SUMMARY:

• An accomplished IT professional with over 10 years of experience in Quality Assurance. Experienced in automation design & implementation, as well as team & process management. A strategic & creative thinker, a multilingual leader & team member, proven to work well independently, with high attention to details, to address problem spaces efficiently & add value to customers, partners & stakeholders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Core Competencies: Collaborator, seeks out problem spaces, recommends & implements solutions end to end. Technical & thought leader, engaged in continuous learning, application and sharing knowledge. Strong focus on a measurable quality & business value

Methodologies: Validation for n - tiered applications scenario focused test design SFTD, prioritized execution, estimation, model based & API testing, etc. . Design & implementation of data driven automation frameworks, Validation of Azure hosted services - SAAS|PAAS intermediate, Software development - TDD, Static analysis, Program management Scrum & Agile, Waterfall, SCRUM master, Project & quality Metrics definition, Principles of distributed development, Failure mode analysis, Testing in production TIP, Continuous delivery/integration

OS, platforms & frameworks: Win2k, XP, Win2k3, Win8, Debugging - Windbg, NUnit basics, SpecFlow basics, Teamcity basics, Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, Eclipse basics, SharePoint Services, ALM - TFS, Revision control - VS, Git, SQL server 2010 - SSRS & SSIS, .Net 4.0, WCF, Dynamics Ax 6.0, Excel - PowerPivot, PowerQuery, PowerView, UI automation frameworks POC level - CodedUI, Selenium, Telerik, Watin

Languages: C#, TSQL, Java fundamentals, PowerShell intermediate

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Design Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed concise validation strategies & associated artifacts test plan, scenarios, etc. stored in Confidential Test Manager - MTM, executed on strategy & successfully certified multiple internal products & releases line of business applications - HTML/ASP.net/WCF/SQL
• Designed & implemented data driven xml & extensible automation stacks across UI, web services & db in C# & TSQL in Visual Studio 2010 & 2013 Ultimate Test Edition & SQL server 2010, TFS 2010 to facilitate execution of the test strategy & reduced the cost of- & increased the agility of the validation. Ex. validation stack for a Scan implementation was shared with & was actively used by our business partners which eliminated any involvement of engineering for future extension of the application by the partners
• Iteratively & successfully mentored & managed QA teams to deliver on specified scope against high quality, on-time delivery & customer delightment goals. confidetnial app hosted on Dynamics Ax. Led a mixed group of vendors & FTEs & successfully rolled out this application to a user base of 45K across IT
• Was selected to mentor an intern around QA methodologies, automation design & implementation & successfully completed it, per given feedback
• Iteratively produced best practices to introduce transparency into code quality, reduce risk of failure in production & reduce service disruptions ex. drop to QA quality gates, risk based testing, etc.
• Partnered with the architect team to increase simplicity & observe-ability in designs & in turn increasing testability & automate-ability of the products - reduce the rate of defect injection & overall cost of validation
• Iteratively took ownership of sprint backlog traditional developer user stories from problem definition, to JAD, design, implementation, documentation & successfully deployed the features into production
• Took initiative to learn in new areas ex. PowerShell & successfully delivered actual business items ex. design & implementation of a scripted deployment strategy for a newly created Azure service
• Successfully created an automated validation stack for a newly designed & hosted endpoint in Azure in C# & Visual Studio 2013, Git & shared it with the rest of engineering team to increase re-use.
• Helped validate design & ETL of a data mart & associated logic extracting data from multiple sources with heterogeneous schemas within the company using SQL SSIS with data stored on Storage Area Network SAN . This abstraction layer provided a consistent & reliable access to relevant data to a variety of tenants across IT
• Championed the cause of leveraging telemetry within our services to increase Mean Time to Detection & decrease Mean Time to Resolution for issues in production as well as to help lay the foundations for an intelligent self-healing service that reacts to & corrects the issues, if possible . Researched, defined & shared the base event class for instrumentation, leveraged the knowledge of SME & cooperated with key team members to align the service goals around instrumentation, data collection & visualization with that of the MPSIT telemetry vteam
• Have on a consist basis invested in personal learning soft & technical via in class & on line s - PluralSight.com, Dale Carnegie & books
• Was ed the Gold star in 2010, achieved Key Talent designation in 2012 & I’ve repeatedly been recognized for introducing key process improvements, helping others & going above & beyond the scope of the work accounted for to create additional business value

Software Design Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Owned international sufficiency scenarios of Front Page & Project applications in office 2003
• Contributed to automation of scenarios for Front page application in C# & Visual Studio using an internal automation framework - MOTIF

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Redmond, Wa.

Responsibilities:

• Owned validation & delivery of detection & download scenarios for the update service client
• Championed stress testing within the organization where coverage was less than 10%, produced documentation, acted as a specialist & evangelized this validation methodology. My initiative helped increase the stress test coverage which was a Windows organization priority on Windows XP within my organization by around 50%
• Owned validation of scenarios across the update service client & the windows update site