Christopher J. Scharer

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Christopher is an elected Vivit Worldwide International Director. He also co-leads the Vivit Iowa Chapter, Nebraska Chapter, and Testing, Quality, Application Lifecycle Management Special Interest Group (TQA-SIG). He is the President/CEO of CJS Consulting, L.L.C. with experience in software development and automated software testing since 1980. With experience in Data-Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid methodologies, Christopher has helped companies achieve testing success in a wide variety of business applications (Banking, Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Mortgage, etc...). Most recently Christopher was elected to the position of Treasurer of Vivit Worldwide. Christopher is focused on Automation Training, Mentoring and Management combined with the latest testing methodologies. Christopher is always interested in new technologies, as well as close interaction with HP executives. Currently Chris is embracing new game changing technologies like Agile/DevOps, Cloud, Big Data, Mobile & Security which are driving business transformation.

Applications: HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Quality Center (QC), Unified Functional Test (UFT), Quick Test Pro (QTP), Business Process Testing (BPT), Sprinter

Databases: Access/Excel, ODBC, Oracle, SQL Plus, SQL Server Testing Methods: Black Box, White Box, Grey Box, Acceptance/Smoke

Environments: .Net, Client Server, Java, MainFrame(Terminal Emulators IBM - IBM PCom & Zephyr - Passport), PowerBuilder, Web-Based

Languages: C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Selenium Web Driver, VB Script

Processes: CMMI/Agile, Waterfall, Fragile (etc...)

Mobile Testing: Android, Blackberry, iOS & Windows with Perfecto Mobile & UFT

Testing Levels: Unit, Integration, System/Integration, Regression, Acceptance, Alpha, Beta

Specialties: HP Products, ALM/QC, UFT/QTP, DOM & COM objects, Eclipse, Maven, Jenkins, SQL, Application and Test Development