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CHANTAL BROWN

Mansfield,TX

Summary

Diligent and seasoned professional with a versatile background, offering experience as a Business Analyst with familiarity of Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Possessing strong organizational skills eager to secure a Cyber Security Analyst position. Ready to help team achieve company goals. Google Cyber Security certified .

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Analyst

Texas Workforce Commission
07.2023 - Current
  • Facilitate regular communication between cross functional teams, resulting in a 25% decrease in project misunderstandings
  • Conduct in-depth stakeholder interviews, leading to a 30% improvement in understanding client needs and expectations
  • Evaluate risks within the business, advise the business on prioritization and recommend remediation.
  • Liaison between the business and corresponding security teams to ensure that business initiatives are done in accordance with security standards.
  • Spearhead the analysis of complex business requirements, resulting in a 20% reduction in project delivery time.
  • Advise on security, compliance, and privacy standards across the business.

Manual QA Engineer

Santander (TekSystem)
07.2023 - 12.2023
  • Facilitate integration and testing of new systems, achieving a 98% accuracy rate in identifying discrepancies during pre-implementation simulations and user acceptance tests, leading to successful post-implementation reviews
  • Executed Exploratory, Functional, Regression, Systems Integration Testing (SIT), Smoke, and UAT Testing using JIRA and DevOps
  • Establish a testing framework for pre-and post-policy change reviews, contributing to a significant 15% decrease in testing duration and a 20% reduction in post-implementation complications
  • Mitigated risks by proactively identifying potential issues during early stages of development and recommending appropriate solutions
  • Accelerated bug resolution by documenting test results and providing detailed feedback to development teams

Manual QA Engineer

Security Service Federal Credit Union (Insight Global)
07.2022 - 01.2023
  • Reviewed and contributes to Test Management site by determining deliverables, formulating scenarios, creating scripts, and addressing missing requirements
  • Executed comprehensive testing across various phases including UI, System Integration, regression, and functional/non-functional testing, significantly reducing testing time and ensuring 100% test coverage
  • Wrote and maintained test scripts in using Jira

QA Mobile Software Engineer

Priority Payment Systems
12.2020 - 07.2022
  • Company Overview: Financial Services Company
  • Executed rigorous manual UI tests on mobile apps across multiple platforms, ensuring quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and productive environment compatibility
  • Utilized Jira, confluence, and Test Rail to house my test scripts for test execution
  • Performed comprehensive end-to-end and core regression tests, both manual and automated, optimized manual scripts, and analyzed results, contributing to a more efficient testing process
  • Translated complex requirements from business requirement documents and system requirement specifications into use cases for test case development, enhancing testing effectiveness and traceability
  • Financial Services Company

Sr. QA/BA

United States Postal Service
08.2018 - 12.2020
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements, resulting in the design of over 50 user stories per sprint, for a major mobile app project
  • Discussion on the expectations from both the business and development perspectives
  • Clarification of any ambiguities or questions regarding requirements
  • Conducted extensive Regression, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), creating, and executing over 500 test cases across iOS and Android platforms, achieving a 98% defect detection rate and a 95% user satisfaction score

Manual QA/BA

Menzies Aviation
08.2017 - 03.2018

Manual Test Engineer

Decision Support Systems
10.2016 - 01.2017

Business Analyst

Mosaic Sales Solutions
08.2014 - 08.2016

Education

Bachelor of Science -

University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX
01.2023

Associates of Arts -

Tarrant County College
Arlington, TX
01.2011

Skills

  • Strong communication skills
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • SIEM management
  • Log Analysis
  • System Hardening
  • Defense in Depth
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Incident Response
  • Security analytics
  • Security Auditing
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Network protocols
  • Scripting Languages
  • Wireshark software
  • Detailed Oriented
  • Team collaboration
  • Requirements gathering
  • User acceptance testing
  • Workflow Analysis
  • Stakeholder management

Certification

CompTIA Security+, 01/01/23

Google CyberSecurity Professional, March 2024

Timeline

Business Analyst

Texas Workforce Commission
07.2023 - Current

Manual QA Engineer

Santander (TekSystem)
07.2023 - 12.2023

Manual QA Engineer

Security Service Federal Credit Union (Insight Global)
07.2022 - 01.2023

QA Mobile Software Engineer

Priority Payment Systems
12.2020 - 07.2022

Sr. QA/BA

United States Postal Service
08.2018 - 12.2020

Manual QA/BA

Menzies Aviation
08.2017 - 03.2018

Manual Test Engineer

Decision Support Systems
10.2016 - 01.2017

Business Analyst

Mosaic Sales Solutions
08.2014 - 08.2016

Associates of Arts -

Tarrant County College

CompTIA Security+, 01/01/23

Google CyberSecurity Professional, March 2024

Bachelor of Science -

University of Texas at Arlington
CHANTAL BROWN