SUMMARY:

• A QA Hardware and Software Tester, Project Manager, Programmer, Web Developer and tester.
• An Experienced Systems Administrator, Systems Integrator, and Systems Engineer with Unix MacOS, & Windows.
• A Storage administrator with both online and offline storage systems, local and remote, SAN and direct attach.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Solaris, MacOS, AIX, HPUX

Software: Mantis, Testlink, Confidential LoadRunner, Test Director, Quicktest Pro, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Access, MySQL, Open Office, Toad, Apache, Iplanet, Exceed, Veritas Cluster Software, Veritas - Volume Manager, File system, NetBackup, Storage Solution/Foundation Suite, Solstice backup, Legato backup, Alex backup, phpMyAdmin, SSH, OpenSSH, Samba, Solstice Disk Tools Suite, Merrant dialog manager

Programming Languages: 'C', Cobol, HTML, Java, Korn, Perl, PHP, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Software Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Installation, implementation and use of Mantis bug tracking software and Confidential test management system with MySQL databases.
• Perform manual setup and testing of cameras and firmware for the Confidential embedded processor products for digital video recording.
• Wrote C programs to read and process SSD disk video information.
• Answered technical emails and phone calls on video cameras and video recording formats.
• Conversed with developers for features and functions for product testing and development and ease of use.
• Moved data and tracking software to Amazon storage and set up Bugzilla and SVN.
• Used MacOS, Windows XP,7,8,10, Debian Linux and Ubuntu Linux for testing and development.
• Used Agile procedures and participated in Scrums.
• Managed firmware release cycles using excel spreadsheets on Google docs.
• Used Netbeans for development in Java and C.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of cloud based storage setups using Confidential and pogoplug hardware.
• Configuration of linux and windows systems.
• Setup of DLNA/UPnP servers and clients.
• Configured Linux LVM storage setups and backup strategies.

Confidential

Superdome Firmware Tester

Responsibilities:

• Setup new Superdome blade servers for manual and automated firmware testing. involves creating NPars, loading operating systems - HPUX and Linux.
• Installing and testing hardware, memory, io, blade and external storage configurations.
• Automated testing involves executing, debugging and enhancing Perl and Selenium scripts as per specifications.
• Wrote problem reports, Perl and Selenium programs, input bug reports, and attended design reviews.
• Tracked software updates with SVN and test procedures with Test Director.
• Enhanced tests to include more coverage and multiple platforms.

Confidential

Superdome Firmware Tester

Responsibilities:

• Windows 7 operating system and application installations.
• Debian Linux installation and network debugging.
• Personal computer hardware and software installation & troubleshooting.
• Macintosh application installation.
• Perl programming for web page extraction and data manipulation.
• PHP web page programming.
• MySQL database design and setup and population.
• VirtualBox setup and implementation for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Android.
• Microsoft Office suite installation and .
• Data manipulation, backup, and media conversion.

Confidential

SAN Firmware Tester

Responsibilities:

• Setup EVA Storage Area Network arrays and installed firmware for testing and connectivity using Windows 2008 & 2003, Linux AS-5.2, and Confidential -UX 11.31 operating systems on IA 64, i and i systems.
• Tested direct connect Boot From Confidential EVA SAN managed storage configurations and Debugged fabric communications issues with Compaq and Brocade switches.
• Ran tests and tracked progress in Confidential Test Director.
• Worked with the data center conversion to the new hardware systems and updated fiber optic and network configurations.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collected and evaluated project documentation to create test plans and project flow diagrams.
• Coordinated testing efforts with all functional areas in several countries for end to end testing of Networx hardware and software implementation.
• Conducted data verification for the conversion to the new systems.
• Ran tests and tracked tested progress in QC Test Director, and Microsoft Access databases.
• Wrote reports and coordinated daily updates meetings to upper management.

Confidential

Electronic Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed BMEWS/PAVE PAWS radar system failure and developed a test procedure for analysis.
• Acquired testing hardware and evaluated collected results for resolution of failure.
• Documented the findings and solution.
• Input diagnostic results into Access database and queried for analysis.
• Used a spectrum analyzer for testing of hardware.

Confidential

Software Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Conducted performance tests for Confidential web based applications to simulate thousands of concurrent users.
• Setup Test suites and recorded tests for use in LoadRunner using Test Director and Quicktest Pro.
• Wrote backend scripts for LoadRunner and Quicktest Pro testing.
• Used Toad for Oracle and VMS databases.
• Maintained test cases, documentation, test results, customer data, and statistics for delivery to customer.
• Coordinated and performed testing with associated remote support groups in California and locally.

Confidential

Offline Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed Tape storage backup subsystems for multiple locations all across the world on Veritas Netbackup, Omniback and Data Protector on Confidential -UX and Windows systems.
• Worked with international customers and consultants to verify effective backups.
• Consulted on Veritas Netbackup upgrade and configuration.
• Developed a web based monitoring system in cross platform Perl using OpenSSH and mailx for backups statistics on all platforms involved.

Confidential

QA Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Verified mainframe data was transferred properly to new networked systems.
• Performed Manual and automated data acquisition using mainframe, Unix, Windows, Access, Web,and SQL.
• Implemented Large systems data integrity testing for Pharmacy Benefits Manager using RUMBA, CICS, web pages, and Excel to access and verify data.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setup Sun Servers and Confidential DL360s with Solaris for multi system SAN use with Red Hat Linux for testing mail transfer and Spam filtering software.
• Used Nagios for system monitoring of remote data centers.

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setup Solaris 7, 8 and 9 for SAN testing using Secure Path and Veritas.
• Configuration, zoning and administration of Brocade switches to, Confidential SAN arrays, Virtual storage setup for AIX, Solaris, Windows and SUSE Linux systems.
• Setup and installed network interface cards on AIX, SUN, Windows and PowerPC systems.
• Data center setup and software testing for new software for allocation of storage units.
• Regression testing for Bridge software.