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SHANNON ARNOLD

Lawrenceville,GA

Summary

Accomplished IT professional skilled in software application testing. Experienced in full Software Development Life Cycle to include Shift-Left Testing, test plan, and automated testing using Ranorex. Excellent communication, documentation, problem solving, and diagnostic skills. Consistently solve problems and handle challenges with a proven history of increased productivity. Ability to grasp new ideas and integrate them into desired results. Proactive self-starter known to initiate process and system improvements to increase system stability and up time. Ensure software products meet quality requirements by identifying and addressing issues before they impact users, focusing on functionality, accessibility, usability, and reliability.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Analyst II

Meridian Cooperative Inc
04.2015 - 03.2025
  • Promoted to test software with manual and automated testing and online web applications as well as batch file process and ftp process
  • Identified defects before they were installed into production with implementing Shift-Left Testing often catching defects early in the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Performed regression, UAT, and functional testing for UPN application, Meridian web application, smartphone/tablets and ftp processes in an Agile Environment
  • Participated in Learning and Development initiative
  • Learned Apache JMeter load/performance automation tool and Python programming language
  • Participated in Scrum meetings daily and PI Planning quarterly
  • Presented the team’s new functionality for Meridian application in meetings to the entire department
  • Always willing to share knowledge and provide assistance with management and coworkers
  • Approved code reviews for Ranorex Automation
  • Used MS Visual Code to check out/in Ranorex test cases

QA Analyst I

Meridian Cooperative Inc
04.2013 - 04.2015
  • Hired to test OnBoard on iPad for company’s board members
  • Responsible for managing and training 1 coworker to assist with testing the newly developed product
  • Analyzed and implemented solutions for application, maintenance, and enhancement requests

QA Analyst II

Equifax
03.2002 - 11.2012
  • Promoted to test software, VRU, and web applications as well as batch file process and ftp process and connect direct process
  • Responsible for managing and training 3 individuals overseas
  • Performed unit, regression, UAT, and functional testing for C GUI application, web applications, VRU application, ftp process, and batch processes
  • Testing contributed to the department's outage incidents improving 51% from 2006 to 2007 with only 3 out of 17 system outages caused by a system problem
  • Achieved 100% compliance on regulatory and security objectives
  • In 2007, the team established requirements, developed, tested, and installed over 15 releases comprised of 138 pieces of functionality
  • All release dates were achieved on time
  • Launched new products that grow subscription revenue and improved web site conversion rate and efficiencies by 20%
  • Performed testing for 12 full releases a year as well as hot fixes and partial releases
  • Identified defects before they were installed into production

QA Analyst I

Equifax
09.2000 - 03.2002
  • Provided application testing for production systems
  • Analyzed, designed, coded, and implemented solutions for application, maintenance, and enhancement requests
  • Tested for phase one of reengineering with UNIFY and Oracle migration which resulted in a successful migration
  • Tested for UNIX OS upgrade which resulted in a successful upgrade

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Memphis
Memphis, TN
12.1999

Bachelor of Science - Education

University of Memphis
Memphis, TN
05.1995

Skills

  • UNIX/LINUX
  • Sun Solaris
  • SQL
  • Perl
  • Oracle
  • HTML/XML
  • VI Editor
  • Lotus Notes
  • Windows 10 PC
  • C
  • Soap UI Pro
  • NetBeans IDE
  • DBX
  • Korn Shell/Bourne Shell/BASH/C Shell Scripting
  • Mac OS Leopard
  • MS Office
  • MAC 2009 Pages
  • 2009 Numbers
  • 2009 Keynote
  • Black Box Testing
  • White Box Testing
  • Positive testing
  • Negative Testing
  • Manual/Automation Testing
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Ranorex
  • Smartphones/tablets
  • MS Visual Code
  • Bitbucket
  • SQL Developer
  • PL/SQL
  • Slack
  • MS Teams
  • WinSCP
  • SQL queries

Accomplishments

  • Achieved successful testing of a highly anticipated new development project by completing the Arrangement Rules Project with accuracy and efficiency.
  • Collaborated with team of 60 in the reproducing of the Blown Fuse Error. Performed load and performance testing to reproduce error which led to a fix.
  • Collaborated with team of 3 in the development of automated testing with Arrangement Rules.
  • Achieved successful automation and manual regression testing with Shift-Left Testing by completing project with accuracy and efficiency.

Activities

  • Equifax, Promotion from QA Analyst I to QA Analyst II in March of 2002., One Equifax Award for National File Freeze testing involved dates provided on short notice, and the workload to be accomplished was greater than normal which required after hours/weekend efforts.
  • Meridian, Participated in Innovation Week and won 2nd place and had our team’s idea implemented. The idea was to add help notes to sections of the application to give a short and concise explanation and example on how to use that section of the application., Participated in Innovation Week and won 3rd place for creating a better design tool for new development mockups to be used by design team members., Received Orange Ribbon Award for outstanding work in testing Arrangement Rules in 2024.

Timeline

QA Analyst II

Meridian Cooperative Inc
04.2015 - 03.2025

QA Analyst I

Meridian Cooperative Inc
04.2013 - 04.2015

QA Analyst II

Equifax
03.2002 - 11.2012

QA Analyst I

Equifax
09.2000 - 03.2002

Bachelor of Science - Education

University of Memphis

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Memphis
SHANNON ARNOLD