Tom Cossa

About Tom Cossa

Client oriented senior software testing professional with extensive expertise in performing both front and back end testing on a wide range of client-server, database, web and mobile software application projects, leveraging the ability to quickly identify in-depth core problems and develop a strong testing framework in order to more effectively produce the highest quality software product. Exposure to both manual and automated testing. SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS Created in-depth functional and regression testing suites for end product and release candidate applications developed for Web as well as iOS, Windows and Android mobile environments Created Testing Strategy, Plan and Results documents for both functional and unit testing on a number of business projects for the Banking, Credit Card, Tobacco and Insurance industries Automated testing processes using UNIX Shell, SQL, Perl and awk scripts in order to cut test data creation time by more than 50% Presided over weekly defect triage and metrics meetings between testing team and upper management Attended agile sprint planning meetings with developers and client end users for story evaluation and sizing Work done on a number of projects that were consistently delivered within the agreed upon budget and timeline constraints

Experience

1. Assistant VP - Senior Qa Test Engineer

   Deutsche Bank

   Dec 2023 — Present · Cary, NC, US

   Perform automated and manual testing tasks for applications used in the Assets, Securities and Lending group.

Education

• University of Iowa

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering

• DePaul University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Telecommunications

Skills

• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Quality Assurance
• Qtp
• Databases
• Sdlc
• Business Analysis
• User Acceptance Testing
• Data Warehousing
• Software Project Management
• Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• Unix
• Software Quality Assurance
• Test Strategy
• Test Planning
• Test Cases
• Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Test Automation
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Defect Tracking
• System Testing
• Jira
• Windows
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Test Management
• Integration
• Unix Administration
• Sql
• Visio
• Manual Testing
• Linux
• Quality Center
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Program Management