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Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer Resume

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San Jose, CA

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.

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