Randall Arlitt
Software Quality Assurance Lead/Manager
Cedar Park,TX
Summary
Managed multiple global automation and manual test teams. Lead new feature team in development of test plans and test cases for manual and automated testing using business and software requirement specifications. Extensive experience in SDLC with emphasis on test strategy planning, road mapping, plan development, case creation, execution and bug tracking. Well versed in agile methodologies and activities. Effective, organized and efficient scrum master for KANBAN team tasked with leading meetings, delivering team/sprint metrics and resolving work blocks. Design and implement API/UI automated testing frameworks. Experienced in white box, black box, functional, UAT, GUI, system, new feature, regression, integration and performance testing.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Software QA Developer/Cloud QA Management
Shoretel/Mitel
Austin, TX
02.2016 - Current
- Created, executed and maintained multiple automation frameworks
- Hired/trained automation and manual test engineers
- Responsible from first interview to daily tasks
- Lead local and off-shore teams for all things manual and automation
- SME on all enterprise level applications and the automated/manual testing of those applications
- Twice weekly meetings to train or explain code/UI mechanics to automation team
- Daily meeting with all teams for new feature or regression activities
- Twice weekly reporting and strategy discussions with superior
- Final code review and merge responsibilities for automation team
- Oct 2021 recognition award by VP, Service Delivery R&D for above and beyond performance.
Application Development Engineer
Netspend, TSYS
Austin, TX
06.2013 - 01.2016
- Pioneered, troubleshot, maintained and provided end-to-end automated test cases in Jython/Selenium and Cucumber for multiple enterprise SOAP/XML API and Java applications
- CERT testing and verification
- Commended for exemplary Confluence TestDoc and Test Plan documentation
- Two peer awards for BA and stakeholder technical FAQ, documentation and training for a complicated system
- 2015 Above and Beyond award for exceptional performance.
- QA SME for seven distributed enterprise applications
- Rotated teams per release to allow mastery of all company applications and servers; always to multiple projects because of advanced understanding of complex systems and code.
Operations Support Systems QA Engineer/Scrum Master
AT&T WiFi Engineering
Austin, TX
06.2011 - 06.2013
- Extensive testing of Enterprise and Consumer, .NET, PHP web applications, DB and restful web services (SOAP)
- Provided detailed defect reports to developers by advanced script, code or database troubleshooting
- Lead off-shore test automation team efforts
- Provided direction in weekly meetings, set deadlines and ensured delivery
- Maintained existing automation scripts and ensured development of future scripts
- Developed test cases for new features or currently un-automated applications
- Compiled, updated and tracked KANBAN style team metrics; helped isolate and resolve process blocks
- Led daily sprint standup and weekly scrum planning meetings
- Compiled and presented team metrics.
C++ Script Developer
Self Employed Programmer
01.1999 - 01.2008
- Internet Sales/C++ script development, Designed and maintained Innerspace AI scripts for automated game play inside MMORPG's
- Advanced C++ programming with only black box visibility of internal API functions
- Self-motivated and organized to meet consumer timelines and demands.
- Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for project plans.
Education
Bachelor - Computer Engineering, System Hardware, Software
Concordia University
Montreal, QUEBEC 01.2006 - 12.2010
Skills
Cucumber(2), Selenium (10), Robot (8), Groovy (2), Gherkin (10), Curl (12), Git (10)Test Methods (12): White/Black box, Static/Dynamic, Smoke/Sanity/Acceptance, Regression, Integration, Non/Functional, Continuous, Destructive, Unit, Performance, Component Interface, System, SQL Injection, SDAPI, RESTful API, BoundaryDatabases/Storage (12): Oracle, XML, MySQL, PL/SQL, JSONLanguages: HTML (16), XML(SOAP) (11), Java (9), Javascript (6), C (5), C# (6) C (9), Python (8), Jython (2)PM/CRM Tools: Jira (12), Salesforce (6), Confluence(12)
Software Development Life Cycle
Additional Information
- LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randall-arlitt-74565124/
Timeline
Senior Software QA Developer/Cloud QA Management
Shoretel/Mitel
02.2016 - Current
Application Development Engineer
Netspend, TSYS
06.2013 - 01.2016
Operations Support Systems QA Engineer/Scrum Master
AT&T WiFi Engineering
06.2011 - 06.2013
Bachelor - Computer Engineering, System Hardware, Software
Concordia University
01.2006 - 12.2010
C++ Script Developer
Self Employed Programmer
01.1999 - 01.2008