Tim Barksdale

About Tim Barksdale

Driving force for dozens of Test/QA teams over the past 35 years. Strategic and forward-thinking Senior Software QA/Test Engineer with ability to create complex product quality verification strategies that result in the creation of impactful quality enhancements for flagship and next-generation projects. Delivers highly visible and complex test solutions, focused on customer needs. Participative leader who can technically lead and motivate teams to success. Record of creating and maintaining positive, results-oriented, collaborative test teams in highly matrixed and diverse environments and has distinguished self as a leader throughout 30-year tenure in software application test. Played several different roles - Team Manager, Team Lead, and Independent Contributor who strategized, developed, and directed several test processes for over 29 Microsoft product releases, 2 SquareTwo Financial product releases, 5 DigitalGlobe product/platform releases, and several HERE Technologies mapping products.Led the test effort for DigitalGlobe\'s Platform Business Unit - Application Research and Development group. Mentored, trained, and collaborated with several R&D, System Engineering, and other QA Engineers.Specialties: Experience in building QA/Test teams from scratchStrong mentoring skillsStrong communicator with Research and Development teams, Product Management, and other QA teamsExperience in Photogrammetry, 3D modeling, financial products, and many GIS-related areasExperience in dealing with petabytes of imageryAdvanced AWS and Azure Cloud technologiesAdvanced Selenium/Selenium Grid automationNA Regional Esri Administrator for HERE TechnologiesLead R&D Test Engineer on the Data Accuracy and Reliability (DAR) team, who owns the quality of HERE’s HD Live Map. Played the critical role for designing and implementing leading-edge assessment test processes. Extensive testing of predictive models. Provided key customer management teams with monthly/weekly quality reports. Managed and maintained the quality assessment processes for both internal and external ISO audits.Develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive test automation framework to benchmark the accuracy, consistency, and performance of leading-edge geospatial algorithms.TEST TEAM MANAGEMENT, TEST TEAM LEADERSHIP AND MOTIVATOR, TEST PROCESS IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY, AGILE & SCRUM MASTER, TEST METHODOLOGY MENTORING, STANDARDIZING TEST PROCESSES, AUDIT OF STANDARDIZED TESTING PROCESSES, LARGE ARRAY OF KNOWLEDGE OF TESTING TYPES, METHODOLOGIES, TOOLS, AND FRAMEWORKS

Experience

1. Research and Development Test Engineering Manager Ii

   HERE Technologies

   Nov 2024 — Present · Boulder, CO, US

Education

• Northern Arizona University

  Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics with emphasis in Computer Science

  1986 — 1990

Skills

• Mobile Devices
• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Release Management
• QA Testing
• Test Process Improvement
• Software Engineering
• Process Improvement
• Distributed Systems
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Agile Methodologies
• Linux
• Test Cases
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Team Leadership
• .net Framework
• .net
• Sdlc
• Unix
• Agile Project Management
• Test Automation
• Web Services
• Software Project Management
• Testing
• Test Planning
• Quality Assurance