Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Resume Palo Alto, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

I have 4 years of experience in manual and automated testing in client/server Enterprise Level SaaS applications in Windows and Linux environments.
I also have 10 plus years of experience in manual and automated testing of networking devices such as Cisco routers and switches.
I specialize in system level testing and monitoring of CPU, memory and file system resources throughout the SDLC.
Skilled at translating complex and ambiguous requirements into highly effective test plans and test cases within either Agile or Waterfall environments.
Proven team management skills leading and mentoring eight - member testing team.
Skilled problem solver able to troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly and effectively.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Linux, Cisco IOS, Solaris, MacOS, Windows, Apple iOS and mobile devises

Development/Testing Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Test Driven Development(TDD) and Waterfall

Cisco Certifications: CCENT#CSCO12384093

Programming/Scripting Languages: TCL/Expect, Python

Networking: L1/L7 Protocols, Network Management Applications, test bed configuration

Network Platforms: Small home/office - Intermediate - Enterprise / high availability(HA) devises

Tools: VMware Fusion, Valgrind, Selenium IDE, TCL, Wireshark, Fiddler, MS Network monitor 3.4GitHub, Rally, browser supported dev tools, ATS(Cisco test harness)

SaaS related: iPaaS, SSO, SLO, mobile devises, multi-user login authentication, REST API and AWS

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Hands on experience applying testing methodologies based on requirements, functional, integration and ad hoc testing to provide high levels of code coverage, quality and bug counts.
Use of heuristics to verify standalone, client / server and distributed systems for race conditions, memory leaks, high CPU usage, and to verify hardware drivers and file systems functionality.
Documented 950 bugs with a high efficacy by applying various testing methodologies.
Experience with developing automated test suites in Tcl and mentoring junior members to enhance and add new feature coverage to regression test suites
Expertise in using code coverage tools and analyzing coverage to verify testing effort: providing project management with an additional metric of product maturity after defect trends are calculated
Expertise in verifying new features based on command line (CLI) or GUI based interfaces
Verified iPaaS integration of products in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer for mobile SaaS Enterprise project
Architect, design and deliver test beds to support QA and Development teams this increased the efficiency of QA lab setup/configuration and a reduction of Operations resources.
Monitor system resources during test phases of new products, i.e. memory, CPU and file system to determine system level defects early in the development cycle.
Configuration level experience with routers and switches - vlans, routing, cabling and IP addressing
Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols: STP, RSTP, trunking, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, ISIS and MPLS (Knowledge and course work from CCNA class)
Hands on and course work experience of wireless (wlan) protocols 802.11a/b/g/n
Hands on experience troubleshooting data plane, control plane and management plane functions and protocols.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

Develop effective test strategies and concise test stories in Agile / Kanban environment
Track software defects and validate resolutions through the entire project release
Apply specialized expertise in understanding issues, research and provide solutions
Work with engineering and support teams on improving product quality, and reproduction of customer reported issues
Share responsibility for improving testing methodology, processes, strategies and techniques; in corporate these improvements into the overall testing process
Utilize GitHub to verify software commits and install latest code
Maintain and monitor AWS servers as test environment
Track Layer 1 through Layer 7 networking issues impacting connectivity, including DNS, DHCP, ICMP, Wireshark, MS netmonitor, ping and traceroute
Troubleshoot WLAN network through put and connectivity as remote user over VPN

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Development Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Developed test plan from review of requirements documentation, automated test suite, verified test cases and filed defects.
Developed test plan, automated test suite, verified test cases and filed defects.
Developed test plan, automated test suite, verified test cases and filed defects.

Confidential

Development Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Tested MPLS and IPsec Solaris based provisioning tool.
Managed testing directives and team lead for test team in India and Santa Clara.
Developed test plan of manual test cases for GUI interface of tool.
Developed automated test cases for GUI using Winrunner.
Managed and upgraded Solaris hosts for team.

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