Quality Management Technical Lead, Hewlett Packard
Jacksonville, Florida Area
- Current
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- Quality Management Technical Lead at Hewlett Packard
- Past
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- Senior QA Engineer at Fidelity National Financial
- Contractor at Beckman Coulter
- Senior Consultant, Professional Services at Mercury Interactive
- Software Configuration Manager at NeorisLogistics
- Sr. SQA Systems Engineer at NeorisLogistics
- Software Configuration Manager at Parkstone Medical Information Systems, Inc
- SQA Systems Manager at Parkstone Medical Information Systems, Inc
- SQA Systems Analyst III at Parkstone Medical Information Systems, Inc
- Quality Assurance Manager at ADT Security Systems
- Quality Assurance Team Lead (UNIX) at ADT Security Systems
- Quality Assurance Analyst III at ADT Security Systems
- Virus Analyst at Gear Software
- Systems Administrator at Gear Software
- Senior UNIX Tech Analyst at Gear Software
- Education
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- University of Florida
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Bwana McCall’s Summary
I have 10 years experience in Software Quality Assurance including, but not limited to, Automated Functional and Performance Testing. I have consulted many Fortune 500 companies on how to do more with less with HP's BTO product suite.
I am a HP Certified Product Consultant (CPC) and a Certified Instructor (CI). I have a vast knowledge of technologies which include, but is not limited to J2EE/Java, Microsoft .NET, and Unix environments.
I am ITIL v3 Foundations Certified
Bwana McCall’s Specialties:
Automated Functional Testing
HP QuickTest Professional
HP WinRunner
Automated Performance Testing and Tuning
HP LoadRunner / LR J2EE Transaction Breakdown
HP SiteScope
HP J2EE Deep Diagnostics
Apache JMeter
QA Test Management
HP Quality Center / TestDirector
Bwana McCall’s Experience
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Quality Management Technical Lead
Hewlett Packard
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)
September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
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Senior QA Engineer
Fidelity National Financial
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FNF; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — September 2006 (5 months)
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Contractor
Beckman Coulter
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BEC; Computer Software industry)
October 2005 — May 2006 (8 months)
Responsible for automating Oracle Applications 11i using a custom hybrid of WinRunner and Excel datasheets. Conducted Performance and Stress Testing of a J2EE architecture using Apache JMeter.
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Senior Consultant, Professional Services
Mercury Interactive
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MERQ; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 10 months)
Responsible for Application Delivery [Functional and Performance testing] services for multiple Mercury customers. Client engagements can include: on-site training, on-site mentoring, automated test scripting, and automated test execution. Services also include BTO services using Mercury’s Center of Excellence models with goals of providing best practices surrounding people, process and product.
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Software Configuration Manager
NeorisLogistics
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2002 — December 2002 (11 months)
Developed a Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Plan for the company based on the notion of going from a state of “chaos” to a state of “repeatability”. The CMM Plan consisted of various processes that adhere to SEI CMM Standards and basic P.A.C.E Project planning methodology. Implemented developed processes coupled with Niku Project Workbench and Microsoft SharePortal which brought about a sound development environment to the company.
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Sr. SQA Systems Engineer
NeorisLogistics
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 6 months)
Developed test plans and test cases for the ActiveTrac project. Coordinated testing on a three tier enterprise system which consisted of a handheld PPC, a desktop server, and a database / application server. Setup and configured BEA WebLogic application server and ORACLE database environment on Microsoft Windows 2000 and RedHat Linux 7.x respectively.
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Software Configuration Manager
Parkstone Medical Information Systems, Inc
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2001 — July 2001 (5 months)
Developed a revamped repository using Starbase’s StarTeam product. Developed plan to migrate from MS SourceSafe to StarTeam without interruption of the Software Development cycle.
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SQA Systems Manager
Parkstone Medical Information Systems, Inc
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2000 — July 2001 (10 months)
Managed progress of backend feeds and data integrity analysis using SQL Server 7.0 on NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 platform. Coordinated resources in order to build test sequences to greatly speed efficiency for Development/QA lifecycle for front-end Pocket PC platform on IPAQ and Casio palm sized devices. Implemented processes and procedures within the Software Quality Assurance department to greatly enhance quality standards.
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SQA Systems Analyst III
Parkstone Medical Information Systems, Inc
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2000 — March 2001 (8 months)
Spearheaded the QA process for backend NT/2000 SQL servers. Documented and formulated test plans and procedures for the rest of the team based on knowledge gained.
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Quality Assurance Manager
ADT Security Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — August 2000 (3 months)
Managed up to 5 testers on the CCA project. Coordinated test planning and spearheaded the growth of a new department in the company.
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Quality Assurance Team Lead (UNIX)
ADT Security Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — June 2000 (6 months)
Coordinated testing of the UNIX server team on the CCA project. Using the DEC platform, our team wrote test scripts in KORN shell (ksh) as well as trouble-shooted server side errors and problems. Developed test plans to utilize server side scripts along with GUI interaction with Citrix applications and ORACLE applications.
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Quality Assurance Analyst III
ADT Security Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1999 — January 2000 (8 months)
Implemented initial test sequences for an untested portion of the CCA project. With limited knowledge, I coordinated a wealth of test plans, which contributed to the development team as well as the entire project.
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Virus Analyst
Gear Software
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1998 — June 1999 (7 months)
Analyzed and identified variants and new strains of computer viruses for the parent company, Command Software. Analysis included low-level analysis of embedded VBS code in Microsoft Office file formats as well as Boot sector Trojans and EXE and COM variants. Provided solutions for each case for a wide customer base.
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Systems Administrator
Gear Software
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1998 — June 1999 (10 months)
Maintained and updated DNS and mail server for the company utilizing Solaris 2.6 on UltraSPARC hardware platform. Frequently updated security and access rights on the company ftp server.
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Senior UNIX Tech Analyst
Gear Software
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1998 — June 1999 (10 months)
Tested and supported GEAR UNIX CD-R software for various flavors of UNIX including SunOS, AIX, IRIX, HP UX, and Digital Unix.
Bwana McCall’s Education
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University of Florida
BS , Mechanical Engineering , 1992 — 1998
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Bwana McCall’s Interests:
Performance and Stress Testing, Performance Tuning, Test Management, Systems Administration, Project Management, Centers of Excellence
