Bernard Clark

**** ******** *****

Friendswood, TX 77546

Cell: 832-***-****

adwcmo@r.postjobfree.com

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT/QUALITY ASSURANCE

Pursuing a professional career in the field of Software Development/Quality Assurance within a progressive, hi-tech industry. Possess twenty-plus years of experience in software/hardware/quality assurance discipline in a technical environment to implement and integrate leading-edge strategies and systems. Innovative, resourceful, and inventive team builder adapts at taking quantifiable risks to leverage strategic advantages.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Technology Strategy, Direction, and Road Map

Process and Productivity Improvement

Software Quality and Best Practices

Team Development and Leadership

Strategic Planning and Organization Leadership

Product and Project Management

Dynamic, Result-oriented and Customer-focused

Problem and Conflict Resolution

CAREER TRACK

LivaNova - Houston, Texas August 2018 to February 2023

Position: Senior Manager, Software Verification Engineer

Manages a Software Verification Engineering organization consisting of 11 staff members. My responsibilities include managing entire design verification projects, testing all applications and firmware during the lifecycle development process, selecting optimal tools to reduce defects and work effort, measuring data indicators to collect reports and use the information to manage projects, ensuring product quality, and conduct executive briefings to the executive leadership team about software quality.

Implemented Quality Management System for the verification group.

Improved the automation testing from 10% to 85% by integrating the Ranorex automation framework.

Develop, Maintain, and support Continuous Integration framework based on Jenkins and GitLab.

Work across functional (development/testing, deployment, systems/infrastructure) and project teams to ensure continuous operation of build and test systems.

Performed code and design reviews that guaranteed code quality and allowed junior engineers to learn and grow their expertise.

Provides staff development through performance management, training, and mentoring.

Management of department staff, budgets, salaries, and training, and maintains 97% retention of employees.

Developed six week training program for new employees, which reduced the learning curve and improved employee productivity by 50%.

Knowledge of deploying CI/CD systems using Azure DevOps on Kuberntes container environment.

Plant Automation Services - Houston, Texas April 2012 to August 2018

Position: Director of Development/Quality Assurance

Manages two Development groups consisting of 20 staff members providing day-to-day operations. Performs SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis and submits report to the top Management. Manages Software Developer resources and budgets. Establish and maintain schedules and timelines for each stage of projects.

Guided Agile principles and facilitation skills to ensure team members worked in an Agile mindset and utilized SCRUM practices.

Manages a Quality Assurance organization consisting of 7 staff members. My responsibilities include managing entire quality projects, test all applications during the lifecycle development process, select optimal tools to reduce defects and work effort, measures data indicators to collect reports and use the information to manage projects, ensure product quality, and conduct executive briefings to the executive leadership team about software quality.

Implemented Quality Management System for the company.

Management of department staff, budgets, salaries, training, and maintain 97% retention of employees.

Plant Automation Services - Houston, Texas June 2007 to April 2012

Position: QA Manager

Performed software quality activities; responsibilities included:

Performed project management responsibilities, including proposal preparations and tracking projects from conception to delivery.

Coordinated and managed test activities involving workload allocation and lab supervision.

Generated test plans and protocols for product software.

Managed a team of 6 testers, served as a liaison to developers and executive Management; tracked testing progress, and reported to executive Management.

Generated test plans and protocols for production software.

Executed test cases and test scripts during the test phase.

Implemented Quick Test Professional, which includes developing automated test protocol.

Directed the acquisitions of test environments.

JPMorgan Chase - Houston, Texas June 2006 to April 2007

Position: Senior Software QA Analyst

Performed software quality activities; responsibilities included:

Developed automated test scripts for web-based application using Quick Test Professional.

Developed Performance test scripts for web-based application using LoadRunner.

Generated test plans and protocols for production software.

Executed test cases and test scripts during the test phase.

Performed project management responsibilities, which include SOW preparation and tracking projects from the test phase to delivery.

Coordinated and managed test scripts using Mercury Quality Center.

Generated monthly billing for the entire ADTS group.

Cyberonics - Houston, Texas May 2005 to June 2006

Position: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Performed software quality assurance activities for an implantable, Class III, medical device company; responsibilities included:

Developed test plans for product software based upon software requirements.

Actively interacted with development engineering during the product life cycle.

Strongly involved in the design and code reviews.

Generated test protocols for product software.

Executed test cases and test scripts during the test phase.

Analyzed test data to quantify and qualify product software.

Generated test report following test execution.

Implemented automated test software for PDA devices using Test Quest in order to optimize test runs and activities.

Liaison between company and vendor during evaluation and acquisitions of test software and equipments.

Validated quality software for intended uses per FDA Quality System Requirements.

Olenick & Associates - Houston, Texas Sept 2003 to May 2005

Position: Senior Consultant/Project Manager/QA Manager

Performed software consulting activities for clients; responsibilities included:

Performed project management responsibilities, including proposal preparations and tracking projects from conception to delivery.

Interacted with customer upper management for daily project status report.

Coordinated and managed test activities involving workload allocation and lab supervision.

Generated test plans and protocols for product software.

Participated in design and code reviews.

Developed automated test scripts for the National City Bank website using Quick Test Professional.

Implemented automated test scripts to test the Chicago Board of Trade application using Quick Test Professional.

Partnered with Microsoft Consulting Service to test National City Bank client-server loan application.

Managed team of 20 testers, served as a liaison to developers and executive Management; tracked testing progress and reported to executive Management.

BMC Software - Houston, Texas March 1999 to August 2003

Position: Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer/Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Performed software quality activities; responsibilities included:

Coordinate and manage lab activities, which involve resource allocation and lab supervision.

Assisted and mentored junior-level test engineers with writing test cases.

Developed Test plans for Product Software.

Participated in design/review sessions.

Administrator of the defect-tracking tool, Vantive.

Developed test protocol for product software.

Performed qualification test of product software.

Coordinated qualification test activities.

Developed software quality assurance reports.

Project Lead of 8 SQA Engineers increased the overall automation test from 10% to 80% using the automated tool Silk

Test.

Coordinated and managed test scripts using Mercury Test Director.

Developed automated test scripts for a front-end GUI application using Mercury WinRunner.

Performed qualification test of client-server software.

Enron Energy Services - Houston, Texas September 1998 to March 1999

Position: Senior Specialist

Performed software quality activities for energy services; responsibilities included:

Developed test plans for product software.

Participated in design/review sessions.

Administrator of the defect-tracking tool, called track.

Developed test protocol for product software.

Performed qualification test of product software.

Coordinated qualification test activities.

Developed validation software quality assurance report.

Developed automated test scripts.

Performed qualification test of client-server software.

Performed qualification test of relational databases.

Intermedics - Houston, Texas June 1993 to September 1998

Position: Software Validation Engineer

Performed software validation test activities for implantable, Class III, medical device company; responsibilities included:

Project Lead of 7 Software Validation Engineers, responsibilities included: coordinated and managed test lab activities,

which involved workload allocation and lab supervision, and assisted junior-level test engineers with writing test cases.

Developed test plans for product software.

Participated in design/review sessions.

Administrator of the defect-tracking tool, called DDTS.

Performed Configuration Management administration tasks (ADC software).

Developed test protocol for product software.

Performed qualification test of product software.

Coordinated qualification test activities.

Developed validation test reports.

Participated in bringing the CMM level from 1 to 3 with the Validation department. This includes,

standardizing documentation and developing checklists to evaluate the software to determine whether the products of a given development phase satisfy the conditions imposed at the start of that phase.

Implemented B-Tree Verification System. This includes serving as liaison between Intermedics and BTREE Inc. and

developing automated test protocols.

Directed the acquisitions of test equipments.

SKILLS

Hardware: IBM, PC, DEC ALPHA, HP SUN

Software: MICROSOFT – Word, Project, Excel, PowerPoint

Operating Systems: UNIX, WINDOWS - Windows 10, 11

ANDROID – 11, 12

Database: Oracle, SQL

Languages: C#, ASP.NET, C, C++

Development Tools: JIRA, TestRail, Visual Studio 2022, SQL Server Management Studio, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Jenkins, GitLab, Confluence, Azure Dev Ops, Xamarin

Automated Test tools: Ranorex, Silk Test, BTREE Verification System, Test Director, Quick Test Professional, TestQuest, Mercury Quality Center, LoadRunner

Version Control: GIT, Bitbucket, Subversion

Test Equipment: Power Supply, Oscilloscope, Multimeter

LEARNING CREDENTIALS

Southern University Baton Rouge, LA

B.S. Electronics Engineering

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