Evan Scott

About Evan Scott

Specializing in all aspects of Software Quality Assurance with emphasis on creating World Class organizations through the use of effective testing methodologies and sound leadership skills. Experienced in:• Commercial/IT Quality Strategy Development.• Leadership of onshore and offshore teams.• Defect avoidance and Detection approaches. • Organizational Maturity assessments.• Extensive experience as an Individual Contributor, Sr. Project Manager, Principal QA Engineer, Group Manager as well as an independent Consultant.SKILLSQA Project Manager with extensive experience in Commercial Software and Information Technology organization Quality Assurance practices.Application languages and QA ToolsJava, RTC. Jira, Confluence, Adaptavist, ScriptRunner.Net, XML/XSL, SQL, SoapUI, PostMan, Oracle 12, JBoss/ TomCat, TestNG framework, Defect Tracking, Various Project tracking toolsOperating Systems iOS, Windows 10, UNIX Red Hat, Solaris, Various Android OS’s, MAC OSX Highlights:• Extensive experience driving organizational improvement across Quality Assurance teams for multiple consumer software and financial companies.• Deep experience in leading teams of onshore and offshore QA resources on a broad range of Software products and services• Collaborated as a member of multiple Quality leadership teams in setting test strategy and long term quality goals, developing people, improving productivity, meeting quality goals and determining release readiness for enterprise software systems.Specialties: All aspects of QA Project Management, hands on functional. regression, automation engineer, leadership and exertion of influence on large complex projects and teams,

Experience

1. Group Manager - Global Quality Assurance

   MFS Investment Management

   May 2014 — Present · 111 Huntington Ave Boston, MA, US

   Management of a QA Team focused on a portfolio of applications supporting MFS business goals. Work closely with Delivery Managers to ensure that program schedules are complete and committed to by the team. Work closely with business and technology stakeholders to ensure that all testing activities occur in a timely fashion and to the level of quality demanded by the business requirements. Provide management oversight for test plans, test data, test environments and test execution.Develop, manage, report and use quality assurance metrics to identify areas for performance and security improvement.Assesses readiness and deviation of project performance based upon test results and client’s beta feedback. Provide measurements on test planning and execution. Drive improvement initiatives based on gaps. Define and manage the testing processes (e.g. defect management, traceability). Drive changes and/or improvements to the process as needed.Refines and enhances technology methodologies and / or standards. Participates in and supports process improvement initiatives. Promote effective teamwork and resolve interpersonal issues.Provide input to staffing plans at the project-level to identify key / required skills.

Education

• Boston University

  BA, International Relations

Skills

• Hp Quality Center
• Agile Methodologies
• Unix
• Test Strategy
• Enterprise Software
• System Testing
• Qtp
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Java
• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Sdlc
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Software Development
• Process Improvement
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Web Services
• Software Quality Assurance
• Test Planning
• Quality Assurance
• Business Analysis
• Testing