QA Analyst

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Experienced Quality Assurance Analyst

Innovative, results-oriented Quality Assurance Analyst with more than 12 years of software and technical

expertise. Skilled in providing technical leadership and mentoring to junior team members. Committed to

pursuing quality relentlessly with unyielding integrity. Proven abilities to be effective in a cross-

functional and team-oriented environment while remaining focused on establishing solid working

relationships with co-workers. Proactive and positive employee dedicated to tasks and projects which

help achieve organizational goals. Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and

continuously streamline processes and procedures.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• IT Project Management • Needs Assessment • Operations Management

• Automation Strategies • Process Improvement • Troubleshooting

• Mentoring Abilities • Customer Service • Computer and Information

Science

• Software Testing • Team Leadership/Motivation • Electrical Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC 2014-2014

QA Tester

• conducted manual front end testing of SOA third party software that allowed education institutions to

implement standardized tests to students

• Manually tested front end/UI by accessing Chrome, Firefox and Explorer by testing UI features for latest

build deployed by development team who used Tomcat

• Defects were documented and tracked using Jira

• Features for UAT Testing were determined through interaction with Business Analyst

• created test data for testing scenarios

• Positive and negative test data was documented in Excel spreadsheets. Authored test cases utilizing

Excel spreadsheet.

• Utitilized Zend IDE with PHPUnit to unit test PHP functions in an Agile environment.

• Participated in daily stand up meetings to provide status of test progress.

• Used Selenium integrated with Firefox to automate front end testing.

Honeywell/NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, Greenbelt, MD, 2013 – 2014

Systems Engineer 3

• served as member of Flight Operations team for Global Precipitation Measurement satellite

• wrote procs and stored utilizing GIT version system

• created Operations Products utilizing Perl and bash scripting languages

• created routine and contingency operating procedures

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ORACLE/ART TECHNOLOGIES GROUP/Primus, Washington, DC, 2004 – 2013

QA Analyst/QA Developer

• Led QA Engineering Team in the manual testing of enterprise natural language processing search engine

and the integration of this search engine into the ATG N-tier enterprise ecommerce platform.

• Served as Lead QA managing resources in Massachusetts and Minsk, Belarus. Made sure Project

Schedule was adhered to and provided frequent status updates for Program Manager regarding Project

Schedule. Provided feedback to team regarding written test cases. Done by logging into Zephyr and

checking their test cases.

• Manual testing done by taking installer and deploying EAR files to JBoss, WebSphere, and WebLogic

application servers with Oracle and DB2 databases on the backend. Tested front end using IE and

Firefox web browsers. Utilized Code Coverage tools to determine how much of backend was exercised

through the front end.

• Defects were logged using Jira and Bugzilla.

• Test cases authored by using Zephyr test case management system. Done by taking requirements and

Design Documents and soliciting feedback from Developers and Business Analysts.

• Led team meetings regarding test cases.

• Succeeded in leading effort to document nearly 100% of test cases.

• Designed, planned and executed software qualification during release testing cycle. Test plan was

written using company test plan template which was based on the IEEE standard for test plans. Input

was taken from Program Manager and QA Manager regarding available resources and expected dates

regarding project milestones.

• Review and provide feedback on product requirements, technical specifications, and release schedule.

Based upon feedback, make adjustments and modifications as necessary.

• Design and implement automation strategies for automatic product qualification utilizing QuickTest

Pro(QTP).

• Automation done by using QTP to exercise the front end in the same manner that front end is tested

manually. Took existing test cases to implement these tests.

• Scripts and object repository files were saved using Perforce windows based versioning tool.

• Succeeded in automating 100% of regression test cases

• Mentor and train team members on automation strategies and coding options.

• Provide advice on test case specifications, test plans, bug reports using Bugzilla and Jira, and

setup/configuration issues.

• Support development technical leads, support engineers, and professional service engineers resolving

issues.

• Lead communication efforts with product management department ensuring product requirements are

addressed.

ECUTEL SYSTEMS, Alexandria, VA, 2000 – 2003

QA Engineer

• Led the manual testing of mobile IP/VPN software.

• Set up test lab to include 3 LANs, one home network with the Server, and an Active Directory Server,

another network with a foreign agent, and another network with a DHCP server

• Manually tested software by taking a laptop and moving it from one network to another and verifying

successful automatic receipt of Care of IP address and successful registration with Home Server and

verification of Security Association

• Created test plans, test cases, and tracked defects using Bugzilla.

• Utilized available tools to execute Performance testing. Used Netperf and FTP to determine throughput.

Used wget to put maximum load on server.

LOCKHEED MARTIN/NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, Greenbelt, MD, 1995 – 2000

Satellite Systems Engineer

• Provided operations support for the Hubble Space Telescope coordinated the data management

subsystem/instrumentation and communications/electrical power subsystems.

• Led training, development, and mentoring of new personnel helping staff work towards certification.

• Monitored health and safety of spacecraft through telemetry assessment. Responded to limit violations

as prescribed in established organizational procedures.

• Executed approved command activities.

• Uplinked and validated automatic command loads.

EDUCATION

• Master of Science in Computer Science – The George Washington University

• Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science – University of Maryland University College

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering – University of Maryland at College Park

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