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DAVID DOWLING

8900 Independence Parkway
13-201
Plano Texas 75025
214-256-3674

ddowling57@comcast.net

 

Work Experience

KEANE/TIAA-CREF Consultant at TIAA-CREF                               6/05 –present

Position:  QA Analyst

Responsibilities:  Create Test Plans and Test Cases from BRD Business Requirement Document and FDD Functional Detail Document

KEANE/MBNA Consultant at MBNA                                                       4/02 –6/05

Position: Environment Support Tech

Responsibilities:  Testing Services using DB2, Stored Procedures and CICS, JCL, TSO, VSAM, IBM Utilities, and File Aid. Responsible for ensuring that the infrastructure is in place to run the batch cycles, As well as maintaining Online-testing platforms. Supported RACF Security for Testing Platforms. Created & maintained MS Access Database to track Environment Shakedowns and common Abends & Resolutions

Position:  Test Lead/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:    Review Business Requirements, Conceptual/Functional, Systems Specifications, System Integration Test (SIT) test plans, User Acceptance Test (UAT) test plans, and cycle test scripts by working closely

with Developers & Business Units.  Monitor cycle during testing time periods researching problems resolve issues.  Review all System Integrated Test plans

and User Acceptance Test plans.  Assist in creating test cases required for testing.   Facilitate testing by communicating deadlines for data prep, code delivery, and system availability.  Analyze and provide resolution where applicable to incidents related to Testing Services and update in Test Director.  Utilize Test Director tool to log issues encountered while testing. Create test calendars tracking detailed information and business processes based on test cases and scenarios, prior to running Systems Integration Test (SIT) cycles and/or User Acceptance Test (UAT) cycles. Create test calendars tracking detailed information and business processes based on test cases and scenarios, prior to running Systems Integration Test (SIT) cycles and/or User Acceptance Test (UAT) cycles.

 

Skills 

 CICS, DB2, Stored Procedures, BMC, JCL, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, IBM Utilities, MVS Utilities, File Aid, All MS Office MS Access2000, MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, Test Director, Inertest, Abend-aid, Sysplex

EDS/MCI WorldCom                                                                12/01-04/02
Position:  Developer working on billing system for UK
AS400/ COBOL Business Design Tech Designs Coding and Testing

EDS/Massachusetts RMV                                                        04/01-12/01

Position:  Developer/ Production Support

Utilizing COBOL, CICS, IDMS, Support and new development of RMV systems in Massachusetts

New Development & Support of Batch & Online Systems

QA Testing Online & Batch

Production Support of Batch & Online screens

Support of report creation & Distribution

EDS (AT&T ACCOUNT) Consultant at AT&T                       04/91 – 04/01
Listed below are positions worked at AT&T during my ten years contracted from EDS at AT&T

Integration Test Team                                                               02/99-4/01

Position: Test/Data Execution Specialist

·       Setup Test cases & Test Data

·       Setup & Execute Environment

·       Validated Test Cases

Account processing                                                                    05/98-10/99

Position: Developer/Analyst-

Analyzed, designed, coded, tested, and implemented COBOL components supporting long distance services billing, message rating and qualification, taxing and receivables posting. Managed and mentored development and production support personnel during all phases of project development life cycle.

·       Lead development team which implemented Process & Run time improvements for Database scans & Report distribution.

·       Assumed primary contact role for production support of account processing serving as backup for all new members.

 

·       Worked Multiple MR and SR request from initial design through coding     testing and shipping to Production. (Modification & service request)

 

DSC-Development Support Team                                  06/95 –05/98

Position: Team Lead

1st level Production Support of batch cycles running 11 copies to cover all national and Regional Areas

Constructional Operational Support Team      04/93 – 06/95

Position: Technical Member

            Created and maintained all Operational Components for 11 complexes

            Tester /Release Testing                                                 04/91 – 04/93

Position:

            Worked with Development testing prior to Production

Education

Attended 11 week Interactive Application Development Program At EDS (Electronic Data Systems) Education Building Plano, Texas


· VISUAL BASIC

· COBOL 2

 · SQL//DB2

· CLIENT SERVER