Steven Brinson

Qualified professional with over 20 years of extensive experience in Software Information Systems through Development, Testing and Training. Worked with Technical, Business and Health Care clients worldwide.

Created

Requirements of many types using multiple tool sets based on client preferences. Strong skills in conducting JAD sessions, UAT plans, scripts including coordination and execution. Adept in Change Management and the CM processes as it relates to the identification, analysis, evaluation and planning needs with change introduction.

Created and delivered training materials to new learners as well as seasoned personnel. Worked with Instructional Designers for technical deliveries in using new software, understanding new processes and roll out of new products. QA and test engineering with extensive technical experience in developing test artifacts (plans, strategies, types, scenarios, requirements, code coverage, cases, scripting, etc.).

Manual

Testing using in-house strategies as well as those introduced. Attention to detail especially as it pertains to analysis and reporting of test artifacts.

Utilized

Agile, Waterfall, IV&V and hybrids across multiple test types whether Unit, System or Functional scenarios. Expert in Defect Management, reporting and analysis.

Used Black

Box, White Box, Boundary Value Analysis, Equivalence Partitioning, Decision tables, State transition and Use Cases. Traveled worldwide in Training Delivery (South East Asia, Mexico, Italy, Netherlands, Canada, Thailand and Singapore). Mainframe based coding skills with some SQL. Used some Python and Java in test automation. Worked remote at home office since 2019.

Software QA/Test Manager

• Built and provided oversight of test planning, test building, test estimations, test execution using ALM, Sprinter and manual execution. Primary approach TDD and Requirements Driven.
• Test Coordinator between third party outsourced teams (test Strategy/Test Planning/SDLC)
• System, System Integration, Regression, User Acceptance and ETL test types.
• Defect management reporting across entire SDLC with defect tracking in-house (ALM and in-house management system).
• Requirements gathering/building, decomposition and coverage against functionality and product delivery. Utilized ALM for storage and in-house systems.
• Strategic roll out was first planned from a Waterfall perspective but then chunked into estimated iterations and used SCRUM with formal in-house Change Management.
• Provided Scrum Master duties as only certified resource on staff along with managerial duties.
• Re-Implementation of Oracle ERM (Leasing/Financials) R12.
• Governance oversight through Review and approval of all project test deliverables.

QA Consulting - various firms

• Performed "As Is" assessment of existing practices - Delivered "To Be" documentation for each client as a goals/objectives entry point and coverage tracking mechanism.
• Consolidated findings and requirements at each entity and gained acceptance/approval in advance of work.
• Performed gap analysis between Centers of Excellence for missing/error prone processes and misusage of tools.
• Built Process Improvement roadmap and Business/Test Processes at Level 3 following Test Maturity Model – Established Defect Removal Efficiency – Performed SIPOC to determine best approach and recommendations (ERP consisted of both SAP and Oracle)
• Delivered presentations to Managers, Directors and Senior Vice Presidents in all three instances.
• Managed teams of 2 to 20 across the above assignments (on and offshore)
• Initiated usage of Agile where possible. Most shops were Waterfall based.

QA Consulting/Training/Pre-Sales/Post Sales

• Engineered Testing management processes, including short, medium, and long-range implementation plans.
• Implemented Requirements Management Processes and tools.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Strategies, Environment Preparations and Test Schedules, Test Cases and Use Cases.
• Delivered Testing Maturity Model (TMMI) – Quality-Point.
• Delivered (created/executed) manual and automated testing
• Developed, recorded, tracked, and analyzed, metrics to measure levels of quality in software development, business process design, and operational execution.
• Developed Data and Systems Quality Team Initiative to address on-going quality issues.
• Developed IT Prioritization Initiative to address capacity and planning issues.
• Business/IT liaison and analyst for IT Enterprise Release Management.
• Business/IT liaison and analyst for IT Software Development Lifecycle reengineering.
• Business/IT liaison and core team member for Changepoint Portfolio Management project through requirements definition, system design, and User Acceptance Testing activities.
• Trained Changepoint PPM clients worldwide covering ERP/CRM capabilities.
• Developed, recorded, tracked, and analyzed, metrics to measure levels of quality in PPM rollout to clients worldwide.
• Promoted IT Prioritization capabilities to address capacity and planning issues.
• Business/IT liaison and core team member for Portfolio Management through requirements definition, system design, and User Acceptance Testing activities.