Sharon Booth

Education:

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Master of Science in Applied Mathematics

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Arts in Applied Mathematics

Work Experience:

GD Viz

Functional Test Lead (July 2004- Present)

Functional Test Lead for the Viz CPOF Project. CPOF is a highly collaborative visual application used by the US army 7X24 in Iraq for briefing, situational awareness and planning. Responsibilities include requirements and design analysis and review, functional test planning, test scope definition, test writing, testing, bug review, software engineering processes, software change review/code review, training and lab maintenance.

Commission Junction, (Formerly BeFree, Inc.)

Quality Engineer (September 1999 - July 2004)

Lead Quality Engineer responsible for testing Web and GUI for high volume e-commerce affiliate marketing system. My current responsibilities include requirements and design review, release test planning, functional test lanning and testing system. Additional responsibilites include creating test labs and equipment, implementation of defect tracking software.

ServiceWare, Inc.

Quality Engineer (November 1998 - September 1999)

Lead Quality Engineer responsible for testing Web and desktop UIs for knowledge based systems. The UIs enable uses to author and view knowledge base content for help desk and customer service applications using Oracle or SQL server as content repositories. My QA tasks included requirements review, writing test plans, running tests, coordinating other testers, test lab configuration and building databases.

Claritech Corporation

Quality Assurance Analyst (November 1997 - November 1998)

Testing designer and implementation specialist for the Claritech natural language Toolkit. Testers were responsible for writing test applications and release testing of the C++ API with existing test class code and applications. As primary tester for the multi-threading release, I ensured the server was robust and I wrote the test scripts to run the threaded tests. An additional side project was implementation of a simple Bug Tracking Database for developers and testers.

The NetBill Project, Information Networking Institute, CMU

Testing Coordinator (October 1995 - October 1997)

Testing coordinator for the NetBill, a secure, web-based, electronic commerce project. Responsible for functional testing of all Unix and windows clients and Unix servers. Testing activities included design reviews, installation and configuration testing, end-to-end user testing, and design and implementation of C++ test classes. In addition, testing maintained a separate development realm for non-standard configuration testing and destructive testing. Evaluated and deployed a GUI test tool for the PC that works with both a web browser and a separate windows client.

Fiserv, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer (April 1994 - October 1995)

Development/support assembler programmer providing support for a proprietary banking TP monitor, Inquiry, (similar to CICS). The Inquiry monitor provides terminal, file, application program and batch collection facilities. Maintenance and support tasks included writing system patches, dump reading, DASD management and tuning, and 24 X 7 support for the on-line monitor and the batch update processing.

Pittsburgh Mercy Health Systems

System Support Specialist (August 1993 - April 1994)

Support programmer coordinating the conversion of three hospitals from a remote processor to an in-house processor for SMS MVS/CICS based INVISION Financial System. The conversion included customizing screen pathways, writing batch programs to create reports, and building the data interfaces between the mainframe applications and the other networked systems and PCs. Provided 24 X 7 support for the INVISION on-line and batch processing.

Department of Mathematics, CMU

Teaching Assistant (August 1991 - May 1993)

Graduate teaching assistant for undergraduate calculus using Maple (a computer algebra system) in computer lab classrooms with Macintosh and DEC workstations. Designed labs for use in the class room and programmed algebraic routines using Maple's programming language.

SMS, Inc.

Summer Hire Programmer (Summers 1990 - May 1992)

Applications and subsystems development assembler/COBOL programmer responsible for developing patient care applications and subsystems utilities. Also, provided analysis for further development of architectural tools and the CICS macro level to CICS command level conversion.

Westinghouse, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer (September 1989 - January 1990)

Senior systems assembler programmer/analyst responsible for analysis, coding, testing and documentation of the enhanced VSAM processing release of DUSP, a disk backup/restore utility. This release provided more flexibility in the backup/restore options and improved performance by using VSAM CI processing for physical file backups. Provided support for the current backup/restore release.

SMS, Inc.

Advanced Programmer/Analyst (August 1983 - June 1989)

Subsystems assembler programmer/analyst responsible for development and support of application and user tools which included a screen builder, a stack manager and an entire architected CICS interface to applications. Developed major enhancements to screen and print subsystems for the architecture tools. In addition, supplied extensive dump reading and debugging, training and on-call support for clients and the development complex. Worked within the development team to formalize the development methodology for subsystem software.