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Software Quality Assurance at U.S. Department of Defense
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Software Quality AssuranceU.S. Department of DefenseMay 2019 - Current (6 years 2 months)- FTechnical Test AnalystFederal Reserve Bank of ClevelandJun 2015 - Apr 2018 (2 years 11 months)-Developed a comprehensive automated testing system for the U.S. Treasury Department's Collection Information Repository (CIR) web site using UFT/QTP. Developed an automated testing framework that launches tests: 60 or so SAP Business Objects reports, web site links, and user functions. The framework supplies execution parameters from external sources, and tracks timings. -Enhanced the SAP report automation to export in five different file formats, save each file, and save a screen shot of each for side-by side comparison against original report. Enhanced the above to run from an Excel spreadsheet. Each report and each export can be selected/deselected. Report parameters are also set in the spreadsheet. -Developed LoadRunner scripts that
- Quality Assurance SpecialistHarley-Davidson Motor CompanyMay 2014 - Jun 2015 (1 year 2 months)- Dealership Software: Built and executed both manual and automated test cases for C# and .NET dealership software. This software encompasses vehicle sales/financing, parts department/inventory, service department scheduling, retail store, and accounting. Created automated framework and function libraries. Worked in an Agile environment. - Trade Show Software: Built and executed test cases for Web-based software used to order specialty items at dealership shows. Executed a series of Performance tests to identify bottlenecks and fine-tune software and server setup. Verified increased throughput after changes were made.
- DTest Automation SpecialistDestination RewardsJul 2013 - Apr 2014 (10 months)-eCommerce Handheld Device Automated Testing: Created and deployed scripts to test major business functions for handheld devices. -eCommerce Web-Based Automated Testing: Created and deployed scripts to test the major business components of the company's web site. -Note: Fast-paced environment, multiple releases per week. Multiple browser support. eCommerce with travel, merchandise, daily deals, auctions, hotels, promo codes. Shopping carts, credit card purchase, cancellations. Destination Rewards (Now Deluxe Rewards) is the largest provider of Loyalty Incentive programs.
- Test Automation EngineerGeneralmotorsJan 2013 - Apr 2013 (4 months)-Test Automation Strategy. Part of strategy team which created prototype for Continuous Integration. Software builds kick off automated regression, security, and performance testing. OnStar consists of 16 separate complex components and more than 90 business processes. -Test Automation: Wrote scripts to automate testing on the Global Advisor Application (GAA) portion of OnStar.
- NTest Automation EngineerNationwide InsuranceOct 2012 - Dec 2012 (3 months)- Project: Business rules development, - As part of a 25-person project team, wrote automated tests in RubyMine / Cucumber to help achieve a goal of 95+ percent automated test coverage. The team consists of business analysts, developers, and automated testers, in an OO Test Driven Development Agile framework. The project makes insurance policy business rules invocation real-time, rather than wait for nightly batch processing.
- WSr. Test Automation EngineerWestfield InsuranceApr 2003 - Oct 2012 (9 years 7 months)- Project: LoadRunner Performance Testing - Built and executed performance tests for several web-based insurance policy systems, as well as several other web-based services. Emphasis is on discovering and fixing bottlenecks,working with developers, project managers, DBAs, and middleware (MQ) experts. - Project: QTP Web-Based Testing – Developed automated testing systems for three large web-based insurance policy systems. Developed a common architecture for all three, leading to simplified maintenance and a high degree of reuse. Used heavily by the testing team - approximately 5,000 uses/year for 12-14 software releases/year. Currently around 500 test sets. Developed a highly useful tool to convert existing insurance policies into an externa
- LTest EngineerLion BioscienceApr 2002 - Apr 2003 (1 year 1 month)- Project: Automated Testing Infrastructure – Set up documentation, procedures, standards, and function libraries for this company that provides best of breed software assisting research in genetic, biological, and pharmaceutical research community. Created tests in Unix, Linux, and Windows platforms, trained staff. Used WinRunner for regression tests, load tests.
- FTest Engineer - ConsultantFirstEnergyOct 2001 - Apr 2002 (7 months)- Project: Repeatable Process – Created templates for overall performance testing process, and for significant deliverables, including Testing Approach, Test Schedule, and Summary Report. - Project: Load Tests – Ran several load tests using LoadRunner - Project: SAP Liaison – Led a team to evaluate competing products in SAP automated testing arena. Justified and wrote up final recommendations.
- CConsultantCogentricJul 2001 - Oct 2001 (4 months)- Project: Methodology – Created Performance and Regression Testing methodology with forms, templates, project plan, and instructions. - Project: Bank of America – In response to client’s desire to leverage existing investment in automated testing and quality assurance testing software and vision to provide coherent solutions, best practices, and enterprise-wide Center of Excellence, created and RFI to evaluate testing software from major vendors. Help client evaluate and select final vendor. Result: multi-million dollar savings plus increased software availability across the enterprise. - Project: Novartis Pharmaceuticals – Participated in stress-testing a new Web site devoted to providing information about Zometa, a new leukemia therapy
- CTest EngineerColumbia HCAMay 2000 - Jun 2001 (1 year 2 months)- Project: Warehouse Management System - (1) Wrote several Telnet scripts simulating RF scan gun warehouse traffic. Ran a suite of tests varying application load, network load and network latency to prove that communications servers could be placed in Regional Data Centers rather that warehouses. (2) Created additional Exceed eFulfillment scripts, set them up to run on a Citrix server under varying load to test application scalability. - Project: Enterprise Imaging - (1) Coordinated a team of vendors to run stress tests to determine if Data General hardware and Hyland Imaging software could successfully process expected imaging traffic, and would scale to future demands. (2) Set up tests to determine if existing network bandwidth could sup
- PTest Automation EngineerProgressive InsuranceJun 1997 - May 2000 (3 years)- Project: Internet Buy Button - Designed regression tests for a highly complex Web application which is different for each State. Created Dynamic Object Response which reads each Web page, dynamically creates a single GUI map, responds to each object. Impact of constant upgrades and redesigns is drastically reduced. - Project: Agent Internet Access - Developed Quick Test scripts to load test this Internet site, which allows Insurance Agents to access and update policy information without going through a Customer Service Representative. The potential savings in this Web site is enormous, so good customer response is critical. - Project: Document Direct Load Testing - Wrote LoadRunner and WinRunner scripts to stress test an application whic
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- Continuing Education, Computer ScienceThe University of AkronJan 1997 - Dec 1997 (1 year)
- KBachelor of Science (B.S.), MathematicsKent State UniversityJan 1996 - Dec 1996 (1 year)