Experiences at Avenue A

Avoid tall buildings during earthquakes and terrorist attacks.

Getting laid off when I was on vacation. Ha ha.

I shouldn't complain too much though . . . it was NOT christmas and I did get three months severance.

The QA team was not as cohesive as it could have been because we worked with different products with different delivery schedules.

The Vital Signs team was a hoot. We grappled with continuous feature requests on a new product while maintaining cohesiveness and quality.

A former co-worker recommended me to the manager.

1) Led several brainstorming sessions for the QA team that identified a variety of process mistakes and resulted in the introduction of rapid software development techniques.

2) First exposure to TestDirector and WinRunner

3) Improved accuracy of manual processes by developing system using MS Access database, forms and VBA code in order to automate test authoring and assist manual execution....

Organized a comprehensive documentation system to improve change tracking processes.

Initiated risk management strategies in test documentation and status reporting that resulted in more precise task estimates, especially the back-end processing tasks necessary for builds.

Mentored and trained entire QA team on use and best practices for TestDirector system.

As a member of project team, developed, performed, and reported on automated and manual tests on complex products related to advertising server and analysis tools.