Alan Szeto

Background

About Alan Szeto

Work Experience: Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, Infor Global Solutions Inc, Toronto (October 2003 To December 2008)- Work closely with the project management and developers in analysing customer requirements to create test plans and test data to verify that requirements will be satisfied- Create user acceptance test scripts to provide complete coverage of test plans. Execute user acceptance test scripts in a timely manner, ensuring defects are addressed and documented to allow scheduled product releases to ship on time- Analyse existing test scripts to identify gaps in test coverage and gaps in the product's functionality. Identified and completed testing of gaps in legacy modules from previous product releases, enabling clients to successfully utilize the modules- Develop and maintain automated tests to provide test coverage of main success scenarios for the product modules my team was responsible for- Run and analyze automated tests to provide rapid feedback to development when regressions are found- Member of a committee focused on improving our automated testing through establishing best practices. I also participated in reviewing automated testing tools to improve and increase automated test coverage- Actively provide feedback on the usability of the product to developers and product management. Embedded Software Developer Leitch Technology Corporation, Toronto (July 2001 To August 2002)- Develop embedded software for products using C and C++ according to requirements- Test and provide fixes for product defects- Create user documentation for software developed. Specialties- Experience with the following tools: Eclipse IDE (MyEclipse), Subversion and Visual Source Safe version control systems, Selenium and Samie web testing automation tools, Test Track and Bugzilla defect tracking systems, Apache Ant, Junit, and Visio- Familiar with Java, SQL, HTML, XML, Javascript, Perl, C, and C#- Knowledge of object oriented analysis/design, and UML- Knowledge of Agile development methodologies: Scrum and Test Driven Development.