Project Manager Quality Assurance

Jose L. Correa

Summary

Experienced software executive with over twenty years of experience in IT

Management positions mostly as Director of Quality Assurance groups. Led Project teams, IT Development Teams and Sales teams as well. Led Project Teams that included rolling out new products to the market, to data conversion projects. Managed offshore development projects for both QA teams and Development teams. Product Manager responsible for working with customers and internal development and business groups for implementing new product features and requirements. Exposure to a wide range of industries and technical infrastructures from IBM Mainframe, VAX, Client/Server, UNIX, Web and mobile platforms across many industries, pharmaceutical, insurance, government, MRP, and Web applications. Tools and Skills

Salesforce.com, Selenium, Perfecto Mobile, Device Anywhere, Testuff, Pivotal Tracker, PractiTest, Atlassian’s JIRA, VB.net, HP Quality Center, IBM Rational, Teamtrack, Magic, QCIT, PVCS Tracker, Clear Quest, Compuware’s QA Center, PVCS VM and Tracker, Teamtrack, RequisitePro, TracQA, AutoTester, SRI's CapBak, Easycase, DEMO2, Softool's CCC, ACT, MS Project, MS Office Suite, Visio, MS-SQL, Access, Excel, RoboDemo, Demoquik, and more.

Experience

09/2013 – Present Deluxe Rewards, Inc. Boca Raton, FL Director, Quality Assurance, Financial Services Division

Direct and manage all of Deluxe’s Financial Services Division’s QA team consisting of QA Analysts in three offices, Boca Raton, Atlanta, GA and Plymouth, MI.

Successfully completed the Deluxe “Director’s Evaluation Program” to be part of the senior management team of Deluxe Corp, Financial Services division.

Manage and implement QA principles in an Agile Development environment.

Implement process improvements for the Financial Services Division’s IT Team leading to improved defect tracking prevention and removal.

Selected, negotiated and worked with offshore team to implement test automation using Selenium and Perfecto Mobile

Implemented online standards and procedures programs using Doc-to- help.

Managed all testing of product releases.

Implemented test management software with new testing metrics using PractiTest.

9042 Lake Park Circle

Davie, FL 33328

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9042 Lake Park Circle, Davie, FL 33328 • Cell 954-***-**** Experience

09/2010 – 08/2013 College Showcases America, Inc. Davie, FL Founder / IT Director

Manage software projects, including new software releases.

Managed outsource software development team

Provided customer support and presented new software to Board of Directors, business partners and customers.

Responsible for business development

Responsible for Systems Testing of all our products. Experience

07/2008 - 08/2010 TechnologyPros LLC Cheshire, CT

IT Consultant

Manage projects, including resource estimation and Project Management

Business Development

Responsible for implementing new QA procedures

Setup standards and procedures for Change Management, Defect Tracking, Test Automation

Responsible for Systems Testing of all our products. Experience

11/2007 – 06/2008 L&T Infotech Hartford, CT

QA Consultant

Assist the Insurance QA practice with “branding” its practice

Provide QA SME to L&T contacts, sales and marketing support

Develop new “QA story” for L&T Infotech senior management

Develop new supporting documentation

Provide account management services as requested

Develop and present project plan for implementing new branding Experience

08/2006 – 11/2007 InSource Consulting Windsor, CT

Project Manager

Responsible for implementing new SDLC procedures

Managed Offshore Vendor Selection for an InSource client and ultimately recommended and selected Cognizant over TCS, InfoSys and others

Setup standards and procedures for Change Management, Defect Tracking, Test Automation

Responsible for Systems Testing of all our products.

Manage IT Consulting staff

Provide Senior QA and PM consulting services for InSource clients

Recruit new IT consultants for the IT practice at InSource

Developed and attracted business partners for InSource.

Provided sales and marketing support for both the QA practice and corporate

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07/2005 – 07/2006 Phoenix Insurance Hartford, CT

QA Consulting Assignment - Quality Assurance Program Lead

Manage QA projects, including resource estimation and Project Management

Responsible for all testing tasks for our projects

Manage QA Group of 5 to 10 people

Worked closely with vendors such TCS offshore development and business areas

Provide QA support for all areas of product development, from Requirements to Release of all products

Interface with all areas of Product Development and Business Units to implement program changes.

Provide IT and testing process improvements

Experience

05/2004 – 06/2005 Health Direct, Inc. Farmington, CT QA/Project Manager

Responsible for implementing new QA procedures

Setup standards and procedures for Change Management, Defect Tracking, Test Automation

Responsible for Systems Testing of all our products.

Manage QA Group of five

Worked closely and Managed offshore TCS development

Provide QA support for all areas of product development, from Requirements to Release of all products

Interface with all areas of Product Development and Business Units to implement program changes.

Project Management for select projects for the Workman’s Comp product line

Develop and implement standards and procedures for all the areas in IT, for example Infrastructure standards, QA standards, etc.

Responsible for process improvement, including IT Governance, Scrum Development methodology, test coverage analysis tools.

Business Technology Optimization with Mercury Tool Suite. Experience 06/2003 – 04/2004 TurboWorx, Inc. Shelton, CT Director of Solutions Operations

Provide expertise in all areas of Sales and Marketing, from generating new marketing campaigns to implementing new sales processes to reduce sales cycle time.

Negotiated and managed offshore contracts and development team, Persistent Systems.

Responsible for Development Outsource projects.

Report to the Executive team with the Development “road-map” for future releases.

Manage QA Group.

Work with the TurboWorx PR Firm to refine our message to the market.

Interface with all areas of Product Development to implement program changes.

Develop and implement standards and procedures for all areas in Software Development, QA.

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Recommend team process improvements across the company.

Created the TurboWorx Partner program. Working with the Executive team, manage and participate in all partnering related activities from prospecting to building relationships to managing new partners. Recent partner projects include Avnet-Hallmark, SGI and Venture Systems Source.

Defined the process for bringing partners online with our products and services.

Project manager for development projects working with both in-house development group and outsourced developers from Pune, India.

Negotiate pricing with outsource marketing and development activities. Additonal

Experience

05/2002 – 06/2003 Information Technology Business Group Rockville, MD

Vice President, Software Solutions

12/1993 – 05/2002 Quality Systems International Cheshire, CT President and Founder

10/1992 – 12/1993 The Fletcher Group Hartford, CT

Partner and Director of Quality Assurance Consulting Services – Mainframe and Client Server Applications

04/1991 – 10/1992 Datalogix International Valhalla, NY Testing Leader – UNIX, Mainframe and Client Server applications 09/1986 – 03/1991 Structured Computer Systems. Avon, CT Customer Support Manager – Wang, DEC VAX, HP

06/1977 – 09/1986 CNB/Shawmut Bank. Hartford, CT

Quality Assurance Analyst – IBM Mainframes

Senior Data Processing Scheduler

Education 1977-1980 University of Hartford Bloomfield, CT

Business Administration

Certifications and

courses

1992 - 2001 QAI Orlando, FL

Certified Quality Analyst (CQA) Certificate Number 2065.

Cobol, SAS Programming Workshops.

Other

Fluent in Spanish.

Vice President of the Quality Assurance Association of Connecticut serving on the Board of Directors, 1993, 1994.

Consultant with Quality Assurance Institute, QAI. Taught QAI courses both in Spanish and English throughout the US and international.

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