I am looking for a permanent full-time telecommuting position.  

I can work independently or within a team, and am very reliable to get the job
done within target dates.  After reading my resume, you will be able to determine
that I have never had any problems of picking up new skills when needed.

My dream job is to ensure quality products for users.  I thrive on challenges
and having a variety of responsibilities.  My favorite part of testing is testing
the back-end for data & referential integrity and verifying front-end
functionalities.  A plus would be to have a chance to increase my novice to
intermediate knowledge in automation testing, getting deeper into utilizing
programming, although this is not a have to have for me to love my job. 

I have experience in building automated test cases incorporating the necessary
logic to validate limits, data types and data, using HP’s (Mercury Interactive's)
Quality Center/Test Director, QuickTest Professional & WinRunner testing tools,
utilizing VBScript, TSL and SQL queries to accomplish desired results. I have
also developed customized reports using SQL queries. I do have the ability to
read stored procedures, most any of the major programming languages and have
training in several. 

Please review my experience and past education. I am continually educating
myself in Information Technology concepts, programming languages, software, etc,
and can adapt very easily to fit your company. 

Sincerely,
Alice L. Gilmore


My objectives are to:
•  produce high-quality products for end-users
•  be involved in the whole development and testing lifecycle, in order to
obtain the full knowledge of how the product should behave, so that test plan &
cases are ready to execute upon code delivery

My strengths are:
•  a flare for research on anything
•  constantly studying new methodologies, technologies, and languages, as needed
to keep skill sets up
•  extensive knowledge and participate fully from beginning to end of the
development lifecycle. Creating requirements, when necessary
•  benchmarking – recording measurements of various processes for future
analysis via reports using MS Office products, like MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel
(i.e. Test Plans, Test Cases, Traceability Matrices, Test Progress Reports, etc)
Added Note: I would love to have the opportunity to participate in automating
more of the QA processes using tools like Rational Test Manager
•  attention to detail
•  a determination to complete a high-quality product on schedule
•  fully test changes to existing application functionality, as well as new
functionality
•  perform all levels of testing: system, regression, performance, stress, load,
user acceptance testing (UAT)
•  ability to write clear concise test plans and test cases
•  strong analytical, problem identification/solving, reporting, and verbal and
written communication skills
•  ability to write clear concise problem/trouble/defect tickets in tracking
tools
•  have flexibility and adaptability attitude 
•  ability to provide full documentation for training for everyone, such as:
Development, DBAs, Support, Administrators, and End-Users
•  participate in peer reviews of various documents produced by Development and
Quality Assurance teams

Skill Set Summary:
•  14 years - assembled, and configured computers from the ground up. I still
upgrade/maintain my own personal computers and network them to create an in-home
test lab
•  14 years – performing various software installations of Microsoft Operating
Systems, various utilities, etc
•  15 years – quality assurance & applications analyst experience (some
overlap): 
   •  15 years manual software testing experience in client/server & n-tier
architectures in Microsoft Operating Systems Client & Server versions 95, 98,
98SE, WinNT, WinNT Server, 2000 Pro, 2003 Server & XP Pro, on applications
written in Visual Basic v6 – VB.Net, JAVA, C#.Net
   •  5 years - manual software testing experience in mainframe environment, 2
of these years overlap my testing experience in MS Windows Operating Systems with
GUI Front-Ends 
   •  4 years - automated software testing experience, using Mercury
Interactive’s WinRunner & QuickTest Professional, Empirix’s eTest, in
client/server & n-tier architectures 
•  10 years – using defect tracking software: PVCS Tracker, Trkcops, Lotus
Notes, FogBUGZ, In-house designed etc
•  Programming Languages: Visual Basic, VB.Net, VBScript, VBA, C++, C#.Net,
HTML, ASP, JavaScript, XML, ADO.Net, COM.Net, COBOL, Natural
•  Other software used (not previously mentioned): Inference K-Base, JAVA .jre’s
(plug-ins), Norton Ghost 2000, File Compare utilities, multiple image capture
programs, Lotus Notes, all MS Office products through v2003, MS SharePoint, Order
Task Automation, multiple paint programs, Visio versions 5 – 2000, Visual
InterDev versions 6 – 7, Visual Studio.Net, multiple Word Processing programs
•  9 years - software documentation: help files & training materials for various
products for end admins & users 
•  11 years - mentor new employees, team building through positive attitude
•  8 years - validating data & referential integrity for multiple SQL
environments: MSSQL, Oracle versions 8i - 9i (some experience using OEM Oracle
Enterprise Manager & SQL*Loader, as well), DB2, & AdaBase; using ODBC to connect
to MSSQL versions 6.0 – 2000 (residing on MS Operating System Servers) & MS
Access databases (residing on thin client), SQL utilities like TOAD, TOra,
Squirrel, or command line for Oracle from telnet sessions connected to UNIX
Servers, but most recently with DBVisualizer, which is my group’s choice. 
•  6 years - QA'ing for sales & financial reporting products, querying the Data
Warehouse using MSSQL Server, sometimes administering the database and building
OLAP cubes; building Brio reports 
•  3 years - in DB2 for a billing system in a mainframe environment
•  2 years - Sun Solaris – Client/Server environment
•  2 years - in Web development, publishing User Manuals to their intranet and
various web maintenance, utilizing Notepad, FrontPage 2000 - 2003, and
DreamWeaver 4.0 as tools for creating and editing, using HTML, ASP, VBScript,
JavaScript code, and then publishing the documents on the WinNT IIS or Sun
Solaris
•  2 years – in BrioQuery Report Development, using versions 5.4 - 6.0, and
certified in Levels I & II
•  4 years - training: one on one, end-users, and production support on how to
effectively use the release products, including 6 months of training end-users to
set up & mapping their Chart of Accounts, and relating Journal Entry Transaction
codes to it
•  2 years – building/maintaining a WinNT 4.0 and Windows 2000 client/server
test lab environment (loading all necessary software on the servers and client
machines from start to finish, and then ghosting the images for reuse
•  Other knowledge & duties performed:  Setup Webs in IIS for Development, Synch
new builds with database changes, Back-up DBA, Server Administration, Patient
Billing, Benefits Administration, Worker’s Compensation, Accounts Receivable,
Order Entry, command line DOS, etc

Most of my testing experience has been in using the Top-Down Approach, however;
in a testing crunch, I have used MITs, as well. Tested in the following
Development: Heavyweight Methodologies: UML(2), Iterative; Agile Methodologies:
DSDM (Dynamic Systems), XP (eXtreme Programming), and Object Oriented
Environments for the last 10 years.


Colorado Technical University 
  4435 Chestnut St, Colorado Springs, CO, 80907
  01/1998 - expected BSIT date 06/2011
  3.82 GPA out of a possible 4.0
  I am working toward a *BSIT degree. Completed thus far: Intro to C++
Programming (OO Language); UNIX Administration & Scripting; Advanced Web
Techniques using JavaScript & VBScript in ASP; College Algebra; 2 levels of
Oracle DBA. 
*Given the opportunity, with stable employment, I would love to finally have the
chance to finish my BSIT degree. 

University of Colorado
  1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy, Colorado Springs, CO, 80918
  01/1996 - 05/1996
  4.0 GPA out of a possible 4.0	Completed 3 credit hours of Visual Basic.


Other Training (not listed elsewhere):
•  MS Access
•  MS FrontPage
•  DreamWeaver
•  LOMA 1-5
•  Professional Writing
•  Info-Mapping


References:

I will provide references only when your company is seriously considering me as
a strong candidate for hire, in order to avoid taking up my previous managers,
leads and co-workers valuable time unnecessarily.