Patrick Varas

Beacon, New York, United States

ad4hkl@r.postjobfree.com 845-***-****

linkedin.com/in/patrickvaras

Summary

Quality Assurance Professional with a background in both manual and automated testing methodologies across the software development life cycle. Experienced in leading QA teams to ensure product excellence, showcasing a hands-on approach to test strategy implementation and execution. Proven track record in resource and budget management, ensuring projects are delivered within allocated resources while maintaining high standards of quality. Experienced in mobile application testing, as well as a strong command of various testing tools and frameworks. Problem solver and committed to the delivery of robust and reliable software. Skills

• Experience with QA methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall

• Experience with test plan creation and execution

• Knowledge of automation tools such as Katalon, TestComplete and Selenium

• Defect tracking and management using tools such as Jira and Confluence

• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions

• Team Management and Leadership skills

• Problem Solver

• Excellent communication skills

• Experience in managing multiple vendor relationships

• Experience in UAT, regression, security, and performance testing

• Experience in managing both offshore and onsite test teams

• Experience working in a start-up environment

Experience

Director Of Quality Assurance

Warner Music Group

Jan 2020 - Sep 2023 (3 years 9 months)

• Responsible for an 80+ person team of Quality Assurance professionals

• Managed multiple vendor relationships and consultants

• Managed multiple project teams across a wide range of enterprise and retail projects

• Implemented automation strategies and introduced new standards in tools and process

• Responsible for mentoring and growing the QA team

• Created new standards in QA documentation and reporting

• Worked closely with and collaborated with multiple departments, including product, business, UI/UX

• Regularly worked side by side with testers

Quality Assurance and Reliability Manager

Warner Music Group

Sep 2015 - Jan 2020 (4 years 5 months)

• Manage the Quality Process across multiple disciplines within WMG

• Responsible for onboarding new resources

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• Managed over twenty resources over multiple project teams

• Project planning, onboarding, documenting, and developing the overall QA process

• Responsible for setting QA and Reliability guidelines and best practices

• Responsible for both management duties as well as hands-on testing

• Responsible for setting quality standards and reliability metrics

• Created an automation strategy and helped develop automation scripts Quality Assurance Lead

Isobar

Jul 2014 - Aug 2015 (1 year 2 months)

• Leadership of the Quality Assurance team

• Responsible for all test documentation and reporting

• Hybris Enterprise ecommerce experience

• Execution of all testing, including mobile, regression and end to end

• Gap analysis of all requirements including user stories, wire frames and design documents

• Data Analysis and modeling

• Task estimation

• Project leadership and mentoring

• Liaison with client technology teams

• Manage relationships with internal project teams

• Autonomous and collaborative work scheduling

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

VMTurbo

Mar 2013 - Jan 2014 (11 months)

• Responsible for all quality aspects of the company’s flagship product

• Experience in working in a Linux environment

• Tested with emphasis on reporting and documentation

• Experience with experimental testing

• Experience with different types of hypervisors, including VC, XenServer, and MS HyperV

• Branched out into UCS and Cloudstack environments

• Worked as part of a team that specialized in cloud infrastructure and virtualization Quality Assurance Manager

ALACRA, INC

• Solely responsible for all aspects of quality assurance on a companywide level

• Introduced and implemented new quality assurance procedures

• Introduce new standards for test documentation

• Worked closely with the development and business teams

• Tested applications using both manual and automated methods

• Coordinated testing efforts between the U.S. and London office

• Responsible for regression testing legacy products as well as newer endeavors

• Created new testing procedures for new projects in the compliance field

• Testing efforts included web-based applications, databases, and the company retail site Quality Assurance Test Lead

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Morgan Stanley

• Initiate/chair meetings between dev, business, and environmental teams

• Create the overall test plan based on business requirements

• Manage all test resources, including on-site and offshore testers

• Worked closely with the business users to coordinate UAT testing

• Review and help to create test cases

• Assist in the creation of the test environment

• Create and distribute documentation and metrics for reporting

• Create and manage the test schedule

• Create post-mortem and lessons-learned docs to review with the project team

• Led or assisted in manual testing of varied financial applications, such as the client-facing site, and FA client tools

• Worked with 3rd party vendors to integrate services into our systems, such as ILX data and Thompson workstations

Quality Assurance Engineer

OneClip.com

• Created documentation, such as application help files and functional specs

• Tested all website functionality, including the website front and back end

• Worked closely with the Tech-op’s dept. during code upgrades

• Worked with Winrunner to automate testing procedures

• Created content for the company website

• Served as a mentor for the junior QA staff

Education

University of Phoenix

Associate of Arts, General Studies

University of Phoenix

Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems, General Boston University

Certificate - Managing Information Technology Projects Licenses & Certifications

Rapid Software Testing Initiative - Satisfice, Inc. FCC Technician Class License - KC2WUN - Federal Communications Commission Issued Mar 2010 - Expires Mar 2030

KC2WUN

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