A challenging and rewarding position within the Information Systems field, as a QA Test Lead / Coordinator, utilizing my skills, talents, leadership and experience to add value to your organization
Twenty five years of IT experience with four years in Quality Assurance as Test Lead in SAP environment. Coordinating testing activities with project teams and business groups. Excellent project and timemanagement skills with the ability to work independently and as a team member. Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Hewlett Packard Canada Co Mississauga, Ontario. 1998 – Present
HP Consulting - Role: Test Manager for an international bank
Novermber 2009 : Late June 2010 (planned end date)
Lead Test Script Development and Test Execution for auxiliary applications as part of migration project.
Activities included · Create project plan for testing auxiliary applications in coordination with project managers for each application (Reporting, EDI, Treasury including Swift and Reuters, Document Imaging, Telephone Banking, Drafts and Managers Cheques, Chequebook Printing, Internet Security) · Resource Planning for scripting and execution · Leading team of 15 testers · Coordination of third party resources for test execution · Coordination of test execution with core application groups · Definition of daily test status reports
Role: Implementation Manager for Canadian Telecoms Company
Lead implementation of HP developed functional project on SAP/R3 instance.
Activities included · Guiding team in preparation of release documentation · Coordination of resources in preparation for implementation weekend · Coordination during the implementation weekend · Coordination of defect resolution during the release weekend
Assist in leading performance testing for mainframe upgrade project, HP was engaged to help manage project during final stages
Activities included · Create project plan to being control to activities, resources · Coordination of third party resources for test execution · Coordination of test execution with performance testing team · Improvement and production of daily test status reports
January to July 2009Customer/Company/Country: HP Consulting
Role: Test Manager for Consumer Goods Company 1) Lead manual functional testing of Quality Maintenance Release project on SAP/R3 implementation.
2) Lead manual functional testing for SAP/XI service pack release, including reporting performance testing results
Activities included · Assisting business leads with risk analysis for selection of 3000 functional test cases from test library to build test plan · Coordination of global testing resources for test execution · Coordination of test execution with performance testing team · Definition and production of daily test status reports · Defect reporting and follow up for retesting
Hewlett Packard Canada Co Mississauga, Ontario. 1998 – Present
2007 - 2009 Worldwide Consumer Goods
Role: Solution Architect
Customer/Company/Country: HP Consulting
Role: Solution Architect
Activity: Global Delivery pursuit support for many international customers
Activities included the following · Analysis of requirements · Calculation of resources for COE model · Working with back office on resource models · Assisting with creation of RFP documents · Worked with external partner on the testing portion of response for SAP upgrade · Presentation of Mercury capabilities · Attended customer face to face meetings to understand requirements
Hewlett Packard Canada Co Mississauga, Ontario. 1998 – Present
2006 - 2007 Worldwide Consumer Goods Company
Role: Solution Architect
Activity:
· Defined capabilities of Loadrunner, QuickTest profession and Quality Center for inclusion in RFP
· Analysis of SAP refresh tool TDMS- Prepared presentation on the tool and gave presentation to company staff. Company followed up on the recommendation to carry out a proof of concept on the tool before full implementation.
· Assisted in preparation of slide set on SAP testing service - Provided technical input on use of Mercury tools and processes
· Participated in POC for Singapore office – Company decided that Quality Centre was the tool of choice for testing, and proceeded with further investigations
Hewlett Packard Canada Co Mississauga, Ontario. 1998 – Present
2002 - 2006 QA / Regression Test Lead
Leading automated and manual regression, project, stress, load testing of complexmultinational SAP/R3 implementations.The automated testing covers US, Canadaand Latin America - 13 countries in all. Rollout of SAP to all Americas countries and other critical business projects. Lead role in testing for a 4.6 to 4.7 SAP upgrade, plus several service packinstallations. Also in database migration from ingress tooracle, a physical move of SAP database about 1000 miles to new location, and the worlds largest merge of two separate SAP systems into one (inside and outside HP).
Coordinating and planning testing activities with project teams andbusiness groups to develop automated scripts which ensure that functionality ofcritical systems is not impacted by new projects. Supervising between 5 and 8 testscripters based in locations around the world to create and execute scripts. At times we have testing for different projects ondifferent SAP instances running concurrently which makes for complex coordination ofdependencies and diplomacy with different groups to agree to schedules. Managementof Mercury test environment to support functional and load testing, includingleading recent project to upgrade from Test Director to Quality Center.Designing processes for ensuring production like test environment and trouble free release to production activities.
Developingtest plans, overseeing test scheduling, analyzing and communicating testing results to project managers and business managers.
Evaluation of testing tools.
Design and development of QAautomation processes and procedures including user and ISO 9000 documentation.
2000 to 2002 IT Specialist / SAP Support
Physicaldistribution support on SAP 4.6 ERP. Including maintaining batch processes andunix scripts, monitoring edi and resolving issues; liaising with basis tosupport user access and profile maintenance; abap report changes for physicaldistribution and order fulfillment.
1998 to 2000 Analyst/Programmer (contractposition)
Support/maintenance of inventory management/shippingapplications on legacy platform (hp3000 and nt server) including databasemanagement; Coordination of development and production systems; Liaising with 3rdparty support and customers; Y2k programming
Hamilton Discount Corporation1996 to 1998 Stoney Creek, Ontario.
HP3000 Production Support
System
management of HP3000/967RX and HP3000/918/LX used for real time 24*7 credit card
processing
Capacity
and upgrade planning
Coordination of development and production systems
Support
of Payroll and Accounts Packages on HP3000 platform, including the creation of
subsystems to fill in gaps in the packages. examples of these are an employee
record system, closely linked to the payroll system, and a system to handle
internal car fleet rental for sales representatives, linked to the accounts
package.
The
systems supported were for the accounts and payroll of the entire United
Kingdom L’Oreal cosmetics operations. This included a manufacturing site in Wales, head office in London,
and centralized warehouse in Manchester.
We were part of the global operations of L’Oreal, and many of our reporting
functions were to L’Oreal head office in Paris France.
When making changes to local systems, we had to make sure those changes would
fit in with national and international requirements.
Management
Of HP3000/947LX.
Management
Of Novell Netware 3.12 network supporting 30 users.
Continued
development of the production planning system, including writing a forecasting
system based on sales, instead of relying on spreadsheets.
More involvement in daily operations and support
issues, including order processing, warehouse applications, and payroll.
As
part of the Honours Degree Course in Computer Studies, one-year
placement in the tape and disk manufacturing plant, as part of the data
processing team.
Analysis,
design and development of a Production Planning System for the manufacturing plant. The system used forecasts created by the purchasing
department using spreadsheets, which were uploaded to the Digital Equipment system,
and produced production plans for finished product.
The automation of this task which was previously a
manual task saved 60% in effort and freed planning staff to be more productive.
Recentlycreated HVAC zone control system including individual temperature selection foreach room. Includes easy to use interface so that ‘non-computerate’ people inthe house can control the system from a HP ipaq pocket PC used as a whole houseremote and from a media center PC.Next project– Control existing irrigation system using internet weather data
Hiking
Like to get out on the Bruce Trail when I can
Photography
Always looking for opportunities to take interesting pictures on my travels
