SUMMARY

• System Integration and Quality Assurance manager and engineer with experience in the regression, system verification, integration, and release management of embedded systems.
• Team Leader with proven ability to work effectively with test and development teams both within and across development sites.
• Team Manager that has performed administrative, performance management, salary administration, and daily operations of the QA team.
• Highly experienced in all aspects of regression test and system test via both manual and automated testing
• Talent for analyzing problems, developing and simplifying procedures, and finding innovative solutions
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Managed both domestic and international quality assurance teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Key competencies: Embedded Systems, Release Management, Quality Tools, SDLC, Agile, Selenium, Clearcase and Git Version Control, Team Development/Leadership, Agile, Manual Testing, Test Automation, UAT, SQL, Excel

Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, Solaris, Windows, RTOS

Languages: C/C++, SQL, Java, JavaScript, Bash, Tcl/Tk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Schaumburg IL

Senior Engineer Software Staff

Responsibilities:

• I performed regression, functional, capacity, performance, and UAT testing.
• Lead engineer for the research, trial, selection of appropriate tool sets for quality initiatives in an iterative testing environment.
• I Implemented all quality initiatives throughout the development life cycle including requirement review, test planning, testing, test engineering, test documentation and convergence of multiple product lines.
• Implemented code inspection tools, software analysis tools, and provided development with tools to document and track their regression and functional tests. Provided the processes to integrate developer tests into the overall system tests of the quality test team.
• Performed duties in an Agile environment using version control toolsets Clearcase and Git to manage projects, build software packages, test, track faults, and deliver products.
• For each product under development and for each release, lead the system level test team to create, modify and maintain both manual and automated tests
• Scheduled the execution of the tests by the team, collected results, documented the results and the faults, communicated the results to project management and to the development that teams.
• I collected logging information and used Excel to analyze system performance
• Managed the verification and validation of the product throughout the development life cycle
• I developed the supporting metrics and reported on the overall quality status of the product
• Released the product using internally developed Control - M like batch execution tools.
• Communicated issues and faults with the product to the developers, recreated the issues and supported debugging and resolving the issue with the developers.
• Provided direct support of the implementation of the products at customer sites

Confidential, Naperville IL

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Develop tools used for system performance and reliability testing
• Define a test environment to verify the quality of the products.
• Troubleshoot issues found with the product
• Documented issues and supported developers to debug and resolve issues found during testing

Confidential, Lisle IL

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Developed overall test plans and testing strategies.
• Designed and implemented both manual and automated test suites using C++ and Tcl/Tk to test application, boot, flash upgrade, and protection switching.
• Integrated 3rd party software/hardware with Interphases’ product line.
• Performed low level debugging of the platform under test. Engineered and implemented test environments to support integration and testing of the Confidential product line.
• Integration of hardware, software, firmware from multiple vendors with Confidential products.

Confidential, Lincolnshire IL

Senior Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical leadership for the creation, development, and implementation of a test base to verify both the systems and the software for multiple imaging systems.
• Responsible for the daily regression testing of the product under development.
• Provided the build environment for the daily builds, product packaging, installation, and version management
• Developed functional, performance, and capacity tests sets for the regression test suite
• Executed the supporting test tests, document the faults, provided support to development to recreate the issues and resolve the issues

Confidential, Libertyville, IL

Quality Assurance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed integration, system test, regression test, performance and capacity testing, and software update testing for the Quality Assurance team. Incorporated system level tests into the testing coverage scheme. Defined and implemented both testing intervals and testing content over the SDLC.
• Defined performance goals for the EMR system and managed implementation of those goals for both development and testing organizations. Performed Project Management role in defining and tracking tasks to accomplish quality initiatives.
• Developed and implemented overall quality assurance process for the SDLC. This included the processes, tools, and metrics used to support the iterative process. Trained development organizations on quality initiatives for traceable requirements definition, code inspections, and deliverable quality metrics.
• Owned the Controlled Release (CR) process.