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Over 7 years ago
Great article, great examples .. just a very substantial post. If HP worked on the licensing cost a bit more, maybe they can get more of this tool to more hands and thus be about volume. For now, the limited number of people that can afford it swear by it. I'm not sure what…
Almost 8 years ago
Hi Greg First off, how well are you BPP mapped out and linked to requirements? Are all your test scenarios broken out to the BPPs? Or you guys just do ad-hoc. Some of the previous point made by other people make actually help you with the direction you need to go. My…
Almost 9 years ago
I do agree totally on the stability issues with 12.01 or any version thereafter 12.0 including 12.0. I would get crashes from time to time running Initialization scripts on 12.1 and with certain data driven scripts reading data from Excel files, I would have some major…
Almost 9 years ago
I consider the following criteria for ALM tools: Robust Requirements Management as well as Test Planning and Execution components all bound by seamless traceability mechanisms with a big footnote on ability to triage tests for automation. Reporting is an absolute must…

About me

Fred Sookiasian has two decades of hands-on and management experience in Software Quality Assurance and Test Automation including process building/improvement, validation as well as requirements creation and analysis in multiple industries like Biotech/Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices, Banking/Loans, Insurance, Financial, Healthcare and Interactive Entertainment.

* Process: End-to-end SDLC experience, manual and test automation infrastructure implementation, creation of templates for QA and Change Management processes, test plans, traceability matrices, test scripts, requirements and more. Requirements Analysis, design and redesign, technical documentation. 21 CFR Part 11 compliance and validation experience, training packages, Performance and User Acceptance testing initiatives inlcuding end to end execution.

* Testing Tools: QuickTest Professional/UFT, LoadRunner, Silk Performer, Quality Center/ALM, ClearQuest, Requisite Pro, Rose, Rational Unified Process

* Other Tools/Applications: Microsoft Project, Visio, MS Office Suite, VSS, SQL Query Analyzer/PLSQL, Build Master, Paintshop Pro, Norton Ghost, Power Quest Drive Image Platform: C++, JSP, PHP,ASP, HTML, Macromedia

* Browsers: AOL, IE, Netscape Operating Systems: Legacy Dos/Win, Win9X,NT,2K, XP, Linux Redhat, Mac OSX +

* Hardware: Expert computer assembly, platform/operating system configuration including server applications and diagnostics/drive/data recovery

* Leadership: Hire, lead, train and mentor experienced and intern level talent, augment development (System Owner role), manage off-shore and near shote QA and Development Teams.

Specialties: Software Quality Assurance, Project Management, Business Analysis, Infrastructure Process Creation and Deployment, Hiring/Training/Mentorship, Design Assurance Engineering, Expert Documentation,