Quality Assurance, Manual, Automation, Team Leadership
Resume:
Stephen Madden
Location: Tempe, AZ
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SUMMARY Sr. Test Engineer. To have a positive, effervescent and a result-oriented career.
EDUCATION BISBEE HIGH SCHOOL, BISBEE, AZ
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, SIERRA VISTA, AZ, 2004 - 2007
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
COCHISE COLLEGE, 1999 - 2004
Computer Science and general education
COMPUTER SKILLS Manual Testing and Test Procedure Authoring, Manual Mobile Testing, Test Automation with Appium, Test Complete and Coded UI, Load Complete for Load Testing, ETL Testing, Systems Integration Testing, Salesforce, XML, XSD, XSLT, SoapUI, Scrum, Agile, TFS, Visual Studio, Microsoft Test Manager, XMLSpy, C#, Managed C++, SQL Management Studio, SQL Scripting, SSIS, SQL Queries, JavaScript, .Net Environment, MS Dynamics, Developing Macros in Microsoft Excel, and usage of Excel for test data reporting, Solid experience in SDLC, User Stories based on Development, Cucumber, Gherkin, Specflow. Army and Joint contracts involved with used CMMI. Also 5 years of experience in iOS and Android testing. 5 years experience in SharePoint.
7 years in Business Analysis as part of my Lead Position, AWS, Specflow, MSTest with Selenium using C#, End-to-End testing
Certifications: Scrum Certified, Security+
EXPERIENCE
May 2022 to April 2024 Verra Mobility
QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER
Software Verification
Manual and Automated Testing of Web and Mobile Applications for Toll Pass, which was a device placed on vehicles in order, prepaid, in order to pass through toll booths without having to pay. Ensured the device was transmitting information correctly
Experienced in conducting comprehensive manual testing for Salesforce functionalities, including smoke testing, regression testing, and user acceptance.
Daily meetings
Azure DevOps for tracking and creating test plans.
Expertise in designing and implementing comprehensive test strategies for Salesforce objects.
Worked with developers in configuring various salesforce.com objects like Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Reports, and Opportunities.
Conducted end-to-end testing of Salesforce applications, including frontend UI validations and backend data verifications through SQL queries.
Integrated Selenium WebDriver with GitLab CI/CD pipelines, ensuring continuous testing and delivery of Salesforce applications.
API Testing using SOAPUI. Testing was done with already created API tests, and built upon those in JavaScript
SharePoint testing
October 2021 to March 2022 Apex Systems – BCBS of FL
QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER
Software Verification of forms for clients using the web application
Manual and Automated Testing of Web forms applications in C#
Daily meetings
Azure DevOps for tracking and creating test plans
Integration Testing in forms
May 2013 to IHS, TEMPE, AZ
September 2021 SENIOR SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER
Led in QA testing, which included exploratory testing and formal testing from beginning to end of the software development cycle for Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHS&S)
Wrote test cases in Microsoft Test Manager in order to test from the application for current and regression testing
Linked test cases to PBIs in TFS This aided in knowing which tests related to PBIs
Executed manual tests, including for mobile, and reported findings
Moved accepted items through the approval process using swim lanes in TFS.
Developed automated tests in Coded UI, using C# in the .Net environment, mapping web UI objects, and coding logic for automated test execution. These were run nightly with builds
Developing tests in Selenium Web Driver
All of this done for web-based input and reporting software:
Integration Testing
Regression Testing
Automation Development for future regression testing
Followed complete SDLC with Agile methodology
Participated in Sprint planning, daily standups, and end-of-Sprint meetings.
Test mobile applications on iOS and Android
CI/CD
Systems Integration Testing
SharePoint Testing
Backend testing in SSMS using CodedUI, Selenium with C# and Specflow
March 2004 to BAE/TASC, FT. HUACHUCA, AZ - Contract
February 2013 SENIOR SOFTWARE TESTER And Task Leader
Designed beginning to end software cycle testing for CECOM-SEC, for the Department of the Army, leading a team in Test Automation with SmartBear Test Complete, using JavaScript. This was the first effort, and successful at that, at automating tests in this organization
Designed manual test cases for Army software
Executed test cases for Army software. Was able to find problems with the Army software pertaining to memory used by the application and available hardware soldiers were being provided
Participated in daily SCRUM meetings for input and feedback for the development cycle
Reported directly to Program Management
CI/CD
Systems Integration Testing
Penetration testing for security purposes using pre-engagement, reconnaissance, discovery, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, reporting, and remediation
Supported JITC on the InterTEC task as a test-driven developer. Support includes providing development and demonstration of enhanced capabilities in support of the Joint Planning Network (JPN) protocols (United States Message Transmit Format (USMTF) and Over-the-Horizon Gold (OTH-Gold)).
Supported JITC as Information Assurance Tester. Developed manual and automated tests using TestComplete in JavaScript.
Supported National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Metadata collection and storage/harmonization as Task Leader and Technical Lead, leading a team of 10 test engineers and developers. This task originated to ensure a common format for Information Technology (IT) and National Security Systems (NSS) could interoperate. Tools used for this Program included XMLSpy, Visual Studio, and Microsoft Office. This was heavy in data collection and data management.
oCollected raw satellite data
oData was transformed into flat files
oWorked with team members from NGA to create a data dictionary that contained all data (columns) and possible metadata
oWorked to input into this data dictionary the data types and ranges of data (e.g., latitude, longitude, coordinate values, and patterns), and data patterns
oFrom this data dictionary created in MS Excel, developed the XML Schemas to ensure data quality of the XML that was written. These are still used to this day by our government
Developed presentations for the government customer for monthly meetings in Washington, D.C.
Served as a Task Manager for NGA contracts.
Participated in and led daily standup meetings
Systems Integration Testing
March 2000 to L3/ILEX SYSTEMS, SIERRA VISTA, AZ - Contract
March 2004 TECH WRITER/EDITOR
Wrote and edited system-specific documents pertaining to the introduction and training of Software Version Releases. Created forms and templates in MS Word and Excel (using macros and formulas) in order to create "ease of use" for template/form users.
Furthered the availability of information (Chief Information Office (CIO)). This entailed broadening the availability of subtask-related resources and government deliverables.
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