324 Spring Meadow Lane New York, NY, 10003 (212) 456-1414 peter.smith@gmail.com
Peter Smith
324 Spring Meadow Lane
New York, NY, 10003
(212) 456-1414
peter.smith@gmail.com
CAREER OBJECTIVE
• Experienced Software Quality Assurance Professional with 5+ years of experience
leading QA teams for large software projects. Skilled in various program testing
technologies and current QA methodologies.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
INTUIT SOFTWARE, New York, NY
Senior QA Specialist, Jul 2008 – present
• Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements,
product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
• Review software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or
completeness, or to mitigate risks.
• Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates.
• Develop testing programs that address areas such as database impacts, software
scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability.
• Document software defects, using a bug tracking system, and report defects to software
developers.
QA Specialist, Jul 2004 – Jul 2008
• Develop or specify standards, methods, or procedures to determine product quality or
release readiness.
• Monitor program performance to ensure efficient and problem-free operations.
• Install and configure recreations of software production environments to allow testing of
software performance.
• Provide technical support during software installation or configuration.
• Perform initial debugging procedures by reviewing configuration files, logs, or code
pieces to determine breakdown source.
• Provide feedback and recommendations to developers on software usability and
functionality.
EDUCATION
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD
Bachelor of Art in History, April 2002
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Program testing software — Borland SilkTest, Bugzilla, Debugview, FileMon, FitNesse,
Hewlett-Packard HP LoadRunner software, Hewlett-Packard HP QuickTest Professional
• Requirements analysis and system architecture software — Unified modeling language
UML
• Web platform development software — Apache Tomcat, HTML, JavaScript, Microsoft
AS P.NET