SUMMARY:

Proven experience includes a broad range of software & hardware test skills in production software development environments for Network and Storage Systems Test & Administration, and Confidential EDA Software. My career focus has been on Software & Hardware Quality Assurance and Network & Storage Systems Administration as a Staff Quality Assurance Test Engineer, Staff Software Test Engineer, Project Manager and System Administrator.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Software/Hardware Test and Administration on SAN/NAS systems: Netapp. EMC/Isilon, Oracle ZFS, NexGen I/O Control & Tierstore. Hardware Systems - 1Gb/10Gb Ethernet, FC, PCIE, SSD/HDD, SIM, DIMM, Jbod, ILOM, Firmware. Proprietary OS - zfs solaris and Linux. All CLI and WBI GUI. Snapshot & Replication.
• VMWare Administration 5.1/5.5/6.0: vSphere, Vols, HBA, HCI Bench, VM - Linux Redhat/CentOS, Windows 2008/2012/2016/7
• Automation methodologies using shell scripts (csh/ksh/bash), execution within perl & python CLI, WBI based frameworks and Rest api via curl http methods (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE)
• I/O, Build, misc. and other open source tools: Oracle vdbench and orion, IOMeter, FIO, robo copy, Quick Hash, putty, Jira, APTest, Build/SCM (make, CVS/RCS, Mercurial, SVN Perforce, Purecov, Valgrind), rsync, Open Source detection FOSSology, wireshark, LSF and proprietary job distribution systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Engineer QA IV

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Software testing of Hyper Converged and Storage data center applications.
• Manual and auomtated testing.
• Unit and Integration testing of platform builds.
• Test Lead Role.

Senior Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Software testing of N5 Hybrid Storage Systems utilizing Flash SSD and HDD technologies.
• Manual and automated testing of the company's N5 series of Storage Systems and Administration user WBI and CLI interface. Data I/O (1Gb/10Gb), fault injection and specification based test case execution for defect discovery, root cause analysis, and tracking (Jira).
• Volume management and iscsi administration on supported Windows and Linux platforms. Tools: VMware ESX (5.1 5.5 6.0 - vVols/vmdk), Jira, APTest, IOmeter, vdbench, orion, putty, bash, MPIO, MS office. Platforms: Windows 2008/2012, Linux (CentOS, Redhat, ubuntu), Agile & Waterfall.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Software Appliance Kit and Hardware testing of Oracle's ZFS Storage Appliance enterprise class Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Network systems. Focus on the Oracle ZFS 7120, 7320, 7420, zs2-3 and zs2-4 series of Storage Appliances and Appliance Kit software GUI monitoring and OS tools.
• Upgrade, System Regression, and Fault Injection testing task assignments within manual and python based automated frameworks. Hardware fault detection & repair, Software fault detection and triage.
• Ensure QA metrics and goals meet or exceed established organizational and corporate standards. Defect logging/tracking, and Test case development and execution within established schedules.
• OS/Tools: Sun Solaris OS, linux (oracle, rhel), Windows 2008/2012/7, Shell script (bash, ksh), HP Quality Center, python automation tools, Internal Test tracking and execution framework, bug tracking and Oracle Open Office.

Staff Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Large scale (1TB - 10TB) incremental data migration of global engineering user production environments (NetApp, Isilon, rsync, csh, CIFS/NFS). NetApp ASIS Data Deduplication implementation for storage cost reduction goals. Alacritech NFS accelerator performance evaluation
• Utilization and support of LSF and Proprietary job distribution systems.
• VMware VSphere/VCloud Director managing global VM implementation and administration (>1000 VMs)
• Help Desk ticket resolution within an Engineering Services Team (SAN, Job Farms, VMs, Builds, SQA).

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities for this position focused on software testing & verification for the company’s Workload Automation Analytics and Aggregation tools.
• Rally based Agile project management. Black Box testing.
• Linux and Windows support for java platform and web interface.
• Utilization of Oracle, SQL Server, and Sybase Databases interfacing with Job Schedulers for Computer Associates - Autosys, Opswise, and Cisco - Tidal.

Staff Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• OMS SafeHarbor and Akamai Software Download Manager evaluation for Confidential Design platform web based software installation tools.
• Implementation of Fossology OSS & License source code detection tool for Confidential Design platform.
• Large scale data migration of global file server production environments (NetApp, Isilon, rsync, csh, CIFS/NFS);
• VM implementation and monitoring. NFS performance and load testing (Maestro NFS/CIFS, software installation, Wireshark, subsystem builds & unit tests, LSF job based file creation load tests).
• Alacritech NFS accelerator performance evaluation. Internal Job distribution system porting to the LSF framework of tools (perl, shell script, LSF).

Staff Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Software Test Engineer & Subsystem Integrator (SCM) embedded within software development team responsible for Static Timing Analysis Software Tools for Confidential within a large scale EDA system.
• Software subsystem build, testing (smoke, unit, regression), including run time and memory performance analysis on the windows and Linux operating systems.
• Build and test defect triage for initial failure diagnosis.
• Project Management responsibilities for a cross functional team of software engineering, product support and technical marketing.
• Tools: Shell scripting (csh, ksh, bash), make/emake, cvs/rcs, perl, rational purify/purecov, valgrind, MS Office, Dreamweaver html. OS: windows, Linux redhat, Solaris.

Software Quality Assurance Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Engineer and Supervisor role for team of 6 Software Test Engineers as part or a larger Software Quality Assurance group responsible for testing Confidential Software Design EDA system.
• Ensured command line and GUI components of the overall system met minimal standards for SQA design engineering team's acceptance testing.
• Coordination, design and implementation of automated testing systems via shell scripting (csh, ksh) and perl on SunOS Solaris, HPux, & Windows OS support. Initial testing of overall software builds for software engineer development and SQA teams.
• Staff hiring, management, coaching, training, and performance reviews. Implementation and migration of software development and testing processes and systems using NeoCad & Confidential methodologies.