Lori Dencsak
Full-stack Developer @ Government of Alberta
About
● 29 years of IT experience including 14 years of software development, 7 years of automated QA, and 8 years in manual QA/business analysis roles means a unique perspective and ability to deliver value across many areas of the software development process
Canada
Calgary
Information Technology & Services
Software Development, Business Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Oracle, Project Management, Testing, Java, XML, Data Modeling, Software Quality Assurance, Quality Assurance, Software quality assurance, Scrum
Experience

Senior QA Analyst and Automation Engineer
Government of Alberta, Digital Innovation Office
remote
● Created a generic testing infrastructure in Cypress and BDD that was eventually ported for reuse on 2 other projects and allows for new tests to often be written with only BDD ● Wrote hundreds of tests. ● Manual testing on various projects.

Lead Automated QA Engineer
QHR Technologies
Calgary
● Lead of QA automation team for the company’s Java/Swing 2.5M LOC healthcare application ● Created automation infrastructure in Rest Assured, JUnit and Hamcrest for testing the API. Created a framework which abstracted away all RA boilerplate, wrote some tests, and turned over to developers ● Initiated the creation of a suite of service layer (GUI-less) tests in JUnit. Wrote or guided the writing of the infrastructure necessary which includes a refresh of the database after each test. ● Designed and developed Jenkins pipeline jobs that were both scheduled and manually launched ● Took on 5 university co-op students and mentored them in coding, testing practices and CI

EAI Business Analyst
Forzani Group
Calgary
● Part of a small team producing enterprise integration requirements for a new POS system ● Designed XML schemas for integration of data, via pub-sub messaging architecture, between the POS and the backend system (Microsoft Dynamics AX)

Business Systems Analyst / QA Analyst
Spectra Energy
● In the role of QA Analyst on various projects: o Created and executed manual test cases o When project had additional testers, took on lead tester role o Was the “go to” person within the group for testing deliverables that had a degree of technical difficulty with either implementation or testing ● In the role of Business Systems Analyst on various projects: o Created detailed requirements and technical specs used by developers and testers via user interviews, workflow analysis and reverse engineering of PL/SQL, Java and C# code o Worked with developers to ensure deliverables met requirements o Pair programmed in C# on 2 high profile projects to mentor new developers

Developer
Idendego Inc
● Excelled in this start-up that required a high degree of independence and discipline ● Developed a Firefox browser extension in JavaScript to modify Gmail

Business and Marketing Analyst
PetLynx Corporation
● Completed all QA functions on the software. Did all release management activities ● Worked with support to identify bugs and prioritized technical work to be done ● Designed new system features, wrote technical specs, analyzed and documented existing business processes ● Created business cases, including assessment of financial opportunity and risk, for new projects ● Liaised between technology and sales and marketing, managing expectations and communicating issues, needs and progress between these virtual teams

Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
● Provided QA activities for Dark’s BIDS product, a distributed application for anonymously trading stock being used on Wall Street ● Did extensive test design for all areas of the server-side of the application and implemented over 2500 of these unit and functional tests using JUnit ● Implemented continuous build process using CruiseControl ● Evaluated and implemented static code analysis tools Clover, Klocwork, Coverity and Findbugs ● Ensured proper testing procedures and techniques were followed on the project and monitored test results and coverage statistics ● Mentored other team members in automated testing techniques ● Acted as technical liaison between QA and development groups

Senior Developer/Mentor
● Part of a small development team working on a distributed system to enable automatic data exchange with Shaw Communications. ● Did analysis, data modeling, development, deployment, release management and production support tasks. Tested various aspects of the system according to test plans. ● Mentored 4 junior resources to bring them up to speed on the project.
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