Stan Taylor

Stan Taylor

Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Manager and Architect

Austin, Texas Area

Current
  • Quality Assurance Architect at Borland
  • Owner at Aphids Communications
Past
  • 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
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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

  • Quality Assurance Architect

    Borland

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

    April 2008 — Present (4 months)

    Implement agile testing practices for globally distributed teams

    Facilitate the establishment of performance benchmarks for all products

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

  • Owner

    Aphids Communications

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

    April 1997 — Present (11 years 4 months)

    Small web site and web application development firm.

  • 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

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  •    AgileAustin member
  •    Software Testing & Quality Assurance member

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