Sr. Oracle Test Engineer Resume El Paso, TX - Hire IT People

OBJECTIVE:

To utilize my knowledge and expertise in a challenging position, with the opportunity for advancement as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer

SUMMARY:

Information systems professional with over 5 years of Oracle DBA experience.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills and attention to detail
Experienced in Quality Assurance processes, methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle.
Proven Customer Satisfaction, verbal and written communication and teaming skills.
ITIL - based change-controlled operations exp.
Oracle database tuning, upgrades, patches and migrations.
Oracle Application Server installation.
Red Hat Linux installation and routine administration.
Microsoft Windows Server installation and routine administration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Oracle Test Engineer

Confidential, El Paso, TX

Responsibilities:

Assigned to Confidential account in Albuquerque, NM.
Design QA Test environment infrastructure and execute installation / functional testing, as well as supporting infrastructure and process design in a Linux/AIX, Win 200x, VMWare ESX, and Oracle RAC environment.
Define and implement quality control methodologies to ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines, and procedures.
Establish and maintain processes for evaluating hardware, software, and associated documentation.
Collaborate with architecture / design teams to design and develop thorough QA test methodologies and documentation to ensure smooth transitions into enterprise-wide deployments, which minimize end-user disruption.
Use workflow tools and communication tools to keep supervisor informed of progress and any problems encountered in testing.

Oracle Test Engineer

Confidential, Albuquerque, NM

Responsibilities:

Designed QA Test environment infrastructure and executed installation / functional testing, as well as supporting infrastructure and process design in a Linux/AIX, Win 200x, VMWare ESX, and Oracle RAC environment.
Defined and implement ed quality control methodologies to ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines, and procedures.
Established and maintained processes for evaluating hardware, software, and associated documentation.
Collaborated with architecture / design teams to design and develop thorough QA test methodologies and documentation to ensure smooth transitions into enterprise-wide deployments, which minimized end-user disruption.
Used workflow tools and communication tools to keep supervisor informed of progress and any problems encountered in testing.

Database Administrator

Confidential, Albuquerque, NM

Responsibilities:

Administered and managed the Oracle Instances using custom scripts, 10g Oracle Enterprise Manager and other Third-Party applications.
Planned, scheduled, and executed upgrades from 8i to 10g.
Used import/export utility and Oracle 10g Data Pump utility to transfer data.
Performed general maintenance of the databases, including adding storage, troubleshooting problems, backup and recovery. Identified and resolved performance issues.
Researched new technologies and provided other database functions as needed.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Albuquerque, NM

Responsibilities:

Developed and maintained test plans, test strategies and test cases while performing all testing activities including functional, system, regression, performance, and stress testing.
Executed and evolved Quality Assurance best practices that promote the elimination or reduction of defect opportunities.
Analyzed test results to ensure existing functionality and recommended corrective action.
Reported defects in a detailed, understandable and reproducible way, tracking all assigned defects through to closure and interacting with members of the development team to resolve discovered defects.
Provided feedback and recommendations on improvement and enhancements.
Performed environment configuration, verify completeness and readiness of test environment.
Maintained customer service satisfaction while completing analysis of customer trouble reports and enhancement requests.

Business Application Support Specialist

Confidential, Albuquerque, NM

Responsibilities:

Participated in the research and analysis of system application needs and problems for users; to provide assistance, advice, problem solving, and technical information to customers regarding the use of software applications; and acted as liaison with customers regarding the status of their requests.
Maintained database records of customer calls and problems outstanding and resolved.