Qa Tester Quality Assurance

Ethan Rips

Phone: 347-***-**** Email: *****.****@*****.***

QA Tester

Experienced QA tester, website compliance auditor and UX consultant with proven ability to deliver innovative solutions translating to significant cost savings and increased productivity. History of meeting tight deadlines while working simultaneously on multiple projects. Proficient liaison between technical and non-technical personnel, including business unit website content owners, with demonstrated ease working across all levels of a large organization. Superb communication skills, written and oral.

Areas of Expertise

Web Development

Business Analysis

Risk Management

Cost Savings and Reductions

UX Design

Project Management

Vendor Relations

User Training

Quality Assurance Testing

Production Management

Workflow Analysis

Professional Experience

THE DREYFUS CORPORATION, New York, NY 1995 – 2014

At The Dreyfus Corporation, I spearheaded a large scale quality assurance testing effort resulting in the elimination of multiple system malfunctions and dramatically increasing automated production efficiency. As part of Marketing Communications, I participated in multiple technical projects aimed at increased efficiencies and cost savings, including automating document production and UX design, resulting in approximately $8M in cost savings over 10 years. I identified cost savings opportunities in every area and was promoted due to consistent delivery within deadlines and attention to detail.

QA & Training Team Lead January 2004 – November 2014

Planned, wrote, scheduled, and executed manual QA tests of web-based production systems. Resulted in reduction of system downtime by 95%.

Performed data analysis, designed QA test cases and scripts based on functional requirements.

Coordinated with internal and offshore teams, technical and non-technical, on multiple projects.

Acted as technical liaison between non-technical users and tech teams.

Led redesign of proprietary IDE, increasing development speed by 95%.

Documented technical problems in Mantis and other systems.

Created and delivered tutorials to users on operation of automated document production systems.

Project Manager February 2009 – November 2014

Produced savings of $8M over 10 years via automation of document production.

Lowered labor costs 20% by migrating automated production process to Legal Department.

Ensured 100% compliance with SEC deadlines, thereby avoiding potential fines, by meeting every production deadline.

Business Analyst April 2007 – February 2009

Provided analytical rationale for in-house automation of factsheet production and for automation and migration of custom document production to Legal Department.

Performed data analysis for three technical projects automating document production workflows.

Reduced delays in data entry by 35% via analysis of system’s user interface design.

Professional Experience (cont’d)

Web Development Manager January 2004 – April 2007

Expedited completion of SingleSite and other web projects by 50% via programming.

Delivered custom solutions under tight production deadlines via automations in proprietary IDEs.

Furthered in-time product delivery via Adobe Acrobat automation using JavaScript and Acrobat Actions.

Desktop Production Manager April 1995 – January 2004

Managed a team of Desktop Publishers responsible for creating all financial customer communications.

Ensured that team produced all materials with branding and compliance requirements.

Created and contributed to the design, production and delivery of multi-channel marketing communications.

Managed all print and software vendor relationships.

Education, Training & Computer Skills

Bachelor of Arts, History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Training:

Selenium Webdriver with Java Testing & Log4j

2D Game Development With HTML5 Canvas, JS

Complete 2023 Software Testing Bootcamp

CSS

Structured Testing Techniques

Java

Certified Scrum Master

Accelerated JavaScript Training

Project Management

PHP Tutorial: PHP/MySQL for Beginners

MS Excel-Data Visualization, Charts & Graphs

XML and XPath

PowerPoint Masterclass-Presentation Design

DeskNet ContentWelder

Development Tools and Languages:

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Site Catalyst

BBEdit

CSS3

Dreamweaver

Eclipse

git

Google Analytics

HTML5

JavaScript

Mantis

Microsoft Office Suite

MS Project

SQL

UltraEdit

Unix shell

VisualSourceSafe (VSS)

WebStorm

XML

XMSpy

Organizations:

Scrum Alliance

Association for Computing Machinery

WebProfessionals.org

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