Sr Quality Assurance Engineer
Resume:
JAMES A. HAMILTON
Modesto, CA *****
actjn0@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
Software Quality Assurance Professional with extensive experience working with Fortune 500 companies. Expertise includes technical analysis, test strategy and planning, and forecasting. Proven abilities in requirements and business analysis, verbal and written communication, and test coordination across functional areas. Strong positive attitude. Excellent people skills. Consistently makes and exceeds goals.
Operating Systems: MVS ESA
WINDOWS
Software/Applications: MS Office MS Project VSAM TSO/ISPF
FileAid FileAid DB2 SPUFI Quality Center
ClearQuest ALM
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
VISA INCORPORATED, Foster City, CA 1999-2015
A payments technology company that connects thousands of financial institutions with millions of merchants and cardholders enabling them the best way to pay and be paid.
Senior Staff QA Engineer 2008-2015
Technical leader and project manager on one or more complex application systems of broad scope
within the division. Primary point of responsibility for project teams, develops and tracks project plans,
directs activities, reviews work quality, and manages change control processes and communications.
Managed and led multiple installations of complex infrastructure projects where up to 3500 rules or edits were rewritten for greater efficiency and maintenance without defect incidents in production.
Coordinated and led testing efforts across functional teams and applications for release projects to ensure test results between multiple platforms were as expected.
Forecast and estimated project work efforts based on requirements and designs provided by client and development analyst.
Performed quality assurance activities including analyzing business requirements and development design documents to produce Test Plans, Test Designs and Test Case artifacts.
Developed test data inputs conforming to specifications provided in design documents
Executed manual and automated tests as designed
Conducted Test Readiness Reviews with customers and/or Project Managers.
Created Discrepancy Reports when problems or issues were found in testing
QA Engineer 1999-2007
Responsible for developing and subsequently coordinating enterprise level test activities as they relate
to test requirements definition, development of consolidated planning documents, sizing, and execution
across business lines.
James A. Hamilton actjn0@r.postjobfree.com
Technical lead for Clearing Consolidation Project responsible for multiple Card Services across all Visa Regions.
Coordinated test planning and oversight of high profile Visa Europe Online System replication project working effectively across two organizations Test, Development, and Project Management staff through multiple iterations and installation.
Responsible for providing test support for VisaNet CORE applications like Base II, Bankcard Offline and Mainframe Edit Package ensuring software installations with few production defects.
Mentored team members through cross functional test coordination, test requirements definition, and consolidated test planning documents and estimation.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science Business Administration
Computer Information Systems
San Francisco State University
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