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Senior Qa Engineer Resume

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Boulder, ColoradO

SUMMARY:

  • Solutions developer and provider with 18+ years experience evaluating and deploying diverse software and hardware technologies in a Server environment. Knowledgeable in many facets of Internet technology, design, and development of custom applications including windows and linux servers.
  • Experienced communicator and team player in working with disparate groups of engineers with diverse skills Managed many successful projects adopting new technologies and a self - starter that can be depended on to complete the difficult tasks.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior QA Engineer, Confidential 

  • Developed network test environment for redundant switch for internal network. Setup included deploying supported network environments and then writing corresponding Perl scripts to test configuration and network performance. 234 test cases to test environment and corresponding automated test scripts cover breadth of network environment. Scripts checked into CVS version control.
  • Deployed test methodologies for virtual backup appliance including test automation involving all phases of the test life cycle from inception to product delivery. Proficiency included creating and executing test plans and test cases and bug tracking to resolution. Product included a virtual application for backup which could be deployed in various server platforms using Vmware, KVM, OpenVZ and HyperV.
  • Responsibilities included test automation, test writing and execution test cases with Perl, Python and BASH to run manually and through automated scripts for hardware and software continuity in client/server environment.
  • Additional tasks included connecting a 200 host environment including VNX San with routing and switching for Vmware development and testing platform for Virtual Appliance project.
  • Responsibilities included deploying Virtual network environments to test Virtual Appliance threading throughput and network capacities. Switch and network testing also included IPV4 and IPV6 and VLAN test environments with SCRUM.

IT/Application Manager, Confidential, Boulder, Colorado

  • Managed team project to customize server monitoring using Nagios and custom server settings. Project included Nagios setup and configuration. Server setup included custom settings for notifications and restart of failed service or entire server as required with BASH scripts.
  • Team project included developing custom IT ticketing system for customer problem resolution. System was designed using HTML, CSS and PHP and Coldfusion. System allowed for customers to open an incident ticket, comments to be added, updates to the ticket and closing of ticket. Ticket system emailed updates and included ticket prioritization.
  • Partnered in team effort to implement DRP (disaster recovery plan) to ensure survival of the business by responding to water contamination that caused a fire in a multi-million dollar production datacenter. Negotiated with vendors on rebuilding of critical infrastructure supported by vendor equipment that had been damaged by the flood.
  • Maintained and managed N+1 redundant, highly-available, multi-homed IPv4 infrastructure in core/distribution/access topology, utilizing Cisco IOS, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, EtherChannel and application delivery. Designed and deployed the rapid, forced adoption of cutting-edge datacenter technologies, such as Intel Xeon server blades, iSCSI SAN and VmWare virtualization, for replacing 75 servers and constructing the new private cloud facilities including OpenVZ, ZEN and Vmware.
  • Deployed and administered server solutions including applications and system administration including backup of servers and customer data with solutions for servers and internet connectivity for business continuity solutions utilizing VMware solutions including both commercial and open source, such as MySQL, OpenLDAP, qmail, Microsoft SQL Server, PHP, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Parallels Plesk, Apache, IIS/.NET, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007, and Adobe Coldfusion.

Software Developer, Confidential Colorado Springs, CO

  • Developed user interface for real-time satellite tracking system. Customer maintenance for large Main Frame system project. Programming utilizing Assembly language to interpret data from satellites for image processing. Linux system administration and trouble-shooting between system resources.
  • Responsibilities included updating system from Sun Main Frame to Linux based system.

Software Developer, Confidential, CO

  • Implemented Design and site installation of customer control system to simulate real time system utilizing Sun computers. Assembled and tested communications rack, troubleshooting hardware and firmware systems integration. Responsibilities included system updates and training for customer project and documentation of customer system and technical processes.
  • Developed functional test and embedded control ROM firmware for Electrical-Erasable Programmable Read-Only memory (EEPROM) programmer build around Motorola 68000 microprocessor and interfacing IO with Apple computer.

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