Clay Bennett

Email: ad4e8p@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 847-***-****

Bradenton, FL. 34211

Summary

Broadly skilled IT professional with thorough hands-on experience in all aspects of testing including user acceptance, integration, system, functional, integration, and regression testing. Background includes evaluating testing practices and processes. Highly dependable professional with expertise troubleshooting and debugging issues found pre-release. Supportive and enthusiastic team player dedicated to streamlining processes and efficiently resolving project issues.

Technical Skills

Automation tools: Selenium, WebDriver, Sahi Pro, Ranaorex,TestProject

Languages: JavaScript, SQL,

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS

Databases: MySQL

Methodologies: Agile -Scrum, Waterfall

Repository / Version Control Tools: Git, GitHub

Testing Framework: Data-Driven Testing (DDT), Behavior-Driver Testing (BDT)

Test Management Tools: Jira, Jenkins, Azure, Quality Center, TFS,Testuff

Professional Experience

Johnstone Supply, Portland OR. Sept 2022 – Present

Software QA Manager

Meet with developers and Product Owners to discuss requirements and create a high-level test plan.

Highlights:

I put together all of the QA processes and procedures according to SCRUM methodology within 3 months.

In-depth knowledge of Quality Assurance (QA) methodologies and software testing techniques and tools, especially for web-based software products.

Set the corporate standard that needs to be in place for a software company as far as testing goes, testing overall needs requirements, user stories, test design, test cases, and automation or regression testing I did all of this in my first 2 weeks

Prepared and delivered client presentations and working prototype.

Proven ability in requirement analysis and creating Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) between Requirements and Test Cases to ensure test coverage.

Test Design that will capture all the requirements needed to satisfy the feature.

Work closely with the developers during the life cycle and giving them early feedback on any code errors encountered.

Using Selenium as a backbone for Automation efforts

Possesses good communication skills, self-motivation, computational thinking; pro-active, task- oriented problem solver and team player with good mathematical skills and ability to quickly learn new technologies and systems.

Ability to work independently or in a team to identify and solve problems, schedule, and complete assignments.

Smart Commerce, Atlanta, GA. May 2020 – Sept 2022

Software QA Manager

Meet with developers and Product Owners to discuss requirements and create a high-level test plan.

Highlights:

I put together all the QA processes and procedures according to SCRUM methodology.

In-depth knowledge of Quality Assurance (QA) methodologies and software testing techniques and tools, especially for web-based software products.

Set the corporate standard that needs to be in place for a software company as far as testing goes, testing overall needs requirements, user stories, test design, test cases, and automation or regression testing I did all of this in my first 2 weeks..

Prepared and delivered client presentations and working prototype.

Proven ability in requirement analysis and creating Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) between Requirements and Test Cases to ensure test coverage.

Serving as Scrum Master for the development team as well as the Cloud Technologies team

Lead Daily stand ups, Sprint Planning sessions, and backlog reviews.

Test Design that will capture all the requirements needed to satisfy the feature.

Work closely with the developers during the life cycle and giving them early feedback on any code errors encountered.

Implemented Ranorex across the entire company as our main automation tool for Regression testing.

Using SQL to test back-end code not really deep but a lot of Select, Insert Into, Alter Database but can learn more

Possesses good communication skills, self-motivation, computational thinking; pro-active, task- oriented problem solver and team player with good mathematical skills and ability to quickly learn new technologies and systems.

Ability to work independently or in a team to identify and solve problems, schedule, and complete assignments.

Server Central Turing Group (SCTG), Chicago, IL November 2017-May 2020

Software QA Lead

Served as a team lead and Scum Master for the company as well acting QA Manager for 16 developers. Interacted with end users and clients on working with them to get the requirements they needed to provide the best tool for the customer.

Highlights:

Meet with developers and Product Owners to discuss requirements and create a high-level test plan.

Prepared and delivered client presentations and working prototypes.

Defined requirements for acquiring ServiceNow as global platform.

Serving as Scrum Master for the development team as well as the Cloud Technologies team

Led Daily standups, Sprint Planning sessions, and backlog reviews.

Test Design that will capture all the requirements needed to satisfy the feature.

Work closely with the developers during the life cycle and giving them early feedback on any code errors encountered.

Extensive experience in Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Functional Testing, Database Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Positive and Negative Testing including Black-Box testing in Waterfall and Agile environments.

Implemented Selenium across the entire company as our main automation tool for Regression tests.

Using SQL to test back-end code is not really deep but a lot of Select, Insert Into, Alter Database but can learn more.

Siemens Building Technologies, Buffalo Grove, IL September 2004 to September 2017

Software Test Engineer

Served as Test Lead on a complex, customer facing global project, comprising 25 developers, 10 testers, and 4 technical writers in Zug, Switzerland and Pune, India. Responsible for developing Test Designs, Test Cases, and Test Execution against multiple software and firmware configurations and multiple operating systems.

Quality Assurance

Streamlined QA process to increase efficiency and reduce new product roll out time by

one week.

Team Leader

US test lead for the past 9 years on a global project along with Switzerland and India.

Team Collaboration

Brainstormed development team evolution strategy and deployed best practices, such

as team programming, test-driven development, and defined project skill sets in line with methodology.

Highlights:

Was a point of contact for all internal teams which included firmware, applications and systems test teams.

Collaborated with developers during the test phase to capture defects in the early stages of development.

Collaborated with offshore teams for project tracking and status updates.

Reviewed business requirements to create test strategies and test plans.

Involved with System, Function, Regression and UAT testing.

Deft tracking using HP Quality Center and IBM Rational Clear Quest.

Responsible for updating test documentation if a change request is added.

Participated in Sprint Planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, defect control board meeting and backlog reviews.

Expert in setting up TCP/IP networks as well as MSTP platform.

Expert in setup configuration and distribution of Virtual Machine workstations

During my time at Siemens, I adopted Ranorex as the automation tool of choice in a C# environment. I was able to understand the code using Ranorex tools and create some automation tests, just to be clear I am not a programmer, but I can understand the code. We used this for about 3 years before I left Siemens. We used Ranorex as a UI tool to check new features.

I also have experience in using SQL to test back-end code not deep but a lot of Select, Insert Into, Alter Database but can learn more.

Education

Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA

Area of study: Forensics

HVAC Apprenticeship Thomas Nelson CC, Hampton, VA

Served at NASA/Langley Air Force Base

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