Nicholas McKinney
Bristol, RI **809
Email: *************@*******.***
SUMMARY
Senior software quality assurance professional
QUALITY ASSURANCE SKILLS
SKILLS INVENTORY
MS SQL 2008, MS SQL 2012, MS Win 7, MS WIN 8, MS WIN10, MS Server 2008, MS Server 2012, MS Server 2016, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Powerpoint, MS-Access SQL/DS, Oracle, Eclipse 4.3.1, Java SE JRE7.2,JDK 8 MS Visual Studio 2012, Selenium, SAHI-PRO, SQL/DS, Oracle, Sybase, IBM mainframe, DEC Alpha, PC Desktop/Workstation, IBM RS 6000, HP3000.
JIRA: Administration, Test Cases Capture, Agile, Task/Bug management, Zephyr tests and cycle management, Burn-down, AGILE/SCRUM, ZEPHYR test suite management
SDLC and Waterfall
RESTful API: Postman, Fiddler, Swagger
AUTOMATION:
IDE scripting including Selenium, SAHI-PRO, Frog-logic Squish, IBM rational robot and Oracle E-Test Suite. Able to plan a scripting effort for automation engineers.
Managed automation engineering teams: Rational SQA Robot, E-Tester and PVCM,
APPLICATIONS:
Purchasing, MRP, HR/Payroll,, Sales Analysis & Reporting, ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), ERP, Development life cycle, SQL Stored Procedures, Black Box Tester, Information Center, Server, Billing/Invoicing Inventory Management, AP/AR/GL,
Change management, E-Commerce, Decision Support, Client Server, SAAS (Software as a Service), Data Modeling, Workflow processes, VMWare Virtual Machines, VSphere virtual machine management.
Technical Leadership
-Managed quality assurance certification for production releases as gatekeeper with GO/NO-GO responsibility
-Lead concurrent testing teams
-Direct testing assistance to development groups (cooperative testing)
-Expert manual testing high risk complex bugs/enhancements
-Managed the bug tracker
-Constructed and implemented UAT testing
Test Planning
-Test planning analysis
-Risk analysis
-Test plan production
-Test case development
-Test plan implementation across multiple test groups
-Test Metrics
Testing functional testing to include
-Regression
-Integration
-New Feature
-Certification
-UAT
-Hotfix (emergency fix)
Database
-Microsoft SQL Server 2008,2012,2016 advanced SQL
Automation
-Managed automation engineering teams: Rational SQA Robot, E-Tester and PVCM
-IDE scripting including Sahi-Pro, Frog-logic Squish, IBM rational robot and Oracle E-Test Suite. Do have great familiarity with where and when to place debug breakpoints and examination techniques.
-Plan a scripting effort for automation engineers.
Other
-Rational Rose Suite (Now IBM): Rational Rose for C++, ROBOT, Clear Case, Clear Quest
-JIRA: Administration including : JIRA CAPTURE, Test Case Creation and Zephyr test execution and tracking, Agile board, Burn-down
EXPERIENCE
Kaseya Development, Inc. Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer 01-01-2016 – 09-30-2017
Primary responsibility for overall testing for the VSA Product Suite
Gatekeeper for full product release and for all production patch releases. Lead QA test team
Performed production testing releases for the SAAS (software as a service) VSA releases.
Responsible for product education and test techniques for junior SQE staff.
Performed highly complex testing in conjunction with Development Staff.
Managed testing efforts through Scrum, Jira and Agile
Maintained all test machines and environments on VSphere ESX box servers to include: Win7, Win8, Win10, Server 2008, Server 2012 and Sever 2016.
Performed special projects as directed by the QA Lead and / or Director of Quality Assurance
Pilixo, LLC External Consultant 6-01-2014 – 12-30-2015
Primary responsibility for all quality control for the Pilixo offerings
Created test plans and implementation for the BODI employee monitoring suite
Preparation and testing of the BODI suite
Smoke tests
Pre Release Certification
RC finalization
Release delivery
Patch testing and certification
Kaseya, LLC External Consultant 11-1-2013 – 4-30-2014
Primary responsibility quality assurance for all quality control certification for release of product
Automation scripting of smoke tests and regression suite using SAHI-PRO and Selenium
Pre Release Certification
Bug Tracking through Jira and Jira Capture
Sprint management using Agile sprints though Atlassian/Jira
Code Review Principal
GIT source Control
Tree Viewer update from GIT to Atlassian Stash repository
Kaseya, LLC Principal QA Technical Lead 9-1-2010 – 10-04-2013
Primary responsibility quality assurance for all quality control certification for release of product
Technical interface with development teams and developers on coding issues
Backup to the Director of Quality Assurance
Bug Tracker management
Complex mission critical manual testing
Kaseya, LLC Senior QA Engineer 8-1-2006 – 8-31-2010
All quality assurance for Kaseya in start-up mode
Testing of prototype development
Testing of Alpha testing
Testing and confirmation of Beta Testing results
Coordination of all efforts with VP Engineering
Kintera Senior QA Engineer 7-1-2003 – 7/30/2006
Lead Certification of all production and maintenance releases
Tracking through Rational Clear Case
Managed Automated Script consultants Rational Robot
Backup to Director of Quality Assurance
Alerio QA Manager 6-1-2000 – 10-15-2002
All quality assurance for this start up
Responsible for certification of all customer releases
Managed Automated Scripting using E-Test Suite
Flexi-International Software QA Manager 5/1/1995 – 5/15/2000
Managed a team of 14 testers
Managed the automation of regression testing using Rational Robot
Responsible for all certification of production releases
EDUCATION
Westminster College
Fulton, Missouri
Bachelor of Arts : Major Philosophy Minor Logic