RICHARD (RICK) DARCY

Bellevue, NE · 402-***-****

aducnx@r.postjobfree.com · https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdarcy/

SR. LEADERSHIP SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEERING

20+ years of experience in manual and automated testing, using a variety of tools, most recently Selenium 2.5/WebDriver, and prior experience with Compuware QA Center and HP Mercury Quality Center for automation. Extensive experience writing and setting up test plans, strategies, test cases, and executing scripts and scenarios. Excellent grasp of SDLC best practices, including Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall methodologies. Experienced in writing complex SQL queries to access database for validation. Extensive experience in full lifecycle of testing from E2E (end to end), including functional, performance, regression, implementation, and support into production. Five years of experience performance testing with LoadRunner (most recent version 9.5). Project Manager/Scrum Master on several Agile projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: MS-Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4.0/XP/7, 8, 10, MS DOS, UNIX

Databases: Oracle 7.3/8i/11i, SQL Plus 3.2, PL/SQL 2.2, /SQL Developer

Programming/Application Tools: Oracle Developer 2000/6, Forms 4.5/6, Reports 2.5, Graphics 2.5, Visual Basic 4.0/5.0/6.0, MS Access 97, Pega Systems, XML and XSLT Style Sheets, Mitchell Ultramate (Estimating Software), CCC Pathways (Estimating Software), ADP (Estimating Software), Compuware CARS suite, Compuware’s QACenter.inc, QALoad & TestPartner, Compuware’s Optimal Trace, TOAD, Visual Studio/.Net, Mercury’s LoadRunner, Jmeter, QTP/UFT and HP Quality Center, AppWorx Scheduling software, SOAP UI, Lisa, Red Prairie, Salesforce CRM, SAP CRM & Hybris-Ecommerce, ServiceMax, JavaEE, Selenium, 2.5 (Java based)/WebDriver, Cucumber frameworks, Selenidroid, Appium for mobile automation, Maven, DynaTrace 4.2, Spring 3.0, Sonar, Sikuli, TestNG, SVN, Bamboo, Jira, Zephyr, Tosca.

CERTIFICATIONS

Centare: Certified Scrum Developer, Certified Scrum Master

Intertech: Certificate in Java Programming, Complete Java, Certificate in Spring 3.0 frameworks.

Compuware’s QA Center Training: Certificate in Automated Testing (QARun, Track Record, QADirector, QALoad and FileAid/CS)

AppWorx Training: Certificate of Completion, Learning Tree International, Certificate in Practical Software Testing Methods

Management and Information Technology Solutions, Certificate in Programming, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms 4.5, Oracle Reports 2.2, Oracle 7.3/8i Developer 2000/6, Visual Basic 6.0

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Selenium Conference – Speaker - “Revolutionizing Continuous Integration with Selenium – 2013

Published – Cover, Software Developer Journal – “Selenium WebDriver – how to build a framework” – Vol 2, Issue 15 - 2013

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SITUSAMC May 2021 – Present

Vice President, Software Test Engineering

Manage a team of onsite and offshore engineers. Manage 100 + individual contributors across ~30 product teams. Responsible for status reporting and all communications to key stakeholders. SitusAMC is trusted by the most respected brands in the real estate finance industry to identify and capture opportunities in their businesses through innovative solutions that drive operational efficiency, increase business effectiveness, and improve market agility.

•Coach the automation team on how automation best practices using Selenium and or Test Complete

•Aid in the growing pains of acquisition across many different disciplines

•Prepare project plans, test plans for RRE and CRE mortgage groups

•Regular code reviews to ensure optimization and best practices are followed

•Maintain Client/Customer relationships with key stakeholders

•Coach the automation team on documenting a detailed “how to” for all automation

•Provided reporting on automation, status, and QA efforts to key stakeholders

•Deliver services using best practices for development and QA functions such as Security, Performance, Development Process, and Application Governance

•Drive the creation of application and technical design documents which leverage best practices in Agile environments

•Contributes to enterprise standards on application and integration development best practices, functional and technical solution architecture and design, environment management, and testing

•Drive project delivery excellence within the business segment through established development and QA standards across applications, integration, security, and data migration domains

•Lead, advise, and mentor diverse teams in technical and functional delivery aspects at the enterprise segment, using influence and adaptive communication strategies

•Propose new solutions to identified areas in different business groups

Fiserv August 2020 – May 2021

IT QA Automation Manager via Orion Innovation

Manage a team of onsite and offshore engineers. Manage 30 + individual contributors across 7 product teams. Responsible for status reporting and all communications to key stakeholders. Fiserv, Inc. is an American multinational company headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin that provides financial technology services to clients across the financial services sector, including: banks, thrifts, credit unions, securities broker dealers, mortgage, insurance, leasing and finance companies, and retailers.

•Coach the automation team on how automation best practices using Tosca

•Prepare project plans, test plans

•Regular code reviews to ensure optimization and best practices are followed

•Maintain Client/Customer relationships with key stakeholders

•Coach the automation team on documenting a detailed “how to” for all automation

•Provided reporting on automation, status, and QA efforts to key stakeholders

•Deliver services using best practices for development and QA functions such as Security, Performance, Development Process, and Application Governance

•Drive the creation of application and technical design documents which leverage best practices in Agile environments.

•Contributes to enterprise standards on application and integration development best practices, functional and technical solution architecture and design, environment management, and testing

•Drive project delivery excellence within the business segment through established development and QA standards across applications, integration, security, and data migration domains

•Lead, advise, and mentor diverse teams in technical and functional delivery aspects at the enterprise segment, using influence and adaptive communication strategies

•Propose new solutions to identified areas in different business groups

Lincoln Financial Group July 2019 – August 2020

Senior Delivery Manager via Cognizant

Manage a team of onsite and offshore engineers to maintain a $4MM SOW. Supervise 130 individual contributors across 17 product teams. Responsible for status reporting and all communications to key stakeholders. Lincoln National Corporation is a Fortune 200 American holding company, which operates multiple insurance and investment management businesses through subsidiary companies. Lincoln Financial Group is the marketing name for LNC and its subsidiary companies.

•Coach the automation team on how to build very robust automation framework

•Prepare project plans, test plans

•Regular code reviews to ensure optimization and best practices are followed

•Maintain Client/Customer relationships with key stakeholders

•Coach the automation team on documenting a detailed “how to” for all automation

•Provided reporting on automation, status, and QA efforts to key stakeholders

•Deliver services using best practices for development and QA functions such as Security, Performance, Development Process, and Application Governance

•Identification and pro-active approach of risk areas and dedicated commitment to seeing an issue through to complete resolution

•Drive the creation of application and technical design documents which leverage best practices in Agile environments

•Contributes to enterprise standards on application and integration development best practices, functional and technical solution architecture and design, environment management, and testing

•Drive project delivery excellence within the business segment through established development and QA standards across applications, integration, security, and data migration domains

•Lead, advise, and mentor diverse teams in technical and functional delivery aspects at the enterprise segment, using influence and adaptive communication strategies

•Propose new solutions to identified areas in different business groups

•Presented at conference and published in Software Developer Journal

Aurea [Crossover], Remote May 2018 – March 2019

Software Engineering Manager

Mentor and coach automation engineers in building a new Selenium automation framework and driving automation efforts in a Factory/Agile type environment. Evolved several home-grown applications for testing and managed 30 individual Contributors across 26 product teams.

•Coach the automation team on how to build very robust automation framework utilizing many opensource tools

•Test compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML IDs and XPath in Selenium

•Developed automated scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Java, Junit in Eclipse IDE to perform functional and regression testing for web-based applications

•Executed scripts on multiple browsers simultaneously using Selenium Grid

•Implemented Page Object Model (POM) by creating objects for each page

•Develop a Best practices for Automated coding standards

•Prepare project plans, test plans, etc.

•Manage daily remote employee metrics, to reach our goals, decrease our CpU, and increase productivity

Corptax Remote September 2017 – August 2018

Test Manager/Lead

Mentor and coach automation engineers in building a new Selenium automation framework and driving automation efforts in an Agile environment. Evolved several home-grown applications for testing.

•Coach the automation team on how to build very robust automation framework utilizing many opensource tools

•Test compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML IDs and XPath in Selenium

•Perform mobile testing with Appium for automation

•Salesforce CRM (SFDC) and Lighting: CRM E2ETesting, Creation of Users, Profiles, Roles, Creation of Apps, Creation of custom Objects, Designing Custom Fields, Task and Events, Apps, Email Notification and Template, Permission Sets, Assigning Validation Rules and Field Level Dependencies, Page layouts

•Provide guidance to all other automation efforts on teams outside of the Automation Core Team

AT&T/ Comcast, Denver, CO February 2016 – May 2017

Associate Director – Projects/ Automation Architect via Cognizant

Mentor and coach automation engineers in building a new Selenium automation framework and driving automation efforts in an Agile environment in the Communication and Life Sciences verticals. Communicate all efforts, new work, SOWs, and status to appropriate stakeholders on the leadership team.

•Use Appium for mobile automation

•Create Selenium Test Cases for automation using Selenium Web Driver and Java

•Use the Hybrid Framework of Selenium to retrieve data from Excel

•Build a detailed, reusable, Script - free Keyword + Data - Driven framework for over 45% of Test Cases using Selenium WebDriver + TestNG

•Parallel, cross-browser testing using Selenium Grid and TestNG

•Perform Continuous Integration with Jenkins and define the MVP for development efforts

•Communicate automation goals and accomplishments to and from key stakeholders and the technical team

•Manage projects from inception to completion

•Organize a client-wide Cognizant Community of Practice to share knowledge across all teams

Cision US, Inc. Chicago, IL October 2013 – September 2015

Director of Quality Assurance Lead Selenium Guru

Manage 55 direct reports and define best practices for both manual and automated testers, in an agile environment. Mentoring and coaching on Selenium and test case writing are a huge part of this position. Member of the Senior Leadership Team.

•Coach the automation team on how to build a robust automation framework utilizing many opensource tools

•Create an online training for manual testers to learn automation basics

•Develop best practices for automated coding standards and develop and coach team to build up our Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE)

•Actively involved in SDLC and STLC process and use tools like Selenium RC/Web driver, JMeter, SOAP UI

•Develop simulation scripts using HP LoadRunner -Web (HTTP/HTML) protocol

•Stage data to test the defects fix after the transports in UAT environment

•Analyzing Business Requirements/Features and preparing the Test conditions in HP Quality Center

•Experience in database testing using SQL Queries with multiple Databases Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and MySQL

•Review of team members for performance and merit increases

•Meet weekly with Steering Committee to prioritize WIP (Work in Progress) and backlog

•Point of contact for stakeholders and C level employees to articulate the technical ask

Cars.com, Chicago, IL September 2010 – October 2013

Selenium Automation Manager, Test Engineering

Create and maintain an automation framework, with Selenium 2.5/WebDriver, define and enforce best practices while concurrently transforming from Waterfall to Agile

•Built a very robust automation framework utilizing many opensource tools

•Define a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE)

•Create an online training for manual testers to learn automation basics

•Query the database using SQL queries in JDBC

•Create Load Runner scenarios, customize, correlate, and parameterize the scripts for load test

•Involved in performance testing using Load Runner

•Perform automation using QTP and load testing using HP Load Runner

•Implement the use of many tools such as Sikuli (for non html components, i.e., Flash objects), DynaTrace, Spring 3.0, Sonar (for code coverage)

•Develop best practices for automated coding standards

•Wrote a detailed “how to” document for all things automation per requirements

•Perform Continuous Integration with DynaTrace for single user performance to assist developers with Unit Testing

•Design, executed, and maintained test scripts using selenium web driver for regression testing.

•Use WebDriver to automate all CRM flows and layouts

•Defined KPI’s for automation individually for our 13 products

•Defined the MVP for manual tester test cases

•Used HP ALM to manage projects and analyze automation execution results for failed test cases

•Constant refactoring of code within the framework for optimization and speed

•Cut down manual regression by 95% with automation

JCrew, Lynchburg, VA June 2010 – September 2010

Software Quality Engineer/QA Lead/Consultant

Stress/performance test data warehousing software called Red Prairie using Loadrunner

Develop load scripts in Loadrunner and perform functional testing with QTP

Validate info on database

Write test matrices as well as project plans and other documentation

Query the database using SQL queries in LextEdit

Write the test plan, test scenarios for the busy season (Christmas), created test data

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