Jim Darlack

Software Integration, Development, and QA / QC involved with manual and automated marletomg tools

About

Consulting engineer specializing in test management and test engineering. Extensive experience with installation and modification of workflow in HP ALM, QualityCenter, QTP, LoadRunner, OTA API, Open Source tools. Maintained HP QC performing system admin, management of users, tracking defects and improvements, extensive management reporting of test plans, test cases, and test results. Also orchestrated manual and automated testing using HP ALM and Open Source tools. Currently seeking consulting positions.

Country

United States

City

Tucson

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

HP ALM/QC expertice as a site and system administrator., Maintenance and extension of HP ALM/QC WorkFlow., Scrum, Testing, CMMI, Requirements Analysis, Process Improvement, ITIL, SQL, Team Leadership, Test Planning, SDLC, Software Project Management, Integration, Software Development, Quality Assurance, JIRA, Agile Methodologies, Program Management, Unix

Experience

Software Integration, Development, and QA / QC involved with manual and automated marletomg tools

Name witheld by customer request.

2014-12 - Present · 11 yrs 10 mos

USA

Software development of manual and automated stock market tools for TradeStation stock tools. Automated and manual testing of new tools, QA /QC providing test results, and mapping of requirements to test cases.

Software Test Engineer For REDI Plus Institutional Trading Platform

ProV International

2014-10 - Present · 12 yrs

Software test engineer using Open Source tools, testing new agnostic version of REDI Plus trading platform. Testing REDI Plus' institutional trading tools for US and Global Equities, Futures, Doneaways, and Options. Previous experience with TradeStation and Ninja Trader platforms, providing expertise in methods of trading, as well as front / backend testing of Windows and Linux OS's and staging. Open Source Test Tools includes Jira, Zephyr, and Mantis, and hopefully Jenkins for CM and deployment of software.

Call center software developer and test manager

( Name withheld at customer request )

2011-6 - 2013-1 · 1 yr 8 mos

Arizona

Test manager and developer of call center software for restricted operations, providing capabilities for company internal as well as client call handling. Developed Linux and MS Windows software for managing call queues, capturing call statistics, and presenting MIS reports. Logging of defects on HP Quality center, generation of test reports, and automated background testing to ensure operational readiness. Also performed orchestration of automated test and provided test reports, Sys Admin as well as Workflow development for HP Quality Center.

Consultant test manager, system admin, and developer.

US State Dept.

2008-3 - 2011-6 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Performed interviews of 14 department performing analysis and design of several APIs to integrate HP ALM and Quality Center for creation of test plans, cases, reports integrating with application development, testing, defects, and configuration management of HP Quality center, generation of test reports, and automated background testing ensuring deployment to US Embassies. Extended HP Quality Center software depicting all levels of operational readiness for State Dept. management, and staff. Integrated efforts with various external non-HP vendors, to connect HP Quality Center with management, staff, and vendors. Also performed orchestration of automated test and provided test reports, Sys Admin as well as Workflow development for HP Quality Center.

QA and Software Developer

Several companies

2006-1 - 2008-2 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Tucson, Arizona Area

Development of QA and Software Testing Methodologies for Stock Market Trading Strategies, and Automated Trading Systems, utilizing TradeStation stock market trading software for FOREX, Futures, and Stocks. Development of TradeStation analysis techniques, paint bars, and other applications using EasyLanguage. Orchestration of a plethora of processes integrating TradeStation with ETL Date Warehouses and Marts and other communication tools and databases, to generate trading charts, and evaluation using SQL, Crystal Reports, and other tools.