QA Test Engineer with TS/SCI Clearance

Phillip White Clearance: TS/SCI CIP

Residence: Parkville MD

Email: ***************@*****.*** Willing to relocate: Yes CELL: 410-***-**** Willing to Travel: 100%

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

I am an experienced Quality Assurance Test Engineer. I have also branched out and successfully taken on roles as a Requirements Analyst and a System Engineer as the projects have required. I am a QA Test Engineer with 20+ years in soŌware tesƟng, systems engineering, and requirements analysis for federal clients. Proven success in Agile/Scrum environments, including Salesforce implementaƟons, web-based and desktop plaƞorms. I Hold TS/SCI clearance and mulƟple cerƟficaƟons in tesƟng, Agile, and Salesforce. Known for driving quality, improving test coverage, and collaboraƟng across cross-funcƟonal teams. Prior to Federal contractor work, for 14 years, I was lead soŌware tester for a scoring engine development project.

COMPETENCIES

Technical & FuncƟonal Skills

Skill Area Years of Experience Federal/Project Highlights Quality Assurance TesƟng 24+ years Manual & automated tesƟng across VA, CMS, and AWS-based plaƞorms; UAT, regression,

smoke tests

Agile Methodologies 12+ years Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP; sprint planning, backlog grooming, PI planning

Requirements Analysis 3 Years DecomposiƟon, traceability, stakeholder collaboraƟon for federal cloud plaƞorms

Systems Engineering 3 Years Data flow design, RVTM updates for DoD and VA systems

Compliance TesƟng 7 Years Federal standards validaƟon, documentaƟon, and traceability

Scrum Master FacilitaƟon 1 Year Sprint velocity tracking, team coordinaƟon, backlog refinement

EXPERIENCE DETAILS

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., Staff Engineer Laurel, MD 1/2021 – 4/2025 Staff Engineer – Quality Assurance Test Engineer PTEMS VA CABS

• Lead and associate test engineer execuƟng feature tesƟng and regression tesƟng of enhancements and sustainment acƟviƟes for mission criƟcal web-based enterprise applicaƟon for Department of Veterans Affairs PTEMS project.

• Achieved Tier 5 security status with the VA and was the representaƟve for the project for security meeƟngs.

• Using Salesforce and JIRA, wrote, organized, and implemented test cases, including smoke and regression tesƟng, for each phase of the tesƟng and release cycle including QA, UAT, IntegraƟon, PERF and ProducƟon over mulƟple producƟon cycles with 10 different user personas for each stage. This would involve the creaƟon and evaluaƟon of hundreds of test cases for each permutaƟon.

• UƟlized Jira and its X ray applicaƟon to log defects, make test case modificaƟons and peer review test cases wriƩen by other engineers. This included some Seleniem and API integraƟon.

• Used Jira, Excel, Word and PowerPoint to create and refine test scripts for customer User Acceptance TesƟng in various formats including workbook and OTS.

• Served as a mentor for junior staff.

Staff Engineer Requirements Analyst

• Wrote, refined, and decomposed Ɵckets through JIRA for current and upcoming Product Increment (PI) releases and for the Product Backlog Refinement (PBR) iteraƟons in a SAFE environment for a program developing a cloud-based mulƟ-fabric Forensics and Malware Reverse Engineering Plaƞorm and Repository in a DoD DevSecOps environment.

• Oversaw requirements gathering and decomposiƟon, training development and delivery, and communicaƟons and user engagement strategy for a soŌware system delivery on AWS for a U.S. Government client in central Maryland (CMD).

• Captured requirements for data flow needs and availability.

• Worked directly with Client stakeholders, including internal and external to define and prioriƟze new products and enhancements to exisƟng products in line with product road map and client goals. This included JIRA Ɵckets, Excell documentaƟon and flow charts.

• Engaged with other teams to refine traceability for JIRA Ɵckets. Staff Engineer Test Engineer VA CABS

Lead and associate test engineer on teams that implemented mulƟple key changes and upgrades for an exisƟng web-based Salesforce soŌware system delivery for the OVARP, AVRT and EARS projects for the Veterans AdministraƟon.

Wrote User Acceptance TesƟng scripts, coordinated testers and Ɵmelines, and parƟcipated in Go/No-Go conversaƟons .

Wrote, organized, and implemented test cases, including smoke tesƟng, for each phase of the tesƟng and release cycle including QA, UAT, IntegraƟon, Staging, ProducƟon over mulƟple producƟon cycles with several different user personas for each. This would involve the creaƟon and evaluaƟon of hundreds of test cases for each permutaƟon.

Coordinated with other team members to establish prioriƟes, direcƟon, and successful compleƟon of tesƟng projects in an Agile environment uƟlizing the JIRA management tool.

Lead and helped write test scripts for UAT tesƟng by the client. System Engineer (Scrum Lead)

• System Engineer on a team that created and developed key central features for a web-based soŌware system delivery on AWS for a U.S. Government client in central Maryland (CMD) in a DoD DevSecOps enviroment.

• Coordinated within the team using JIRA to manage sprint velocity, creaƟng, updaƟng, and assigning epics, stories, tasks, and sub-tasks to team members.

• ParƟcipated in planning and formaƟon of the data flow for individual components of the product.

• Ability to educate teams on refining and maintaining the product backlog, facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resoluƟon.

• Worked with original requirements and statements of work and created acceptance criteria for new stories.

Staff Engineer Test Engineer

• Worked with Systems Engineers and developers to create a detailed IntegraƟon ValidaƟon tesƟng plan to address the tesƟng resource needs for iniƟal product release and future waves of a soŌware system delivery on AWS for a U.S. Government client in central Maryland (CMD) and involved integraƟng with DoD DevSecOps environments.

• Designed and executed project-specific Test procedures, strategies, plans and use cases an Agile environment for a weekly release tesƟng of a web-based applicaƟon. This tesƟng involved UX, integraƟon and automated performance TesƟng. AddiƟonally release, smoke and regression tesƟng for every release.

• Worked one-on-one with tools SMEs/engineers to verify the data mappings with mulƟple tools to ensure meeƟng requirements as indicated in the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and provide build support. This included tesƟng API calls with Jmeter.

• Wrote and implemented test cases from the ground up. Co-wrote the System Test Plan.

• Tested data flow and capture from data ingesƟon, analyzing Resƞul interfaces and sending/receiving data through API.

• Coordinated with mulƟple teams across disciplines to establish prioriƟes, direcƟon, and successful compleƟon of tesƟng projects uƟlizing JIRA tools.

• Served as a mentor for other teammates.

• Engaged with other teams to refine traceability for JIRA Ɵckets.

• Received Top Secret Security Clearance (TS//SCI) on Dec 28, 2022. ManTech InternaƟonal CorporaƟon, Test Engineer Associate Columbia, MD 8/2017 – 8/2020

• Supported a high-visibility web-based Federal Healthcare iniƟaƟve under CMS Public Trust clearance across mulƟple enrollment cycles in a dynamic Agile environment.

• Led regression, migraƟon, and hot fix tesƟng efforts using ALM and JIRA, ensuring accuracy and reliability across releases of a web-based applicaƟon. Each release involved mulƟple hundreds of test cases.

• Collaborated with internal teams and external vendors to analyze requirements, peer review test cases, and present findings to clients.

• Authored and maintained test plans and test cases in Confluence, streamlining communicaƟon and documentaƟon for stakeholders.

• Played a key role in maintaining quality standards and compliance across rapidly evolving federal systems.

• Executed service-based tesƟng using AWS, Postman, SOAP, and SSH; performed back end validaƟon via database queries and VBS scripts and sending/receiving resƞul data through API’s. ACT, Non-Profit EducaƟonal Test Provider, SoŌware Test Engineer IV Hunt Valley, MD 4/2002 – 4/2017

• TesƟng lead for web-based and desktop applicaƟons in an agile environment

• Devised, implemented and assessed the tesƟng for a new adapƟve scoring engine for college placement soŌware. This involved the extensive creaƟon of automated and manual test cases The creaƟon of a test harness to automaƟcally test that the scoring engine maintained accuracy. This involved UX tesƟng, integraƟon, performance, smoke, and regression tesƟng.

• Managed and trained contractors on the scoring engine applicaƟon on development and analyzed vendor work for quality and adherence to corporate standards.

• Designed and executed beta tests across 27+ universiƟes, uncovering criƟcal scalability issues.

• ParƟcipated in hiring commiƩees and oversaw UAT and regression tesƟng for legacy migraƟons. CERTIFICATIONS

ASTQB Test CerƟfied CerƟfied Lean Six Sigma

SAP Project Manager Masterclass Apache NiFi Big Data Flow Salesforce CerƟfied Associate Salesforce CerƟfied AI Associate ICAgile CerƟfied Professional Agile TesƟng

EducaƟon

Villa Julie College (Stevenson University), Stevenson, MD, Bachelor of Science, Business AdministraƟon; 1999

Associate of Arts, Travel and Tourism Studies 1995 Tool & Technologies

Plaƞorm/Tool Proficiency Level Usage Context

JIRA & Confluence 8+ years Agile project tracking, test case management, backlog refinement

Salesforce CerƟfied (2 yrs) UAT scripƟng, persona-based tesƟng, plaƞorm enhancements

SQL Queries 2 years Data validaƟon, back-end tesƟng AWS Experienced Cloud delivery, ingesƟon pipelines, system architecture for DoD and forensic plaƞorms

Postman, SOAP, SSH Experienced API validaƟon, service-based tesƟng, secure data flow verificaƟon

MicrosoŌ Office Suite Advanced Test documentaƟon, client presentaƟons, UAT workbooks for federal stakeholders

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