ANASTASI, MS OM, BS IE 125 Martingale Drive, Warwick, RI 02886

Global Operations Executive with a Multi-Billion Dollar Contributory Record 508/846-9778

excellence in setting strategic direction for high-profitability, high-technology manufacturing abqpkv@r.postjobfree.com

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Signature Values

Executive Leadership -- Member of an executive team which built an industry leader. Oversaw several major acquisitions and their subsequent corporate integrations. In last decade, delivered efficiencies and revenue growth values conservatively estimated to be worth over $.3B to the bottom-line. Led over 25 major acquisition & integration, divestiture & consolidation and reengineering initiatives.

gSCM and LM Expertise -- Global supply chain management and lean manufacturing implementations have been executed seamlessly throughout career. Conversant with global distribution of labor, security and industrial trade practices.

Implementations Record -- Successfully deployed best-practices in the areas of Lean Operations, Total Quality Culture, Creative Global Supply Chain Management Systems and Concurrent Engineering to deliver multi-million dollar annual values.

Summary

* Global operations and business development executive with an outstanding profitability-growth leadership record. Conceives and executes enterprise-wide strategies related to quality leadership, customer retention & relationship management, product development, manufacturing and gSCM operations.

* In addition to formulating profit-expanding domestic strategies, generated successful business expansion projects for Europe, Mexico, and Asia.

* History of improving sales revenues & profits based on proven strategic planning talents reflected in an array of accomplishments related to streamlining operations, developing new products, recruiting & building lean but highly effective management teams, developing and maintaining strong customer relationships, and supervising major facility development projects.

* Traveled extensively, lived for short periods of time in foreign cultures and became globally recognized as an equipment manufacturing industry leader; contact network includes CxO-level executives at almost all of the world's major (annual sales > $10B) OEMs.

CAREER HISTORY

GOS CONSULTING LLC President and Founder of GOS Consulting LLC 2007 - Present

SATCON TECHONOLGY GOS Sr Director, Global Manufacturing 2007-2013

BROOKS AUTOMATION Executive Vice President, Global Manufacturing 2005-2007

HELIX TECHNOLOGY Executive Vice President, Global Manufacturing 1977-2005

MAGNETIC CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Waltham, MA Director of Operations 1983 - 1984

KOCH PROCESS SYSTEM, Westborough, MA Manager of Manufacturing 1978 - 1983

GENERAL DYNAMICS ELECTRIC BOAT N. Kingstown RI, Manufacturing Engineer 1974 - 1978

STONE & WEBSTER ENGINEERING, Boston, MA Design Engineer 1972 - 1974

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Education: Master of Science in Operations Management (June 1979 all course work complete), University of Rhode Island, Kingston. BS in Industrial Engineering (June 1972), Roger Williams College, Bristol, RI.



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