Objectives
To obtain a position in Computer Quality Assurance field or another that will take advantage of my very diverse skills and allow me to develop them further.
Experience
C.A.R.E.
Computer Analyst
October 2019 – Present
Worked for Non-Profit assisting low-income families that provides a whole range of services, including providing free food. Works in association with SFPD.
Managing Computer lab and maintaining computers and other equipment.
Transferred paper records into computer database and created a structure for it.
Managed transferring data into Excel and create reports and charts as needed.
Solved multiple problems with the whole setup.
Assisted residents with their computing needs, including helping them with creating resumes.
During this pandemic maintaining the database and assisting the owner with other tasks.
Ink, Inc.
December 2018 – October 2019
Provide new services for colleges around the world for printing needs.
Research for new colleges to tell them about the product.
The Product is to enhance how students print and scan in colleges.
In this process, learned a lot of information how colleges operate.
The project ended for me when enough contracts have been signed.
GGR Plumbing, Inc.
Owner
January 2014 – December 2018
Running my Company, managing Employees, interactions with Contractors/Vendors. Performing bookkeeping and office keeping.
Making sure everything is up to date.
Dealing with customers with problems with 95% success rate.
Was able to recover funds except two cases.
Had to exit the business due to market condition.
Wells Fargo
QA Analyst
December 2011 – December 2013
13 + years’ experience in UI Testing, writing Test Cases and Test Plans.
Full understanding of QA Processes.
Experience interfacing with all Stakeholders in the project, i.e. Business Management, Development, Quality Assurance, etc.
Understanding documentation and translating it into Test Plans and Test Cases.
Experience using HP Quality Center. Functional, System, and Regression Testing. Test Client/Server and Web applications.
Understand automation test failures.
Knowledge of Agile Development Cycle.
Gary’s Guaranteed Rooter, Inc.
Bookkeeper
July 2010 – December 2013
Perform Bookkeeping Duties
Interface with customers and vendors.
support employees and Contractors.
Perform essential duties and performing duties as an Office Manager.
Drew on all my knowledge from my studies at U.C. Berkeley.
PowerTest
Solutions Engineer
2000 – April 2010
Performed Quality Assurance and Requirements Management pre and post sales consulting duties at the client companies.
Gained hands-on experience with HP Quality Center and Mercury TestDirector.
Administered projects and users using Quality Center Site Administrator as well as provided a technical support to Quality Center users.
Customized projects within QC according to customer’s needs (such as adding fields within modules). Moved active projects from one Quality Center server to another.
Performed installation of Quality Center 10. Created and executed Smoke, Unit, Regression, System, UAT, and Functional tests.
Designed, executed and mapped Test Cases to requirements in HP Quality Center.
Participated in pre-sales sessions with potential customers in order to demo Quality Center and answer questions about it. Exposure to Mercury WinRunner and HP QuickTest Professional while performing black box testing.
Developed a defect report including steps to reproduce the failure, details of failure, and any workarounds discovered.
Used Quality Center, PVCS and ClearQuest to store defects.
Mentored clients in the use of CaliberRM as well as provided support in the use of these tools including at a large hospital chain.
Knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and QA life cycles, especially Agile Software Development Cycle.
Education
UC Berkeley
Bachelors in Cognitive Science with Emphasis in Computer Science