2015 ? 2019-10: Established tools, processes, standards, strategy

Kunde: American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, NC

Rolle: Senior QA Engineer

Aufgaben:

Consultant with Robert Half July 2015 ? January 2016, ABP Employee January 2016 to October 2019

• Initiated QA as a formalized process in the IT Department in the organization
• Established tools, processes, standards, strategy, QA development plan, integration of QA into development culture
• Filled multiple roles as Tester, Test Architect, Test Automation Architect, Test Automation Engineer, UAT Test Lead, Business Analyst
• Architected and developed framework and pipelines for automated tests which integrated fully with TFS/MTM/Azure Test Hub Test Plan to run selected tests on demand from test plan as well as in batch by test category from TFS/Azure Pipelines
• Automated tests, architected and developed framework for integration tests (C#, .Net) against API
• Root Cause Analysis and Quality Improvement Plans

2013 - 2015: Initiated and set up SoapUI and Selenium projects

Kunde: Select Group, Raleigh, NC

Rolle: Consultant QA

Aufgaben:

• Contracts with First Citizens Bank, Quintiles, FileOne
• Initiated and set up SoapUI and Selenium projects for multiple web service and web app test environments, wrote automated test suites using Selenium and SoapUI with customized properties and Groovy scripts; Web Services: REST and SOAP, JSON and XML, WSDL, WADL, Swagger
• Wrote SQL scripts for automated and manual data verification against database and to mine and create test data
• Led and mentored team on QA processes, tools, and technologies; review team outputs and progress, Lead new QA processes, productivity and test tools, and automation
• Created project test repository and all test assets in HP ALM for complete test cycle (test cases-manual and automated, test executions, defects, reporting and dashboard)

2009 - 2013: Testing of multiple modules of CRM/Data Warehouse

Kunde: Teradata Corporation, Raleigh, NC

Rolle: Test Engineer

Aufgaben:

• Testing of multiple modules of CRM/Data Warehouse, including Facebook Adapter, Metadata Mapping of Data Warehouse, Data Analytics, Multi Database support, Visualization/Reporting, and core Segmentation and Communication modules
• Wrote automated framework for end to end testing of Facebook Adapter, and for creation and maintenance of integrated Facebook test data
• Test plan, design, and test case development for new products, new features, regression testing, test execution, defect logging/verification
• Internationalization Testing, Installation Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Cluster Testing, Certification Testing on supported platforms, Accessibility Testing
• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of heterogeneous test environments

2007 - 2008: Test design, scripting and execution for implementation of new value added tax

Kunde: GFT Technologies for Deutsche Post, Frankfurt, Germany

Rolle: Test Consultant

Aufgaben:

• Test design, scripting and execution for implementation of new value added tax on all products sold at Point of Sales Systems, with installation numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
• Automated test framework and test case and development for new features
• Test execution manual and automated, regression testing, test results assessment, defect recording and verification, backend testing, end to end testing, test data maintenance (SQL)
• Tested interfaces to external systems

2004 - 2009: Trade execution and account management

Kunde: Self Employed, Luxembourg, Germany, USA

Rolle: Derivatives Trader

Aufgaben:

• Trade execution and account management using sophisticated Web Based Trading Application (Internaxx, Luxembourg). Products included Derivatives, FOREX, CFDs, Equities, Funds, Commodities
• Daily volume EUR 2.5 - 6 Million (4 - 10 Million USD $).

2002 - 2004: Implemented formal QA processes

Kunde: Höll Computer & Software, GmbH. , Rüsselsheim, Germany

Rolle: QA Tester

Aufgaben:

• Implemented formal QA processes and did all testing (automated and manual) for a new Online Trading and Investment application for new online Investment Bank, operating in electronic real time global stock exchanges (UBS,XETRA,EUREX) with integrated FX (currency) exchange for multi-currency account support, portfolio management, integrated Reuters feed. First company to successfully implement UBS worldwide connection to automated global exchanges.

Kunde: Electronic Data Systems (EDS- General Motors, now HP)

Rolle: Systems Engineer, Troy, MI and Rüsselsheim, Germany

Aufgaben:

• Supported GM Manufacturing Engineering by developing and maintaining complex systems in heterogeneous, distributed environments. Completed 3 year intensive Engineering Systems Engineer Development Program