Highly motivated Test Analyst who is looking to move into a leadership

Marcus Terry, MBA

www.linkedin.com/mterry****/

C: 913-***-**** Email: ******.*****@*******.***

Highly motivated Test Analyst who is looking to move into a leadership or management role. I have extensive experience in designing, developing and testing complex projects in various environments. A creative problem solver with a proven ability to manage technical issues, resolve vendor design issues and qualify new technologies. Particular strengths include:

10+ years - Proven track record in a team and cross-functional team environment

10+ years - Executed Software/hardware Development Life Cycle for complex projects

10+ years - Developed detailed hardware/software test plans and test cases from analysis of project requirements and applicable standards

10+ years – Developed test result documentation for cross functional audience

10+ years – Executed end-to-end testing/certification for complex projects

10+ years – Used various test plan/test case tracking systems for project testing

10+ years - Performed Failure Analysis, Drove Root Cause and Corrective Action for failures

10+ years – Used various issues tracking systems for project testing

10+ years – Executed regression test to validate bug fixes or new functionality

10+ years - Performed post project analysis for “lessons learned”

10+ years – Performed end to end testing (server to mobile to web browser)

10+ years – Experienced with all MS Office suite products, including MS Project and Visio

2 years – Developed test plans/test cases using HP ALM

Soft Skills

Team Leadership & Supervision

Management Skills

Strategic Planning

Planning/Coordination

Quick Learning

Judgment/Problem Solving

Performance Improvement

Developing/forecasting budgets

Technology Needs Analysis

Verbal/Written Communications

Liaison/Maintain Relation

Reports and Documentation

Professional Experience

Empower Retirement – Overland Park, KS 2015 - Current

Lead Systems Test Analyst

Performed full range of responsibilities for developing, creating test requirements, testing and certifying investment functionality.

Identified and solved complex testing request through quantitative mean from systems requirements.

Create detailed step by step test cases from Business Requirements.

Used ALM for test case/test plan creation; Defect creating, reporting and tracking.

Used JIRA to create and track defects; create development JIRA stories for new functionality.

Used TOAD to execute SQL queries for database corrections and data retrieval.

Acted as a liaison between Project management office, Business units, production units.

SPRINT, Overland Park, KS 2000 – 2014

Network Development

Telecommunication Design Engineer II, 2006 – 2014

Performed full range of responsibilities for developing, creating test requirements, testing and certifying various wireless technologies.

E911 and Location Based Services

Executed test cases for Coarse and Precise location certification and test cases for e911 location certification

Executed functional regression test plans for e911 and LBS using JMeter platform

Interfaced with vendor to Initiate change request for captured defects and enhancements

Assisted with the creation of requirements for the next-gen e911 platform

Sprint Velocity – Connect Vehicle Project

Assisted with the configuration of running VM's and DB nodes associated to the solution.

Developed and executed SNMP and Operational Metrics test plans and test cases for the Cisco UCS platform

Implemented Socket Station, and NetApp manager systems for alarming and OM metrics

Sprint Mobile Sync

Tested successfully and delivered a new customer facing PIM synchronization platform on the Sprint CDMA network that provides services to millions of subscribers.

Created detailed test plans for management of user contact list, group management and service provisioning (network/mobile device centric). These test plans were developed from detailed design requirements

Used mobile diagnostic tools (i.e. QPST and vendor specific PST) to configure and provision handsets with the correct software loads and PST files

Assisted with the configuration, administration and software updates of the platform F5 LTM’s

GLMS/XDMS/QCHAT

Tested and Deployed Mobile Sync - Over-the-Air device management system.

Tested and certified the management of the user contact lists, group data management and service provisioning.

Created detailed test plans for the management of user contact list, group management and service provisioning.

Executed multiple iterations of regression testing on new software version provided by the vendor.

Assisted with the configuration, administration and software updates of the platform F5 LTM’s

Sprint Ready Link – SIP and VOIP

Experienced with Soft Switch technology and SIP/VOIP standards: RFC 3261-SIP; RFC1889-RTP

Performed integration and interoperability testing from created detailed test plans for SIP and VOIP test scenarios (network/mobile device centric).

3G CDMA 3G1XRTT

Executed hardware, software, platform and application test suites and cases for network systems, features and services; selecting test cases, executing test plans, analyzing test results, determining, scheduling and implementing corrective actions.

Education:

Mid-America Nazarene University, Kansas, Masters of Business Administration

North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Activities / Additional Information:

National Treasurer – BOLD (Black Org Leadership Development) - Business Resource Group

United States Navy (Honorable Discharged)

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