Evan Anthony Watkins

Experience

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  NEXTEL

  Nov 2004 - Oct 2008

  Coordinate the planning, monitoring, and control of the testing activities and tasks. Collaborate with the other stakeholders; devise the test objectives, organizational test policies, test strategies and test plans. Lead, guide and monitor the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites. Responsible to prepare performance test reports and share across the stake holders.Expertise in analyzing business & system requirements and determining scope distribution and test planning. Show less

  • Manager Acceptance Testing Customer Operations

    Jan 2007 - Oct 2008

  • Senior Systems Analyst

    Nov 2004 - Jan 2007
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  Sprint

  Nov 2008 - Oct 2014

  IT Program Manager

  Serving as “Software Release Lead” for programs designed for customer-facing applications, new billing platform conversions, trouble support management tools, and all wireless provisioning applications.Managing and developing methodology for “User Acceptance Testing”, execution, and preparation for Enterprise Software Releases. Managing team of 21 test specialist on the production floor and delivering results based on key performance indicators.Assuring accurate results required for newly implemented projects and processes in order to maximize project success.Managing projects life-cycle and milestones of the assigned project.Working cross functionally with both internal and external partners throughout the project life-cycle. Show less

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  Federal Reserve Information Technology

  Nov 2014 - now

  National IT Test Engagement Manager

  Provide technical expertise, leadership, planning and coordination of IT testing in support of one or more large and complex infrastructure projects and directly influences testing activities on business critical projects to ensure testing quality in preparation for production readiness. Create, execute and maintain testing strategy and detailed test plans / schedule for infrastructure and network components. Focus upon non-functional testing such as connectivity, performance, penetration and security testing. Develop and maintain a system for identifying and tracking system defects and coordinating with technical staff to ensure the successful resolution and retesting of defects. Work closely with users to ensure that proper formal customer signoff is documented for accepting the system into production. Work within the project management framework, as defined by PMI and adhered to by the FRS. Show less