SUMMARY:

• Self - Motivated , High-Energy, Detailed-Oriented , Positive-Attitude, and Highly Flexible Team Leader with Exceptional Interpersonal/Communication Skills and the ability to Add Values .
• Managed with strong ethics, transparency, empathy and compassion, thereby increasing company’s bottom line due to high talents retention while building up strong trusting team. experience in spearheading QA Departmental efforts.
• 10+ years of Product/Hardware/System Test/Software QA Lead/Project Management on multiple NPIs.
• 10+ years as Software QA Automation/Testing using commercial and custom in-house automated tools.
• 8 years Leading of Web/UI/Front-end testing and Automation at Verizon, Confidential, Apollo, Confidential, Confidential and KT.
• Strong Network & Embedded software experience: Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential . on both Windows and UNIX environments utilizing Rational Robot, Mercury Test Suite , PERL, Ruby, Python, Winrunner, Webdriver, Robotium, ADB, DDMS, REST, JAVA, TestNG, and HTTPClient and Cloud Services
• TestLink, JIRA, Jenkins, iNotion, Clear-Case, GIT, CVS, Bugzilla, Rational Purify, Rational Purecoverage, Team Test, HP Quality Center, Bitkeeper, Oracle and SQL Relational Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Plus, mySQL, Postgres and MS Access .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal QA Manager

• Team Leader in Test and Automation for an embedded voice-activated STB with backend Services for Speech, Video Contents, and Media Search.
• Setup from scratch Continuous Integration via Jenkins on Ubuntu for both Frontend and Backend Services testing.
• Deployed TestLink Test-Case Management System from scratch to manage and control Software Testing and Releases.
• Involves in code-reviews, fixings Python code, unblocking team from attaining high % of Automation Test Coverage.
• Spearheaded Performance Testing effort, setting up JMeter from scratch to work with WSS (WebSocketServer/Proxy)
• Trained and mentored junior QAs on Software Testing and Automation processes.
• Hands-on involvement in daily automation debugging, testing, logging bugs as well as E2E testing.
• Developed Product Software Test Plan for voice-activated STB.
• Improvise software testing process to enable predictable high-quality results.
• On-Going Day-2-Day QA's Testing & Automation Management .
• Developed API verification framework in Python for STB.
• Test to release Mallard1, Mallard2, and Mallard3 STB an FIOS IPTV platform.
• Owned testing for AutoConnect, Zero-Touch, WPS and WiFi RF network stack for communication.
• Researched and acquired USB Video Capturing Device on Ubuntu and developed from scratch Video Capturing, Frame Image Grabber, Image Processing and comparator Python Library Module to assist in Video testing and automation.

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Staff QA Engineer

• Spearheaded QA's effort on Confidential 's first-ever Mobile Security Management (MDM ) product line MX900.
• Released first ever MSM product that integrates with Mobile Iron for MDM for corporate and businesses.
• Responsible for Front-End , Back-End , as well as Performance Testing and Automation .
• SDET for Automated Front-End Automation on MTP product using Python and Web-Driver .
• Managed over a dozen releases on tight schedule with high quality.
• Experience setting up Virtual Machines on VMWare vSphere, vCloud Director , and ESXi VMWare servers .
• Gained experience in setting up F5 Load Balancer and iRules.
• Produced SLA performance specification for MSM as well as managing Performance Testing .
• Experience with Mobile automation via Appium .

Confidential

Sr. Test Manager

• Oversaw Testing and Automation development of multiple automation frameworks: On Embedded device testing using Python and ADB ; Desktop UI automation using Java, TestNG and Sikuli APIs ; On-device/Android Client UI automation using Java, ADB and Robotium .
• Developed Embedded Automation Framework from scratch using Python and ADB to test our image pipelines.
• Laid the foundation for QA Department by setting up key tools and repositories ( Jenkins, TestLink, JIRA , and GIT )
• Established QA Metrics and Release Acceptance criteria.
• Reduced Regression Testing time by more than 70%, while Increasing Software Release Confidence by 100%
• Hands-on development of on-device Embedded Automation Framework using Python and ADB .
• Setup Jenkins server from scratch included all scripts, build-flows, triggers, and utilization of plug-ins.
• Worked closely with PM and Engineering leads to adopt agile methodologies and brought up an effective automation system for Embedded system .

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Software Quality Manager

• Managed a team of 12 QA Engineers, with 4 onsite and 8 offshore, to lead up effort in creating the next generation of University of Phoenix online/in-ground ecampus web portal for Classroom, Curriculum Builder, Assessment, GradeBook, Course Mover, Monet-Reporting, and Discussion Archives.
• Managed 4 projects and over 10 releases under tight schedules, delivered on-time with high quality.
• Lead up both Frontend and Backend automation efforts to develop test framework that can handle both FE and BE automation , utilizing JAVA, TestNG, WebDriver, HTTPClient, and Jackson JSON library.
• Inspired, motivated team members as well as conflicts resolution between team members.
• Grew and developed team members by encouragements, leading by examples, and treating them with respect, dignity and fairness.

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Sr. Firmware QA Engineer

• Developed Object-Oriented Test Harness Framework in Ruby to qualify Home Area Network (HAN) devices, such as Smart Meters, and Smart Thermostats, that are using Zigbee RF protocol to communicate via RF to communicate to Embedded Smart Meters using C1290 and GMI protocols.
• Developed Ruby Test Script to qualify C1219 protocol functionality on Embedded Smart Meters .

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Sr. Quality Engineer Automation

• Strategically improved Software Development and Testing Process in Agile/Scrum environment as QE by pushing quality upstream.
• Producer of Java testing vehicles for Trades in Eclipse, TestNG, and Selenium RC environment.
• Lead automation for Web Services, WSDL, SOAP and SOA Services.
• Automated projects in Selling Manager, Selling Manager Pro and My Confidential .
• Collaborated with Program Managers, Scrum team on planning, developing, testing and delivery of features.

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Sr. QA Engineer, Mobile/Display Advertisement

• Testing of Confidential 's Mobile Apps, such as, Mobile oneSearch, Confidential IM, Confidential s Mail, APIs for Finance & Weather widgets on iPhone and many other mobile devices.
• Automated Mobile Search using Selenium IDE for all Regional Partners (AT&T, Helio & Sprint).
• Developed Web UI Automation Framework/tool using Ruby language, WATIR, Firewatir, XPather .
• Designed simulated data to test back-end advertisement server via ad calls through curl (http) commands.
• Developed Custom Automated Smoke Test Application in PERL for Class 2, Non-Guaranteed (NGD) Advertisement Server. This is the core monetizing engine behind Confidential 's Advertising Platform.
• Developed database data adaptor validation tool to test authenticity between CE’s and Ruby’s DBs using PERL DBI library for Oracle

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SQA Manager

• Managed and motivated a team of QA Automation engineers to optimize productivity on qualifying software products through the use of systematic tests to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards.
• Managed QA department’s deliverable for testing and releases.
• Hands-on involvement in conducting product test planning, project staffing and project management to achieve timely delivery of software releases on Embedded platform used on Digital Pixel System sensors.
• Provided hands-on leadership with planning, estimation, scheduling, deploying, and managing the testing effort on Linux and Windows environment utilizing Object-Oriented PERL .

Confidential

Sr. SQA Lead /Sr. Systems Design Engineer

• Project Management on escalations of iSpectraCD (integrated metrology) and SpectraCD-XT tools at Key Accounts -- Toshiba, IBM, AMD, and TSMC to ensure resolution of issues in timely manner.
• Managed and lead-up SQC departmental effort from start of iSpectra project on first and second-generation iSpectraCD tools through PLC phase 2, 3A, 3B and 4 by scheduling and assigning test workloads to SQC members based on individual experience level and knowledge.