Patrick Wiggins, CSQE

Patrick Wiggins, CSQE

Programmer/Analyst

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Performance Test Engineer at Be The Match operated by National Marrow Donor Program

  • Education

    • St. Paul Technical Vocational Institute

      1974 - 1976
      Electronics Certificate Electronics

      Activities and Societies: Selected by instructor as the top performer in class. Attended the University of MN, I.T. – Minneapolis, MN1972-1973.

  • Experience

    • Nortel

      Jan 1976 - Jan 1991
      Programmer/Analyst

      Developed software test procedures that allowed inexperienced interns to test software. Wrote UNIX shell scripts to automate the testing of Micro Focus COBOL.Created a Quality and Reliability Reporting System which was up and running 6 months faster and cost $30,000 less to develop than thru the MIS Department.Supervised three data entry people for the Quality and Reliability Reporting System.

    • Authorware, Inc.

      Jan 1991 - Jan 1992
      Software Quality Engineer

      Appointed Project Leader for the Authorware Professional for Windows product after only 6 months.Responsible for scheduling, charting, and representing QA at project meetings. Wrote the QA software Test Plan for APW 1.0A. Developed test suites to automate the testing and charting process.

    • Tricord Systems, Inc.

      Jan 1992 - Jan 1997
      Software Quality Analyst

      Responsible for supervising 3 software/hardware technicians, building the master software utility disks used for replication, and manual performance testing of the propriety RAID utility software on multiple system configurations. Also responsible for internal ISO-9000 auditing.

    • C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.

      Oct 1997 - Mar 2009
      Software Quality Analyst

      Responsible for writing and executing automated test scripts, IBM Rational Tool/License administration, and CHR Express administration. Also responsible for administering and maintaining the IBM DB2 database that was used for the automation repository.Responsible for writing test plans, test cases, and test summaries for the manual testing of CHR core applications. Also responsible for the interviewing, training, and mentoring all new members of the QA team.

    • Ambient Consulting

      Dec 2010 - Mar 2011
      Software Quality Assurance Analyst

      Contracted as a Software Quality Assurance Analyst at National Marrow Doner Program in Minneapolis, MN

    • Be The Match operated by National Marrow Donor Program

      Mar 2011 - Nov 2017

      Currently using HP LoadRunner to do performance testing of our in house application. The testing is for web based application. I am writing the scripts in Java and access a Java framework to make the scripts object oriented. Software Quality Assurance Analyst

      • Performance Test Engineer

        Oct 2013 - Nov 2017
      • Software Quality Assurance Analyst

        Mar 2011 - Oct 2013
    • Be The Match operated by National Marrow Donor Program

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      Software Quality Assurance Analyst
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE)

      American Society for Quality (ASQ)
      Jun 2012