RICHARD M. LONG, JR.

adhoxv@r.postjobfree.com Gaithersburg, Maryland 240-***-**** (Cell)

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SUMMARY

Detail-oriented Computer Science Technology Professional with over twenty-five years experience in Quality Assurance

(QA) / Test Engineering / QA Documentation and eight years experience in Embedded and Graphical User Interface (GUI) software design.

Specialties: Expertise in the design of Graphical User Interface test tools, automated test systems and manual test procedures. Strengths include the delivery of accurate, concise and innovative technological solutions. TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & ABILITIES

Languages C and C++

Python & Python with Tkinter, pyselenium, pyusb, pyxl, pyinstaller, cx_oracle, urllib, pycharm XML, HTML and some Java Scripting

Assembly (on Zilog Z80 and Intel 80x86 microprocessors) Databases Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft Access and RC-WinTrans Tool Tools/Suites Microsoft Applications: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Visual C++ and Visual Basic Web Drivers: Selenium for Python and Appium for Python Configuration Management: Rational Clear Case and CollabNet Subversion CAD Applications: Cadence OrCAD and PSpice

Adobe Applications: CSx InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash Environments Microsoft Windows, Mint & Fedora Linux, and Solaris UNIX Real Time Operating Systems: Integrated Systems pSOS and Wind River VxWorks Life Cycle Wrote software requirements, software integration test plans, and software acceptance tests. Developed and managed project schedule.

Designed, coded and tested software components.

Conducted software code reviews.

Inspected peers' software components throughout the project's life cycle and provided feedback. Prepared production software for release to manufacturing. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Shift4 Payments, (formerly Merchant Link, LLC) Silver Spring, MD 2010 – Present Senior Integrations Analyst 2019-Present

Design Graphical User Interface (GUI) Customer Test Tools for the Integrations Group

Design internal GUI Test Tools for Integrations, Service Delivery and Pin-Pad Deployment Groups Merchant Link, LLC, (acquired by Shift4 Payments) Silver Spring, MD 2010 – 2019 Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Quality Assurance Testing

Design (in python / tkinter) Command-Line and Graphical User Interface test tools for Merchant Link's Transaction Link, Transaction Shield and Transaction Vault products in both PC and UNIX versions.

Examine and analyze software release notes (document from the developer).

Create QA test plan document based on software release notes.

Create test data and test scripts based on QA test plan. RICHARD M. LONG, JR.

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Execute testing, record and analyze results, report code anomalies to Software Development Department.

Perform software code deployment testing on production servers.

Provide test support and conduct certification testing / analysis of new Value-Added Resellers (VARs).

Perform certification testing of new or existing host processors.

Develop & improve automated regression test scripts and test tools. JDSU (formerly ACTERNA), Germantown, MD 2000 - 2008 Software Engineer

Quality Assurance Testing

Designed and published manual software test procedures incorporating graphical setups and concise step by step instructions to improved readability.

Revised existing manual software test procedures, incorporated graphical setups and reduced detailed instructions into concise step by step sentences, eliminating confusion and reduced test times.

Converted manual software acceptance test procedures into automated test scripts that greatly reduced the test times labor-intensive manual testing.

Designed, coded and tested automated test scripts written in Perl for software acceptance testing of production software.

Graphical User Interface Software

Designed, coded and tested major Graphical User Interface (GUI) software components using Visual C++.

Depicted GUI software requirements graphically using power point slides to facilitate software implementation and eliminate mis-perception of software requirements. Embedded Software

Designed, coded and tested major embedded software components in C++ for both hand held instrumentation and rack mount systems. Embedded software components were designed to run in the pSOS Real Time Operating System environment.

Leveraged Clear Case or Subversion CM tool to maintain revision control of incremental beta releases and for finial software release; Used MS Word to write software requirements, hardware software integration test plans and test procedures; Used MS project to manage software development schedules and Lotus Notes/MS outlook to schedule code review meetings.

ORBITAL SCIENCES, CORP., Germantown, MD 1999-2000

Software Engineer, (01/00 – 10/00)

Associate Software Engineer, (01/99 – 01/00)

Embedded Software

Designed, coded and tested major and minor embedded software components in C for aerospace systems. The Embedded software components were designed to run in the VxWorks Real Time Operating System environment.

Used Clear Case tool to maintain revision control. Used MS Word to write software / hardware integration test plans and test procedures. Used Lotus Notes to schedule code review meetings. RICHARD M. LONG, JR.

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HEKIMIAN LABORATORIES, INC., Rockville, MD 1980 – 1998 Junior Systems Software Engineer / Senior Engineering Technician Quality Assurance Testing

Wrote and revised test procedures and Engineering Change Orders.

Performed lab experiments and wrote lab reports.

Designed, wrote and tested ATF test programs (in Basic, C and C++).

Designed, built and tested manual / automated test fixtures (ATF).

Designed, wrote and performed regression tests on Hekimian's Test Access Systems. Systems Software

Converted Hekimians' existing React-2000 test software package, written in C into C++. Electrical Engineering

Designed and tested minor electrical circuits, Programmable Array Logic (PAL) and Programmable Logic Devices

(PLD) for new product development.

Designed and tested power, pulse and signal transformers for new products.

Created Specification Control Documents (SCD), Schematics and Component Layout Documents (by hand and CAD software tools).

Tested and repaired (board level trouble shooting) Hekimian’s production telecommunication equipment. EDUCATION

B.S., Computer Science

University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD 12/1998 Electronic Technician Certificate / FCC radio-telephone license Arundel Institute of Technology, Baltimore, MD 09/1980 AWARDS / CERTIFICATIONS

CEO's Star Achiever Award

Merchant Link 12/2016

Certified Tester Foundation Level in Software Testing International Software Testing Qualifications Board 01/2017 Undergraduate Certificate in Desktop Publishing

University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD 08/2009

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