SUMMARY:

Dedicated professional with 7 years’ experience steering software with white and black box testing skills for leading edge in Agile/Scrum environments and experience building upon open source Java solutions for continuous integration and deployment.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Languages: C, C++, C#, .NET, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, XML

Software & Tools: Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ, Git, WordPress, MS Office Suite, Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber, TestNG, Robot Framework, Appium, Atlassian Suite, Jenkins

Database(s): MySQL, MS SQL, MongoDB

Platforms: OSX, MS Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, Linux (Ubuntu, BackTrack), Android, iOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Improved Defect Discovery and Review Process through Bug Scrub processes
• Worked with Product Managers across teams to sync test cycles for multiple products.

Lead SDET

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built an automation platform targeting a POS and server - side application spanning multiple platforms and devices.
• Designed test plans, test suites and test cases for cloud based software architectures influential to the payment industry.
• Served as a resident automation expert and go to resource.
• Improved automation test reporting be centralizing and standardizing data into compressed reports.
• Decentralized automation runs with the use of Java Selenium and Appium server/grid while maintaining ease of use on local machines.
• Served as resource for security analysis and security testing.
• Lead a team of 10 engineers.

Lead Quality Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote automation in Java Script using Protractor for AngularJS based applications.
• Designed test suites and test care for multiple platforms and devices targeting Confidential SAAS systems on the cloud.
• Worked with Jenkins to Define CI/CD processes for the team.
• Coordinated automation for stories within the same sprint.
• Served as got to resource for automation framework troubleshooting
• Lead a team of 4 engineers focusing on automation testing and framework design

Lead Quality Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote automation Java software for continuous delivery and scheduled performance testing on cloud-based platforms.
• Designed test plans, test suites, and test cases for multi-platform, cross browser security software targeting SAAS applications, including application support and API Testing for iOS and Android platforms.
• Led Discussions in test design. Served on forum to structure quality processes in an agile environment.
• Set up and maintained Bamboo and Cucumber test plans for continuous integration and delivery.
• Set up and maintained automation framework from scratch through Selenium Webdriver/RC, and AutoIt scripting with Java as a base.
• Designed automation tools for use in sales demonstrations for large scale “Big Data” environments providing multiple petabytes of data to test against/with.
• Led discussions and designed performance monitoring metrics and tests, showing how future trends can be estimated from current metrics.
• Automated Security Identity Access Management (IAM) testing with focus on data encryption/decryption, and Port Management/DOS.
• Started discussions on Mobile automation using Appium/MonkeyTalk to extend the base automation framework.
• Lead a team of 3 engineers maintaining quality of the product.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote software for high performance fiber optic network simulation and design in C#.
• Focused in WPF/XAML based graphical user interfaces for network graph-modeling and simulation software.
• Served as focal point for design standards between Layer 0 and Layer 1 networks, and architect for the SCRUM team in multiple modules linking communication between application panels and screens.
• Led discussions in Unit Test management and planning. Served on forum to distribute Unit Test Modules into features.
• Designed and maintained a communications framework based off of a Producer-Consumer model to simplify inter-application communication.
• Redesigned the visual representation of the network to reduce clutter with the use of aggregation, smart-zooming abstractions, visual filters, and colored lines.

Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create test strategies, test plans, and test cases for a provider of high-performance optical networking solutions, software, and technology services.
• Serve as a focal point for requirements creation, assessment, and testing between software team, QA team, and impacted user groups.
• Worked with offshore teams on a regular basis.
• Lead teams of three QA staff.
• Led test planning, case development, test execution, and defect remediation efforts that directly enabled on time completion of high quality deliverables for broad range or high-profile systems development.
• Served as a feature lead and team resource for security testing topics, and maintained library of Confidential results, and definitions of how the results affect the business.
• Created automation suites for automated testing in multiple features including large network simulations and stress testing, protection and security testing, and provided support for migration of suites to newer platforms and products.
• Developed and implemented web-based one-click process enabling team members to submit end of shift reports.
• Provided capability to deliver consolidated defect tracking and remediation reports directly to senior management while storing data in multiple database repositories.
• Created plug-ins that provided visual representation of defect testing and tracking tools for senior management.
• Served as key resource for migrating test environment from MS Windows to Linux, and automation scripting from desktops to a web-based application for protected global access.
• Trained new hires in testing best practices, case development, and test execution aligned with company standards for excellence.