Leslie B Simpson

About Leslie B Simpson

To utilize my technical extensive experience in the field of software/data Analysis and Quality Assurance. Highly motivated and professional team player with superior SIT/UAT experience. Proactive, flexible, mentor, with a strong commitment to contribute to releasing high quality software/data. Areas of expertise include Information Technology, Financial, Medical, Software, Telecommunication and Government industry experience.TECHNICAL SKILLS:Databases Tools: Netezza, Data Lake, Teradata V2R6, SQL V2R6, SQL 6.5 & 7.0 and Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, FoxPro 4.0. Database Utilities: Teradata SQL Assistant 7.1, Master Data Management), Erwin, TOAD, Advanced Query Tool. Quality Tools: HP Quality Center (9.0, 9.2, 10.0, 11.0), Rational Team Test 7.1 & (Automation Tools). Bell & Howell Heat, Test Track Web, Test Director 7.2, 7.5 and 8.0, Unisys Tracker 2.1, StarTeam (Defect Tracking Systems), JIRA. Operating Systems: Client/Servers: Windows XP Professional.

Experience

1. Test Anayst Qa Team Lead

   Wells Fargo

   Feb 2017 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Data Warehouse:Waterfall Methodology - Informatica MDM/IDD and Address Doctor: Coordinated, facilitated daily QA team and project team defect meetings.Verified Data Model (tables, fields, data types), verified counts matched from source to target, there were no duplicates, or nulls, data transformation from source to target and the views (processing logic) were correct per the mapping document.Informatica Master Data Management):• Verified trust and match merge rules were correct in MDM per mapping, data loaded to Teradata, then from Teradata landing to oracle landing, then from oracle landing to oracle stage (delta detection and transformation), then from oracle stage to oracle base object tables, then from Oracle base to Teradata Consumption and IDD (Informatica Data Director). Used match rules to verify the best version of truth (golden record) after a manual, batch update or match & merge run into the base object tables. Used the following data databases: Teradata, Oracle, SQLInformatica IDD (Informatica Data Director): • Verify the data was correct in the Data, XREF, History and Match module.Address Doctor: • Verified address data transformed correctly.Agile Methodology - Source data was ingested into the Data Lake (Master Reference Data App):• Performed SIT Testing in SIT/UAT, 2 week sprints, created SIT subtask in JIRA for each story, created manual test cases/ automation scripts for each story, After a successful prod release, update regression scripts and performed regression testing in SIT/UAT, smoke tested on new functionality and regression tested existing functionality in PROD.• Attended and participated in Sprint Daily Standup, weekly Planning, Backlog refinement, Retrospect meeting.• Verified source data was ingested from files, Oracle, or SQL into the Data Lake. Executed test cases/automation scripts to ensure the data was ingested into Raw tables, Sanitized tables, Conformed tables, processing logic was correct in the views.

Education

• Winston-Salem State University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Major: Computer Science, Minor: Mathematics

  1982 — 1987

• Self Study - Teradata Certified Professional Program

  Teradata Certified Professional Program

  2008 — 2008

Skills

• Windows
• Sharepoint
• Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Troubleshooting
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Operating Systems
• Oracle
• Process Improvement
• Analysis
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Test Planning
• User Acceptance Testing
• Vendor Management
• Tcp/Ip
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Unix
• Integration
• Technical Support
• Business Analysis
• Data Warehousing
• Hp Quality Center
• Xml
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Quality Assurance
• Management
• Databases