Engineer Test

CHERYL SMITH

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SENIOR TEST ENGINEER

Delivering Excellence in Quality Assurance, Testing & Debugging, and System Implementations

Accomplished Senior Testing Engineer with 20+ years of experience in system quality assurance, testing, and delivering client solutions. Expert in designing and implementing test plans, cases, and processes fueling swift corrective action, significant cost savings, and fault-free audits. Effective in improving pinpointing/tracking defects and validating functionality. Able to work in complex, project-based Agile environments. Multifaceted experience in functional, system, regression, UAT, section 508 compliance and performance test cases for projects. Skilled in industry-dominant languages, methodologies, and standards. Previously held a Public Trust Clearance .

Technical Skills

Software & Databases CoolGen, SQL, ColdFusion, CICS, SQL, Advantage, PVCS, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, QMF, JCL, Sybase, DB2

Web Page Development HTML, ColdFusion

Mainframe IBM, UNISYS, UNIX

Communication File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Areas of Expertise

Test Planning & Execution Software & System QA Automated & Manual Testing Agile/Scrum Methodologies SDLC UAT

Cross-Functional Team Leadership Testing & Debugging Technical & Testing Documentation Requirements Analysis

Complex Problem-Solving Regression Testing Test Cases & Scripts Defect Monitoring Data Verification Rapid Deployment

Technical Support Status Reporting Functional Testing Unit & Integration Testing Workflow Planning Error Resolution

Professional Experience

LEIDOS, Washington, DC 2017-2020

Senior Test Engineer, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Served as an onsite contractor at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the National Airspace System Integration Support Contract (NISC) III. Tested functional requirements, documented bugs, and provided weekly status reports.

Key Achievements:

Successfully provided systems testing support for the Airworthiness Certification (AWC) System; wrote test cases/scripts, documented bugs, retested bug fixes, and reported summaries with final test results in multiple environments, which included testing 508 compliance standards.

Tested new application to automate the business processes for FAA generation of aircraft registrations and monitored defect resolution; provided FAA stakeholders with a usable, automated application to generate aircraft registration certificates.

Assisted as a Systems Test Engineer and Business Analyst to clarify business rules and system functionality; produced a functional system for pre-production users to utilize and provided feedback prior to formal production release.

PYRAMID SYSTEMS, INC., Fairfax, VA 2006-2017

Tester/Senior Business Analyst

Contracted to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Tenant Rental Assistance Contracts System (TRACS) Support Team for end user processing, technical support, data submission verification, and problem solving.

Key Achievements:

Implemented group decisions, requirement definitions, and system development.

Worked in multiple capacities including production support and troubleshooting, weekly status reporting, TRACS requirements gathering from Industry Specifications for the Tenant Application, monitored changes in requirements, and developed fundamental requirements and program specifications documentation for systems development.

Also ensured requirements included 508 compliance standards.

Earned multiple awards including the Outstanding Service Award for FY 2008 TRACS Release 2.0.2.C Implementation, 3 Years of Outstanding Service (2009), 5 years of Outstanding Service (2011), and 10 years of Outstanding Service (2016).

Professional Experience (Continued)

THE MIL COMPANY, Bowie, MD 2005-2006

Senior Systems Test Engineer

Served as an Orizon, Inc. subcontractor to the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Financial Assessment Subsystem (FASS-PH) for the FASS-PH project. Wrote test plans, test cases and system development methodology documents for unit and integration tests.

Key Achievements:

Leveraged comprehensive knowledge of WinRunner, LoadRunner and Test Director automated test tools to evaluate new or modified software requirements implemented for the FASS-PH system.

Conducted quality assurance and software testing to identify defects and resolve bugs.

Executed test scripts for each release and documented errors and defects for resolution.

Coordinated the testing workflow and provided a detailed schedule to the Project Manager.

Represented the team at the weekly Data Coordination Group meetings to provide testing statuses and issues during cycles.

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS, McLean, VA 1999-2005

Senior Systems Test Engineer

Served as an onsite contractor for the HUD TRACS System. Developed test data and scripts for execution within the batch processing job stream. Collaborated with clients and end users to identify and document system requirements.

Key Achievements:

Successfully identified and documented errors via the Problem Tracking System (PTS) for developer remediation.

Provided world-class quality assurance for post-implementation software implementations in the user environment and for the User Guide following online posting.

Recognized as the Primary Tester of the Automatic Renewal and Amendment Management Subsystem (ARAMS) and TRACS Voucher Report Online Query; validated data integrity between web-based applications and the Sybase database.

Leveraged TCP/IP to submit batch jobs for updates to the database within TRACS and used SQL to retrieve data from DB2.

Additional Professional Experience

Systems Test Engineer, McDonald Bradley, Inc., Herndon, VA (1 year): Served as a Systems Tester/Anderson Consulting subcontractor for the System for Management Information Retrieval – Public Housing (SMIRPH) and the Management Information Retrieval System (MIRS) contract with HUD. Logged errors during system testing of SMIRPH, MIRS Client/Server, DB2, and Sybase servers. Documented errors in a Lotus Notes database and transmitted to developers. Performed Y2K Certification of modules for PowerBuilder and CoolGen applications.

Computer Systems Analyst, Advanced Technology Systems, McLean, VA (2 years): Contracted to the HUD Single Family Acquired Asset Management System (SAMS) project. Assisted the Independent Verification & Validation Test Team to write and execute scripts to test functionality of the system. Developed ad-hoc reports via QLIST/Time Sharing Option (TSO).

Education

Diploma, Computer Operations, Computer Learning Center, Springfield, VA

A.A., Biblical Studies, Washington Bible College, Lanham, MD

A.A., General Studies, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD

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