Scott Makar

Experience

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  Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1996

  Underwriter
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  Quality Assurance Analyst

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1997

  Cornerstone Integrated Services
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  Samsung Austin Semiconductor

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  Risk Manager/Financial Analyst

  • Acquired and implemented all insurance which included construction, cargo and commercial policies for a $1.3 billion semiconductor fab while transitioning from construction phase to a full time production facility with over 900 employees.• Co-managed all company bank accounts and all foreign and domestic wire transfers.• Authorized and performed multi-million dollar wire transfers and payments daily.

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  360Commerce (acquired by Oracle Retail)

  Jan 1998 - Feb 2006

  Principal Business Consultant

  • Led teams for customizing client-server and enterprise level products for top tier retailers.• Interacted with customers during all phases of the software lifecycle including user acceptance testing, store pilot and national rollouts of customized software applications.• Reported, documented, and tracked to closure all known defects (reported both internally and externally) using several defect tracking tools.• Produced documentation that included quality assurance plans, test plans, test specifications, and defect reports. Show less

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  Oracle

  Feb 2006 - Mar 2016

  Principal Business Consultant

  • Led teams of QA analysts across multiple projects and functional areas for Oracle Retail Point of Service (ORPOS), Oracle Retail Mobile Point of Service (ORMPOS), Oracle Retail Back Office (ORBO) and Oracle Retail Central Office (ORCO) products.• Experienced with Oracle Retail Xstore Suite consisting of Xadmin, Xenvironment, Xstore, and XfG (Xstore for Grocery). This included testing data import enhancements to migrate item and pricing data from Oracle Retail Price Management (RPM) and Oracle Retail Merchandising System to the Xstore suite.• Used Junit to create unit tests for Order Management middleware solution that had no UI or working APIs.• Verified Converged Commerce solutions that integrated ORPOS with external Order Management Systems, inventory systems, and customer systems. • Automated the installation of builds across multiple platforms that used Linux shell scripts and Windows batch scripts which resulted in a reduction of downtime for installations by 75 percent. • Worked closely with development teams to perform functional, unit and regression testing of enterprise level applications custom developed for major retailers.• Worked closely with multiple payment processors to integrate our products to use their systems for payment authorizations.• Collaborated with development teams to design of a custom set of tools necessary to test applications which contain no user interface. • Trained team members on the use of custom test tools and simulators required for testing integration to other systems. • Experienced using database tools (SQL Developer and SQuirreL SQL) and SQL queries to verify data.• Consulted and assisted on the prototyping of automation tools (SilkTest, Selenium, and Synergy) used to create a set of integrated tests used to verify products were installed and communicating successfully. Show less

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  Starmount

  Mar 2016 - Aug 2016

  Quality Assurance Analyst

  Starmount was acquired by Infor in September 2016.

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  Infor

  Sept 2016 - Oct 2019

  Principal Quality Assurance Analyst

  • Lead QA responsible for defining test strategy to verify Infor Engage (Point of Sale), Infor Back Office, Infor Promote, Infor Store Fulfillment, and Infor Omni-channel Hub products in customer environments using customer data.• Plan and coordinate all testing efforts including functional, regression, integration using customer’s data and hardware.• Verify Infor product integration with 3rd party APIs which includes payment processing, order management systems (OMS), inventory, customer loyalty, and tax. • Deploy builds on multiple EC2 instances running in Amazon Web Services (AWS), and on physical servers running Windows, Linux and iOS.• Work closely with customers during all phases of the software lifecycle including user acceptance testing, store pilot and national rollouts.• Extensive experience with white-box testing across multiple projects that include bulk data import utilities, database upgrade utilities that compare and convert databases from previous releases to new releases, and utilities that compare and upgrade customized code to work with new releases.• Mentor and train QA analysts on our products along with the processes and tools we use in order to test.• Review, log, prioritize, track and report on all customer defects and feature requests. Show less

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  Dematic

  Feb 2020 - now

  Senior QA Engineer