Benoit Goderre

Benoit Goderre 8 Rolland, Val-des-Monts, QC, J8N 7R7 -- SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS         Four years of experience on all phases of software testing life cycle in an agile environment as well as using different types of testing such as functional, user acceptance and regression testing. Expert in exploratory testing, finding major issues quickly in desktop, mobile applications as well as web sites. Excellent communication and teamwork skills honed through four years of working on projects as quality assurance specialist and project leader Excellent attention to details developed by performing testing for multiple customers and projects Four years of experience with remote teams from different countries and timezones Passion for usability and accessiblity, developed with working with usability design and accessibility experts ISTQB Foundation level Certification Fluent in English and French RELEVANT SKILLS & ABILITIES Engineering Skills  Strong knowledge of a wide array of testing techniques such as exploratory, functional, regression and user accceptance testing for web, stand alone and mobile applications  Excellent knowledge of all phases of the software life cycle including test strategy design, test case design, manual test execution and bug reporting  Excellent knowledge of working in an agile environment, with scrums, user stories, small and incremental releases, etc.  Proficient in automating the testing of standalone and web applications Technical Skills  Software: Quality Center, SpiraTeam, Clarify, JIRA, VMWare, TestComplete, Confluence  Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 10, Mac, Linux  Programming Languages: VBScript, AutoHotKey, Java  Web : HTML, CSS, Javascript  Others : GIT, SVN, SQL Communication Skills  Prepared and delivered daily project status reports to clients  Participated in the ToastMasters company's club by performing many speeches  Delivered presentations to coworkers in order to promote better quality assurance concepts RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE Quality Assurance Specialist and Accessibility Specialist Simply Accessible, Ottawa, ON   Performed software analysis, executed test cases, documented results and prepared bug reports Executed quality assurance exploratory testing, as well as accessibility testing on multiple types of applications such as desktop, web sites and mobile Quality Assurance Specialist Macadamian Technologies, Gatineau, QC                2008 - 2012 Wrote multiple QA documents, including requirements, test strategy, test cases, bug reports, release notes Performed software analysis, executed test cases, documented results and prepared bug reports Executed multiple types of testing such as exploratory, functional, regression and user acceptance testing Performed testing on multiple types of applications such as desktop, web sites and mobile Worked in an agile environment with daily scrums, user stories, evolving requirements, frequent delivery of products, etc. Programmed automated test scripts for web sites and desktop applications Designed a plug-in to help the import of test cases into SpiraTeam using VBScript Authored multiple Confluence pages to help other team members on project related concepts Prepared many short training sessions for team members to demonstrate different quality assurance related practices Led small teams (below 10 members) and was responsible for coordination, scheduling of meetings, creation and assignment of tasks, client communications and daily reports Participated in Survey Gizmo beta testing and won 1st place in contest for number and quality of bug reports Organized and oversaw many social activities for co-workers as member of the fun comittee Software Verification Intern (CO-OP) Adobe Systems, Ottawa, ON  May 2016 – August 2016 Winter 2007 Added new features to a test automation tool with JAVA Debugged existing issues present in the test automation tool Performed exploratory testing of newly released features Executed ad hoc test cases in different environments (Windows XP and Vista, Citrix) using VMWare Software Programmer Intern (CO-OP) Canada Revenue Agency, Ottawa, ON    Summer and Fall 2006 Gained a solid foundation when learning the COBOL programming language Improved existing code by adding new features and doing bug fixing Participated in many online courses in order to acquire new skills EDUCATION Bachelor of Applied Science, Software Engineering University of Ottawa, ON     CO-OP Program Magna Cum Laude Nortel Networks's Admission Scholarship Dean's list (top 10% of the class) OTHERS  High school badminton coach since September 2016 -