324 Spring Meadow Lane  New York, NY, 10003     (212) 456-1414    peter.smith@gmail.com 
 
Peter Smith 
324 Spring Meadow Lane  
New York, NY, 10003  
(212) 456-1414 
peter.smith@gmail.com 
 
CAREER OBJECTIVE   
•  Experienced Software Quality Assurance Professional with 5+ years of experience 
leading QA teams for large software projects.  Skilled in various program testing 
technologies and current QA methodologies. 
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE   
INTUIT SOFTWARE, New York, NY  
Senior QA Specialist, Jul 2008 – present 
•  Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, 
product designs, schedules, or potential problems. 
•  Review software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or 
completeness, or to mitigate risks. 
•  Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates. 
•  Develop testing programs that address areas such as database impacts, software 
scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability. 
•  Document software defects, using a bug tracking system, and report defects to software 
developers. 
 
QA Specialist, Jul 2004 – Jul 2008 
•  Develop or specify standards, methods, or procedures to determine product quality or 
release readiness. 
•  Monitor program performance to ensure efficient and problem-free operations. 
•  Install and configure recreations of software production environments to allow testing of 
software performance. 
•  Provide technical support during software installation or configuration. 
•  Perform initial debugging procedures by reviewing configuration files, logs, or code 
pieces to determine breakdown source. 
•  Provide feedback and recommendations to developers on software usability and 
functionality. 
 
EDUCATION   
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD  
Bachelor of Art in History, April 2002 
 
TECHNICAL SKILLS   
•  Program testing software — Borland SilkTest, Bugzilla, Debugview, FileMon, FitNesse, 
Hewlett-Packard HP LoadRunner software, Hewlett-Packard HP QuickTest Professional 
•  Requirements analysis and system architecture software — Unified modeling language 
UML 
•  Web platform development software — Apache Tomcat, HTML, JavaScript, Microsoft 
AS P.NET