SUMMARY:

• Leader to define, create, design, and deploy test strategies for unit, functional and integration testing.
• Proven success with providing support in resolving customer issues, working with cross - functional organizations and training teams on technologies.
• I possess the complementary skills of both business management and technology directing local and remote team members.
• Ability to organize, plan, and execute Agile and Waterfall projects. Certification in Mobile Testing, which can deliver mobile and tablet-enabled applications out into the market in a shorter timescale.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Quality management tools: Rally, JIRA, Confluence, Bugzilla, HP Quality Center Application Lifecycle Management (QC ALM), BMC Remedy, CollabNet TeamForge, Propel SAP System, Rational ClearQuest, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Selenium WebDriver

Operating Systems: Windows NT/XP/2K8/2K12, UNIX, Linux, Sun, HP-UX

Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, Assembly, XML, SQL, HTML, Perl

Software Applications: SharePoint/Word/Excel/ Visual SourceSafe, MS Visual C++, Wise InstallMaster

Security Applications: Foundstone, Nessus

Methodologies: Project Management Life Cycle, System Development Life Cycle, Waterfall, Agile/scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Northborough, MA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coaches the QA team and does hands-on Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) software technology testing to deliver revaluation software on a shorter timescale
• Uses Scrum and Jira to track progress and manage defects
• Oversees the implementation of the Ranorex automation framework for GUI testing
• Leads and mentors in test execution
• Manages the creation and execution of appropriate test cases and schedules
• Represents QA in design, functional requirements, and code reviews
• Recommends design improvements or corrections to engineers throughout the development process
• Execute and monitor testing activities and ensure they are completed as expected
• Track, report and verify software defects to ensure the resolution of issues found

Confidential, Westborough, MA

SQA Manager and ScrumMaster

Responsibilities:

• Coached QA team of 12 and performed hands-on testing to deliver software in a shorter timescale
• Oversaw the implementation of the Selenium WebDriver automation framework to test the web-based portal
• Managed the qualification of the first Mobile Audit tool for Android OS
• Used Scrum and Rally to track progress and manage defects
• Responsible for the planning, management and co-ordination of all testing activities and evaluating risk potential during all stages of development

Confidential, Providence, RI

SQA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Structured JIRA bug tracking system and run bug court meeting
• Researched on automation tool to streamline test schedule
• Created executive level summary of the testing for the executive team
• Used Scrum and JIRA to track progress and manage defects
• Implemented processes for running, controlling, and measuring the testing activity
• Accountable for assigning responsibilities, estimation, and leading the team in executing testing
• Responsible for creating and maintaining high quality test strategies, plans and test cases
• Proactively worked cross-functionally with other teams to identify incident root cause and adjust testing accordingly

Confidential, Hopkinton, MA

Supervisor Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Owned and oversaw Array Interoperability team of 16 for a specific product release
• Oversaw quality improvement
• Identified and assessed impact and issues on new software/hardware features
• Used Rally Quality Manager to continuously track and prioritize work according to its value
• Ensured feature interactions (including with existing features) are well understood
• Wrote overall Test Focus Areas (TFA) test execution plans
• Reviewed and approved test strategy, testability requirements, and test plans
• Communicated with test automation/test framework regarding automation requirements
• Tested, managed, and tracked major (often concurrent) storage software projects.
• Managed and communicated QA risks and issues to upper management and cross-functional teams to ensure development schedules are met on time and with high quality.
• Conducted interviews and made hiring decisions.

Confidential, Westboro, MA

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Directed the QA hardware group to manage the testing of the first flash-based solid-state drives (FSSDs) into its core CLARiiON product portfolio. Managed schedule to ship on time to be the first to market for delivering to customer ultra-fast performance disk drives for mission-critical applications.
• Lead test engineers of two in testing of the first green CLARiiON product. Managed schedule to ship on time to meet the significant market demand for spin-down "Green" products. Disk spin-down differentiate EMC from the competition and provide significant value to customers.
• Team lead for EMC FAST LUN Migrator program. Managed onsite and offshore teams to deliver on time a quality product to improve over-all performance, reduced foot-print and lowered TCO for customers. Overall enable our customers to manage their information more effectively.

Confidential, Westboro, MA

Senior Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Qualified CLARiiON array products including both the hardware components and software. Tested RAID, mirroring, cloning, snapshot, backup and recovery, security, high availability, resilience, site failover, disaster recovery and performance.
• Involved in configuring and developing test infrastructure, test cases, test scripts and performing functional verification test execution on EMC CLARiiON FIBRE channel and ISCSI products using Windows and UNIX hosts
• Drive for customer use case testing, test automation, complex system level load and stress tests, increased test coverage, fault insertion testing, and drive test coordination across a wide range of test methods and groups
• Tested enhancements of serviceability and robustness features for EMC CX and AX series arrays.
• Designed and maintained complex SAN environments including storage arrays, Fibre Channel connectivity hardware (switches, hubs), and attached servers.
• Executed test automation with PERL and shell scripting.