Barry Kaplowitz

Experience

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  Various Companies

  Feb 1990 - Mar 2003

  Programmer

  13 years experience with RPG Programming and 4 years of experience with Magic programming.

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  Rapattoni Corporation

  Mar 2002 - Jun 2010

  Quality Assurance Manager

  Responsible for the quality assurance and testing of site and Web applications. My directive was to provide technical expertise that previously did not exist in QA. The QA team under my management became the go-to department when anything was needed, from coordinating deployments to fielding questions from help desk regarding how the software works. • Proven Leadership skills training and mentoring over a dozen QA engineers on testing procedures and corporate processes.• Defined requirements and supervised creation of Build Verification Automation Test using Visual Studios Team Suite for Testers.• Developed test cases based on requirement documents, UML activity diagrams, and mock-ups.• Performed functional, regression, back-end, and system testing of Web applications.• Reported software defects, verified bugs were reproducible and coordinated troubleshooting efforts. • Coordinated software Staging and Production deployments.• Responsible for defining all test requirements.Hired as an entry-level Magic programmer to work on Rapattoni’s Multiple Listing Service (MLS) system. Responsibilities included development of new enhancements, creating new reports, maintaining existing code and review of design documentation. • Promoted to Programmer, Programming Supervisor and then to Quality Assurance Manager over a five-year span. Show less

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  Pacific Capital Bancorp(Union Bank)

  Aug 2010 - Apr 2013

  System Test Lead

  Test lead for testing of Web applications. Duties included writing and implementing test plans, test cases, and test summaries for in house developed software. Creating and running test cases built from requirement specifications, ad hoc testing and using SQL for back end database testing. Defect tracking using Quality center as well as running automated regression suite in Quick Test Pro. Additional responsibilities include managing the build process and archiving new code from vendors into source control. • Deployed and configured full feature installation of Team Foundation Server, replaced existing desperate systems with TFS’s consolidated system for source control, bug, automated build, and project management. Reduced costs by $60k/year. Show less

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  Cornerstone OnDemand

  May 2013 - Jun 2020

  Lead Quality Assurance Analyst

  QA lead for the largest cloud computing HR Web application. Assisted in migration from waterfall to Agile using Scrum. Work included review of design specs for usability and gaps, writing and implementing test plans, test cases, and test summaries for in house developed software using TestRail. Daily activities consisting of monitoring automation scheduled run results, testing stories, creating or modifying automation, running test cases, ad hoc testing and using SQL for back end database testing, API testing via Swagger or Postman. Duties also include defect tracking using Jira as well as maintaining automated regression suite both Selenium and Cypress. Additional responsibilities include training and mentoring new hires on the QA Methodologies used and testing processes. • Led team in migration from Waterfall development to Agile using Scrum.• Participated in software requirements reviews and project status meetings. Worked closely with Product stakeholders and Programming team to elicit and manage requirements, develop test strategies, and ensure product quality.• Reported software defects, verified bugs were reproducible and coordinated troubleshooting efforts.• Collaborated in small team to create a Cypress Automation repository that was the prototype other teams used to direct their team’s automation Show less

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  Value Worksource

  Aug 2020 - Oct 2020

  IT Delivery Manager
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  Outlook Amusements

  Oct 2020 - Jun 2024

  IT Delivery Manager