Lawson Resume 2015

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Joseph Lawson 524 Federal Ave E #205, Seattle, WA. 98102 [email protected] 678-346-5444 Professional Summary Exceptionally motivated Quality Assurance Tech II trained in a fast- paced Agile-based development environment. Experienced in quality assurance and control for user engagement platforms and merchant applications. Attentive to detail and committed to the highest level of excellence. Excited about working with groundbreaking technologies in the quality assurance field. Experience Quality Assurance Technician II at Amazon Seattle, WA (November 2014 – Present) As part of the Device Army manual testing team for Amazon Local Register, manually tested app to look for defects. Created a device independent test flow that improved efficiency in testing and decreased the time needed for a full regression from one day to 4 hours. Created a device dependent test flow that decreased time needed for backend testing from 4 hours to 90 minutes. Completed a production test flow that decreased time for a production regression from 4 hours to 3 hours. Led multiple weekly app releases, completed in two days. Managed a monthly app release, completed in four days. Quality Assurance Engineer at Triton Digital Kennesaw, GA (March 2014-October 2014) Works with project management and business analysts to transform extensive business use cases into effective test plans and test cases. Continues to refine interpersonal and professional communications by collaborating efforts between multiple teams. Successfully organized a synchronized QA release between international office locations. Learned the foundations of automated testing while further refining manual testing skills. System Architect at BPM Specialists Alpharetta, GA (2013-2014)

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Joseph Lawson524 Federal Ave E #205, Seattle, WA. 98102

[email protected]

Professional Summary

Exceptionally motivated Quality Assurance Tech II trained in a fast-paced Agile-based development environment. Experienced in quality assurance and control for user engagement platforms and merchant applications. Attentive to detail and committed to the highest level of excellence. Excited about working with groundbreaking technologies in the quality assurance field.

Experience

Quality Assurance Technician II at AmazonSeattle, WA (November 2014 – Present)

As part of the Device Army manual testing team for Amazon Local Register, manually tested app to look for defects. Created a device independent test flow that improved efficiency in testing and decreased the time needed for a full regression from one day to 4 hours. Created a device dependent test flow that decreased time needed for backend testing from 4 hours to 90 minutes. Completed a production test flow that decreased time for a production regression from 4 hours to 3 hours. Led multiple weekly app releases, completed in two days. Managed a monthly app release, completed in four days.

Quality Assurance Engineer at Triton DigitalKennesaw, GA (March 2014-October 2014)

Works with project management and business analysts to transform extensive business use cases into effective test plans and test cases. Continues to refine interpersonal and professional communications by collaborating efforts between multiple teams. Successfully organized a synchronized QA release between international office locations. Learned the foundations of automated testing while further refining manual testing skills.

System Architect at BPM SpecialistsAlpharetta, GA (2013-2014)

Formally trained as a Pega Rules Process Commander (PRPC) developer. Working with this business process management software development platform provided experience with programming, enterprise technologies, database manipulation, and other development tools and utilities. Gained a bedrock of quality assurance experience.

Skills

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Certifications: Certified System Architect v6.1, Certified Business Architect v6.1 (PEGASystems)

QA Skills: Manual testing (smoke, black/gray box, regression), automated testing (scripting, Robot RIDE, Selenium, Gherkin), test planning, test case writing, use case interpretation

Languages & Enterprise Development: Java, XML, CSS, HTML, Javascript, Ruby, PRPC 6.1-7.2

Databases & Application Servers: SQL, DB2, TomCat

Computer Skills: Microsoft Office Suite, VMWare, FileZilla, SoapUI, DBVisualizer, Microsoft Visual Studio, Selenium, Robot Framework, Robot RIDE, Cygwin, JIRA

Foreign Languages: Proficient in Russian, Spanish, French, German, Latin

Additional Skills: Documentation, leadership, risk assessment, time management, multitasking, communication

Education

Valdosta State University, BA in History, Valdosta, GA, USA (2008-2012)

Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation (2010-2012)