Kent Alan Dyer is a senior quality assurance analyst and programmer/developer based in Nashville, Tennessee with over 20 years of experience. He has a proven track record of delivering process improvements and technological solutions to achieve business goals. At his current role at Medhost, he develops test scripts and performs QA testing in an agile environment. Previously, he held QA roles at ACS and the State of Tennessee, where he wrote test scripts, executed tests, and collaborated with developers.
Predictive Test Planning to Improve System QualityTechWell
Penny McVay shares how her team approached improving the quality of a large policy-writing application for a global insurance carrier. The application has many pieces and parts, thousands of lines of code are changed monthly, and the business depends on a stable application. To mitigate risk, the team investigated the question of how to predict where testing needed to focus. The regression test suite the organization had built was difficult to maintain, identified few defects, and took hours of effort to run. QA needed not only to optimize the regression suite but also to determine how to mitigate the most risk. To accomplish this, the team collected historical data to predict significant impact areas including what is being written in production, what transactions are being exercised in production, and what defects are occurring in today’s production environment. From this information, the QA team rewrote the regression suite to eliminate waste and provide more value to the business customers.
We understand that the ERP packaged application testing needs time to deliver the best, however it is possible to enhance
productivity by accelerating various testing events throughout the testing life cycle.
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SAP applications are business-critical for your core operations. They must be continuously tested to avoid outages and slowdowns due to new application upgrades, service packs, customizations, and enhancement packages.
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Regulated software is consequential software, subject to authoritative outside review. Even experienced software testers can have an Alice-In-Wonderland feeling the first time they test a regulated product. Many aspects of software testing are surprisingly exactly the same as testing unregulated software, while others are surprisingly completely different. Why is that? What parts are surprisingly similar or different? Griffin shares experiences of testing FDA regulated systems, and similar software (e.g., financial systems, aircraft controls, insurance, and online gaming) – drawing examples from the participants of the Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST), and himself. We examine the what, why, and how certain software is regulated - and the duties imposed on companies and individuals. We highlight some of the surprising aspects, such as: test design and execution; tools and automation; accuracy and rigor; traceability and authorization; evidence and record keeping; the halting problem; process standardization and predictability; human variability and adaptability; technology choices; morality and ethics; and business pressures. Leave with more insight into and less surprise about the challenges of testing regulated software.
Continuous Integration as a Development Team’s Way of LifeTechWell
Continuous integration (CI) is a buzzword in software development today. We know it means “run lots of builds,” but having a continuous integration pipeline opens up opportunities well beyond making sure your team's code compiles. What if this pipeline could improve everything from the quality of code reviews to how often and safely you deploy to production and how you monitor your product in the wild? What if CI could provide insights into how automated tests are performing and how to improve them? Melissa Benua describes how to set up a basic CI infrastructure and then transform it into a way of life for development and test teams. Using free or nearly free tools, Melissa walks through a practical approach to making sure your code works—all the time and at every stage of the release train. Come away with practical advice for creating builds and running automation on the fly without spending hundreds of hours or thousands of dollars.
DevOps 2017 Conf: evolving from automated to continuousArthur Hicken
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Predictive Test Planning to Improve System QualityTechWell
Penny McVay shares how her team approached improving the quality of a large policy-writing application for a global insurance carrier. The application has many pieces and parts, thousands of lines of code are changed monthly, and the business depends on a stable application. To mitigate risk, the team investigated the question of how to predict where testing needed to focus. The regression test suite the organization had built was difficult to maintain, identified few defects, and took hours of effort to run. QA needed not only to optimize the regression suite but also to determine how to mitigate the most risk. To accomplish this, the team collected historical data to predict significant impact areas including what is being written in production, what transactions are being exercised in production, and what defects are occurring in today’s production environment. From this information, the QA team rewrote the regression suite to eliminate waste and provide more value to the business customers.
We understand that the ERP packaged application testing needs time to deliver the best, however it is possible to enhance
productivity by accelerating various testing events throughout the testing life cycle.
Achieve Performance Testing Excellence for Your SAP AppsNeotys
SAP applications are business-critical for your core operations. They must be continuously tested to avoid outages and slowdowns due to new application upgrades, service packs, customizations, and enhancement packages.
Regulated Software Testing - Griffin Jones - TISQA 2014Griffin Jones
Regulated software is consequential software, subject to authoritative outside review. Even experienced software testers can have an Alice-In-Wonderland feeling the first time they test a regulated product. Many aspects of software testing are surprisingly exactly the same as testing unregulated software, while others are surprisingly completely different. Why is that? What parts are surprisingly similar or different? Griffin shares experiences of testing FDA regulated systems, and similar software (e.g., financial systems, aircraft controls, insurance, and online gaming) – drawing examples from the participants of the Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST), and himself. We examine the what, why, and how certain software is regulated - and the duties imposed on companies and individuals. We highlight some of the surprising aspects, such as: test design and execution; tools and automation; accuracy and rigor; traceability and authorization; evidence and record keeping; the halting problem; process standardization and predictability; human variability and adaptability; technology choices; morality and ethics; and business pressures. Leave with more insight into and less surprise about the challenges of testing regulated software.
Continuous Integration as a Development Team’s Way of LifeTechWell
Continuous integration (CI) is a buzzword in software development today. We know it means “run lots of builds,” but having a continuous integration pipeline opens up opportunities well beyond making sure your team's code compiles. What if this pipeline could improve everything from the quality of code reviews to how often and safely you deploy to production and how you monitor your product in the wild? What if CI could provide insights into how automated tests are performing and how to improve them? Melissa Benua describes how to set up a basic CI infrastructure and then transform it into a way of life for development and test teams. Using free or nearly free tools, Melissa walks through a practical approach to making sure your code works—all the time and at every stage of the release train. Come away with practical advice for creating builds and running automation on the fly without spending hundreds of hours or thousands of dollars.
DevOps 2017 Conf: evolving from automated to continuousArthur Hicken
Conference session from the Devops 2017 Online conference. Learn how to improve your agile and devops software development by evolving from mere automation to full continuous deployment. What tools and practices are important.
Testing(Manual or Automated) depends a lot on the test data being used. In a fast paced dynamic agile development quality of data being used for testing is paramount for success.
Performed end to end regression regardless of the new
functionality to ensure that the quality is not compromised. Built comprehensive QA suite for all modules
Cutthroat competition and customers’ expectation encourages businesses to build more powerful tools by enhancing or adding new features. Whether these changes are small or big, simple or complex, it affects the existing functionality as well and brings unexpected issues. Hence, it is important to test existing features of the application to ensure induction of new changes has not impacted them. This is called “Regression Testing”.
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Many organizations use ERP system to streamline their operations with a user-friendly interface and a centralized database. Check out the PPT to know how ERP system helps in optimizing systems to improve the process of data exchange, database management, and resource monitoring and reporting. Or to know more visit our portfolio at www.bugraptors.com
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Testing(Manual or Automated) depends a lot on the test data being used. In a fast paced dynamic agile development quality of data being used for testing is paramount for success.
Performed end to end regression regardless of the new
functionality to ensure that the quality is not compromised. Built comprehensive QA suite for all modules
Cutthroat competition and customers’ expectation encourages businesses to build more powerful tools by enhancing or adding new features. Whether these changes are small or big, simple or complex, it affects the existing functionality as well and brings unexpected issues. Hence, it is important to test existing features of the application to ensure induction of new changes has not impacted them. This is called “Regression Testing”.
ERP Testing Strategy For Large Scale OrganizationsBugRaptors
Many organizations use ERP system to streamline their operations with a user-friendly interface and a centralized database. Check out the PPT to know how ERP system helps in optimizing systems to improve the process of data exchange, database management, and resource monitoring and reporting. Or to know more visit our portfolio at www.bugraptors.com
How to Fit Performance Testing into a DevOps EnvironmentNeotys
DevOps environments demand shorter development cycles and a healthy amount of automation, while performance testing is time-consuming and requires manual human action. So, how can you execute thorough performance tests in a fast-paced environment and integrate performance testing tools with a DevOps toolchain?
If you’re testing in a DevOps or any other time-constrained environment, you need to accelerate your performance testing cycles.
Do you have to learn code to create test automation? The answer is no. The latest technology enables business and QA teams to ensure enterprise application quality using easy to maintain, plain English tests. Powerful automated business process discovery, risk based analysis and lights-out regression tests can then be used to extend automation and create additional value – all without code!
Load and Performance tests in agile scrum framework SGI 2013Subrahmaniam S.R.V
Load and Performance tests in Agile Scrum framework. Presented in Scrum Gathering India 2013 at Pune on July 26th 2013.
Presented by myself and S. Ravindra
Sevana QualTest suit is a set of applications to fully automate mobile to mobile call quality testing for rooted and non-rooted mobile phones. Schedule tests and let the system run them using ADB commands directly from your phone, make test call, analyze call audio quality, pack test results in JSON report and deliver to the backend selected.
The presentation on Batch Workload Modelling and Performance Optimization was done during #ATAGTR2017, one of the largest global testing conference. All copyright belongs to the author.
Author and presenter : Ashish Powar
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• Generating Test Script using UFT and Framework development.
• Creating Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Plan Documentation in ALM.
• Logging and Reporting of defects in case of failure of Test Execution in ALM.
• Responsible for ETL Testing, Unit Testing, Functional Testing, GUI Testing and Code Reviews.
• Coordinating the implementation and availability of the QA test environments
1. KENT ALAN DYER
3038 Boulder Park Drive • Nashville, Tennessee 37214 • 615.364.0047 • Saxononyx@gmail.com
QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST & PROGRAMMER/DEVELOPER
Highly accomplished Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with demonstrated experience in delivering exceptional
process, analysis and testing operations improvement. Results-driven professional known for solving problems,
designing new system sections and repairing gaps to develop technological solution for achieving all strategic
business goals.
Problem Solving • Repairing Code • Continuous Process Improvement •
Quality Assurance • Programming • System Design • Software Tools & Languages • Cost Control
Quality Assurance Automation • Testing Plans • Regulatory Compliance • Specification Design
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Medhost, Nashville, Tennessee • 2012 to present
Quality Assurance Analyst
• Develop test scripts for the Ancillary and Order Management teams In an Agile environment.
• Write and perform QA test for Clinical Reactionary team.
• Develop automated test runs for smoke and regression testing using Test Drive/Test Bench And RFT software
• Perform reviews of finished automated test run from other testers
• Work with Original software to fix bugs and perform enhancements to Test Drive software
• Write and perform regression tests for the E/archive and DMS systems
• Write and perform Revenue Cycle and General Financial regression tests
• Perform General Financial system tests
• Write Regression test for E/Archive using RFT
ACS, Nashville, Tennessee • 2010 to 2012
Quality Assurance Analyst
• Run Quality test on web based system to ensure it meet the needs of Health and human services
• Write and execute test scripts to prove state requirements are met by the system
• Write defects to help developers improve programs correctness and efficiency
• Work with developers to help fix any issues found in the system.
STATE OF TENNESSEE, Nashville, Tennessee • 2009 to 2010
Business Analyst II
• Analyze programs and write specifications for modification to comply with and implement new government
Unemployment insurance programs
• Design And implement test plans to assure quality and system readiness of new programs and modifications to
existing programs
EMDEON BUSINESS SERVICES/WEBMD, Nashville, Tennessee 2004 to 2008
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst (2005 to 2008)
• Authored and executed testing plans while collaborating with developers to repair problems discovered within
code.
• Teamed with developers and business analysts on new code and system designs.
• Led system testing and cross checks while inserting national provider identifiers into each claim.
2. • Reduced number of abends by 360+ annually through multiple process improvements.
• Optimized business performance and capability by serving as key member on batch switch consolidation
project.
• Orchestrated quality assurance normalization of 5K+ data sets for standardization of names, DR and security.
• Slashed costs by 34%+ and handled future increases in claim load by designing and maintaining quality
assurance tester of new front end.
Senior Programmer Special Projects (2004 to 2005)
• Created specifications for new programs while meeting or exceeding strict government mandated time
projection.
• Ensured validation of HIPAA complaint claims by designing and programming updated system.
Senior Production Control Analyst (1997 to 2004)
• Developed and implemented system enhancements for Cobol and JCL systems.
• Devised process to identify, repair and prevent future abends system-wide.
• Crafted training program to instruct new production control and development team members on system
functionality.
• Guaranteed company would be Y2K compliant by installing and monitoring mainframe changes.
• Led implementation of 4010 and HIPAA mandated system changes to maximize business services and
performance.
• Reduced overnight batch run time from 9 to 3 hours while boosting volume from 800K transactions to 3M+
transactions by heightening system efficiency.
• Cut average number of abends from 10 to 12 per night to just 3 to 5 per night.
• Saved CPU and clock time by developing single allocation system to author 50K+ reports.
• Fueled efficiency by modifying batch system from running once per day to 4 times per day.
• Modified batch system to run up to 4 times a day, instead of only once per day.
Early Career (details on request): Programmer/Analyst, American General Life Insurance (1994 to 1997) &
Programmer/Analyst, State of Tennessee (1991 to 1994)
EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro,
Tennessee
TECHNICAL SKILLS: Cobol • JCL • Microsoft Office • Test Bench • Test Drive • IBM Mainframe • RFT