Phillip Skiba

I'm a passionate QA professional with over 17 years of experience in the Quality Assurance field. My experiences range from Manual Testing, Automated Testing, Performance Testing, Test Management, Release Management, and People Management. Over my career I've grown from an Automated Tester to a Senior Manager that now oversee a very large globally distributed department. Below you can find a summary of my qualifications. Summary: - Senior QA Manager with over 8 years experience managing local and globally distributed teams. - Oversees test efforts of numerous projects and teams. - Driving and coordinating testing initiatives across the organization. - Lead QA Tester/Automation Engineer on numerous projects. - Experience with HP/IBM/Open Source Testing Tools. - Experience with Java and Python programming languages. - Experience with testing REST and SOAP APIs. - Experience with VMs and AWS Cloud Services. - Created, executed and analyzed automated and performance test suites on a variety of projects. - Created, updated, and revised test plans, test cases, test scripts and project summaries. - Responsible for test planning, test execution, test analysis, and system recommendations. - Used software testing methodologies and standards to effectively test and deliver systems. - Submitted, tracked and maintained defects in a variety of defect tracking tools. - Developed and implemented test reports and metrics.