Software Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Specialist Resume Baton Rouge, LA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Develop Fixes that Increase Efficiency and Improve Bottom Line
Detail - oriented professional with good collaboration and communication skills.
Creative problem-solver who utilizes technical expertise to improve processes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baton Rouge, LA

Software Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Specialist

Responsibilities:

Improved yearly clinical-application, revenue-calculation testing process by developing stand-alone software tool (MS Excel VBA), documentation and training for inserting bulk revenue test data into SQL database. Tool allowed testing to complete ahead of schedule for each year used.
Significantly reduced time required for manual testing of key scenarios from 4 hours to 10 minutes by automating data entry for critical areas of application and providing GUI-driven, automated smoke-test tool (MS Visual Studios .NET C#).
Decreased effort / time required to create data for end-user application training courses from 3 weeks to 5 hours by automating typical patient data entry and providing GUI-driven, clinical-application, data-entry tool (MS Visual Studios .NET C#). End users could customize data and scenarios executed, allowing for more training sessions due to decreased preparation time.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Senior Component Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Supported revenue by developing test-equipment control programs (GNU C) for various semiconductor products that allowed for full screening of components to be sold.
Improved testing quality / traceability, and increased retention of potentially-lost revenue, by implementing test software revision-control system (MS Excel and Office VBA) and library of test equipment control-program standards (GNU C) that met evolving customer requirements.
Increased revenue opportunities and improved device-testing traceability to 100% by developing Data Revision Control System, including creation of new software tools (MS Visual Studios .NET C# and MS Excel VBA) and process specifications. Provided differentiation from competitors and comprehensive, customizable data reports at reasonable price points.

Confidential, Princeton Junction, NJ

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Improved back-end revenue yield for semiconductor products by rewriting and providing quick-turn bug fixes for test-equipment control programs.
Most appropriate components could then be selected for end product based on specific characterization data.
Attention to detail led to identification and correction of long-standing bugs.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Senior Field Applications Engineer

Responsibilities:

Enabled customers’ engineers to produce and get tested products to market faster by providing training and assistance with development of test-equipment control programs for semiconductor products. Training reduced engineers’ learning curve.
Expanded efficiency of customers’ engineers by managing projects being completed by other applications engineers, allowing customers to focus in-house engineers on other tasks.
Promoted company image by participating in multiple Quality Improvement Teams, and developing / presenting technical papers.

Confidential, Irwindale, CA

Contract Engineer

Responsibilities:

Reduced development time for getting customers’ products to market by supporting in-house engineering staff with development of test-equipment control programs and test hardware for heart-catheter products.

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Product Engineer

Responsibilities:

Enabled providing of quality customer samples and quick ramp-ups of production, as orders increased, by developing manufacturing processes and managing in-house and sub-contract manufacturing.
Improved customer satisfaction and decreased customer issues by developing quality-improvement experiments and implementing new production tests based on experiment results.

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Senior Product Engineer

Responsibilities:

Supported revenue by developing test-equipment control programs for semiconductor products that allowed for full screening of components to be sold to our customers.
Increased ability to detect and identify production issues by crafting test-data analysis program (SAS) which reduced de-bug and down time.
Improved quality by discovering weakness in accepted correlation methodology, proposing solution, obtaining approval and implementing fix.
Drove cost reduction of hundreds-of-thousands of dollars and received award for implementing test program enhancements.