Daniel G. Bower
Penfield, NY **526
Phone: 585-***-****
Email: *************@*****.***
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danvolleysnow/
PROFESSIONAL ABILITIES:
Software Quality Assurance
Manual and Automated Testing experience with native applications, mobile applications, web applications, web services, and back-end services
Practical experience with Agile software development as a member of a product development team and Scrum Master
Ability to quickly learn and understand complex software systems
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Designed and creation of automation test frameworks in C# to support desktop and web application regression testing
Established Azure Pipelines to execute automated regression tests
Experience using Postman and Testfully for functional testing of APIs
Automated API testing using C#, JSON and RestSharp
Professional experience with Microsoft and Oracle SQL
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE:
Pearson, Rochester, NY
Software Quality Assurance Engineer 1/02/2022 – Present
Design and create a test automation framework leveraging C#, NUnit, Selenium
Added Playwright to the framework to support low code automated test creation
Design build and maintain automated test suites for the multiple systems
Utilized Sauce Labs to support operating system and browser compatibility testing
Integrated the framework with Zephyr Scale for Jira to track automated test execution results and raise Jira issues
Software Quality Assurance Engineer 4/25/2022 – 12/31/2022
Manual and automated testing of learning platform software components
Maintain and create new Java automated tests
Work as member of an agile team assuming responsibilities related to manual and automated testing of new features
Wegmans, Rochester, NY
Software Test Engineer 4/22/2021 – 4/22/2022
Design and create a test automation framework that integrates with the existing messaging system
Design and created automated regression tests
Work as member of an agile team assuming responsibilities related to manual and automated testing of new features
Create manual and automated Test Plans in Azure
Mentor and train new software test engineers
Lead software test activities for development of internal use software system
Contract Assignment, Wegmans, Rochester, NY
Software Test Engineer 3/22/2020 - 4/22/2021
Design and create a test automation framework that integrates with the existing messaging system
Design and created automated regression tests
Work as member of an agile team assuming responsibilities related to manual and automated testing of new features
Create manual and automated Test Plans in Azure
IDI Billing Solutions, Victor, NY
Senior Software Test Engineer / Scrum Master 5/01/2016 – 3/15/2020
Design and execute automated web GUI test cases
Design and execute automated SOAP and RESTful Web Services
Design and execute automated tests to validate parse and rate of mobile device usage records
Add additional or modify existing C# test fixture code as necessary
PharmAdva, LLC, Rochester, NY
Systems Engineer 8/24/2015 – 3/11/2016
Responsible for monitoring the systems being tested prior to deployment
Maintained software test plans, and software test cases for testing the system software
In home setup and configure of medication dispensing system for pilot users
On call support for pilot users
Fujifilm North America Corporation, Rochester, NY
System Integration Engineer 4/2007 – 8/21/2015
Responsible for designing and building of Landscape system installers in NSIS and InstallShield
Responsible for the design and implementation of the Landscape system build process
Kiosk QA Lead and Product Support 3/2005 – 3/2007
Train new Technical Support staff
Train new QA and Management Personnel hired for future kiosk projects
QA Project Lead 3/2004 – 3/2005
Responsible for the creation of software test cases
Assign resources to testing and documentation tasks
12/2001 – 9/2003 Tobin & Associates, Inc., East Rochester, NY
Quality Assurance Engineer
Assist in requirements gathers using traditional and Use Case approaches
Author software quality assurance plan
Contract Assignment, XEROX CORPORATION, Rochester, NY
QA Project Lead 8/2001 to 12/2001
Responsible for the creation of software test cases
Assign resource to testing and documentation tasks
VANTEON CORPORATION, Pittsford, NY
Sr. QA Project Lead 8/1998 - 8/2001
Overall responsibility for all quality assurance proposals and estimates for internal and outsource projects
QA Project Lead / Software Tester 1/1996 - 8/1998
Author or contribute to the creation of the software test plan
Assign resource to testing and documentation tasks
Track and project spending against the project budget
Contract Assignment, XEROX CORPORATION, Rochester, NY
Sr. Systems Key-Op 4/1996 to 10/1996
Responsible for testing performance and functionality of connected systems
Assist engineers with setup and technical support for beta customers
METRO RESOURCES OF ROCHESTER, Rochester, NY
Recruiter 12/1994 to 4/1996
Personnel assessment and placement of contract workers in the areas of light industrial, clerical and technical
EDUCATION:
Empire State College – Rochester, NY
Department of Science, Math and Technology
B.S. Information Technology 48 of 64 credits complete GPA 3.73
Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY
A.A.S. Communications