Informations Systems Automation and Consulting

 Lester E. Gray

AMDOCS: March 20, 1999 – present 

Position:  Project Tracking, SME I, SME II 

Major Responsibilities:  

Insure quality testing of Billing application software and any interfacing ancillary products; review and summarization of software design changes or updates; documentation and employee mentoring to Amdocs Billing system or updates.

 •           Responsible for defining the Scope of testing for System Testing and Integration Testing

•           Develop Coverage Matrix and Requirements Matrix from Applications Design or Impact Assessment documentation

•           Review of Coverage Matrix and Requirements Matrix to ensure all requirements are included in the scope of testing.

•           Participate in requirements gathering sessions

•           Proactively gain an understanding of the system impacts of each system modification, enhancement or new development

•           Assess and communicate risk associated to testing scope, schedule, quality and/or resources

•           Identify test resource requirements to support the testing strategy

•           Provide effort estimates related to testing efforts

•           Create Test Schedule and milestones with the appropriate dependencies

•           Identify and satisfy data needs for test execution. This includes the setup of test data required to complete the test cases and management of the test environments

•           Access and review of required outputs 

Strengths: 

•           Understand the software development life cycle

•           Solid SQL skills

•           Strong organizational skills, written and oral communication skills and problem solving skill

•           Knowledge of QA/ Testing space including methodologies and automation 

Experience:

• Amdocs Ensemble, Enabler, Telegence and Clarify CRM• UNIX • Oracle, SQL Server, SQL, PL/SQL, TOAD, S/W architecture for web based and non-web based applications (Client side, Tuxedo and Server side) • Mercury Test Director, Quality Center, Network Event Simulator • Amdocs Charging: ·         Amdocs Product Catalog ·         Amdocs Billing Mediation Gateway ·         Amdocs Online/Offline Rating ·         APRM (Amdocs Partner Relationship Management). APRM is a distributed system application developed in C,C++ and Java(J2EE), uses both Unix and Windows environments and it is used in the inter-billing business (between 2 or more telecommunication companies) or in the “per service billing”.
  
 

Illinois Power Company: May 11, 1987 – September 14, 1998  

Position: Systems Programmer, I,II and III, Supervisor Technical Support 

Major Responsibilities:  

Management of I/T Systems staff; budgeting; and software installation/maintenance and tracking.

·         Performing basic tasks to develop, apply and maintain quality requirements for company products

·         Designing, implementing and executing software test plans

·         Documenting test results; Analyzing test results and making recommendations

·         Writing test standards and procedures

·         Communicating with product developers and technical support specialists on product issues  

•                      Installation and maintenance of mainframe hardware and software.

•                      Proactively gain an understanding of the system impacts of each system modification, enhancement or new development

•                      Assess and communicate risk associated to testing scope, schedule, quality and/or resources

•                      Identify test resource requirements to support the testing strategy (HW, SW, and staff)

•                      Provide effort estimates related to testing efforts

•                      Create Test Schedule and milestones with the appropriate dependencies

•                      Access and review of required outputs 

Strengths:  

•           Strong organizational skills, written and oral communication skills and problem solving skill