Anthony Icuspit

Mobile: 617-***-**** ** Northplain Street Norwood, MA 02062, United States

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Summary

Result-oriented Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 28 years of experience in the field. Developed automation frameworks utilizing various industry-standard tools for Integration Testing, Regression Testing and API Testing to verify and validate Middle-Tier components, Web REST Services and GUI Applications. Skilled in the area of Performance Testing and Analysis using HP LoadRunner. Capable of managing test automation and manual testing efforts to meet time-to-market objectives. Experienced in mentoring individuals or teams desiring to build their test automation capability. Pro- active in acquiring knowledge of new technologies/ skills and utilizing it to improve efficiency and productivity as the situation requires. Conducted training of QA team using Application Life Cycle Management - Quality Center tool for Software Quality Assurance working as a consultant at Fidelity.

Experience

Senior Test Engineer

2019 to 2024 – Simply Business, USA – Boston, MA

·Acquired product domain knowledge to identify quality aspects of the application, identify risk areas and come up with an optimize strategy for mitigating risks.

·Work with stakeholders to establish completeness and accuracy of product requirements developed by Product Manager for the development team work scope.

·Motivated the team to work towards continuous improvement by bring up areas in the development process that has impacted the delivery time and quality of the team output.

·Encouraged collaboration between Test Engineers both in the UK and US office with the goal of building technical and domain knowledge to have the capability of offering assistance to other Test Engineers when the need arises.

·Developed a Cypress Automation Framework for internal use to optimize US Journey testing of code changes requiring sign off.

·Collaborated with the Product Manager and Team Lead during the Backlog Review Meeting to ensure that the tickets have the required information prior to the Iteration Planning meeting the next day.

·Established a working relationship with key personnels in Customer Solution Center to extract issues and areas of improvement that could improve the quality of the application from their point-of-view as a user.

·Monitored issues encountered in Production to get a good understanding of the root-cause and come up with suggestions on how to minimize the occurrence of issues that is going to impact business functionality.

·Reviewed with the assigned Test Engineer the Performance Testing approach for new products/components.

Senior QA Engineer

2017 to 2018 – Cinch Financial – Boston, MA

·Participated in the design review sessions to acquire advance information needed for test planning.

·Developed a Postman Test Suite making third party vendor REST API calls to gather data for model evaluation of auto insurance recommendations generated by the Advisor application.

·Developed a performance test suite using JMeter to test a REST API processing data through a Bayesian Network Model utilizing Netica.

·Reviewed current QA process and recommended improvements to reduce risk of introducing defects.

·Analyzed issues encountered during testing by reviewing logs on using Splunk and PostGreSQL tables using PSequel.

·Maintained Selenium Scripts for Web Platform Testing as required.

Principal QA Automation Engineer

2011 to 2017 Fidelity Investments - FIMT, Boston, Massachusetts

·Led test strategy creation and functional testing activities implementing best practices.

·Developed an automation framework using Slim Fit Acceptance Testing Toolkit in Java/ C# for Component Testing and Integration Testing of Middle-Tier Services employing Pivotal Gemfire in-memory database and Scala components.

·Developed automation framework using Slim Fit toolkit for testing RESTful Web Services.

·Participated in design meetings to acquire understanding of the system architecture and ensure that testability is considered in the design.

·Conducted test case review with the members of the development team to provide input for adequate test coverage.

• Provided mentoring to other development teams getting started on test automation.

·Developed a Performance Test Strategy and Web Virtual User Scripts/ Scenarios using HP LoadRunner for RESTful Web Services accessing Reference Data.

·Analyzed issues encountered during testing by reviewing logs on the UNIX host machines and Oracle/ Timesten tables using PL/ SQL.

·Create automated jobs for test execution using Jenkins.

·Acquired working knowledge of Continuous Integration/ Continuous Development using Jenkins.

·Utilized Splunk to gather data from server logs for performance analysis.

·Implemented Version Control process for Fitnesse Fixtures and Test Cases using Git/ Stash.

Principal QA Automation Engineer

2009 to 2011 Fidelity Investments - Compliance, Boston, Massachusetts

·Managed the automation effort of an off-shore team in developing a GUI Integration Test Suite for testing deployment of pre-production releases on different build machines using a framework developed utilizing HP QTP

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·Developed an automation framework using HP Business Process Testing methodology to increase the automation capability of the QA team member with no HP QTP skills.

·Mentored other QA members on the team on the use of the BPT Framework.

·Developed a Performance Test Suite for a Web Application having performance issues using HP LoadRunner and provided the development team with analysis of test results to help determine the root cause of the problem.

·Co-authored the Business Process Testing Standards to guide other teams wanting to implement HP Business Process Testing Methodology.

·Reviewed training materials for HP Business Process Testing proposed by a vendor for completeness and content and provided input prior to the scheduled training.

Principal QA Automation Engineer

2006 to 2009 Fidelity Investments - FIMT, Boston, Massachusetts

·Developed an automation framework using HP QTP Function Library Approach for Automated Regression Testing of a vendor product.

·Developed a GUI Virtual User Scripts/ Scenarios for performance testing of a Middle-Tier component delivering content to a GUI Application and provided analysis of test results to the development team.

·Developed the Enterprise Test Management Standards and Practice using HP Quality Center with members of a core team.

·Provided Performance Testing support to a team tasked to evaluate a Purchase or Build Proposal for a new Trading System.

Principal QA Consultant

2000 to 2006 Ovation Software Testing, Inc., Southborough, Massachusetts

·Deployed an automation framework for HP WinRunner based on Function Library approach.

·Developed Automation Test Strategy for a Trading Application built using VB.

·Converted manual test cases suited for automation using the deployed automation framework.

·Conducted a weekly review of automated test cases with the other member of the QA team.

·Developed HP LoadRunner Java Virtual User scripts/ Scenarios to investigate and analyze an issue on an application built using Java.

·Developed an automation framework using Unified Test Pro Tool to created test data on the AS400.

·Developed HP LoadRunner Web Virtual User scripts/ Scenarios to validate functionality and scalability of a SOAP-based Web service.

Principal QA Engineer

1997 to 2000 RSA Security Inc., Bedford, Massachusetts

·Designed and developed test harness for API Testing of ACE Toolkit using C and TCL.

·Developed an automation framework for Regression Testing of the ACE Server Application.

QA Engineer

1995 to 1997 IDX Systems Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts

·Developed an automation framework using HP WinRunner for Regression Testing.

·Provided training and mentoring to the other members of the QA team on the use of the automation framework.

Maintenance Programmer

1994 to 1995 IDX Systems Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts

·Analyzed defects and provide resolution by making changes to the MUMPS-based programs.

·Participate in the SCRUM daily standup meeting.

Programmer Analyst

1992 to 1994 IDX Systems Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts

·Provided product support for IDX Group Practice Applications to three major clients.

·Analyzed and resolved issues that does not require code changes.

Education

1982 Colegio De San Jose Recoletos, Cebu City, Philippines

Electrical Engineering – Bachelor’s Degree Graduate

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