Billy Pistole

About Billy Pistole

Over 20 years of combined QA/Test Engineer experience - Writing automation tests and frameworks, manual testing, test case writing, test plan writing, bug tracking, failure analysis and requirements review and refinement.• User Interface test automation using Selenium and Test Complete.• API test automation using SoapUI and Postman.• Programming tests and the framework for automation with integration into the deployment pipeline to support continuous integration and deployment. Support and debug of automation systems when a defect is identified.• Testing multi-tier, distributed Windows applications and web applications hosted in the cloud with Azure. Install, upgrade, Backwards compatibility, Load and performance testing.• Software testing methodologies experience - White/black box, integration, functional, user acceptance, exploratory and smoke.• SDLC experience - agile with daily scrum, waterfall and iterative.• Requirements gathering, estimates, risk assessment, issue prioritization, project planning, tracking tasks and work items, escalation plans, project metrics and lessons learned.• Software scripts and coding language experience – Java, Groovy, Java Script, Power Shell, SQL, json, xml• tools and applications – Azure DevOps, Selenium, Jira, SoapUI, Postman, Swagger, Active Directory, Octopus, LoadUI, Load Complete, Test Complete, Git Hub, Perforce, CVS, VSS, Subversion, Zephyr, MS Test Manager, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Requisite Pro, Test Track Pro, MS Office, Windows OS, Unix/Linux OS, DOS, and Web Sphere.

Experience

1. Senior Qa Analyst

   Global Payments Inc.

   Oct 2020 — Present · Plano, TX, US

   Member of Agile sprint team working in 3 week sprint. Daily scrum, planning, refinement, retrospective meetings.* Validation of high availability, high volume credit card processing applications.* Confirm that specific transactions are processed according to the expecting pricing and expense models.* Performance testing of changes to the application and validation that the enhancement doesn’t have any unexpected ramifications.* SQL DB queries to validate correct fees and expenses are allocated to the appropriate transactions* Automation of backend processes using PowerShell, Python and JavaScript

Education

• DeVry Institute of Technology

  Bachelors of Science, Electronics Engineering Technology

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• Subversion
• Sharepoint
• Testing
• Configuration Management
• Test Planning
• Integration Testing
• Windows
• Test Cases
• Embedded Systems
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Quality Assurance
• Debugging
• Requirements Analysis
• Agile Methodologies
• Regression Testing
• Automation
• Test Director
• Test Automation
• Databases
• Release Management
• Clearcase
• User Acceptance Testing
• Clearquest
• Visual Studio
• Scrum
• Cvs
• Visual Basic
• Integration
• Manual Testing
• Web Applications
• Tfs
• System Testing
• Solaris
• Unix
• Test Strategy
• Agile
• Requirements Gathering
• Documentation
• Software Quality Assurance