Test Cases Quality Engineer

Patricia E Quinlan

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Randolph MA

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Software analyst with extensive experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). History of success in Test team lead, analysis and quality assurance testing, including developing test plans, test-case designs, and test scripting based on user needs and specifications. Strong communication and analytical skills with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines. Hands on individual contributor and collaborative team player. Effectively identifies problems and offers timely solutions.

Over 12 years SQA TeamLead

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Client Server

Web On-line Applications

Host/Mainframe

HTML/HTTP

Mainframe Databases

Bug Tracker Defect System

Microsoft Office Suite

Windows

Internet Explorer

Manual Testing

Test Team Lead

Scrum Master – Team Lead

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SRI Info Tech (State Street Corporation Contractor) 2015 – Dec 2017

Scrum Master /SQA Lead

Scrum Master on Agile Development team

Work with The Business to define the story acceptance criteria

Work with Development team to find solutions for user stories

Help both the Development and SQA team with questions and Clarification

I scheduled all the user stories for the sprints. Assigned stories to offshore SQA recourses held meeting after Kick off to insure everyone was familiar with the story and had all resources to cover.

SQA team members emailed me with any issues. Many times the issues they had were due to configuration not code, or invalid test scenario. I would run the scenarios and determine If a bug story was needed or user just needed to configure their application appropriately

Handled any issues that came up during the sprint IE: Systems down, clarification, bug, configuration ect… I was the SQA Point of contract. SQA could ask questions if time permitted on the Development leads weekly scrum however if information was needed during sprint they would come to me

Reviewed and approved SQA Test Cases for each story

SunGard Financial Systems 2011 - 2015

Senior Software Quality Engineer Test Team Lead

Managed offsite SQA Team -

Consulted with development and implementation teams through all phases of the systems development lifecycle (SDLC).

Created test plans, schedules and resource plans

Oversaw test development and managed defect database, ensuring timely and accurate implementation of test plan

Prioritized test assignments, activities, resources, execution of test suites and performed other types of testing as described in the test plan; defined and managed outsourcing of selected elements of test plan

Cost Basis - Area expert - Cost basis is application developed to be in compliance with the Dodd Frank Act. I created and tested the web page and the content. Under the Dodd Frank Rules Equities and Mutual funds were reportable for 2011. I wrote all the test cases for functional testing which included Corporate Actions. I worked with the offshore SQA team who exxcuted the test cases and reported the results to me If any defects were found I would determine if it was a bug/or the test case was done incorrectly.

In 2014 fixed income and Derivatives were reportable. I wrote all the test cases or the functional testing. For Fixed income it included test cases for the Acquisition premium, Market Discount, bond premium, and accruals which all had specific rules under Dodd Frank. For The Derivatives our clients held primarily options so I wrote test plans for all options scenarios and limited futures and swaps scenarios

oOff Shore tested and reported results back to me. I would determine if issues were bug, configuration or test case was processed incorrectly

oHad Offshore SQA team work on automation when there was down time. They completed the Equities portion and simple corporate actions. (Any compound corporate actions had to be run manually)

oOffshore would run the scripts and report back to me if any issues were discovered. Again I would determine if it was a bug/configuration/or user error.

XSP - XSP is a corporate actions system. SunGard acquired XSP and I work with the integration team. XSP is a more streamlined approach to Corporate Actions processes where there is less manual intervention.

oI created the test plans and assigned all applicable test cases to offshore team. Any issues I look at to determine origin.

State Street Corporation 2001 - 2011

QA Senior Test Team Lead - Software Quality Assurance

Reviewed overall system functional specification to ensure business requirements were met and thoroughly tested for any given project.

Wrote test plans directly linked to the business requirements of any given project

Assigned all aspects of testing, including functional & regression to the offshore teams (China did Functional testing, India would script and run regression)

Any Issue the offshore team had they would report to me. I would analyze and determine root cause

Daily tracking and reporting of any and all defects

Project include but not limited to My State street (.net), Plan Accounting, Pooling, DB upgrades, Analytics, Pricing, Corporate Actions,

EDUCATION

Northeastern University – BA Accounting - 1984

Certified Scrum Master

AWARDS

State Street: Above and Beyond - 1995,2001,2004,2008; CIO Award – 2010

SunGard: Star Award – 2012, 2013, 2014

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