• Led QA for migration of guest loyalty data to a new rewards provider, ensuring accurate conversion and integrity of member balances and history.
• Provided QA leadership on a major ETL and data quality initiative involving Snowflake and Oracle systems.
• Helped inspire the QA Test Automation team to transition toward Robot Framework, Selenium, and Python for test automation, encouraging modern, maintainable approaches to automated testing.

• Implemented and maintained a test automation framework using Froglogic Squish and Robot Framework that reduced the time taken for a regression test of the application from a week with several manual testers to hours on one machine.
• Wrote Python libraries for Robot Framework to access the Squish API.
• Mentored team members on test automation, including Python, Robot Framework, and using Behavior Driven Developement (BDD) features of Robot Framework for writing test scenarios.

• Made extensive use of the R language to gather, analyze, and report on the quality of oil rig drilling and safety data managed by the company’s systems.
• Developed and maintained a suite of R scripts to query subsystems and create Microsoft Word reports on their data handling characteristics.
• Maintained and extended the software related to a Raspberry Pi-based drilling signal simulator, including on-board Python and a central web-based management server that controlled multiple simulators.
• Provided data quality analysis and feedback to an internal research team, resulting in a Patent on a surface stick-slip detection algorithm.

• Maintained and extended the in-house test automation framework.
• Created and deployed a RESTful web API and database for storing and reporting test automation results using Grails and MySQL.

Performed performance testing of the company’s upgraded JD Edwards, Primavera and Maximo applications using HP Performance Center and HP LoadRunner.

Developed test automation scripts using HP QuickTest Professional on HP Quality Center.

Performed manual testing of various applications in the organization’s Information Systems portfolio.

• Continue to provide selective consulting and analytical services that complement my retirement.
• Developed customized salary surveys and reporting for Alberta municipalities and organizations.
• Gathered, cleaned, analyzed, and reported data using R, RStudio, and Excel.

Managed a team of testers working on the next generation of internal management systems.

Performed staff assignment, scheduling, hiring and performance reviews.

Acted as the test team representative in project planning sessions.

Managed external contractors providing performance testing services.

Tested and reported on the quality of the company’s proprietary high-quality, low-bandwidth video encoder.

• Introduced pragmatic test practices to an Agile software development environment.

• Lead tester of the company’s leading edge video compression software.

• Worked closely with developers, business analysts and other stakeholders to ensure testing met their needs.

Performed manual and automation-assisted testing of the organization’s custom electricity market management software.

Reviewed and revised test plans, test cases and test progress reporting systems.

Responsible for performance tests of an enterprise-wide upgrade of their Oracle database systems.

Managed a geographically dispersed team of Software QA Engineers testing multiple products to provide timely feedback to project and product management.

Responsible for staff assignment, scheduling and performance reviews.

Implemented test platform virtualization, a change that significantly increased the efficiency and productivity of the software test team using fewer resources.

Developed and maintained test plans, test cases, checklists and procedures that enabled the test team to find important software bugs quickly and efficiently.