Experience

Polaris Alpha

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Cyber Security and Accreditation Specialist/IA Systems Analyst

  • Mar 2019 - Present

• Scrum Master

  • Jan 2019 - Mar 2019

• Lead Test Engineer

  • Feb 2011 - Jan 2018

  • Extensive experience with quality assurance testing of web-hosted and stand-alone software, focusing on data analysis and reporting applications.• Experienced with different processes for testing, such as agile and waterfall methodologies, particularly within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) process.• Lead tester for three program applications, which included a web-chat solution for cross-domain messaging and display sharing, and the platform application.• Interfaced regularly… • Extensive experience with quality assurance testing of web-hosted and stand-alone software, focusing on data analysis and reporting applications.• Experienced with different processes for testing, such as agile and waterfall methodologies, particularly within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) process.• Lead tester for three program applications, which included a web-chat solution for cross-domain messaging and display sharing, and the platform application.• Interfaced regularly with software engineers and other quality assurance employees to address issues, verify test case updates, and receive status for immediate and future version release test events.• Designed and maintained test cases for periodic regression testing and provided results to multiple audiences.• Familiar with REST endpoint testing through Postman and updates to test collections.• Maintained 5+ test servers/VMs that support highly customized applications for concurrent and future releases.• Reported, tracked and managed Problem Reports (PRs), including steps to duplicate and basic triage information through defect tracking software.• Familiar with running command line backend tests using automation scripts and creating and running UI tests.• Managed testing schedule and effort for projects, and coordinated status requests between testing, program manager and developers, which sometimes required consistent follow-through for updates.• Assisted Cyber Security and Accreditation (CSA) department with customer test events and creation of test cases for UAT events.• Assisted other projects when needed, and assisted development/management with defect triage through accurate reporting and scope information. Show more Show less



Insurance Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Engineer

  • May 2008 - Feb 2011

  • Quality assurance testing of web-hosted and stand-alone versions of point-of-sale insurance illustration software with tens of thousands of end-users.• Report, track, and manage bugs, change requests, and design flaws, including steps to duplicate and basic triage information, through defect tracking software.• Troubleshoot failures to narrow problems down to their root cause.• Design, create, maintain, and analyze results of test case sets for automated regression testing of… • Quality assurance testing of web-hosted and stand-alone versions of point-of-sale insurance illustration software with tens of thousands of end-users.• Report, track, and manage bugs, change requests, and design flaws, including steps to duplicate and basic triage information, through defect tracking software.• Troubleshoot failures to narrow problems down to their root cause.• Design, create, maintain, and analyze results of test case sets for automated regression testing of calculation and report outputs.• Create and maintain documentation for multiple audiences, including test plans, test instructions, test result histories, client release notes, and other release management documentation.• Estimate QE time and costs needs for proposed new projects and change requests. Show more Show less