SUMMARY:

• Obtain a position as a Software QA Engineer to improve product quality and customer satisfaction.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: C#, C, C++, Visual Basic

Scripting ability: AWK, KSH, SH, BASH

Database related: SQL

Operating Systems: HP - UX 9.04, HP-UX 10.20, HP-UX 11i, NCR 3555, NCR 3455,MS-DOS, LINUX, SCO (UNIX), HPUX, AIX (IBM UNIX), SUN (UNIX)

Hardware Platforms: VM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Competently wrote new testing tools out of pre-existing tools in Visual Basic and C++
• Successfully translated a Visual Basic 6 tool into Visual Studio 2005 Visual Basic modifying and coding sections it to duplicate the tool in a more modern code
• Wrote multiple UNIX/LINUX ksh and bash scripts for testing product utilities on AIX, SCO, HPUX, Sun Solaris UNIX/LINUX boxes.
• Confidently edited and wrote some tools in perl for testing TCPIP.
• Effectively worked with and work VBA (VB6) code test with Access 2007,
• Successfully wrote macros for testing Excel 2007 tools.
• Proficiently wrote code in Visual Basic and C++ to test ALK APIs.
• Competently assisted and later completely tested PCMILER 25 to successful release to the customer.
• With great success tested Mapping, Connect, BatchPro, Excel Spreadsheet Add-in for Mapping and Connect, Windows GUI (XP) windows 7 32 bit, window 7 ultimate 64 bit-, windows 2008 server 32-bit, windows 2008 Server 64-bit, windows 2003 server 32-bit, laptop with Vista software,
• Reproduced many customer problems with coding and scripting abilities using a VB like free tool called Autoit
• Performance tested a web link source updater with personal autoit scripts and by competently modifying C# to produce 20+ different builds of the updater.
• With great success tested WEB UI and Web Services using pre-existing and personally modified and created XML.
• Properly employed WSDLs to properly edit/write XML scripts
• Successfully wrote CYGWIN bash tools to create/edit XMLs.
• Skillfully wrote CYGWIN bash tool to report on web services errors.
• Proficiently modified an asp.net web application for a Demo to the customer in which web drop-in tools are demonstrated from a window and slider for a map.
• Continue to study and improve my coding/scripting skills.
• Tested ALK Rail related products.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 1st project - DocumentMall 9.2 Workflow - a SAaS (Software as a Service) product. Successfully completed testing.
• 2nd project - 2-Way Replicator - a product to work with DocumentMall to upload, download, and upload and download (2-Way) documents.
• 3rd project - DocumentMall for Blackberry - a limited version of DocumentMall which allows the Blackberry cell phone owner to search DocumentMall, open, email, and print a document.
• Worked with XP and Vista Operating Systems.
• Successfully wrote and executed test case documents.
• Successfully reviewed a test case, test plan documents, and a test report which summarized testing efforts.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Quickly learned enough of the products and procedures of Confidential to be useful.
• Created and ran Load Runner 8.1 scripts for performance testing of WEB sites.
• Enhanced scripts using C code and Load Runner functions.
• Created reports to show performance testing results.
• Submitted weekly and sometimes daily progress reports via email.
• Successfully tested projects on HP, AIX, and SUN UNIX platforms.
• Attended meetings to review Java code, test plans, design documents, and performance test reviews
• Created KORNSHELL/AWK scripts to performance test backend applications.
• Used TOAD for Oracle to create SQL queries to verify database activities for applications.
• Interfaced with DBAs, Developers, Project Manager, Operations people, Middleware people, Sr. Member-Technical Staff, Sr. Technical Analyst, and QA Managers to obtain information about the projects to write performance test plans.
• Successfully performance tested APIs for the Confidential billing project.
• Successfully performance tested a Java-based product, WEB sites, and a set of products which replaced a major part of the VerizonWireless billing system.
• Wrote and executed a functional test plan. Followed through with the project by writing and executing a SIT test plan, then later backing up the UAT stage of the project. Finally, signed off for the project certifying it as successfully tested.
• Interfaced with the CAM (Client Account Management), SPG (Self-Provisioning Gateway), MTAS (Mobile Telephone Activation System), Vision, and the Customer.
• Attended 1 code review on Java code and 2 code reviews for Stored Procedures.
• Assisted another QA member and a Developer with Unix KORNSHELL and AWK scripting skills.
• Successfully used Mercury Quality Center to write a test plan, execute the tests, and enter defects.

Environment: LoadRunner, Quality Center, TestDirector, TOAD, Teamquest, Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX (HP, AIX, SUN), KORNSHELL, AWK, Windows, JAVA, WEB

Confidential

System Tester

Responsibilities:

• Motivated learner - quickly assimilated voluminous amounts of information about the project to become an indispensable asset to the team.
• Successfully tested maintenance and feature releases, wrote test plans, some with 100s of cases, wrote tools to automate testing in shell and/or awk
• Assisted other team members to write shell/awk based scripts
• Wrote tools which other testers used to automate testing
• Successfully tested an Informix RDBMS project verifying cases with SQL scripts
• Competently identified 100s of software problems
• Worked with developers to debug, validate, and resolve system issues and find solutions

• Participated in programming code and documentation reviews (moderated, recorded, read) for most of them
• Successfully functioned as Feature Coordinator for an important Bell South related project.
• Effectively mentored a new tester
• Successfully gave 5 classes
• Participated in many audits for quality processes
• Helped attain CMM (Capability Maturity Model) level 2
• Helped attain TL 9000 and ISO 9001 and Re-
• Wrote Requirements documents and user documentation
• Helped to define customer projects and estimate the time to test projects
• Assisted Support by taking Out-of-Hours Support shifts entailing carrying a cell phone and/or a beeper.
• Helped with the resolution of several Customer Support Issues
• Worked on a Mainframe application to verify data for front end transactions
• Black box testing with access to the source code
• Tested part of EAS, a web GUI.
• Successfully performed sanity, system, regression, stress, volume, unit, and user acceptance testing
• Competently installed multiple modules on UNIX boxes/machines

Environment: KORNSHELL, AWK, INFORMIX, SQL, UNIX (HP, NCR), WINDOWS