Todd O'Donoughue

Quincy, MA

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If you could choose, what city would you most like to live/work in? Why?

I am interested in relocating to CA

Posted @ 06:01AM, May 24, 2007 by Todd O'Donoughue | Permalink
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Work history

SICK AG September 2007 to the present
Senior Quality Assurance Manager

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How would you describe your time at SICK AG?

Responsible for leading the Stoughton facility quality program in accordance with customer and company requirements.
Manage manufacturing quality, quality control and software quality assurance.
Experience in certification and maintenance of ISO 9000: 2000 and 14000 Quality and Environmental System Standards. Thorough knowledge of relevant international codes and standards.
Proven ability to professionally communicate and present to corporate clients at all levels
Fundamental understanding of quality philosophies, principles, systems, methods, tools, standards, organizational and team dynamics, customer expectations and satisfaction, supplier relations and performance, leadership, training, interpersonal relationships, improvement systems, and professional ethics.
Fundamental understanding of a quality system and its development, documentation, and implementation with respect to domestic and international standards... read more
GetConnected April 2007 to August 2007
Senior QA Project Manager

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How would you describe your time at GetConnected?

Responsible for assessing the current QA environment and processes, making recommendations for staffing to support software development efforts, interfacing with development, product management and with outsourced QA teams. An understanding of full life cycle testing, use of automated test tools, experience writing and executing test scripts and testing in a multi-layer application environment are all required. Key to driving QA processes.
Experienced testing multi-level Web applications.
Experienced in the use of automated test tools, developing test scripts, analyzing test results.
A solid understanding of Web development architecture and operations.
Testing .Net applications.
SQL Query experience. MS SQL Server
Experience testing retail (especially POS) applications.
Ability to develop accurate estimates of time and effort required to test complex software systems
PCI Data Security Standard compliancy testing... read more
Picis May 2006 to March 2007
Senior Manager, Software Quality Verification & Validation

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How would you describe your time at Picis?

Software Test Team Management: Defining team's responsibilities, identifying needs for resources, doing performance and salary reviews. Tracking testing activities, testing team performance and needs.
People Management: Leading Software Quality Assurance team, monitoring and supervising activities through weekly one-on-one meetings, identifying people needs and providing feedback. Tracking and reporting progress of qualification activities, providing continuous guidance and feedback.
Software Quality Testing and Management: Mentoring and monitoring software test team on definition of Quality Plan, Test Plan and Test Cases. Establishing priorities, defining reporting and communication processes.... read more
state street December 2005 to April 2006
Senior Quality Assurance Manager, ntegrated Financial Systems

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How would you describe your time at state street?

Hire and manage performance and development of team members.
Recommend salary increases, promotions and bonuses as needed.
Manage large-scale quality assurance projects including staff management, methodology implementation and development and maintenance of ongoing processes; ensures quality consistency throughout product life cycle.
Create project plans and budgets, allocated resources and evaluated test tools.
Manage scheduling to ensure efficient and effective product testing; identified and reported risks to project schedule and product quality and proposes new methods to control and/or mitigate risks.
Identify automated tools to perform quality assurance tasks and activities.
Consult with other technology areas to develop, enhance and improve key software and systems engineering processes and development life-cycle activities.
Develop measures and metrics to support software/systems processes and product quality.
Manage both onshore and offshore resources
Identified, developed and implemented new quality and process improvement programs.
Keeps abreast of industry trends by participating in appropriate forums and maintaining professional affiliations.... read more
CVS Pharmacy, Head Office Woonsocket RI April 2005 to November 2005
Senior QA Project Manager

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How would you describe your time at CVS Pharmacy, Head Office W...?

Review all required project artifacts (MRD, Functional and Non-Functional Requirements, Use Cases, Architecture, Design and Functional Specifications)
*Responsible for creating the Test Plan Strategy document
Manage, assign/delegate testing task to members of the QA team
Review all Test Procedures created by the team
Provide estimated time requirements for assigned QA testing efforts
Ensures software solutions meet user requirements and technical specifications for all assigned projects
Write and execute programs, or utilize testing tools for creating, editing and retrieving test data
Configure or ensures readiness of the testing environment
Obtain and report the test case completion and defect reported metrics
Work closely with Development, Project Management, Product Management, Release Engineering and Documentation
Assists in execution of manual and automated functional, regression and performance tests
Triage all project specific reported defects
Document a weekly status report on project progress
Working with the business unit to conduct UAT
Scheduling and coordinating the deployment of releases into Production
Change Control Board (CCB) scheduling of code releases and emergency fixes into Production
Scheduling and coordinating the deployment of releases into Production... read more
The MathWorks January 2005 to March 2005
Senior Consultant, Quality Engineering

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How would you describe your time at The MathWorks?

Project Lead in a large data migration effort to covert existing Vantage CRM to Siebel CRM
Create Test Plans to ensure data validity
Work with Management, BSAs, PMs to establish concise QA Best Practices
Hands on testing of web based Siebel CRM including GUI using IE, Data Migration and Oracle DB validation
Identify system defects and report them
Work with end users to ensure a smooth transition to Siebel CRM... read more
FM Global June 2004 to January 2005
Senior Consultant

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How would you describe your time at FM Global?

Work with upper management to implement and apply QA processes and methodologies
Frequent review of defects logged against the system (Horizon) using Rational ClearQuest
Write QA Test Strategies, test plans and test cases from business requirements using MS Word or MS Excel
Manually execute functional test cases and report on bugs in a multi-tiered Client Server Windows XP and .net technologies. Languages tested included VB, PowerBuilber, XMS and XML, .asp, .net
Verify tests by querying MS SQL 7.0 and Oracle 8.X databases
Work with the business units and conduct End User Tests prior to business sign off... read more
Staples March 2003 to May 2004
QA Project Manager

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How would you describe your time at Staples?

Assist with the establishment of QA test plans and test cases for the Point Of Sale (POS) system running NSB Coalition software
Work with upper management to implement and apply QA processes and methodologies
Managing a team of QA Engineers through guidance and work delegation to ensure that service releases promoted to Production are of the highest quality
Daily status reports to upper management on test cycle execution status using MS Word and MS Excel spreadsheets
Frequent review of defects logged against the Point Of Sale system using Remedy software (bug tracker)
Write QA Test Strategies, test plans and test cases from business requirements using MS Word or MS Excel
Manually execute functional test cases and report on bugs in a multi-tiered Client Server Windows NT and AS400 environment. Languages tested included C, C++, VB, JCL, COBOL, TSO
Verify tests by querying MS SQL and Oracle databases, Transaction Object Manager (TOB)
Upload transactions using Walker software to the AS400 for report validation
Improve and expand the core regression test suite
Work with the business units and conduct End User Tests prior to business sign off
Write QA assessments to evaluate the risk of a project prior to implementing it to Production... read more
Experience.com November 1999 to January 2003
QA Manager

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How would you describe your time at Experience.com?

Working with Development to define the overall milestones and process for three different products, eRecruiting, Internal Administrative Tool, in house Reporting Tool
Responsible for ensuring regular and frequent triages of bugs and feature requests by meeting with other department leaders within the organization
Management of entire bug process including daily triages using a web based application - Pragmatic software (defect tracker)
Management and testing of regular Production maintenance releases
Evaluate risk assessment prior to releasing fixes into Production
Manage and delegate work to QA Engineers
Ensure that there is automation, unit tests and manual tests set up as needed for the project using Mercury Interactive - WinRunner and LoadRunner
Work closely with the rest of the QA team to ensure consistent processes being developed across all products
Manage, design, execute and verify test plans and test scripts for our applications to ensure product functionality is of the highest quality for technologies including JAVA, JAVA Script, XML, HTML, Pearl Script.
Manually execute/verify tests on LINUX/UNIX, Apache web servers.
Use SQL Navigator to query Oracle and MySQL databases
Browsers tested included IE 5.0 and up, Netscape 4.7 and up, AOL on Windows XX and MAC Operating Systems... read more
John Hancock Financial Network February 1998 to June 1999
Consultant - Quality Engineering

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How would you describe your time at John Hancock Financial Network?

Manage, design, execute and verify test plans and test scripts using MS Word and MS Excel for the Lifetime + Project of John Hancock and Associates
Test on multi-tiered Client Server and Mainframe Image Based (FileNet) and Customer Service WorkBench Applications (Floware) including inbound and outbound faxes.
Manage, identify, document and testing of system bugs through Software Investigation Reports using Lotus Notes. Front end testing conducted in an OS/2 and Windows NT environment with middleware servers
Y2K management, analysis and compliant testing including auditor documentation, identifying/executing test plans and test cases
System testing of Daemons on a Unix based platform and verification of data using SQL Programmer query Sybase, Oracle & Informix Database tables
SQA Manager (Rational Suite) was used to run automation tests
Test verification of languages PowerBuilder, VB, C, C++
Report verification was conducted via Crystal Reporting... read more
Royal Bank Financial Group May 1991 to December 1992
QA Engineer/Business Systems Analyst ??? Co-Op Student

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How would you describe your time at Royal Bank Financial Group?

Met with clients at the New York Corporate Center to assess design of user reports in order to most effectively meet user needs
Made various modifications using PM FOCUS for OS/2
Performed analysis and verification of data for Demand Deposit Accounting in personal client technology
Performed analysis and verification of data for Domestic Funds Transfer (DFT) Business System... read more

Education

Business Marketing - Bachelors
Information Systems Management Certificate
Management Sciences - Bachelors

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