Validation Test Engineer Resume
Melbourne, FL
Objective
- Seeking a position as Software Engineer.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Databases: MySQL 5, ORACLE 11G, SQL Server 2012.
Automation Tools: Test Complete 10.4, HP Quick Test Pro 9.2, Win Runner 8.
Defect Tracking: Microsft Test Manager, HP Quality Center 9.2, Rational Clear Quest, Software Planner, Bugzilla.
Testing Types: Web, Application, Black Box, White Box, Gray Box, Integration, System, Functional, UAT, Web, Acceptance, Smoke, Load, End - to-End.
Requirements/Source Control Tools: Rational Clearcase, Doors 6.0.
Languages: ADA, Pascal, Fortran, Visual Basic, C#, Java.
Scripting Languages: VB Script, Java Script, Perl, Windows Shell.
Browsers: Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 11.0, Safari 5.1.7, MAC Internet Explorer, Mac Google Chrome
Web Development: HTML, XML.
Office Management: Office 2010, Office 2007, Open Office 2014.
Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 5.5, Windows XP Pro, Macintosh, UNIX Sun Solaris, & IBM DOS.
UNIX Shells: Cygwin, Bash, Korn, C, & Bourne.
UNIX Hardware: Solaris 2.8 Workstations, and Sun 3 Workstations.
SQL applications: SQL YOG, MySQL Workbench 5.2, Toad Expert 9.5, Unicenter SQL Station 7.0, SQL Server Management Studio, AQT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Melbourne, Fl
Validation Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Confidential is a renowned railroad provider for many years.
- Working closely with the GE Transportation Global Signaling group.
- Primary project assigned is network testing Positive Train Control Process (PTCP) application.
- Test cases maintained using StarTeam.
- Manual Test cases executed and documenting defects reported via Star Team.
- Wireshark used to monitor the SNMP network traffic.
- SSH putty used to upload parameters or validate files.
- PSFTP putty used to transfer file between local pc and server.
- PSCP putty used to also transfer files from the command window to the server.
- Currently testing SNMP and Class D.
- Black Box testing process used.
Environment: Borland StarTeam 14, Cygwin Bash, Wireshark 1.12, Chrome, Office 2010, Visual Studio 14, Putty 0.64
Confidential, Melbourne, Fl
Software Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Confidential is a renowned medical oncology provider for over 20 years.
- Primary project assigned is a web application that helps physicists .
- Defect tracking used: Microsoft Test Manager.
- Manual Test Cases stored in Microsoft Test Manager/Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
- Automation Test cases created and stored in Test Manager and run on Smart Bear’s Test Complete 10.4.
- VB script used for automation tests
- Installation testing for various Confidential products such as Radon testing .
- Smoke testing used to verify the build provided by the developers is testable.
- Applications are written in C#, Java script and Ajax.
- SQL server 2012 used to store data.
- SQL queries were constructed to make sure the proper tables were being filled.
- User Stories were reviewed each sprint by the test team to verify that they have testable requirements.
- Agile scrum process used.
Environment: TestComplete 10.4, Google Chrome, SQL Server 2012, Office 2007, Visual Studio 2010, HTML5, VBscript, Javascript, Microsoft Test Manager, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013, C#, Ajax.
Confidential, Melbourne, Fl
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Pitney Bowes is a renowned printer manufacturer in business over 100 years.
- Applications are written in PHP and Perl and executed on Linux system.
- Performed Quality Assurance on data pertaining to Medco/Express Scripts.
- Software Planner used for defect tracking.
- Performed manual testing as needed.
- Manual and Automated Test cases created per each Change Project document.
- Test cases created and stored in Software Planner
- Validated XML data.
- MySQL database accessed using MySQL Workbench.
- Researched Automated QA Automation test tools.
- Smart Bear’sTest Complete 8 selected for automation testing.
- Administered Software Planner and Test Complete tools.
- Two application programs modularized using VB script using Test Complete.
- System testing in Black Box environment.
Environment: TestComplete 8, SQL Server 2005, MySQL 5.1, Red Hat Linux 5.5, Office 2003, Eclipse, MySQL Workbench 5.2, VBscript,Javascript, Software Planner, Google Chrome.
Confidential, Tallahassee, Fl
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
Responsibilities:
- The Confidential is one of 2 houses making the laws for the State of Florida.
- Initially assigned to assist Production Support Group.
- Met with the Senate customers on a regular basis to discuss the various issues found the previous week.
- Reviewed hard copy tests ran by Subject Matter Experts (SME’s).
- Manual Test cases created as necessary to support the SME’s.
- Reviewed comments from SME’s, recreated tests based on their comments.
- Primary assignment was to update the Functional Design Specifications (FDS).
- The QC Test Plan module was also updated to match each document section.
- Reviewed existing test cases and moved them into the new test plan grouping for regression testing.
- Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server used for Task assignments.
- Integration testing in White Box environment
Environment: Windows XP, .NET, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Mercury Quality Center 9.2,Visio, SQL Server Management Studio
Confidential, Miami, Florida
Development Automation Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Confidential is a well known medical device manufacturer based in South Florida.
- Mercury Quality Center 9.2 used for storing test cases and holding QTP Scripts.
- Alcea Bug Tracker used for defect tracking.
- Reconfigured the ‘instrument’ simulation computers based on the needs for the new week.
- Updated existing Test Cases and Test Procedures which were kept in Quality Center.
- Added documentation to support high level test scripts.
- Accessed Oracle databases to validate information.
- The main application program and logs written in Red Hat Linux 5.
- QTP used for automation programming using VB Script.
- System Verification testing in Black Box environment.
Environment: Red Hat Linux 5.0, Windows NT, XP and 2000, Alcea Bug Tracker, Mercury QTP & Quality Center, Oracle 10g, TOAD, MySQL
Confidential, Cape Canaveral, Florida
Sr. Software Engineer/Mercury Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Primary assignment was to provide testing support of SGS/JBOSC web applications.
- Secondary duties included administering the Mercury QC 9.2 & Quick Test Professional 9.5.
- Worked closely with database admins to migrate the QC database data from Oracle 9i to 10G.
- Created QTP scripts based on the manual tests for regression testing for a number of test cases.
- All Software Requirements and Unit Test Cases were placed in Quality Center.
- All testing documentation including Defect Issue Reports were stored in documentation database.
- SQL Server Management studio used to access SQL Server tables.
- SGS went from CMMI level 2 to CMMI level 3 November 1, 2007 based on our support.
- SGS Quality Management System is rated as ISO 9001.
- System integration and manual testing in Black Box environment.
Environment: Windows XP, Quality Center 9.2, Quick Test Professional 9.5, SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 10i. Firefox 2.0, IE 6.0, Macintosh Safari, SQL Server Management Studio.
Confidential - Palm Bay Florida
Software Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Primary assignment at Confidential was to provide additional software engineering support.
- Tweaked and revised current SQL queries.
- Created Korn shell UNIX scripts to pull off information that the group needed off the Solaris servers.
- Assigned and completed programming assignments using VB script based on the current needs.
- Succesfully reduced the number of programs needed to maintain batch processing.
- Added HTML code via both javascripting and vbscripting to report suspended data from sql.
- Created vbscript programs to monitor certain windows services and notify the server admin by email.
- Maintained and supported the testing servers by publishing fixes on a weekly basis.
- Programming accomplished in DOS, WSH, VBscript, JavaScript, & HTML.
- Reported issues on Rational Clearquest.
Environment: Windows XP Pro, DOS Batch programming, VB Script, WSH Script, JavaScript, vbscript,, pl/sql queries, XML, HTML, Rational Clearcase/Clearquest, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2003, Oracle 9i
Confidential, Miramar, Florida
Automation Web Tester
Responsibilities:
- Primary assignment at Confidential was to provide additional automation testing support.
- Executed pl/sql queries to create reports on the SQL server databases.
- Unit Test Plans were created based on the requirements provided by the Business Analysts.
- Unit Test Cases were created based on the Test plans and stored in Test director.
- Assigned to work an Ecommerce project.
- Automated webpages using VBscript as necessary to support the manual testers.
- Backend SQL SERVER 2000 databases validation.
- Quick Test Pro 8 VB Script was used for regression testing of new Ecommerce website builds.
- Perform Unit/Blackbox Web testing.
Environment: Windows 2000, Apple Macintosh, SQL Server 2000, Test Director 8.0, Quick Test Pro 8.0, IBM Websphere, Word, Excel, Lotus Notes 7
Confidential, Florida
Automation Web Application Tester
Responsibilities:
- Primary assignment was to provide testing of Citigroup CitiDirect for Securities (CDS) web applications to support bi-weekly production releases.
- Purpose of this testing was the implement functional changes and code defect fixes.
- Testing was performed using the following browsers: Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0.
- Majority of applications tested were built using .NET or HTML.
- Developed a full suite of automated test scripts using WinRunner 7.6 C.
- Stayed for Production deployment, ran smoke tests and performed limited testing.
- Created Visual Basic macros to enhance User Acceptance Test Plan templates.
- Analyzed SQL scripts provided and tuned them.
- Performed Black Box testing.
Environment: Windows 2000, WinRunner 7.6, Test Director 7.6, PHP, HTML, IE 6.0, Word, Excel
Confidential, Miramar, Florida
Automation Tester
Responsibilities:
- Primary assignment at Confidential was to provide additional testing support for the revision of the original website into a new Ecommerce website.
- Main assignment was to test Destination and Ports pages.
- Executed existing test plans and test procedures for existing code.
- Other assignments included validation of the Reservation Summary page which displayed all the booking information.
- Backend database validation of data entered into forms pages using SQL Server 2000.
- Learned how to read pl/sql data to validate data being pulled the oracle tables populating the web front end.
- Test Director 8.0 was used for defect tracking.
- Performed Black Box Web testing.
Environment: Windows 2000, Macintosh, SQL Server 2000, Test Director 8.0, IBM Websphere, Word, Excel.
Confidential, Melbourne, Florida
Automation Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Primary assignment at Confidential was to provide additional testing support.
- Confidential is a White Box environment using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Automated remaining applications using WinRunner 7.0 for regression testing.
- Used and created functional libraries for re-usable WinRunner code.
- Programmed JAVA JUNIT tests for new services created by the External Interfaces group: SNMP, UDP, Generic Binary, and Raw Data, & TCP/IP interfaces.
- This assignment required the ramping up in learning java.
- Reviewed Use Cases stored in Doors to verify test cases met the guidelines
- This also required learning and using the program JUnit to assist in the testing of new Java code.
- Created re-usable JAVA libraries for JUnit testing.
- The application was tested in Windows 2000 using Internet Explorer 6.0 and Netscape 4 on the Sun Solaris platform.
- Used Korn shell scripts to assist in testing.
- Attended design and coding reviews with the developers.
- Also validated the special install programs for both the Solaris and Windows Server 2000 platforms.
- Remedy used for special defect tracking as well.
- Rational ClearQuest was used for defect tracking.
Environment: Sun Solaris UNIX 2.8, Windows 2000, WinRunner 7.0, Junit, ClearQuest, ClearCase, Together 6.0, netBeans 5.0, Remedy.
Confidential, Miami Gardens, Florida
Senior Software Automation Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Confidential is one of the largest inbound telemarketing company in the US
- Executed developers program to copy the credit card information from the mainframe back to our Oracle databases, I manually verified each field.
- SQR’s, PL-SQL procedures and SQL plus used extensively to support the developers.
- Used Win Runner to automate the inbound systems for the Sales Finalization credit card program.
- Win Runner C libraries were created and gui maps stored in directories
- Scripts were modified as necessary using existing WinRunner commands.
- Load runner was used to verify the application during load testing.
- Test Director was also used for storing defects and WinRunner scripts.
- Once the prototype system was running, the second phase to implement a VB front end.
- Involved in unit, functional, regression and performance testing.
- Preparation of test data for the test cases based on the functional specifications.
- Wrote PL-sql programs and sql plus programs to support testing in oracle environment.
- Extensive programming of autosys jobs.
- Previous work included automation of new Visual basic upgrade from VB5 to VB6 for the front end.
- Work performed on UNIX operating system, Visual Basic 6 and oracle v8i.
Confidential, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Peoplesoft Programmer Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Assignment was to move legacy HR, Benefits, Payroll into current Production system from Philip’s division not yet in the Peoplesoft system.
- Completed conversion of Salaried and hourly data for a division.
- When conversion work slowed down, assisted other analysts with production support.
- Created and modified Structured Query Reports (SQR) for loading legacy.
- Assisted Payroll employees in loading payroll data.
- Work performed on HP-UX operating system
- Attended PEOPLESOFT training for SQL/SQR, Intro to HR/Benefits, People Tools 1.
- Used Visual Basic 4.0 and Access 97 together to load and manipulate legacy data.
Confidential, Miami Gardens, Florida
Automation Programmer
Responsibilities:
- Provided consulting services to the PRC Information Technology Development Group.
- Last assignment was to provide quality assurance support to Developers in testing their screen and PL-SQL scripts.
- Work performed on UNIX operating system and oracle v7.
Confidential, Boca Raton, Florida
Oracle Programmer
Responsibilities:
- Provided consulting services to the Confidential Information Technology Group.
- Current assignment was to implement a UNIX program using information extracted from oracle tables email daily reports to specified users.
- Provided analysis support to the customer during the move of the DALAS (SAP R/3) system from the Sun system to HP system.
- Modified PL-SQL programs based on the customer request
- Work performed on HP-UX v10.20 operating system and oracle v7.3.
Confidential, Arlington, Virginia
Senior ADA/Oracle Software Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Initial assignment was to provide help desk support with Pentagon customers.
- Ada code adhered to DoD Std. 2167A standards. use.
- Analyzed system software and code modification as necessary.
- Corrected existing problems as they occur.
- Assisted government users by taking phone calls/email .
- Trained on Oracle 2000, and Forms 4.5 conversion.
- Final assignment was to maintain the request, service order, inventory and billing forms for pagers.
- Loaded and validated billing information coming from Pagenet tapes.
- The paging company would change the field sizes or add new fields without telling us.
- Created a special table for validating the information before updating our production database.
- Wrote SQL code to create, update and drop table definitions
- Created simple screens using SQL*FORMS 3.0.
- Development was performed on a VAX 6520 using Oracle 7.1 rdbms.
Confidential, Fairfax, Virginia
Senior ADA Software Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Provided consulting services to IBM Federal Sector Division.
- Modified existing software per IBM requirements.
- Presented modified portions of ADA code for internal walkthroughs.
- Additional duties included configuration management for the software.
- Learned how to build load modules for regressions testing on the MVS system.
- Development was performed on RISC 6000 using Rational ADA, based on DoD Std. 2167A standards.
Confidential, San Diego, California
Software Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Designed and developed ADA applications based on DoD Std. 2167A standards.
- Built and corrected compilation errors which occurred in software base captures.
- Took extensive training courses in ADA, C and Casetools.
- Received recognition award for making a special contribution.
- Successfully delivered a piece of software before an important milestone date.
- Development was performed using Vax Ada on DEC Micro-VAX’s.
- Wrote and published software requirement, unit test plan & procedures documents.
Confidential, Redondo Beach, California
Member of Technical Staff
Responsibilities:
- Software Integration and test of the Army Secure Operating System (ASOS).
- Successfully modified an interface test application program
- Responsibilities included unit testing the task management section of ASOS.
- Updated the Software documents for ASOS based on DoD Std. 2167A.
- Development was performed on Sun 3 workstations using Verdix Ada.
- Wrote and published software requirement, unit test plan & procedures documents.
- Delivered presentations to the customer.