QA Analyst

DAVID ELLIS ABELL

**** ***** **** *****, ************, North Carolina 27284

336-***-**** - *******@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Information Technology Professional with proven track record of working proactively and independently and with a team to accomplish common goals. My experience includes more than 20 years in systems development, maintenance, Quality Assurance and production support including Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, and Implementation using IBM MAINFRAME technologies. The last few years my assignments have primarily been UAT testing and documenting the results. My expertise includes Supply Chain Distribution, Inventory Management, Order Entry, Order Processing, Warehouse Management, Production Planning, Account Receivables, Human Resources, Retail services and Anti-Money Laundering applications. These applications were developed using COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, DB2, IDEAL, and DATACOM. My experience includes Endeavor for version control, using debugging tools XPEDITER and INTERTEST, ticket tracking tools Mercury and CA Service center, as well as SQL, DATAQUERY, Easytrieve, and SPUFI. My expertise features defining and analyzing the requirements, preparing design documents, system documentation, implementation documents, and creation and verification of test cases and using HP ALM Quality Center.

EXPERIENCE

CONSULTANT – TEKsystems 06/2014-12/2015

7029 Albert Pick Rd, Suite 100, Greensboro, NC 27409

SYSTEMS QA ANALYST – Wells Fargo Bank

809 W 4 St. Winston-Salem, NC 27101

Served as a consultant performing Quality Assurance validations and documentations.

Created test plans and test scripts from the requirement and design documents. Primarily performed UAT testing and documentation of results.

Applications included SWIFT messages and BAI data and wire transactions.

Used HP ALM Quality Center to enter and track test scripts and defects. Also validated

transactions updating the Electronic Window databases.

Skills: COBOL II, JCL, DB2, SQL, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, File-Manager, SWIFT, BAI, UAM

EW Monitor, IR360

CONSULTANT – Lighthouse Technology Services, Inc. 04/2012-04/2014

Buffalo, New York

SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST – HSBC Bank

Washington Street, Buffalo, New York

Served as a senior mainframe consultant performing problem solving, programming,

testing, verification and documentation. Primarily performed

UAT testing and documentation of results.

TAX PREPARATION – Liberty Tax Service 01/2012-04/2012

Kernersville, North Carolina

Served clients in advising and preparing tax returns.

CONSULTANT – Lighthouse Technology Services, Inc. 07/2010-04/2011

Buffalo, New York

SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST – HSBC Bank

One HSBC Center, Buffalo, New York

Served as a senior mainframe consultant performing problem solving, programming,

testing, and verification as part of HSBC's Anti-Money Laundering Compliance effort

on the CAMP team. CAMP is part of the HSBC initiative to detect illegal money activities

such as money laundering and the filtering of resources to terrorist operations. Primary

responsibilities were to evaluate test results, UAT, and prepare reports for the business units to

evaluate and approve.

Skills: COBOL II, JCL, DB2, SQL, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, File-Aid, Xpeditier, Easytrieve, File Manager, SAR, Word, Excel

TAX PREPARATION – Liberty Tax Service 01/2010-04/2010

Kernersville, North Carolina

Served clients in advising and preparing tax returns.

SENIOR APPLICATIONS ANALYST – Hanesbrands, Inc. 09/2001-08/2008

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Maintained current legacy supply chain distribution systems. Analyzed and programmed

changes as dictated by new business requirements. Unit tested and performed SIT and UAT testing. Worked primarily in coordinating with the shipping systems producing picking lists, manifests, shipping labels and VICs and bills-of-lading.

Skills: COBOL II, JCL, DB2, SQL, CICS, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, File-Aid, BMS, SAR, IDEAL, DATACOM, Intertest, Quickjob

CONSULTANT -- Abell Consulting, Inc.

Kernersville, North Carolina

For Sara Lee Underwear, 01/2001-09/2001

Worked with Sara Lee Underwear's Order Processing application group on the Host project. Assisted in the design/programming of the Deadnet Pricing project.

For Lowe's Home Improvement, 11/1999-01/2001

Worked with Lowe's File Expansion Team to increase the length of several critical data fields used

throughout most of their processing systems. Worked with their Merchandising and Distribution

application teams as part of various enhancement projects.

For Sara Lee Casualwear, 07/1997-07/1999

Worked with Sara Lee Casualwear's order processing, order allocations and order distribution systems.

Project leader for the design, programming, testing and implementation of the

shipping labels system to meet the guidelines as defined by the Uniform Code Council

and to meet the individual customer requirements. Worked on the Sara Lee Casualwear Y2K project.

For Sara Lee Hosiery, 04/1997-07/1997

Worked with the Financial and Inventory Reporting and Automation of manual reports for management.

Skills: COBOL II, JCL, DB2, SQL, CICS, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, Easytrieve, File-Aid, BMS, SAR, IDEAL, DATACOM, Intertest,

SENIOR CONSULTANT --Keane, Inc. 04/1996-04/1997

Durham, North Carolina

Analyst and Team Leader at AT&T for the Asset/Core Systems. Maintained current systems;

performed analysis and programming for changes as dictated by new business requirements.

Worked with other team leaders in the planning and implementation of the divestiture of AT&T I into AT&T and Lucent Technologies. These projects were completed using COBOL, CICS, and DB2.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST -- Sara Lee Direct 06/1995-04/1996

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Assisted in development of Data Warehouse for Sara Lee Bakery and Account

Receivables for Sara Lee Direct. Supported Order Placement System, Sales Reporting, Inventory Control, Price Maintenance, and Store Accounting systems.

Skills: COBOL II, JCL, DB2, SQL, CICS, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, File-Aid, BMS, SAR, IDEAL, DATACOM, Intertest, Quickjob, Micro Focus COBOL, XDB, Smartest

EARLY CAREER HISTORY

CONSULTANT -- Abell Consulting 1991-1995

Kernersville, North Carolina

SENIOR CONSULTANT -- Broadway and Seymour, Inc. 1988-1991

Charlotte, North Carolina

SENIOR PROGRAMMER/ANALYST -- Sandoz Chemical Corp. 1986-1988

Charlotte, North Carolina

SENIOR PROGRAMMER/ANALYST -- L'eggs Products, Inc. 1980-1986

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

PROGRAMMER -- Texfi Industries 1979-1980

Kinston, North Carolina

HARDWARE

. IBM 370/125 DOS . IBM 370/158 OS/VS1

. IBM 3083/MVS/XA . Datapoint DOS, ARC, and RMS

. IBM 4341 . IBM System/38

. IBM 3090/MVS/ESA . IBM 9672-R83/MVS/ESA

SOFTWARE

. COBOL . COBOL II . CICS . DB2 . SQL

. BMS . Intertest . IDEAL . DATACOM . ENDEVOR

. Xpediter . TSO . ISPF . SDF . SDSF

. Quick Job . File-Aid . SAR . DQRY . Micro Focus COBOL

. File-Aid/PC . PROXMVS . Smarttest . XDB . File Manager

. MS Word . MS Excel . Easytrieve, UAM, SWIFT, EW Monitor, IR360

. HP ALM Quality Center

EDUCATION

Structured Testing Seminar, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

B.S., Economics and Business Administration

Grimsley High School, Greensboro, North Carolina

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