LIZ GOODSON

EWGOODSON@GMAIL.COM
6200 ADEL COVE • AUSTIN, TX 78749
(512)751-0645, (512)892-0424


SUMMARY OF SKILLS

* Software Test Planning and Test Case Development
* Development and Use of Automated Testing Tools
* Programming in Java, C#, Perl, C, UNIX Shell Scripts
* Project Management and Requirements Analysis


EXPERIENCE

2/2008–Present	Renegait Ranch	Elgin, TX
Owner/Manager

* Downsizing horse breeding business and moving it closer to Austin.

4/2005–2/2008	BearingPoint	Austin, TX
Advisor

* Served as Quality Assurance Team Lead for the Texas Automated Vehicle
Inspection System, under development for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
* Created work breakdown structure for the team and managed team’s progress.
* Developed and executed test scripts in Rational TestManager.
* Entered defect reports in Rational ClearQuest.
* Generated project defect reports and represented QA in Release Team meetings.
* Designed and implemented tests for the new Pin-less Debit feature of ePay, the
electronic payment system used by the state of Texas for driver’s license
renewals and other online transactions at Texas Online
(http://www.texasonline.com), the official portal of the state of Texas.  
* Developed and executed an automated Java test suite, for the Driver’s License
Authentication feature of Texas Online. 

9/2004–2/2005	Digital Motorworks. Inc.	Austin, TX
Contract Software Quality Assurance Analyst

* Developed and executed test scripts, in Rational TestManager, for DMi
applications that aggregate data for the automotive industry, for such customers
as Edmunds.com, CarFax.com, AutoTrader.com, Nissan, and General Motors.
* Wrote defect reports and queries, in Rational ClearQuest.
* Validated fixes as they were incorporated.
* Wrote and executed database queries, on Oracle databases, using Quest Toad.

4/2003–9/2004	Renegait Ranch	Austin, TX
Owner/Manager

* Established and managed a Missouri Fox Trotting horse breeding operation

4/2000–4/2003	Athens Group	Austin, TX
Technical Consultant

* Led the test effort for the online sales conversion of the formerly brick and
mortar Dell Factory Outlet.
* Created a set of system test procedures and supervised their execution.
* Reviewed code, written in Java for the IBM Websphere platform.
* Evaluated options and made recommendations for IT security testing
* Recorded scripts in LoadRunner and coded multiple tests used to evaluate the
performance of the site
* Managed the development of a complex, enterprise-wide web-based software
application, written in Java, to handle the services of Texas Municipal
Retirement Systems
* Designed the user interface for an internal web-based tool, used to manage
Athens Group project process assessments.  Installed the Microsoft .NET platform
and wrote code in C#

4/1998–4/2000	Sterling Information Group	Austin, TX
Technical Consultant

* Completed several web development projects for various Sterling clients,
including Fisher Controls, Pervasive Software, TriActive, and Whole Foods
* Worked on both Microsoft ASP and Java-based platforms
* Mentored other engineers in development of high quality, maintainable
software

1996–1998	Vignette Corporation	Austin, TX
Manager, Quality Assurance

* As employee number 15, staffed and managed Vignette’s QA team from its
inception
* Evaluated commercial automated testing tools
* Designed and implemented a multi-platform (Unix and Microsoft Windows) test
harness, in Perl, to control the execution of all automated tests.
* Installed various database platforms (Oracle, Informix, Sybase, MS SQL
Server), on Microsoft and Unix operating systems
* Developed test plans.
* Wrote and executed both manual and automated test scripts.


EDUCATION

University of Texas	Austin, TX
* B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of the South	Sewanee, TN
* B.A., Major in Religions, Minor in Psychology