Sr. Automation Engineer Resume Duluth, GA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Software Quality Assurance professional with 10+ years of hands - on experience in deploying, supporting and maintaining complex mission critical systems with proven team lead and management experience.
Hand-on experience with QuickTest Professional (Expert View, VB Script), LoadRunner, Created REST webservices based framework, Also created web based automation using descriptive techniques (not record/playback ), SQL, XML, Various Application, Transport and Internet layer protocols (DHCP,DNS,FTP, HTTP,LDAP,SMTP,SNMP - TCP, UDP - IPv4, IPv6 )
Experience with Unix, Linux and CentOS, Used VI for log verification
Agile and Waterfall Methodologies, Sprint Planning and Execution, Scrum, Report potential roadblocks during daily scrum meetings. Conduct sprint reviews and retrospectives.
SQA - Defining test plans and suites, creating test environments.
Self-directed, confident professional with effective trouble shooting, interpersonal with proven leadership skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

O/S: Windows 7/10, Server 2012, OSX, Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu)

Applications: ESXi, vSphere, QuickTest Professional, Quality Center, Loadrunner, MS Office Suite, SourceSafe, Visio, VMWare, MS Sharepoint, VB 6

Databases: MS SQL, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, Ansi SQL, ODBC Configuration, Embarcadero Change Manager, XML, HTML, CSS

Networking: Ethernet, hubs/switches/routers, FTP, Putty, DNS, TCP/IP and 802.11x wireless protocols.

EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Automation Engineer

Confidential, Duluth, GA

Responsibilities:

Created SOAP based data-driven automation framework. This framework uses the UFT datatable to dynamically format XML soap requests. Submit formatted xml requests to multiple webservers, Inspects results for validity, Saves request and response files in time and dated folders, Performs various Oracle and DB2 database validations and produced a final .html document with links to test results. Also zips up test artifacts and attached them to the test run in ALM.
Develop code that uses SOAP requests to automatically perform a daily readiness test of several QA systems. Format an .html report of these results. Sends email to the team and management.
Currently standing up 3 VM servers that will be used with Jenkins jobs to establish continuous integration upon code check in.
Created web page automation using descriptive programming techniques. Used child objects to iterate through all the values in a data grid.
Code has distributed design with reusable function calls set in multiple function libraries.
Created several tools in Excel using VB Script that greatly speeds up framework data creation. Reduced this activity times from months to hours.
Used ‘index’ to distinguish between multiple descriptive objects when the object properties weren’t enough provide a unique identification.
Typically defined the web page’s root objects in the OR or SOR.

Automation Engineer

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

Used QTP/UFT and ALM(Quality Center) to create and maintain automation tests and an automation framework for the current manual test suite.
Help to develop function libraries. Used descriptive programming techniques. Used both the OR and SOR. Also created data driven automated tests.
Used WMI to create automated remote administration for Hyper-V virtual machines.
Discover and log Jira tasks for defects found
Created string parse function that parsed data from the data window of our Admin Console application.
Created function list utility that downloaded all libraries from ALM and then produce a reference document of every function and sub routine.
Improve and extend test frameworks and automated test sets.
Actively participate in automated test planning, test development, test execution.

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

Used our web application to design and implement a problem ticket tracking system. Defined workflow and established guidelines for the use of this system. This had the result of greatly improving communication between departments by providing faster resolution to support tickets and giving our users immediate status notifications.
Implemented automated testing. Trained staff in the use of Quick Test Professional.
Established AON Marietta’s first user support knowledgebase.
Interviewed, hired and trained staff (4), Developed new screening and hiring procedures. Shared management duties with the QA Manager.

Technical Support /QA Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

Interviewed and hired QA Analysts (2)
Established testing procedures and methodologies. Test plans were maintained in a Sharepoint server.
Managed project status and the completion of milestones in MS Project.
Established procedures for logging defects.
Developed QA environments by deploying VMWare ESX server. This server used UNIX as its OS so we used putty to connect remotely to this server to manage files and provide support.
Implemented automated testing using QuickTest Professional.
Oversaw the implementation of network systems to support the new department.