Interim Top Secret Clearance

Software quality leadership backed by hands-on systems experience.

19+ years improving release quality, building practical test solutions, and strengthening software delivery across enterprise systems.

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Elkton, MD Software Quality • Test Automation Defense • Federal • Enterprise

Candidate Profile

Software quality engineering professional with 19+ years of experience improving release quality, building practical test solutions, and strengthening software delivery across enterprise systems. Experienced with test strategy, regression design, UAT, automation, API and contract validation, SQL-based testing, and production-risk reduction.

Selected Impact

  • Owned testing across credit application, processing, API, decisioning, ETL, and data-driven workflows.
  • Strengthened release confidence through regression planning, UAT, API automation, and post-deployment validation.
  • Designed and implemented the company’s first Selenium-based automated regression framework and API automation framework, integrating validation into CI/CD workflows.
  • Supported CI/CD adoption and quality improvements by testing across Docker and Kubernetes based systems and applications, helping move releases from monthly deployments to multiple releases per day.
  • Built SQL-driven validation assets supporting test data preparation, ETL process validation, decisioning workflows, and API behavior.

Core Toolkit

Selenium ReadyAPI Postman API Testing SQL Test Automation CI/CD Docker UAT Splunk Palo Alto SSH

Quality Focus

Test Strategy Regression Planning API Contract Validation UAT Governance Defect Triage Release Readiness CI/CD Test Integration

Career Progression

SAIC

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

June 2026 - July 2026
Senior Network Administrator
  • Supported IP-based network operations in a classified environment.
  • Performed Dell switch resets and firmware upgrades using serial-console and SSH connections.
  • Completed training in Palo Alto firewall configuration and administration.

Continental Finance Company

Wilmington, DE

June 2021 - March 2026
Software Quality Analyst → Senior Software Quality Analyst → Software Quality Team Lead
  • Owned testing efforts for business-critical credit application and processing systems spanning web applications, APIs, and decisioning workflows.
  • Developed complex SQL query libraries supporting test data preparation, ETL process validation, and troubleshooting.
  • Partnered with product, development, and operations teams to reproduce defects, isolate root cause, validate fixes, and reduce recurring production risk.
  • Expanded regression coverage across high-risk workflows, APIs, and data-driven scenarios to improve release confidence and reduce manual retesting gaps.
  • Designed and implemented Selenium-based regression and API automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD workflows.
  • Built Postman validation assets, automated tests, and SQL-driven datasets to validate decision engines, transaction workflows, data movement, and API behavior.
  • Created QA standard operating procedures and strengthened baseline regression practices to improve consistency, release readiness, and production stability.

HomeNet Automotive / Autotrader / Cox Automotive

Exton, PA

August 2007 - July 2020
Data Team Leader → Quality Assurance Analyst → Quality Assurance Engineer → Quality Assurance Engineer II
  • Translated business requirements, acceptance criteria, and workflow rules into test scenarios and testing coverage.
  • Performed cross-browser, cross-device, and end-to-end testing across customer-facing web and mobile applications.
  • Used SQL queries to support test environment preparation, data validation, and process verification across internal systems and data workflows.
  • Executed end-to-end testing across internal systems, customer-facing web and mobile applications, backend APIs, and data-driven workflows.
  • Designed and implemented the first ReadyAPI automation framework, expanding automated API coverage to more than 50 endpoints.

Education

Lincoln Tech

Associate Degree: PC Systems & Networking Technology | Allentown, PA | July 2004 - July 2006

Professional Development

Introduction to C# 7.0 with Visual C# 2017 — Accelebrate

Target Roles

Quality Assurance Lead Software Quality Engineer Software Test Engineer Systems Test Engineer UAT Test Lead API Test Engineer Data / Backend QA Analyst
Need someone who can lead QA and still do the testing work? Software quality professional with an Interim Top Secret clearance and hands-on classified network experience.
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