Sam Corkum

Experience

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  SAIC - Oacis Healthcare Systems

  Oct 1997 - Nov 2000

  Software Engineer / Software Quality Assurance Engineer

  Software Engineer, (1998-2000) • Performed application development, maintenance, and enhancements in the front-end (Clinical Display/Clinical Workstation) application in VB, SQL, and C++.• Provide support for Help Desk, application engineers, QA, and onsite with clients; worked on monthly and emergency patch releases, including project management, patch packaging, support for QA (patch testing), Technical Publications (release notes), and the Integration Team (release builds).Software Quality Assurance Engineer, (1997-1998) • Performed the set-up, configuration, and testing of various components of the Oacis suite of front-end Windows and DOS based applications in multiple versions.• Worked closely with development teams performing unit testing, acceptance testing on weekly builds, and full regression tests prior to releases; wrote test cases/scripts and utilized existing test scripts as needed. Show less

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  Imind Education Systems

  Dec 2000 - May 2001

  QA Product Lead

  • Responsibilities included project management, scheduling, and leadership; worked with developers, producers, product managers, executives, and QA test engineers.• Coordinated testing efforts, techniques, and hands-on testing; created, maintained, and implemented test suites for products. Conducted unit tests, and reported results to developers and managers.• Assisted in the training of Quality Assurance staff; maintained up-to-date records for each product, input incident reports using incident-tracking software.• Reviewed, analyzed, and transmitted program incident/bug reports; reported the status of incidents to Quality Assurance staff and management, and facilitated incident review meetings.• Worked with the core technologies development team on a unit test process for code level/white-box testing of Java session bean interfaces; tested other system utilities consisting of Java classes and Unix scripts written for data migration and .xml file updates; gained working knowledge of XML, Java (jbuilder 4.0), and Unix. Show less

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  XUMA

  May 2001 - Jul 2001

  Senior Test Engineer

  • Responsible for the architecture, documentation, and execution of test procedures with the Product Development group for XUMA CommerceX and ExchangeX solutions on the ATG/dynamo and BEA / WebLogic on Solaris platforms.• Worked closely with developers, project managers, and technical leads in the development of new test procedures; assisted junior level QA engineers with day-to-day test plan writing and execution.• Tracked incidents; managed and coordinated testing, and reported results to technical leads, managers, and developed automated test procedures using shell scripting and third party applications. Show less

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  Even Technologies Inc

  Jul 2001 - Nov 2005

  Manager, Quality Assurance

  • Managed and helped to implement a quality assurance process for the product design / development team during the company's transition form pure science / R&D to commercial software product development for proprietary codecs and associated technology and solutions used for video and imaging in both software and hardware implementations.• Provided support in development project management, client support, and account management; supervised QA test engineers, developed and implemented test procedures for applications developed by the technical team.• Worked closely with the science / R&D team in testing the proprietary codec for still image and video in a range of different applications from medical imaging and distance learning to video broadcast and entertainment. Show less

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  SHPS - Landacorp

  Nov 2005 - Oct 2006

  QA/Support Manager

  • Managed the combined QA and Support teams for a successful Medical Management Software Company; developed comprehensive test plans for company products and services.• Researched, created, and implemented test plans, and a formal feedback process to Design and R&D resulting in an improvement in the quality of the company products and processes.• Provided analysis for planned projects and initiatives; submitted monthly reports of activities, project status, and departmental statistics to senior management.• Scheduled and managed the QA cycle and release process for general and maintenance software releases and performed hands-on testing as needed. Show less

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  Scene7

  Nov 2006 - May 2007

  Lead QA Engineer

  • Lead QA Engineer for the Scene7 e-commerce / e-retail back office application the Image Publishing System (IPS). Test planning, test execution, test case management of the server side applications which converts, publishes, and hosts images, videos, templates, and other digital assets, documents, and media, enabling creation, authoring, and serving dynamic media and static content to rich internet applications and production systems.• Managed and executed testing on the web-based system that was comprised of application servers, content servers, database servers, along with other components, as well as video transcoding and publishing servers and services. Test environments included QA servers, staging servers, and validating installs and updates to production servers in globally distributed datacenters.• QA testing included writing and executing test cases, logging, tracking, reporting, and managing bugs, results reporting. Also support and validation of tech support reported issues and cases. Worked closely with the engineering manager and developers and also led the efforts of other QA engineers in the day to day testing process, as well as hands on testing. Show less

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  Adobe

  May 2007 - Nov 2021

  Lead Software Quality Engineer

  • Worked as a Lead QE Engineer with a test engineering team that was responsible for both manual, and automated Integration (IT) testing using JUnit, and end-to-end (E2E) tests in Selenium, as well as manual testing. Have been in a leadership role for QE on the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets team on Adobe Cloud Platform.• Partnered with the QE Manager to coordinate and plan for QE on Dynamic Media (DM) applications. Led test efforts on the DM 3D application. Did both hands on manual testing / automation with a team of QE developers for AEM Assets / DM. Worked with development teams for troubleshooting, maintaining Java / Junit automated tests.• Led a team of QE engineers working locally and remotely throughout the U.S., and internationally focusing on integration and end to end QE. This includes the enterprise Web based Software as a Service (SaaS) back office applications, and Cloud based applications that are part of the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) / CQ Digital Asset Management / Dynamic Media products.• Test planning, test case management, test execution strategy, results reporting, coordination and integration with other engineering and QE teams (local and remote - U.S., Europe, and India). Utilize the Agile / Scrum - Sprint process and working with development teams, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, across teams.• Worked with the AEM Dynamic Media delivery team in automated test planning and test execution for server-side utilities including; image conversion, and image info., for both hybrid, and on-prem applications utilized for publish, rendering, and delivery of dynamic media assets. Show less

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  County of Marin, Department of Health and Human Services

  Nov 2021 - now

  Technology Systems Specialist III

  • Under the direction of the BHRS Quality Manager and Technology Systems Coordinator and in coordination with HHS Finance department, providing technical and analytic support to Behavioral Health & Recovery Services (BHRS) for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) System and support for a range of fiscal functions. This includes using SQL and other reporting/database skills to create, run and maintain reports on and validation of complex datasets. • Develop, test, and document business requirements/workflows relevant to claiming, cost reporting and other core fiscal functions. In addition, serving as liaison between fiscal staff and the vendor of the practice management software to elevate and track troubleshooting / bug tickets and enhancement requests. • Provide technical support to mental health, substance use and / or general healthcare operations and datasets, including configuring / administering a practice management system / electronic health record. • Work with the team to define business needs and coordinate solution possibilities. Also using SQL programming for the analysis, validation, and reconciliation of complex datasets. • Generate effective and accurate routine and ad hoc reports support mental health, substance use services, or physical healthcare billing, medical billing, medical finance activities, and health care operations in an information technology capacity.• Working in coordination of the HHS-BHRS department, Quality Management, Fiscal, and Clinical teams in analysis and evaluation of a new Electronic Health Record system and when the selection process is complete assist in the implementation and configuration of a new EHR system. Show less