OBJECTIVE:

Seeking Senior QA Engineer position in Software QA Engineering field.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• More than 17 years of experience in software QA field (including Linux servers, secure communication, networking, desktop and web - based applications).
• Proven track record of Software Testing in a Linux environment.
• Conducting installation, acceptance, functionality, compatibility, performance, scalability, latency, stress, regression (including automation) and other tests.
• Excellent understanding of software development life cycle.
• Excellent knowledge of software testing methodologies.
• Strong analytical skills and good practical judgment.
• High Availability/Fault Tolerance Testing.
• Highly proficient in troubleshooting both hardware and software configurations across multiple platforms.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Strong motivation to quickly learn new things.
• Flexible and adaptable to new environments.
• Team player, but can work independently if required.
• Recipient of numerous awards for consistent and outstanding performance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Professional Skills: Strong knowledge of PC hardware and LAN - assembling, configuration, setup, troubleshooting.

Operating Systems: Windows Server, LINUX (Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu), Solaris, AIX (WebSphere), MAC OS, IOS.

Load Balancers: F5 o Virtualization OpenStack server, VMWare, VirtualBox, Citrix Xen

Programming languages: fundamentals of C, PL/1, PASCAL, Visual Basic, SQL, Shell Scripting, HTML, Python.

Test automation tools: MS Test 6.0; QA Partner /Silk/Silk Performance, Win Runner, Selenium.

Databases: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MS Access, LDAP active directory.

Applications: MS Office Pro, Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Adobe Photo Shop.

Source Code Management: MKS Source Integrity, GIT, Perforce.

Hardware/Set top boxes: HP G5; Dell R310, R610, R630; various models of Motorolla, SA, Roku.

Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, SSH o Bug Tracking JIRA, Bugzilla, PVCS Tracker, Vantive Bug Tracking system, TeamTrack, FogBugz.

Test Case Management: AppTest Manager, QaTraq, Jira, Develop test documentation of various types including test plans, test cases, test scripts, test scenarios, test suites, check lists.

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planning, configuring, maintaining and testing ActiveVideo Platform releases on multiple system configurations.
• Linux Servers set up in a single component server configurations and fully fault tolerant setups.
• All testing involved AV Platform and some client testing, depending on deployment requirements.
• Tested bandwidth allocation for number of running TV sessions as well as for a single session on cable environment.
• Created detailed test cases for new features.
• Created and executed test plans for dynamic streaming platform.
• Worked closely with Development, Product management and Tech Support to reach product milestones.
• Helped design and implement network services required by platform and customer environmental needs.
• Worked with customer engineering to reach customer goals.
• Provided on - site testing and customer training.

Confidential, Mountain Vew, CA

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Testing Linux - based game and application servers.
• Performed installation, configuration, functionality, regression and performance testing of game and application servers for each release.
• Identified, reproduced and reported product defects using FogBugz bug tracking system.
• Created and maintained test plans, test cases, test matrices, status reports, test scripts and test data.
• Executed manual and automated test cases (using in house testing tools and scripts).
• Maintained Linux servers for the company and customers.
• Participated in QA meetings, development meetings, functional spec reviews, and release status meetings.
• Worked closely with development team for better understanding of application and testing coverage.

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided testing of Confidential 's enterprise - class secure messaging solution (email, IM), developed in Java.
• The foundation for all Confidential products and solutions is the SigabaNet architecture, a baseline platform of security functions that is designed to protect data in motion by ensuring confidentiality, integrity, auditability and non-repudiation.
• Performed installation, configuration, functionality, regression, performance, and integration testing of SigabaNet servers on various platforms for each release.
• Executed manual and automated test cases (using in house testing tools and scripts). o Identified, reproduced and reported product defects using TeamTrack bug tracking system.
• Created and maintained test documentation.
• Performed back-end testing with Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres and LDAP active directory. o Maintained QA lab machines and QA databases.
• Participated in QA meetings, development meetings, functional spec reviews, and release status meetings.
• Provided necessary help to Support group in troubleshooting customer issues to ensure better customer satisfaction.

Confidential, Redwood Shores, CA

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created test designs and test plans for client and server parts of the applications.
• Developed and maintained bug tracking and test case databases using MS Access.
• Participated in research and evaluation on several QA automation and defect tracking tools.
• Participated in deployment of new defect tracking system - DevTrack.
• Provided tool training for company employees.
• Defined hardware and software configurations required for the product testing.
• Managed defect resolution and verification process.
• Created and executed test cases for all parts of the product.
• Was responsible for regular build process.
• Worked closely with Technical Support and Development teams to pinpoint customer problems and develop solutions and workarounds

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed testing of client/server financial application Catalyst 3.4 (Trade system), Carma 3.0 and Carma 3.2 (Risk management system). The application runs under Windows NT and Sun - Solaris. Executed test cases manually as well as providing ad hoc testing on 3-tier architecture.
• Identified, reproduced and reported defects in product, using Vantive bug tracking system.
• Ran automated regression Test Suites, written in Shell Scripting Language. Analyzed test results to pinpoint the problem and find the solutions and workarounds.
• Worked closely with development team for better understanding of application and testing coverage and performance.
• Was responsible for generating daily candidate builds for use by engineering and QA team. Participated in planning of build schedules with engineering.
• Responsible for the production release process from the beginning of development through making customer copies. Performed sanity checks on all releases, verified and released CDs and diskettes.
• Wrote documentation for testing purposes and build process.