Test Engineer

David A Lewis

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lewis-b449b1/

SUMMARY

Reliable and organized team leader who achieves success. Detail oriented individual and creative problem solver with a track record of getting results

Solid Background in assessing project scope, and breaking projects down to create responsibility assignment matrixes. Experienced with assessing the impact of risk events and managing team activities to deal with issues that arise.

An accomplished team leader with the ability to identify issues, deploy resources for resolution and resolve differences within the team.

Well-developed technical and non-technical reporting, communicating, and presentation skills. Able to convey concepts and ideas and develop productive rapport with clients, team members and management

SKILLS:

20+ years developing and testing software

9+ years leading QA teams

9+ years developing mobile applications

12+ years experience in network testing

Developing test tools.

Experienced with building test plans, test design specs, and test case writing.

Familiar with various languages; C#, C++, SQL

Creation of test automation with a variety of tools

Analytical problem solving and planning skills.

Drives issues and projects to completion and get results on bugs.

Able to give concise feedback to stakeholders on project status

Training team members in procedures and technology

Managing team members in their daily roles

Mentoring and coaching team members

Works well in a agile development environment with rapid changes and undocumented features

10+ years working with console systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Robot Entertainment

Dallas TX, 2009 – 2018

Senior Software Test Engineer and Team lead

Managed a team of 6+ testers

Handled employee training, mentoring, and coaching.

Communicated with stakeholders to determine short and long term testing needs

Trained team members to integrate new software, procedures into their daily work flow

Setup test plans and testing focus resulting in project testing being on time and on focus

Managed build deployments so team members could stay focused on their tasks

Documented testing procedures and processes resulting in improved test coverage

Managed play test and test labs which helped development and testing stay on schedule

Developed feedback mechanisms which lead to an increase in daily work production

Managed integration testing on various platforms (Steam, iOS, Android)

Ensemble Studios (part of Microsoft Game Studios)

Dallas TX, 2002 – 2009

Senior Software Test Engineer

Responsible for training, coordinating and assigning tasks to the in-house team of testers for Halo Wars.

Managed the relationship with the external test team and localization teams to ensure they got the builds, tools and documentation they needed

Responsible for investigating and evaluating new technology

Tested game play systems including: save games, record games, user interfaces, player visibility, unit movement and unit actions

Responsible for testing multiplayer components including: connection testing, match making, out of sync testing, game statistics and more

Designed and implemented test scenarios and scripts to automate testing

Designed the test plan and implemented scripts for hardware compatibility test passes

Responsible for determining validity and causes of player exploits and hacks after shipping titles

Designed and organized building of a multi-player and multi-environment test lab

Responsible for driving the testing of updates after shipping

ENSEMBLE STUDIOS

Dallas TX, 1997 – 2002

Game Programmer

Designed and implemented user interface systems. Responsible for programming the majority of the user interfaces

Constructed the scenario editor and underlying tools

Implemented the system used to track in game data for use in post game reporting and up loading to the Zone match making service

Worked on the database tools used to get data from the designer database and into the games

Worked on a variety of game play features

Premier Solutions

Dallas TX, 1994 – 1997

Senior Software Developer

I worked on client applications that accessed large scale banking and insurance databases. This tool was targeted for large financial banks and insurance companies

Implemented a object oriented programs to access large Oracle and SQL databases

Implemented a dynamic query builder using Smalltalk and later Delphi

Designed and layout the control flow for the user interface

Evaluated external tools and code for incorporation into our project

Designed and implemented test tools and systems for the client application

Other Experience Lifetime

14 years of experience in the Army(reserve) in communications and combat arms MOS’s. Final rank achieved was staff sergeant. I had experience with leading teams, setting up training exercises and managing communication systems

Tools Used

Software: Jira, Slack, Perforce, MS office, Visual Studio, Visio, NEWT, Test Rail, Lotus Notes

EDUCATION

BS Computer Programming from Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 1991.

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