QA Engineer Test Automation

VANESSA LAMBERT

CTAL-TAE, CTAL-TM, CTFL-AT, US GOVERNMENT CLEARANCE

571-***-**** **********@*******.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/VanessaRLambert/

Top performing QA Engineer with over 15 years of IT Experience in both the public and private sectors, including Federal Travel and Health, State Unemployment/Workforce Development, Insurance, Finance and Cable industries. Thoroughly familiar with the Software Development Life Cycle and experienced in working within both traditional and Agile/Scrum methodologies. Extensive experience in Functional, End-toEnd, System Integration, Regression, UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Mobile, API and Automation Testing in both Web and Client-Server environments, operating at CMMI level 3. Experienced in successfully leading diverse test and project teams and mentoring junior testers.

SKILLS

QTP v10-15.0, UFT One

Selenium

UiPath / RPA Development

VBScript / VB.Net / C# / JavaScript

Visual Studio 2019 /2022

Playwright / Python

Descriptive Programming

ALM / Jira

Oracle / ODBC

MS SQL Server

TOAD / SQL Developer

CI/CD GIT

HTML / XML

API Testing / SOAP / Postman

Writing Test Plans / Test Case Design

Leading Project Teams

Leading Diverse Test Teams

Mentoring / Training

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Franklin University Columbus, OH

May 2004

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

EXPERIENCE

Sr Automation Engineer (Hybrid) Qualitest- DOD DHMS Chantilly, VA

December 2024 – Present

Worked as a Senior Test Automation Engineer, with government clearance, on the DOD DHMS Quality Automation program to develop a test suite of highly modular and data-driven automation scripts utilizing UiPath and VB.Net.

Collaborated with a diverse team comprised of test engineers, requirements analysts, and government stakeholders to identify automation candidates and to refine test case requirements.

Worked on optimizing the onboarding process for incoming employees to navigate obtaining government clearances, CAC cards, and access to various federal systems – to include guiding employees thru the process, producing extensive documentation, process modeling, and coordination with government sponsors.

QA Automation Engineer (Remote) Geographic Solutions Inc Palm Harbor, FL

November 2022 – November 2024

Worked within a diverse test automation team to convert full automation test suite, for the Web-based VOS Unemployment System, from Telerik to Selenium utilizing VB.Net and Visual Studio.

Developed and maintained full suite of automated regression test scripts for the VOS Unemployment System as part of ongoing Continuous Integration efforts.

Trained junior developers in both system and tools utilization and assisted them in meeting their development deliverables.

Incorporated new clients/states into the automated regression suite – including initialization, setup of test data, and regression script modification.

Drove improvements in incorporating further Verification and Validation within the test automation team.

Science and Technology Educator Eamon Education – Beifu International School Kunming, China

March 2020 - July 2022

Developed curriculum and taught primary school (Grades 1-6) Science and Technology classes.

Excelled at classroom management - teaching large class sizes (40+ students)

Awarded Excellent Teacher and Perfect Attendance awards for every semester.

UFT Developer (Remote-China) ClearLync Tampa, FL

October 2020 - February 2021

Worked as a part-time independent contract to develop initial automated regression suite for MASOV insurance company.

Utilizing UFT One, developed modular, data-driven automation framework to test critical package policy functionality, including, login, policy lookup, address validation, underwriting, additional interest, additional coverages, policy generation, negative testing, and error handling.

Worked independently, with limited guidance, in a fast-paced work environment, and delivered on all project milestones either on-time or ahead of schedule.

Student / Event Organizer Cultural Sabbatical Kunming, China

January 2019 – March 2020

Intended to take a 12 month sabbatical to learn to further explore the language, history, and culture of China. However, due to the pandemic and resulting travel restrictions this turned into a much longer stay.

Volunteered as an event organizer for a local language exchange, whose focus was to further cross-cultural communication and understanding.

Information Testing III / UFT Developer AAA South Insurance Tampa, FL

November 2015 - January 2019

Developed, maintained, and enhanced automated test suite used Regression testing of AAA computer systems, insurance rate changes, and VinMaster updates.

Utilized UFT and descriptive programming to write over 10,000 lines of code for complete validation of all data associated with over 90,000 auto/home insurance policies, as part of the initial release of the AAA customer web portal.

Utilized UFT and descriptive programming, to write over 6,000 lines of coded to validate the format, content, and transmission of XML data files for over 90,000 auto policies for the State of FL DMV project.

Trained 3 manual testers, in the use of the UFT tool, test automation principles, execution of automated test suites, and simple debugging measures.

Won numerous performances awards and met or exceeded all yearly performance objectives. Of note, was awarded the AAA Corporate Silver Performance Award for performance, creativity, dedication, and leadership as part of the roll-out of the AAA South Insurance Customer Website.

Information Testing III HP DMDC JPAS Project Largo, MD

December 2014 – October 2015

Provided test support for DMDC JPAS Surge Enhancements by conducting Front-End Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Web Services Testing, and developing/maintaining Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Data

Provided primary test support for ongoing Data Quality Initiative.

Information Testing III EDS/HP FedTraveler Program Herndon, VA

December 2007 – December 2014

Served as the E-Travel Test Team Lead where I managed a diverse team of 8 testers across various projects and releases, and provided LOEs and Test Metrics to management

Wrote approximately 7000 lines of code utilizing VBScript and Descriptive Programming in QTP to automate the testing of agency transition data.

Designed Automated Test Scripts via QTP to test System Integration with Agency Financial System and SAP Reports regression test suites, utilizing VBScript, Descriptive Programming, SOAP, XML and ODBC.

Ran, debugged, and maintained Daily Run Automation Test Suite of over 200 regressions test scripts and Per Diem automation scripts for the FedTraveler Project.

Provided Test Automation Support for both Maintenance and Production Releases.

Mentored co-workers in their development of Test Automation (QTP) skills.

Functioned as the System Integration Testing Lead for the implementation of 3 federal agencies within the FedTraveler project. Managed and coordinated testing activities of up to 3 employees, mentored new employees, managed project deliverables and deadlines, interfaced directly with the clients, and conducted functionality demonstrations, via WebEx, for both the client and HP staff.

Created and maintained agency specific system test plan and system integration test cases/scripts.

Coordinated and maintained Data for System Integration Testing utilizing Toad/SQL Developer for Oracle Database.

Created and tracked defects and maintained system and regression test suites in Quality Center.

CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING

Current / Active US Government Security Clearance

Certified Tester Advanced Level-Test Automation Engineer, ISTQB CTAL-TAE

Certified Tester Advanced Level-Test Manager, ISTQB CTAL-TM

Certified Tester Foundation Level-Agile Tester, ISTQB CTFL-AT

Certified ScrumMaster, CSM

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

ITIL Practitioner Certificate in IT Service Management, Change Management

UiPath Coursework via Udemy Business - RPA Level 1 Developer

UiPath Coursework via Udemy Business - RPA Level 2 Developer

UiPath Coursework via Udemy Business – Robotic Process Automation

UiPath Coursework via Udemy Business – Test Automation

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