Douglas Roy
Auburn, Ma. ****1
ac8vc3@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
I have over 25 years of I.T. Quality Assurance Project/Program management experience in Healthcare Insurance, Property & Casualty Insurance, Life Insurance, and Financial Systems environments. As a Director, Project Manager, and Engineer, I focused on the implementation of formalized testing process in Unit, Systems Integrated, User Acceptance, and Performance testing. I have been responsible for project management at both the program and project level. I also manage systems development programs at the engagement level with responsibility for business process, development, and QA.
Off- Shore Resource Management Performance Test Tools
Vendor Management (Cognizant, CSC, H.P. etc.) Budget Management (10,000,000)
PMO Management Load/Black/White Box testing
Training Curriculums Test Strategy
Automation Frameworks Test Scope
Test Management Implementation Project Planning
Test Automation Tools Formalized Testing Implementation
Quality Assurance Best Practices Test Environment Build
Performance Testing Software Release
Change Control Test Automation Scripting
Agile Development .Net, Java, J2E
SDLC, R.U.P, Agile CMM
QA Program Mgmt. QA Governance
EXPERIENCE
IBM (contract) February 2017 – Present QA Program Manager
Guidewire platform implementation of desktop and mobile application for the state of Massachusetts. I am replacing the Program Manager while she is out on maternity leave.
Management of development and QA Leads for the implementation of Guidewire applications. I introduced metric reporting to the client Amica Insurance. My second client is Met Life/BrightHouse financial where is lead 3 project managers responsible for retirement systems projects. I manager both onshore and offshore resources working in business analysis, code development and quality assurance. I also have build and release responsibility.
Infosys Technology January 2012 – February 2017
Senior QA Engagement Director Hartford, CT, Fargo, ND, Phoenix, AZ, Dayton, OH
Program Engagement Director is my primary role. In this role I manage 100 QA Consultant both on shore and off shore. The client side work is the implementation of QA process standards and procedures for multiple healthcare and property & casualty projects in the U.S –Ct, Ohio, Arizona, and N. Dakota. I act as the Engagement Manager and am responsible for Sales, Recruitment, Project Management, Budget and Stakeholder metric and report generation.
Agile coaching - I was responsible for Business Analyst transition from Requirements documents to Agile User Stories. Then implementing the requirement point system and designing user stories for sprint building. Worked with Development team on design aspect within TFS. Worked with QA on a traceability matric for sprints and sprint test planning and execution. This was a 2.5 year engagement.
PMO budget
Project estimation
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Road mapping- Implementation of QA Tools, QA Process, and Systems Development QA
Test frameworks
Tool implementation
Platform implementation (FACETS, PEGA, Guidewire)
ICD10 Projects at Cigna, Aetna, Blue Cross Wyoming, Blue Cross Nebraska, Blue Cross North Dakota, Blue Cross South Dakota, AAA Arizona, Amica Rhode Island. Project planning, project timeline, Functional, SIT, UAT, testing strategies and test plans.
Travelers Insurance December 2009 - January 2012
Director of Quality Assurance Hartford, CT
Built quality assurance department Responsible for QA resource management. Established and implemented QA standards guidelines and procedures. Managed all aspects of QA testing for 3 systems; Accounts receivable, Financial reporting, and REACT Contract Management system.
Established automation framework in all 3 systems then integrated all scripts into quality center. Developed vendor SLA's and worked closely with engagement managers. Direct Project exposure is at the Stakeholder level with weekly status reporting to the Reinsurance Information Technology Board. I was also involved in Corporate Systems QA and worked with other Directors to establish QA process, standards and procedures across several QA groups.
Project planned and managed QA activities for projects using SDLC methodology.
Implemented formalized Quality Assurance testing methodology.
Managed QA activities on schedule for multiple projects.
Implementation of HP Quality Center tool for test management.
Created Test Strategy, Project Plans & Budget Estimates.
Performance, Functional and User Acceptance Testing
Managed an average of 15 resources per project both on/off shore.
Managed up to 10 projects concurrently.
Off- Shore Resource Management Performance Test Tools
Vendor management Cognizant, InfoTech Budget Management (10,000,000)
PMO Management Load/Black/White Box testing
QA Training Curriculums Test Strategy
Automation Frameworks Test Scope
Test Management Implementation Project Planning
Test Automation Tools Formalized Testing Implementation
Quality Assurance Best Practices Test Environment Build
Performance Testing Software Release
Change Control Test Automation Scripting
QA Program Management QA Governance
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island (contract) July 2007 - November 2009
Director, I.T. Quality Assurance
Implementation of QA standardized testing process in Unit, Systems Integration, and User Acceptance Testing. Implementation of test management software H.P. Quality Center 9.2. Managed consulting vendors (CSC, Perot, Arcadia, and Trizetto). Built testing teams, (hired 20 people), managed resources. Project Planning, SDLC, CMM model, Test Scope, Test Plan. Managed Performance Testing. Managed staff of 50 people that includes three QA Managers (Technical, SIT, UAT). Managed PMO. This position is at the QA Program level. My QA Managers were responsible for the day to day testing responsibilities on a project level. I reported to the Vice President of Information Technology and was a member of the I.T. Governance Board of Directors.
Projects:
Implementation of HP products (Quality Center, QTP, Loadrunner)
Implementation of QA formalized testing process.
Testing Team Build. SIT, UAT, Performance
Performance Test Management
PMO for BlueTransit project
Managed Unit, SIT, UAT, testing
Iteration Release Management
Change Control Management for both SDLC documentation and software build/release
Architect Trizetto Hosted Performance Test Environment.
Performance Test Documentation (architecture, perf. test plan, perf. reports, executive summary)
LRSP (legacy healthcare system) production performance baseline/benchmarks.
Trizetto (Facets software) performance measurements evaluation.
Developed QTP test scripts for Loadrunner VuGen.exe.
Managed performance testing team. (Database Analyst, Tech Support Analyst (servers), Quest Performasure Analyst.
Debug Performance Environment bottlenecks
Identification and analysis of database, servers (web/application) and code base performance.
Creation of Loadrunner reports (based on Trizetto and BCBSRI expectations) Off- Shore
Resource Management Performance Test Tools
Vendor Management (CSC, Trizetto) Management (3,000,000)
PMO Management Load/Black/White Box testing
QA Training Curriculums Test Strategy
Automation Frameworks Test Scope
Test Management Implementation Project Planning
Test Automation Tools Formalized Testing Implementation
Quality Assurance Best Practices Test Environment Build
Performance Testing Software Release
Change Control Test Automation Scripting
QA Program Management QA Governance
McKesson Health Solutions January 2007 - June2007
Project Manager Newton, MA
Project manager for a new hospital platform. Responsible for resource management of both consulting and full time employees. Built relationships with stakeholder and senior management.
Enhanced they systems development risk mitigation approach. Worked with BA’s, Development, and QA resources.
Projects:
Mckesson hospital platform
Project Details:
Release Management - Iteration Change Control and software environment build
Database Conversions
Software Vendor relations
Client software implementation – Mass General Hospital, Tufts, and South Shore Hospital.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan December 2005 - January 2007
QA Technical Project Lead Wellesley, MA
Managed a team of Test Architects responsible for Business Process Validation of United Health Group and HP joint venture systems. Hired staff then trained and mentored personnel. Quality Center implementation: Quick Test Professional implementation. Caliber RM utilized for requirements storage. Agile scrum development.
Projects:
Implementation of H.P. Test Management tools (Quality Center, QTP, Loadrunner)
User Acceptance Testing Manager
Project Details:
Developed Test Harness of Healthcare Platform
Developed Test Automation Framework
Implementation of Rational Unified Product (RUP) methodology
Release Management - UAT environment build
Database Conversions
Software Vendor relations
Created/Implemented HPHP Quality Assurance Standards, Processes and Procedures
Change Control
Aviva Insurance Company May 2005 - November 2005
Project Manager Quincy. MA
Performed an evaluation of PQA systems, Vantage One, Aviva Edge, and, Life 70 QA process, standards and procedures. Worked with BA’s to establish requirements, worked with developers to establish TFS code check in. Established Unit, System, and Acceptance test documentation templates. Evaluated test management and test automation software. Created Test Automation Perspective document with implementation proposal.
Vantage One Release Management
Software Change Control
Environment Build Engineering
Implementation and build Sign-off
Arbella Insurance Group July 2004 - April 2005
QA Project Manager Quincy, MA
Responsible for the implementation of test management and all automation, defect tracking software. Developed training curriculum for Test Director and Quick Test Professional. Evaluated and implemented performance measurement software. Trained all of the testing automation script developers. Worked with performance management software to debug pipeline data flow. Developed stress and performance testing lab hardware and software. Webshere, 5.1, 5.0, Oracle 9i, Policy Management Systems - One Shield, Pega, InsBridge rating engine. Functional and regression test management across SIT and UAT, Model Office, Resource Management, Project Management. Empirix E-Test Suite, E-Load 7.0, Mercury Test Director 8.0, Quick Test Professional 8.0
Projects:
Performance Test OneShields Policy Management System
Implementation of HP, Empirix, and Compuware tools.
Implementation of formalized testing process.
Performance Testing Details
Architecture of production mirror environment at HP's test center in Lexington, Mass.
Performance Test Documentation (architecture, perf. test plan, perf. reports, executive summary)
Establishment of baseline performance expectations for 1-500 virtual users
Developed test scripts using HP- Loadrunner, Compuware, and Empirix E-test load.
Created reports in triplicate for all three performance testing tools
Created 3 different executive summary documents (HP, Compuware, and Empirix)
FM Global March 2004 - July 2004
Automation Engineer Johnston, RI
Automation Testing of .Net applications utilizing Empirix E-Manager and E-Tester. Rational Clearquest Bug tracking, Clear Case/Use Case methodology. Developed test cases and managed Unit/Acceptance Testing. Developed VBscripts for automation of security access to Policy Management and Risk Analysis Transfer system. Pega functional testing.
PFPC, Inc. August 2003 - January 2004
QA Sr. Consultant Westboro, MA
Responsible for testing of the Check Free Taxation Conversion project. Manage System and Acceptance Testing of the Surpas Tax Reporting system conversion to Check Free Platform. Developed systems and acceptance test plans. Microsoft Development Tools and Lotus Notes. Utilized Mercury Test Director and Winnrunner. Developed automated Test Scripts, created Test Harness, trained other engineers in TSL.
Sun Life Financial Keyport August 2000 - August 2003
QA Project Leader Boston, MA
Magic System Conversion for Fixed Income and Asset Management. Managed Conversion of Dos based Magic Fund Accounting Software to client server web based platform. Utilized M.S. development tools, Winnrunner, Loadrunner. Database conversion oracle 8.4. Developed project bug tracking and reporting procedures on Keyport intranet. Installed Test Director then developed automated test scripts and created load/performance test scripts using Loadrunner.
Radnet, Inc. April 1999 – August 2000
Quality Assurance Project Leader Wakefield, MA
Project Leader for the Quality Assurance Engineering team who is responsible for user interface systems and load testing of Radnet products and applications. Liaison between Consulting/ Development teams and Quality Assurance to ensure projects are properly planned and scoped. Provide hands-on testing for Radnet's Web-based products and applications (i.e. Webshare-Trading systems and PortalworkX- Fund Accounting Portal). Set up and managed the client testing environments, created and converted databases. M.S. N.T, & Unix Servers, NT and Unix clients, Interdev, Visual Source Safe, Manual & Automated test (rational robot and mercury winrunner)
Business Analyst Experience Prior to 2000 Available Upon Request
Chase Bank - Business Analyst. Mutual fund systems 2 – contracts 1997-1999
NetMarket – Business Analyst for client website design. Perm 1996 - 1997
Mellon Bank - Business Analyst. Securities Lending Systems 2- contracts 1994-1996
Fidelity- Business Analyst contracts Mutual funds systems 1993-1994
BayBank -Business Systems Analyst. Retail banking 5 – years full time 1988-1993
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Skills/Languages:
TSL(Test Script Language), Visual Studio .NET, Web Matrix, C#, C#Builder, ANS, C++Builder, JBuilder, Visual BASIC (VB.NET), HTML, XML, XSL, ASP/ASP.NET, JAVA, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL
Software Applications:
HP ALM software testing products including WinRunner, Quality Center, LoadRunner, QTP, SILK Test, Rational Robot, Citrix terminal server, Code write, dBase, Excel, FTP, Install Shield, Wise Installer, ISQL, Lotus, MS Office, NetScape Communicator, NetMeeting, Nortel ExtraNet, OnTrack, Oracle (SQL*Plus, Pro*C), Outlook, PageMaker, PCAnywhere, Accounting, Photoshop, PowerPoint, PVCS, SourceSafe, SQL-7, Telnet, Tracker, Visio, Harvard Graphics, ABC Flow, SQA Robot, Microsoft TFS Test Manager, PowerBuilder, AMS, Microsoft Project, ABT Workbench, DML Securities Lending, D&B Smartstream, Oracle, Facets, Guidewire, Salesforce, Confluence, Jira.
EDUCATION
University of Maine
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
PMP Certification from PMI 2006
Certified Software Testing Engineer 2008
HP ALM all tools Certification 2010
Microsoft TFS Certification. 2013