James Kreyling
Murrieta, Ca. 92563
951-***-**** – Cell Phone
adjp6z@r.postjobfree.com– Email
Summary of Qualifications:
Software Quality Assurance Engineer and Technology Professional with extensive experience in strategic problem solving of numerous Software Development Life Cycles, as well as Business Management, Quality Team Building, and Project Management.
Areas of Expertise:
AGILE - SCRUM Master
Team Building
Thorough understanding of many SDLC profiles (Software Development Life Cycle)
QA/Testing practices and Methodologies, from inception to implementation of a project
Software Development Project Planning and Program Management
Use of automated tools (i.e. Mercury) to minimize Testing Cycle, as well as help create/design in house testing tools
Extensive experience in writing Test Plans (Master/Detailed), Test Procedures, and Test Scripts/Test Cases
Extensive experience in all areas of testing - using manual and automated testing techniques:
Function, Stress, Load, Performance, System, Regression, White Box & Black Box Testing
Vendor Management
Outsourcing Resource Management - including both onsite and offshore direct reports
Worked with internal and external business units to help modify the testing procedure to be more efficient by modifying processes as well as gathering better requirements for testing efforts
Tools:
Load Runner – Load test tool – intermediate user
Test Director/Quality Center/Performance Center – Testing center intermediate user
JIRA – Expert user
TFS Test Case Studio – intermediate user
MS Office Suite – expert user
SQL Studio – intermediate user
Professional Experience:
Covius. 2014 – 2020
Lead QA Analyst - Software Test Engineer working with Software QA engineers and IT managers to improve production processes.
Accomplishments:
Identified lacking processes and documentation in the QA testing area and assisted in implementing changes to help mature the QA process and documentation to the QA life cycle
Created Test plans/Cases for Integration and Regression testing. Reviewed the test plan and test cases with the developers and Business Units to ensure proper requirements were met for testing objectives.
Documented all results and tracked bugs to their fixes, explaining the test results and changes that were implemented during all phases of testing. Including recommendations for the Go – No Go decision
Work closely with development teams and Business units by, creating/executing test scenarios/test plans that were used to evaluate software for any defects logged any found defects into tracking software.
Worked with development team and QA to help automate some aspects of Regression and Integration
Tested Client-Server as well as Web Based applications written in Variations of C i.e. C#, C++, VB, Java and Java Script. Using both manual testing and automated testing.
Created SQL queries to validate database correctly inputted data sets
Lead the onsite FTE’s on daily/weekly activates and reported back to upper management daily/weekly progress on project and goals
Reported daily/weekly status of each project to management
Mitchell Intl. 2005 – 2014
Sr. QA Analyst IV/SCRUM Master - Team Lead - Software Test Engineer working with Software QA engineers and IT managers to improve production processes.
Accomplishments:
Identified lacking processes and documentation in the QA testing area and assisted in implementing changes to help mature the QA process and documentation to the QA life cycle
Documented all results and tracked bugs to their fixes, explaining the test results and changes that were implemented during all phases of testing. Including recommendations for the Go – No Go decision
Work closely with development teams and Business units by, creating/executing test scenarios/test plans that were used to evaluate software for any defects logged any found defects into tracking software.
Worked with development team and QA to help automate some aspects of Regression and Integration
Tested Client-Server as well as Web Based applications written in Variations of C i.e. C#, C++, VB, Java and Java Script. Using both manual testing and automated testing.
Created SQL queries to validate database correctly inputted data sets
Lead the onsite FTE’s on daily/weekly activates and reported back to upper management daily/weekly progress on project and goals
Reported daily/weekly status of each project to management
Assisted in the design of the automated test harnesses that were created for testing.
Union Bank of California. 2001 – 2005
System Specialist III - Software Test Engineer (Acting Lead) working with Software QA engineers and IT managers to improve production processes.
Accomplishments:
Performed benefit analysis of current QA test tools – Identified deficiencies in current tools sets and processes. Identified alternative solution (We worked with Mercury interactive tool suite). Using an evaluation copy of the proposed solution, developed scripts to automate performance testing of the banks products. Based on demonstrated benefit and cost valuation, Load Runner and WinRunner (Later Quick Test Pro was added) were implemented as a replacement to the previous tool sets.
Identified lacking processes and documentation in the QA testing processes and procedures. As well as reviewing the process and implementing the changes that were needed to help mature the QA process and documentation.
Outsourcing Resource Management – Lead groups of up to10 direct reports, both onsite and off shore groups
Lead the onsite FTE’s on daily/weekly activates and reported back to upper management daily/weekly progress on project and goals.
Created Test plans/scenarios for UAT, Regression, and Performance Testing with developers and Business Units to insure that the proper requirements were being met for the testing objectives
Worked closely with the development teams and the business units by, creating/executing automated test scenarios/test plans that were used to evaluate software performance in a "real world" environment through proficient identification of bottlenecks and other design issues. As well as evaluated the systems performance under varying user loads, by monitoring CPU utilization, system throughput, and many other metrics to identify the maximum capacity. Our group would make recommend hardware configuration for the system to be able to support the various SLA’s.
Lead teams of subject matter experts in Webshere/Apache servers, oracle, Siteminder, and various other web components to identify errors and tune the system for optimal performance for the end users in production
Documented all results for the Business Units, explaining the test results and changes that were implemented during all phases of testing. Including recommendations for the Go – No Go decision
Reported daily/weekly status of each project to management
Mentored lower level engineers on best SQA practices and testing objectives.
Tested Client-Server as well as Web Based applications written in Variations of C i.e. C#, C++, VB, Java and Java Script. Using both manual testing and automated testing.
Total Resource Management. 2000 –2001
Implementation Specialist/ Jr. Developer
Accomplishments:
Setup Software (Maximo) as well as databases for Public Works Centers for the Marine Corp and the Navy Bases in order for clients to track all work performed by the PWC’s
Generated classroom and student training materials in accordance with ISD format. Completed two complete courses for the end user and system administrator. These materials will be used by TRM to conduct implementation training.
Trained Customers on the use of the software onsite
Modified software to the specific customers need
Traveled to customer sites to troubleshoot system, train users and make necessary adjustments for the clients
Employment History:
2014 - 2020
Lead QA Analyst Test Engineer
Walz/Covius
Responsibilities:
1) Project QA Management
2) Supervision of people and team
3) Organization / Process Management
2005 - 2014
Senior Q.A. Integration Test Engineer
Mitchell Intl.
Responsibilities:
1) Meet Project Timelines
2) Mentor Jr. Test Engineers
3) Organization / Process Management
2001 - 2005
Senior Q.A. Performance Engineer
UBOC
Responsibilities:
1) Project QA Management
2) Supervision of people and team
3) Organization / Process Management
2000 - 2001
Implementation Specialist/ Jr. Developer
TRM
Responsibilities:
1) Implement software
2) Train users onsite
3) Create software to users specifications
Education:
2000 Coleman College- Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
References:
Available upon request