Seasoned Quality Assurance Professional
Phoenix, Arizona Area
- Current
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- Test Lead & Automation Architect at Go Daddy Software
- Test Lead & Automation Architect at GoDaddy.com
- Past
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- Staff QA Engineer at Corillian Corporation
- Senior QA Engineer at Corillian Corporation
- QA Manager at Corillian Corporation
- QA Engineer at Transync
- QA Engineer at Intel Corp.
- QA Engineer at PCTest
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Brent Strange’s Summary
I am a seasoned software quality assurance professional with 10 years of experience and demonstrated excellence with quality objectives and methodologies. My work history includes successfull achievements in roles such as test architect, auutomation architect, test lead, test engineer, performance engineer, automation engineer, and QA manager. I am quick at learning new technologies or products, problem solving, building or streamlining quality initiatives, and finding defects or quality issues. With many years spent testing and developing Web related products I have an excellent understanding of those associated technologies and their related security risks. Sharing my QA and testing knowledge is something I enjoy immensely and I do so by teaching others through everyday tasks, classes, writing, and blogging.
Language Experience:
C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Ruby, VB6, ASP, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jscript, VBScript, Java, KornShell, 4Test, TSQL, Perl
Technology Experience:
.Net 1.1, .Net 2.0, .Net 3.5 .Net Web Services, SOA, WSE 2.0-3.0, SOAP, IPSEC, LDAP, InstallShield, COM, ISAPI, CDO, Java client-server, Java Beans, Java Applets, IIS 5-6, SQL 7-2005, Access 2003-2007, Oracle 7, ActiveX, Cold Fusion, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP compression, Flash, IE 3.0+, Netscape 3.0+, AOL 3.0+, FireFox .9+, Safari 1.0+, browser extensions, Microsoft Windows 3.1-Vista, Microsoft Server NT4-2003, Apple Macintosh OS 8-10
Test Tool Experience:
Segue SilkTest, Segue SilkPerformer, Microsoft ACT, PVCS Tracker, Rational ClearQuest, SWEAutomation, nUnit, JUnit, SOAtest, Achilles, Paros, Web Scarab, HTTPWatch, Ghost, Roboform, Beyond Compare, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, CVS, SVN, TFS, Microsoft Virtual PC, VS 2005-2008 Team System, Mercury Quality Center
Development Tool Experience:
Visual Studio .Net 2003-2008, Visual Studio 6, SOAPScope, XMLSpy, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Flash, Xara Xtreme
Brent Strange’s Specialties:
Web application testing, hardware/software compatibility testing, client/server testing, technical writing, defining and implementing process, web application development, performance testing, security testing, training
Brent Strange’s Experience
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Test Lead & Automation Architect
Go Daddy Software
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
I curently manage the automation team and the direction of automation in the company. My team and I have built a home grown testing API with .NET, using Visual Studio as a test harness, that is capable of testing at all Web application layers (e.g. Browser, Web Servie, COM, database). Using Visual Studio has sparked interest (my QA plot) in developers for writing better unit tests. We are currently working on moving some our automated tests up in the process where they can be run on the developers continous integration servers.
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Test Lead & Automation Architect
GoDaddy.com
(Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
I curently manage the automation team and the direction of automation in the company. My team and I have built a home grown testing API with .NET, using Visual Studio as a test harness, that is capable of testing at all Web application layers (e.g. Browser, Web Servie, COM, database). Using Visual Studio has sparked interest (my QA plot) in developers for writing better unit tests. We are currently working on moving some our automated tests up in the process where they can be run on the developers continous integration servers.
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Staff QA Engineer
Corillian Corporation
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Cori; Computer Software industry)
July 2005 — June 2007 (2 years )
Staff QA Engineer: Corporate Security Group
Responsibilities:
• Provide quality assurance and testing for Corillian Security products ; Functional (white and black), system compatibility, standards compatibility, browser compatibility, system integration, database validation, security, performance, scalability, and stress testing.
• Provide quality related input during all project phases within in agile environment.
• Participate in and test product security threat modeling tasks.
• InstallShield and MSI installer testing.
• Find or create needed test tools.
Achievements:
• Built an automation framework using SWEAutomation and nUnit which saved 8 hours of manual testing time per build.
• Conducted scalability testing at Microsoft Scalability Labs that helped to nearly double the product’s scalability.
• Built a test framework that emulated 23 Web server log formats so that 1 test case could be automatically generated into 23 cases (1 for each log format) -
Senior QA Engineer
Corillian Corporation
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; CORI; Computer Software industry)
April 2001 — July 2005 (4 years 4 months)
Senior QA Engineer: Professional Services Group
Responsibilities:
• Provide quality assurance and testing for banking Web sites and Web applications for top 100 banks and all sizes of credit unions. Quality initiatives include: Analyze requirements, create test estimates, develop test plans, interact with customer on test objectives, developing test cases, iterative QA and testing, reporting results, analyzing and reporting budgets, leading 1-12 testers on various sized projects.
• Provide Web site implementation performance and load testing using Segue SilkPerformer.
• Provide Web site test case automation using Segue SilkTest.
• Research and manage use of test tools for the team in an effort to decrease manual testing effort and increase testing efficiency. -
QA Manager
Corillian Corporation
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; CORI; Computer Software industry)
April 2003 — April 2004 (1 year 1 month)
QA Manager: Professional Services Group
Responsibilities:
• Manage a team of 15 QA Engineers.
• Project planning, tracking, reporting and estimation for quality objectives.
• Interface with internal and external customers on quality objectives and issues.
Achievements:
• Created, documented, and managed Quality strategies, initiatives, processes, and best practices that ensured consistent and dependable product quality. -
QA Engineer
Transync
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year )
QA Engineer:
Responsibilities:
• Analyze requirements, create test procedures, plans, cases, and conducted white box testing of a Java Client-Server ACH-Credit Card payment engine (similar to PayPal).
• Administer Merant PVCS Tracker as a defect tracking database for QA and an issue-tracking database for customer service.
• Create and maintain continuous build scripts.
Achievements:
• Created and maintained a Java/MKS Test Harness that served as the regression test suite for both QA and Developers.
• Increased group efficiency and decreased confusion by building an intranet site that served as a portal for all internal documentation.
• Provided continuous code integration by creating and administering -
QA Engineer
Intel Corp.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; INTC; Computer Software industry)
February 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 2 months)
QA Engineer: Marketing Group
Responsibilities:
• Analyze requirements, create test plans and cases, conduct testing, and provide testing and defect reports for internal and external customers.
• Lead test engineers in testing of 14 localizations of the Intel WebOutfitter Service (IWOS), its supporting affiliate sites, and tools.
• Setup and maintain test machines with applicable international operating systems and browsers.
• Automate web page functional testing with Segue SilkTest.
• Provide mentorship for team members on test methodology and technology.
Achievements:
• Recognized the need for test organization and acted as a project lead by taking tasks and distributing them among the team. This was done by creating an intranet QA portal site that described, delegated and gave deadlines for open tasks. Team and project productivity was further enhanced when the site acted as a portal for developers and managers. -
QA Engineer
PCTest
(Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
QA Engineer, Hardware/Software Compatibility and Multimedia Testing
Responsibilities:
• Create test plans, test cases, test reports, and executed tests for hardware compatibility with multimedia titles such as children’s games, educational programs, 3D games (OpenGL, DirectX), and HTML/Flash CD demos.
• System compatibility testing of hardware such as printers, mice and children’s interactive toys.
• Manage and test all Web related projects.
Achievements:
• Helped achieve external exposure for the company be redesigning the PCTest.com internet site.
• Increased testing efficiency by creating multiple, quick environment refreshes utilizing Ghost.
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Photography, Web development, graphic design, teaching, writing, blogging
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Reedville Baseball Board
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