Jimmy Irvin PDF Print E-mail

Jimmy Irvin is a Quality Assurance Engineer with eighteen years of experience in implementing and executing manual and automated test suites for a variety of client/server and web-based applications.


EDUCATION:

Master of Science, Experimental Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Union University, Jackson, TN


PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

Employer:  Irvin Web Solutions (www.irvinweb.com)

Location:  Lawrenceville, GA

Position:  President

Dates of Employment:  June, 2005 to present

Job Description:  Design, test, implement, and maintain commercial and craftsmen/woodturning sites.  Test each website on Internet Explorer and Firefox.  Extensive use of Dreamweaver and Joomla/PHP web authoring tools.  Retest each site for the test plan written for that site upon each new release of the site.


Employer:  ImageRight

Location:  Conyers, GA

Position:  Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Contract)

Dates of Employment:  March, 2006 to September, 2006

Job Description:  Conducted load, stress, and capacity testing with LoadRunner 8.1 for C#-based document management system.  Constructed Functional Test Plans and Test Cases for new .Net 2.0-based release.  Participated in construction and maintenance of corporate website.


Employer:  Digital Insight – Magnet Banking

Location:  Atlanta, GA

Position:  Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Permanent)

Dates of Employment:  June, 2004 to May, 2005

Job Description:  Conducted load, stress, and capacity testing with LoadRunner 8.0 for ACH, Balance Reporting, Wire Transfers, Positive Pay, Stops, and other cash management modules.  Constructed the Load Test Plans, recorded and debugged the VuGen scripts, executed and analyzed the test runs, and published the results on the company web site.  Participated in the development and implementation of a fully automated regression test suite in WinRunner 7.5 for all fifteen wholesale cash management banking modules


Employer:   Magnet Banking

Location:   Atlanta, GA

Position:   Load Test Engineer (Contract)

Dates of Employment:   September 2003

Job Description:   Completed LoadRunner 7.6 testing of ACH, Positive Pay, and Stop Pay enhancements of the Cash Management system across a variety of scenarios.


Employer:  Orasi Software, Inc.

Location:  Conyers, GA

Position:  Automated Load Testing Specialist (Contract)

Dates of Employment:  April 2003 to August 2003

Job Description:  LoadRunner 7.6 testing of John Harland’s new eFormsCenter application used by wholesale customers to order all of their bank-related forms and of the new CheckStore web-based application used by retail customers to order/reorder their checks.


Employer:  Magnet Banking

Location:  Atlanta, GA

Senior Test Engineer (Contract and Permanent)

Dates of Employment:  July 2002 to April 2003

Job Description:  Load testing of Cold Fusion 4.5 versus Cold Fusion 5.0 with LoadRunner 7.6 across a variety of scenarios.  Manual and automated testing of the Magnet Internet Banking Suite, concentrating on the ACH and Wire Transfer modules.  Collection of requirements with Rational’s Requisite Pro, with their subsequent export to TestDirector 7.6.  Functional and integration testing across all 15 product modules for security enhancements.


Employer:  Equifax Corporation

Location:  Alpharetta, GA

Position:  Test Engineer (Contract)

Dates of Employment:  May 2002 to June 2002

Job Description:  Wrote the test plan and test cases for a new web-based consumer application, Credit Watch Canada, and performed the functional testing for initial and successive builds as they were constructed.  Worked with the Project Manager and the developer to gather and refine the requirements.  Implemented test planning and test execution with Mercury Interactive’s Test Director 7.2.


Employer:  BellSouth Corporation

Location:  Atlanta, GA

Position:  Test Engineer (Contract)

Dates of Employment:  January 2001 to June 2001

Job Description:  Performed statistical analyses in the Performance & Measurements Division for the Remedies project.  Tested accuracy and completeness of reports generated by MicroStrategy’s Decision Support System (DSS Agent).  Participated in construction of sampling and test criteria used throughout the Remedies project, implemented in an MS Access database with SQL Navigator-based stored procedures.  Authorized payments of $300,000+/month to BellSouth competitors based on Remedies calculations.


Employer:  Cox Enterprises, Inc. 

Location:  Atlanta, GA

Position:  Test Engineer (Contract)

Dates of Employment:  January 1999 to December 2000

Job Description:  Constructed 10 station QA Lab for testing a variety of products. Programmed sample PeopleSoft HRMS scenarios in Rational TestSuite 7.1 during automated test tool set evaluations.  Installed TestDirector 5.01 and WinRunner 5.01 on Windows NT server, using Oracle 8.0.5 as the database.  Customized and administered TestDirector workflow based on Rational TeamTest’s workflow scenarios.  Developed the procedure for installing TestDirector and WinRunner on QA lab and other workstations configured to use PeopleSoft 7.55.  Tested PeopleSoft Financials General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Billing, and Accounts Receivable applications.  Converted Rational Robot-based test scripts into a regression test suite in WinRunner 5.01 for the Accounts Payable application.  Participated in the upgrade of the Mercury Interactive suite to version 6.02.  Extended the regression test suite to the Assets Management, Billing, and Accounts Receivable applications.  Assisted in update and application of automated regression suite during major upgrade of PeopleSoft Financials.


Employer:  ADP National Accounts

Location:  Alpharetta, GA

Position:  Test Engineer (Contract)

Dates of Employment:  August 1998 to December 1998

Job Description:  Programmed the automated test scripts in Rational Robot for On-Line Check, a new feature of the main Payroll system.  Executed this Test Plan on multiple database platforms in Windows 95 through four full test cycles.


Employer:  S1 Technologies

Location:  Atlanta, GA

Position:  Lead Test Engineer (Contract)

Dates of Employment:  February 1998 to July 1998

Job Description:  Supervised construction of test scripts based on Rational Rose Use Cases for Virtual Bank Manager 3.3
and 4.0.  Participated in Process Improvement Initiative with focus on implementing User Acceptance Testing and Client Acceptance Testing.


Employer:  Client/Server Labs, LLC

Location:  Atlanta, GA

Position:  Test Engineer (Contract)

Dates of Employment:  December 1997 to February 1998

Job Description:  Wrote and automated a set of Rational Robot-based test scripts for functional, integration, and performance testing of a new release of a vehicle security and tracking system.  Used SQL 3.3 Plus to incorporate queries of Oracle 7.3 database into automated test scripts to verify test results.


Employer:  PaySys Int’l, Inc.

Location:  Atlanta, GA

Position:  Test Engineer (Contract)

Dates of Employment:  July 1997 to December 1997

Job Description:  Conducted application and systems integration testing of credit card transaction processing packages.  Completed test plan and test scripts to IEEE standards.  Set up automated regression testing in WinRunner.


Employer: Time Resource Management, Inc.

Location: Atlanta, GA

Position: Test Engineer (Contract)

Dates of Employment: January 1997 to June 1997

Job Description: Conducted application and systems integration testing of time and attendance accounting package.  Evaluated defect tracking systems and implemented package selected; implemented SQA TeamTest 5.1 and 6.0.  Trained other testing personnel on the basics of unit, application, system, and integration testing, as well as on procedures to convert manual testing to automated testing with the selected toolset.


Employer: Georgia Pacific Corporation

Location: Atlanta, GA

Position: Test Engineer (Contract)

Dates of Employment: April 1996 to December 1996

Job Description: Conducted application and systems integration testing of sales order and purchase order tools for Georgia-Pacific Corporation’s Distribution Division.  Administrator for customized installation of SQA Team Test 5.1 for 30 users. Used SQA Load Test for volume and stress testing of MS SQL Server 6.5 transaction loads for the sales orders tools in a Windows NT 3.51 two-tier client/server environment.


Employer: Trecom Systems

Location: Atlanta, GA

Position: Quality Assurance Team Leader (Contract)

Dates of Employment: December 1995 to March 1996

Job Description: Wrote and executed systems integration test plans for reengineering of BellSouth capacity management tools.  Directed implementation of WinRunner test scripts for rapid regression testing in a three-tier client/server environment.


Employer: Peachtree Software

Location: Atlanta, GA

Position: Senior Quality Assurance Specialist (Permanent)

Dates of Employment: January 1995 to December 1995

Job Description: Wrote system and feature test plans for a new Windows 95-based business accounting package.  Implemented Microsoft Visual Test 3.0, PVCS Tracker 4.0, and SQA Team Test 3.0 to find, track, and regression test all design and development problem reports.


Employer: MicroBilt/COIN Banking Systems

Location: Atlanta, GA

Position: Senior Quality Assurance Specialist (Permanent)

Dates of Employment: 1993 to 1994

Job Description:  Implemented Quality Assurance procedures throughout the software development life cycle for the auto loans system.  Evaluated DOS and GUI-based automated test tools.  Implemented the selected tool, TestPro for DOS.  Designed and implemented an ACCESS 1.1-based problem tracking system.


Employer: Prentice-Hall Professional Software

Location: Marietta, GA

Position: Senior Quality Assurance Specialist (Permanent)

Dates of Employment: 1991 to 1992

Job Description:Developed and implemented AutoTester automated test scripts for Fast Advantage, an auditing application.  Analyzed the quality requirements of functional and detail design specifications.  Earned Certified Quality Assurance Specialist certificate from the Quality Assurance Institute, Orlando, FL.


Employer: Unisys, Atlanta Development Center

Location: Norcross, GA

Position: Senior Systems Analyst/Quality Assurance Specialist (Permanent)

Dates of Employment: 1987 to 1991

Job Description:Implemented AutoTester for DOS test scripts.  Specific training in Yourdon-based Structured Analysis/Structured Testing and in Fagan inspection techniques.  Four years of experience applying structured methods to requirements definitions, functional and detail design specifications, and system testing and qualification.


PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES

Bill Long
770-815-8739

Bob Nelson
770-428-0558

L’Tanya Mathis
770-330-3724

Additional references available upon request.


CONTACT INFORMATION

JAMES R. IRVIN
Home:  (770) 554-0213
Cell:     (770) 337-4007
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