Stan Taylor

Current

QA Lead at HyPerformix
Owner at Aphids Communications

Past

Quality Assurance Architect at Borland
QA Staff Engineer at Borland
Director of Quality Assurance at BetweenMarkets

Director of Quality Assurance at MessageOne
Software Quality Assurance Technical Lead at The Cobalt Group
Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Salion
Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Excite@Home
Software Quality Assurance Engineer at SMART Technologies
QA Engineer at AT&T

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Education

The University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin

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Industry

Computer Software

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Stan Taylor’s Summary

Software quality assurance engineer, architect and manager specializing in starting and building QA programs, automated testing and performance testing, automated testing.

Software developer specializing in dynamic, database-driven web-based applications.

Stan Taylor’s Specialties:

Software quality assurance program management and development, outsourced QA staffing, automated testing, performance testing, web site development, web programming

Stan Taylor’s Experience

QA Lead

HyPerformix

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

Design and create testing infrastructure, strategy and processes

Perform all types of testing on enterprise and desktop applications
Owner

Aphids Communications

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 1997 — Present (12 years 8 months)

Small web site and web application development firm.
Quality Assurance Architect

Borland

(Public Company; BORL; Computer Software industry)

April 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 2 months)

Architect and implement agile testing practices for globally distributed teams

Coordinate efforts between product development teams and offshore enterprise test team

Manage development and implementation of company-wide QA standards and practices

Architect and implement company-wide QA technology infrastructure, e.g, defect tracking, test management, etc.

Oversee development of company-wide quality Dashboard for senior management

Serve a leading role in internal agile transformation and in presenting the company's agile transformation to customers

Architect and implement internal deployment and integration of Borland's ALM and BMS products for the management of the company's own software development
QA Staff Engineer

Borland

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BORL; Computer Software industry)

April 2006 — April 2008 (2 years 1 month)

Responsible for designing and implementing quality assurance processes for R&D division

Architect and manage automated testing projects using SilkTest

Mentor QA staff members
Director of Quality Assurance

BetweenMarkets

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2004 — April 2006 (1 year 11 months)

Responsible for creating and managing a software QA program

Perform all types of testing of a B2B data quality application

Supervise outsourced testing staff
Director of Quality Assurance

MessageOne

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2003 — May 2004 (9 months)

Responsible for creating and managing a software QA program

Perform all types of testing in complex Windows/Linux environment

Maintain test labs
Software Quality Assurance Technical Lead

The Cobalt Group

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 4 months)

Planned all resources and schedules for functional and performance QA work for new and ongoing enterprise Internet-based CRM software applications used by over 4000 auto dealerships in North America

Supervised a team of QA five functional test engineers in Austin and Bangalore working on multiple projects

Implemented iterative testing using agile methodologies

Coordinated automated testing work using WebLoad and Mercury WinRunner
Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Salion

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2000 — April 2002 (1 year 6 months)

Responsible for creating and managing a software QA program, including budgetary responsibility, hiring and staff supervision</li>

Evaluated, recommended, purchased and implemented automated load testing software (Radview WebLoad)

Architected, implemented and managed automated load and performance testing program

Wrote and executed system test plans and test cases for high-capacity J2EE web application

Wrote product documentation, including online help (using RoboHelp), printed user manual, and training materials

Conducted on-site user training classes

Ensured that development team followed USDP-based (Unified Software Development Process) procedures

Evaluated, acquired, implemented and administered enterprise-wide defect tracking software

Installed, configured and administered Rational RequisiteWeb server software.
Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Excite@Home

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 5 months)

Wrote and executed system test plans for web-based software applications (e.g., Excite's chat, voice chat, and instant messaging), including functional, usability, browser compatibility, performance, installation, load and stress tests.

Coded and executed automated functional tests using Segue's SilkTest.

Coded and executed automated load and stress tests using Segue's SilkPerformer.

Set up and maintained usability and browser compatibility testing lab with PCs and Macintoshes.
Software Quality Assurance Engineer

SMART Technologies

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1997 — June 1999 (1 year 10 months)

Wrote and executed system test plans for high-capacity web server software, database-driven web-based applications on Windows NT platform and Windows NT GUI applications

Coded and executed automated test cases in Silk (web version of Segue's QA Partner), RadView's WebLoad and Perl

Organized and supervised formal reviews of development documentation (requirements and design documents, system test plans)

Implemented procedures for making QA and development more productive: Coded and helped to deploy automated regression test suites (using WebLoad); Deployed disk imaging for QA lab machines to facilitate a more standard testing environment and to allow installations on clean machines with significantly shorter preparation time; Evaluated, recommended and implemented enterprise-wide defect tracking software package (Intersolv's PVCS Tracker)
QA Engineer

AT&T

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Stan Taylor’s Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. , German cultural studies, translation studies , September 1986 — December 1997
The University of Texas at Austin

B.A. , German , September 1983 — May 1986