Quality Assurance Engineer

FRED W. WOLKE Leesburg, Virginia 571-***-**** *******@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fred-wolke

Senior Software QA Engineer - Test Planning and Execution Design, Implement and Manage System Testing and Automation Solutions Reliable software quality assurance testing across web, desktop, mobile and geospatial applications, improving process efficiency by facilitating cooperative relationships with developers. My first priority is to make your developers look good. Testing: Functional Testing, API Testing, Install/Uninstall Testing, Usability and Acceptance Testing, Black box/White box, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Test Documentation Technology and Tools: Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr Scale), Geospatial Systems, SQL, PostGreSQL, Postman, Swagger

Project Management: Agile Processes (Scrum, Kanban), Small Team leadership, Design, Implement and Manage Test Automation Processes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Terrago Technologies, Ashburn, VA 8/22 – 11/23 Led quality assurance activities for web, desktop, mobile applications, supervising a remote team managing a system used by dozens of municipalities for streetlights in a small company environment

(~50 employees).

• Test Strategy Development: Designed, implemented and managed test plans and procedures for web, desktop and mobile applications, using Confluence and Zephyr Scale.

• Test Strategy Management: Streamlined collaboration and improved testing efficiency by designing, implementing and managing effective test plans and procedures for web, desktop and mobile applications, using Confluence and Zephyr Scale

• Team Leadership: Supervised remote test team of three people executing regression test procedures.

• Test Execution: Performed functional, integration, and regression tests of Web, Desktop, Apple and Android applications on monthly agile build cycle, documented in JIRA. Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Commscope, Ashburn, VA 3/12 – 6/22 Oversaw design, implementation, execution of test plans in a team of 10 developers (company size~30,000 employees) maintaining apps for B2B services telecommunications companies.

• Process Improvement: Enabled broadened testing scope for complex, highly technical engineering application by creating a framework for automated testing of complex calculations in Python using Squish.

• Test Strategy: Designed, implemented and managed test plans and procedures for four systems, including client-server and web-based applications, using Confluence.

• Test Automation: Maintained and developed automated test suite for web application API using TestNG, written in Java.

• Test Execution: Executed functional, integration, and regression tests on biweekly agile build cycle, documented in JIRA and Confluence.

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FRED W. WOLKE

• Release Testing: Performed release testing during monthly after-hours production deployment. Clearance

Currently holding a Secret clearance.

Additional Skills

TestNG, Java, Squish, Python

Previous Experience

Daily Operations Manager - Lead Quality Assurance Engineer, Smartbrief, Washington DC Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Ticketmaster, Ashburn, VA Test Manager, SAIC, Reston, VA

Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Exigent Software Technology, Inc Cartographer, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (formerly NIMA, DMA) EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut

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