Sandy D. Kiser

Senior Test Engineer

678-***-****

sandy.kiser@ gmail.com

Background: Seasoned Test Engineer with over 15 years IT experience. Well versed in all the phases of Software Testing Life Cycle with expertise in Integration, Functional, End to End, UAT, Regression, and Smoke Testing as a Manual Tester. Experienced in analyzing test results, communicating with team members, coaching junior team members, and working with Off-Shore teams in various locations worldwide.

Skills:

Test Planning, Strategy, & Execution

Functional Testing

Requirements Analysis

Multiple Test Case Applications (ALM, MTM, etc.)

Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll Configurations

Webservice and End to End Testing

PowerShell Scripts

Requirements Analysis & Traceability

Defect Management

Test Driven & Behavioral Driven Development

SQL queries (Oracle PL/SQL, MySQL, MSSQL)

Testing in Agile and Waterfall

Design & Build Enablement

Certifications: Professional Scrum Master, PSM-I

ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP)

Splunk, Fundamentals I

Related Work:

Tek Systems – QA Analyst Tenure: Since June 2023

Leading all efforts relating to testing and/ or coordination of release control efforts.

Planning and reviewing test models for product test and release control (plans, data, and scripts).

Planning product test with Functional Team Leads, team members, and the Project Manager.

Acting as primary point of contact for testing facilitators, executors, and validators.

Defining test plans and criteria for acceptance.

Coordinating the development, updating, and maintenance of testing standards and procedures.

Primus Software – System Engineer IV/System Analyst Tenure: 1 year

Running PowerShell scripts to test Firewalls

Collaborating with different teams to get information for testing

Performing load testing of the applications and the system for the Data Center

Creating documentation of test steps and the maintenance of other artifacts needed to support QA

Creating test scripts for ETL Load testing for the data center we were standing up

Accenture - Test Engineering Analyst Tenure: 2.5 years

Test Engineer for several different projects providing expertise in the planning, constructing, and executing of test scripts in the Agile Methodology

Testing Medicare online enrollment programs for their Claims Management System for the State of North Carolina and verifying the output using Oracle PL/SQL to query the database

Applying business and functional knowledge including testing standards, guidelines, and testing methodology to meet the team's overall test objectives

Ensuring all testing results are easily accessible and understandable

Tracking defects to closure and keeping the defect repository up to date

Peer reviewing test conditions and scripts written by other members of the team

Building configurations for Payroll in the Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll environments

Maintaining the Configuration Workbook used for building the configurations in all seven environments

Working with the Off-Shore teams in the Philippines and India for assigning various tasks

Testing API calls using SOAP with Groovy scripts

Sage – Senior QA Analyst Tenure: 2 months

Writing and executing test cases in Excel and VersionOne

Manual testing projects coded in Java end to end by mocking up incoming files using Notepad

Testing Backlog items in between Sprints and Performing tests for deployments

Testing different versions of Sage Software on multiple Virtual Machines

eSecuritel – Test Analyst II (Financial/Back-end) Tenure: 4 years

Writing and executing test cases in Microsoft Test Manager during QA phase of projects and submitting and tracking

defects coded in Java and .NET end to end

Lead QA for testing deployments that could affect Great Plains integration with HITS software for both HITS2 and

HITS3 and Assisting the Automation team in how to automate testing for Great Plains regression runs

Facilitated in the switch from Waterfall methodology to Agile

Testing API calls using SOAP with Groovy scripts and Fiddler with RESTful scripts and verifying the output using SQL

to query the databases

Validation of data transformations and perform End to End data validation for ETL using SQL scripts

Working with the Off-Shore team in Bulgaria to assign tickets using the daily scrum video

Documenting the code migrations from QA to Production

TSYS Loyalty - Test Analyst Tenure: 6 years

Writing and executing test cases in Rational Test Manager and Excel during QA phase of projects and submitting and

tracking defects, also migrating test cases from Excel to Quality Center 9.0, Setting up and maintaining

DNA team SharePoint site

Validation of data transformations and perform End to End data validation for ETL using SQL scripts

TSYS Loyalty - Test Analyst (cont.)

Running stored procedures for ETL data validation and migrations

Manual testing projects coded in Java and .NET end to end by mocking up incoming files using Ultra Edit, verifying

data in the databases using SQL, and then running the outgoing files (ETL) and reports (Hyperion) to verify that the

files and reports that are sent to the client are correct

Researching any defects found in UAT, Verifying code was pushed properly in IM-UAT and IM-PROD environments (smoke testing in PROD)

Participating in design meetings and project document reviews

Verifying resolved defects in the various QA environments

Training new QA staff on setting up data, executing cases, and verifying defects

Testing on various platforms (IM-Web, IM-Agent, IM-Cobol, TLP, Genesis) using Oracle PL/SQL queries in TOAD

Documenting the code migrations from QA to Production

Working with the Business Analysts to document requirements and design documents

Testing API calls using SOAP with Groovy scripts

Monitoring server logs in UNIX

Taught myself SQL and UNIX

Education:

State Univ. of West Georgia - Management

Georgia Institute of Technology - Biology

Volunteer Work:

Volunteer at the Georgia Aquarium

Leadership Roles:

Assistant Director at Dragon Con

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