Senior Software QA Test Engineer Resume

SUMMARY:

Software QA black box test engineer with strong analytical and detail oriented skills has genuine passion for engineering high - quality solutions with proven ability to provide test procedures based on product requirements, product specifications and standards to run QA test.
15 years of hands-on contribution in System Engineering
Deep understanding of Engineering Processes and SDLC.
Strong teamwork, communication, leadership, and initiative to learn
Proficient interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to convey complex technical information in a clear and concise manner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Software QA Test Engineer

Confidential, CA

Developed test plans for testing DVI/HDMI video resolutions and audio formats in transmitter/receiver/AVR products.
Provided test plan to discuss with system engineers to define optimal and rational ways of testing.
Wrote test procedures to test Firmware for HDMI features support with accordance to product data sheet and API specification.
Loaded firmware software and performed smoke, regression testing of video/audio functionality for MHL pseudo-mobile devices connected to Android OS platform (Dragon board microsystem).
Executed CTS tests and analyzed collected results for HDMI devices under test.
Executed CTS tests for pseudo MHL devices connected to Android OS/Linux platform, collected and analyzed results.
Reported failures and verify fixes in bug tracking system.
Performed QA test cycles of firmware software by running sanity check, full test of final product before releasing it to customer.
Maintained and run test procedures during SDLC of various HDMI/MHL products generations.
Test Lab setting: installed and connected HDMI sources, sinks, repeaters, HDCP CTS equipment, HDMI/ MHL protocol analyzers, (various models of Quantum Data and Astro Design equipment) to run QA tests.
Provided QA training for contractor and outsourced employees.
Leaded "Sparta” project: HDMI AVR Audio formats input-to-output conversion system. Manually Tested bits setting with Register map.

Software QA Test Engineer

Confidential, CA

Developed test procedures, developed and executed test cases for testing NAS web-based administrative application running on NAS server. Executed UI testing including validation of screen navigation on Maxtor Server Appliance Kit (SAK) NAS devices by utilizing Microsoft UI standards and using Microsoft’s WebTest automation tool customized for the SAK environment.
Verified negative/positive results and completed bug reports on issues found during testing using, NetResults Problem Tracker and reported to project leader status of build testing for various subsystems.
Led team of QA engineers working on OS update projects for the 1U and 4U product lines. This responsibility included assignment of test cases and reporting of build testing results to upper management. Tested integrity of system after update with new packages.
Confirmed web administrative interface for network sharing protocols such as NFS (Solaris 8.0 client), CIFS (Windows 98/ME/XP/NT/2000 clients), FTP (web and client terminal), HTTP (web client), AppleTalk (Macintosh 9.0 client) and Novell NetWare.
Tested network discovery application (MaxNeighborhood) functionality. Confirmed functionality of client application for different network configurations using multiple client OSs.
Confirmed functionality of client backup application storing data to Maxtor’s NAS servers.

Software QA Test Engineer

Confidential, CA

Wrote and executed test cases for NAS products backed by VxWorks and FreeBSD. Reported test results to Under Control bug tracking system.
Executed CIFS verification test suite developed by Network Appliance.
Tested functionality of NAS web-based administrative application.
Verified and validated user access permission to shares using various client Windows operating systems.
Verified SMB modifications using internally developed tools for validation of number of CIFS user connections.
Tested system functionality and integrity after OS update on NAS.
Tested interoperability of NAS file system with third party backup applications (e.g. Microsoft native backup client application) and hardware backup devices (e.g. Exabyte tape drive).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Bug Tracking: TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, DHCP, Android Debugging Bridge Windows server/clients; Android/Linux, VMware client.

SW databases: HDMI video/audio generators/analyzers, starter kit boards, CE TVs, AVRs DVD/BD players, Samsung/LG smart phones.

Test Cases database: NetworkJenkins; Agile Test Link.

OS: oot Print, Bugzilla.

Test tools: Aardvark I2C/SPI analyzer; SimPlay Lab equipment/Automated CTS test; variety of