Quality Assurance Life Cycle
Resume:
RUSSELL L. SIMPSON
KELLER, TX 76248
(Home) 817-***-**** (Cell) 469-***-****
Email: ********@*****.***
IT Professional
Consulting/Insurance/Finance/Retail/Telecommunications
Project Life Cycle
Release Management
DevOps
Quality Metrics
Vendor Management
Strategic Planning
Testing Life Cycle
User Acceptance Testing
Cloud Hosting
Professional Experience
ENVESTNET CORPORATION 2023 - PRESENT
Envestnet – Global Wealth Management FinTech Provider
Director of Quality Assurance (April 2023 – Present)
Responsible for delivering high quality products on time and within budget across engineering teams
All planning, estimating testing and certifying enhancements.
Worked closely within a team of product managers, developers, business system analysts and QA analysts spread across locales to ensure that the high quality metrics and process of the company are upheld.
Aligned quality objectives with business goals by developing long term plans that adhered to industry standards and best practices.
Responsible for defining and promoting a quality mindset across the entire company.
YIELDX CORPORATION 2021 - 2023
YieldX - As-a-Service Fixed Income FinTech Provider
Director of Quality Assurance (July 2021 – January 2023)
Work with internal and external partner responsible for compliance and production
Ensure that high quality products are delivered on time and within budget
Work closely with dependent cross-impacted teams to complete test strategies, committed timelines and coordination of testing delivery for business initiatives and objectives
Built test automation solution and automated testing practices to enhance quality and speed to market
Continuous review and enhancement of current processes, establish newer testing methodologies, standards and strategies to improve overall quality of the proposed solutions
Collaborated with product and project managers for problem determination and resolution, resolve schedule conflicts, resource constraints, cost containment and quality trade-offs within the scope of the software development life cycle
JPMorgan Chase CORPORATION 2017 - 2020
Chase Auto – Leading Global Financial Services Firm
Vice President (May 2017 – December 2020)
Established and maintained Chase Auto’s testing vision, quality practices and standards across all programs and products
Work closely with dependent cross-impacted teams to complete test strategies, committed timelines and coordination of testing delivery for business initiatives and objectives
Built test automation solution and automated testing practices to enhance quality and speed to market
Developed and implemented test plans which provide end-to-end, regression and new product functionality coverage
Created quality metrics/reporting for communicating quality levels to senior management
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS 2012 - 2017
Verizon Enterprise Solutions – Global Industry Leader in Cloud Hosting
Quality Assurance Manager (October 2012 – April 2017)
Consultant (March 2012 – October 2012)
Built common test management methodology, defining testing standards and established a curriculum for all testing disciplines
Built and managed the team of 10 testers by coordinating their activities, mentoring them and providing them with guidance and direction to lead them to success.
Applied strategies and approaches for identifying risks with implementation, assessing their likelihood and initiating strategies to test for those risks
Creating project visibility for upper management through quality system documents and software testing metrics.
Worked with project managers to develop project schedules and resource allocation models for QA related projects and other activities such as software deployment
RACKSPACE CORPORATION 2009 - 2011
Rackspace Cloud – Industry Leader in Cloud Hosting
Quality Assurance Manager (September 2009 – August 2011)
Oversee all QA activities including, developing, defining and implementing QA standards, processes and procedures for the team.
Built and managed a team of 25 testers by coordinating their activities, mentoring them and providing them with guidance and direction to lead them to success.
Implemented sound leading-edge practices, methodologies, standards, and procedures throughout each phase of the Development Life Cycle
Performed budget analysis, planning and forecasting to insure proper staffing and project funding
Provide leadership, performance management, performance reviews, and career development and quality related training needs for staff members.
Collect metrics and utilizes other effective approaches to measure quality whereby reducing waste, streamlining the development processes and improving product quality.
RELMS CONSULTING 2008- 2009
YPOWPO – Premier Global Leadership Network, Handango - A Global provider of smart phone content
Quality Assurance Manager (March 2008-August 2009)
Coordinates the testing efforts of the Quality Assurance team to ensure adequate product testing of all software prior to implementation.
Provide leadership, performance management, performance reviews, and career development and quality related training needs for staff members.
Created the Software Testing strategies and processes to facilitate software releases of the company-wide Software Standardization project
Oversee all QA activities including, developing, defining and implementing QA standards, processes and procedures for the team.
Monitor test progress throughout the project release cycle, provides test results and detailed status reports.
CADBURY-SCHWEPPES 2007 - 2008
Cadbury Schweppes - A Global company specializing in Confectionary and Beverage products.
Senior Consultant/Regional QA Manager (August 2007-February 2008)
Created the Software Testing approach for supply/demand planning processes and related systems
Built and managed the team of 25 testers by coordinating their activities, mentoring them and providing them with guidance and direction to lead them to success.
Responsible for building the Automation testing framework, assembling data, analyzing performance, identifying problems and developing metrics for supply chain planning and operations
Assisted the Supply Chain Program managers in developing User Acceptance scenarios that utilized existing data application design and system controls
Creation and execution of test plans that aligned with the defined business requirements, defined benchmarks and measures and documented the results.
CAPGEMINI, US 2005 – 2007
Capgemini US - A multi-billion dollar company specializing in Consulting services.
Senior Consultant (July 2005-August 2007)
Built and Managed the team of 40 testers by coordinating their activities, mentoring them and providing them with guidance and direction to lead them to success
Coordinating all aspects of software testing including developing test plans, work plans, matrices, test case reviews, and mentoring of testing staff.
Implemented a full range of testing methodology including: Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, and Automation in the implementation of standardized testing.
Created the Software Testing strategies and processes to facilitate software releases and managed work efforts of multi-shore Testing teams
Measure and monitor progress at clearly defined points to ensure that the project release is delivered on time. Created and delivered Testing approach and plan for UAT of release
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS 2002 - 2005
Verizon Communications - A multi-billion dollar telecommunications provider.
Business Analyst/QA Testing Consultant (July 2002-July 2005)
Participate in all facets of the Quality Assurance Testing process, including Test Planning, Test Case Creation from Requirements, Execution of Test Cases, Implementation of Testing Processes, and Creation of Procedures and Standards.
Created the Software Testing strategies and processes to facilitate software releases of the company-wide Software Standardization project
VERIZON WIRELESS, Westlake, TX 1998 - 2002
A multi-billion dollar telecommunications provider.
QA Release Manager (September 2000 -June 2002)
Built and Managed the team of 15 testers by coordinating their activities, mentoring them and providing them with guidance and direction to lead them to success
Managed all areas of the Release Life Cycles. Consisting of 3 major and 3 minor releases per year.
Led activities associated with Project Life Cycle, Project Initiation, Requirements and Analysis, Preliminary and Detail Design, Testing Methodologies, Deployment and Post Deployment.
Created Initial Project work plans which included: Resource Management, Work Effort Estimates, Work Activity Dependencies, Critical Path Assessments, and Schedule Dates.
Managed User Acceptance Testing in corporate-wide conversion effort during merger, including Customer Approval of Requirements, Detailed Project Work Plan, WBS, Issue Tracking, Risk Management, Quality Management, Communication Process for Project team and Project Stakeholders and Progress Measurement and Reporting
Consultant (March 1998 – September 2000)
Defined Functional Requirements addressing: New Functionality, Modified Functionality, Screen and Report Design, and Interfaces between Systems.
Acted as liaison between developers and business analyst to identify constraints and assumptions.
Created design specifications from business requirements to develop call center front-end software.
Education
Information Systems, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Project Management Institute, George Washington University
Leadership and Management Strategies & Software Quality Assurance
Information Technologies Infrastructure Library – Foundation (ITIL)
Technical Skills
WEB TECHNOLOGIES: J2EE, PHP, XML, JSP, HTML,VB 6.0, JavaScript, VB Script, Shell 2.6.Perl6.0.
DATABASES: SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, MS-Access and MS SQL Server.
DB TOOLS: Octopus, TSQL, SQL Navigator 4,6.1, TOAD, Teradata MultiTool, SQL Developer.
WEB SERVERS: RESTFUL, IIS Server, Tomcat/Apache Server
DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGES: C#, Java, Serenity BDD, Cucumber, C++, C, COBOL, Mumps, PowerBuilder
DEVOPS TOOLS: TFS, Octopus, CircleCI, DevHub, GitHub/Gitbash, Weaveworks, Visual Studio, Jenkins, CI/CD,
DEFECT TRACKING TOOLS: ALM, Test Director, JIRA, TestTrac, Mingle, Redmine
FUNCTIONAL TESTING TOOLS: Postman, Selenium Grid/RC,PDF Compare Service, HP ALM 11.0, Quality Center 9/10.0, Rational Suite, WinRunner, QTP 8.2, Load Runner 8.x, IDE, TestLink, Junit, JMeter, TDD, SOAP UI
OTHER: Agile, SAP, Siebel, RUP, UXL, MSOffice 365,VM Player, MyEclipse 7.0.1
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