OBJECTIVE

Software Engineer in a company that requires an important contribution in producing outstanding and innovative software.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Highly skilled Client - Server Developer and Web Developer with ten and a half years experience developing and testing software applications. Extensive knowledge of C#/.NET, Visual Basic, SQL, and Relational Database Management Systems. Very diverse skillset, that also includes VB.NET, ASP/ASP.NET, ActiveX, HTML, VBScript, JavaScript, XML, and creating reports with Crystal Reports. Proven ability to apply expertise in existing and new technologies creatively to find innovative solutions, and to work independently or in teams.
• Software Developer involved in creating seven new projects written in Visual Basic, five C#/.NET Winform projects, four ASP.NET projects, a collection of C#/.NET Console projects, along with multiple different C# test automation projects. Also, development accomplished includes report creation, web application creation, and existing application support along with maintenance coding.
• Visual Studio .Net (3 1/2 years), C# (3 1/2 years), ASP.NET (2 years), Silverlight (2 months), TFS (1 year) HTML (5 1/2 years), VBScript (1 1/2 years), JavaScript (2 years) XML (3 1/2 years), XPath (4 months), XSLT (1 month), Selenium (4 months) Telerik controls (1 year), CSS (5 years), Subversion Version Control (2 months) SQL Server (6 years), T-SQL/Transact SQL (5 1/2 years), ADO (1 year) ASP.NET MVC (2 months), ADO.NET (2 years), VB.NET (< 1 month) Visual Basic (4 1/2 years), SQL (5 1/2 years), ASP (1 year) Windows PowerShell (8 months), jQuery/jQuery UI (4 months), Web Services (8 months) RDO (2 years), Oracle (8 months), UniVerse (2 years), Universe Basic (2 years) COM/ActiveX (6 years), Windows (11 1/2 years), C (3 years all education) Unix (2 years all education), Confidential Office (11 1/2 years), Kana (6 months) Visual Source Safe (5 years), Perforce (9 months), Crystal Reports (2 years) Interdev (9 months), Visio (2+ years), PC Anywhere (8 months), IIS (3 years) InstallShield (6 months), DOS (10 years), Delphi (2 months), Interbase (2 months) Mercury QuickTest Professional 8.0/Mercury Test Director (8 months) SharePoint Portal Server/Windows SharePoint Services (5 years)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Design Engineer in Test

Worked as an SDET Confidential Confidential in the Windows Update for Business group. Performed testing using Hyper-V and virtual machines to test the windows update process for upgrades and updates on different SKUs, architectures, and locales of instances of Windows operating systems. Utilized command line - PowerShell and Command Line Wrote PowerShell scripts for reliability testing of updates through the Windows Update APIs using .NET framework namespaces and. NET Framework class libraries in PowerShell as well as PowerShell cmdlets. Created DOS Batch File used for running the previously mentioned PowerShell scripts.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Design Engineer in Test 2

Worked within the IE Group Confidential Confidential . Worked on tasks using WTT. Reviewed C# and XAML Windows 8 app.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Senior Software Engineer

Spent time training on the bench. Obtained Confidential Specialist: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Specialist certification.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Design Engineer in Test 2

• -Participated in Halo Waypoint client test team supporting testing of Halo client applications for 343 Industries.
• -Created C#.NET and Selenium web client test automation implemented as automated test cases and framework code for File Share/File Browser, Service Record, Medals, Commendations, Forums, and Blogs sections of the Waypoint web site.
• -Developed using MSTest for above mentioned test automation.
• -Performed test passes and ad-hoc testing of Waypoint web site and Halo 4 Stats web app application, for a larger part, in IE9, Chrome, and Firefox on a desktop and, in a lesser amount, also across multiple different mobile devices.
• -Performed testing of Waypoint client on the Xbox 360 console.
• -Logged bugs in TFS, regressed and closed bugs, and drove bugs to resolution for Waypoint website and stats web app based testing, and, to a smaller extent, Waypoint Xbox 360 console based testing.
• -Created test specs and plans for Waypoint web site and Halo 4 Stats web app application.
• -Created test cases in TFS for Waypoint web site.
• -Participated in Agile Sprints that included completing tasks tracked in TFS.
• -Used Xbox 360 console for testing, and, for a smaller amount of time, played Halo 4 to amass stats used for testing.
• -Windows Azure used for housing websites.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Design Engineer in Test 3

Participated in application and tools development team in the Windows Device Compatibility Group creating applications for the development and testing processes of Windows and Surface. Created two C# ASP.NET web applications that were released into production within the group. Performed maintenance coding and feature enhancements for the above mentioned web applications after their deployment into production. Create one additional C# ASP.NET web application that to my knowledge was shelved. Created two features as a portion of a C# ASP.NET MVC website. Created many T-SQL stored procedures for the above mentioned web applications. Helped design a database for one of the above mentioned web applications. Created multiple different C#.NET console .EXE applications. Supported and managed large custom in-house test case management system used group wide. Created SSIS and T-SQL import script for the above mentioned system. Created one T-SQL stored procedure and modified another for the above mentioned system. Wrote and executed many different ad-hoc SQL queries in support of the above mentioned system. Sent a daily report concerning the above mentioned system. Created web page in Silverlight along with a Web Service. Accomplished feature enhancements of a Word interop C# Winform reporting application. Opened, resolved, and closed bugs.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Design Engineer in Test 3

• Participated in an Agile environment within the  Confidential Confidential .
• - Created C#/.NET automated test cases used in API level testing and web service testing verifying and testing both SOAP and REST web services.
• Utilized VSTS & MSTest for test automation and test code implementation.
• - Created test plan documentation detailing test cases for the API level testing and web service testing mentioned above.
• Logged bugs during above mentioned API level testing. Setup and maintained a development server environment for web applications. Performed UI testing of a web application.
• - Created C#/.NET web service code.
• - Utilized SQL Server and SQL/T-SQL for test database querying and verifications.
• Reviewed specification documentation for web applications along with test based source code and source code for the application under test.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Design Engineer in Test 3

• - Created C#/.NET source code for a test automation framework used in automating the Self Service Portal web based application for the Confidential System Center Virtual Machine Manager Product.
• - Created C#/.NET automated test cases used in automating the above mentioned Self Service Portal web application.
• Utilized VSTS for test automation and test code implementation.
• - Utilized PowerShell for configuring and working with System Center Virtual Machine Manager server instances including executing many different PowerShell commands from the command line and scripting PowerShell and Virtual Machine Manager’s PowerShell objects from PowerShell commands and scripts.
• - Tested the above mentioned web based Self Service Portal application and other miscellaneous Confidential System Center Virtual Machine Manager Product areas, logged bugs, and communicated with developers and testers to verify bugs.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Consultant/Software Design Engineer in Test

Created multiple different C#/.NET Winform applications used in testing Confidential based software. Created C#/.NET test automation projects using FitNesse to test Confidential based software. Used NUnit in above mentioned C# test code. Utilized SQL Server for database verifications and querying. Participated in Agile/Scrum project lifecycles and methodologies.

Confidential

Tested a C#/.NET Winform application used for tracking buses and riders of those buses using RFID technology. Created test case documents, executed test cases and conducted test passes, logged and subsequently regressed bugs, and communicated with a developer to verify bugs.

Confidential

Tested C#/.NET ASP.NET Web based application that was used for Confidential OEM Partner Marketing based workflow. Created test cases documents, analyzed test specifications, performed test cases and conducted test passes, logged bugs, regressed and closed bugs, communicated with developers, test manager, and program manager to verify bugs, and drove bugs to resolution. Outside of the projects mentioned above, spent time in professional development learning ASP.NET, the testing based functionality of Visual Studio Team System/VSTS, and some SQL based studies.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Design Engineer in Test 2

Created C#/.NET Console based application that was used to convert knowledge based content for Management Packs of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 product. The application traversed an XML document and converted knowledge content in an HTML format to knowledge content in a MAML/XML format. Created C#/.NET Winform Windows based application that allowed the viewing of different knowledge articles from the knowledge in Management Packs. This application also traversed the XML based Management Pack file by the user’s interaction with a list and displayed the knowledge in a displayable format whether the underlying content was in an HTML format or in a MAML format. Utilized XSLT script for C#.NET application to do transformations on XML management pack data. Accomplished globalization and localization testing of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Application and product via manual test passes driven by the execution of existing test specifications. Analyzed test specs, performed test cases, logged bugs, regressed and closed bugs, communicated with developers, testers, and program managers to verify bugs, drove bugs to resolution, and learned functionality of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 application.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Web Development Engineer 1

Accomplished miscellaneous administrative tasks with SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 and 2005 in the administration of an internal Confidential portal site - Windows Sustained Engineering Portal.

Confidential, Bothell, WA

Automation Tester

Created test automation scripts for testing retail and customer care based websites and software management websites using Mercury QuickTest Professional and its VBScript scripting language. Validated and reviewed scripts for the above mentioned test automation scripts.

Confidential, Issaquah, WA

Software Test Engineer 3

Began creating test automation project in C#/.NET for automating an incentive compensation Windows application used for compensating Confidential sales employees. Utilized SQL Server for reviewing databases. Reviewed project planning and design documentation for the above mentioned application.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Technical Specialist 1

Created test automation scripts for testing the online banking WaMu Online web sites using Mercury QuickTest Professional and its VBScript scripting language. Modified and ran test runs of a C#/.NET multi-threaded application that validated runs of an ETL process on an Oracle data warehouse of household marketing data. Utilized Oracle and Toad to query and perform test verifications against data warehouse. Created smoke test automation scripts for smoke tests of the Personal Online Banking site and public Wamu.com pages using QuickTest Professional and its VBScript scripting language.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Test Engineer 3

Created test plans and test cases within the Xbox Group Confidential Confidential for core console software functionality of the Xbox 360. Performed and executed test cases, and reported and logged software bugs.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Consultant/Software Developer

Assisted in creating a C#/.NET Winform application used to migrate and create approximately 200 internal project websites for the SQL Server group Confidential Confidential into corresponding SharePoint Portal Server 2003 portal implementations. Also for the SQL Server group Confidential Confidential, created a C#/.NET Winform application used to upload many different specification documents located in many different shared path locations into a document library within a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Site. For both applications, utilized SQL Server on the backend, and created stored procedures along with ad-hoc query statements.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

IT Temp

Created reports in InfoMaker 5.0 that were integrated into Tessitura, a vendor supplied performing arts application. Wrote SQL queries and T-SQL/Transact SQL, and created Confidential SQL Server stored procedures.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Test Engineer 2

Utilizing SharePoint Portal Server, assisted in construction and release of an Intranet SharePoint Portal Server 2001 portal website used by the Natural Interactive Services Division Confidential Confidential - a collection of groups Confidential Confidential that included Speech.NET, Natural Language, Natural User Interface, etc. Wrote ASP pages that implemented list functionality as well as an ASP page and script that programmatically utilized the SharePoint 2001 object model.

Confidential, Portland, OR

Programmer

Created and modified software written in Delphi used to administer, view, and report on medical laboratory related information. Created SQL queries for both Confidential SQL Server and Interbase databases. Tested. Debugged, and modified an existing Visual Basic 6.0 standard .exe application used for reporting purposes.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Systems Integration Engineer

Created ASP pages (VBScript, JavaScript, and HTML) used as web based reports. Maintained existing ASP pages (VBScript, JavaScript, and HTML) used as web based reports. Tested and fixed ASP pages in response to user support requests. Modified source code of visual basic script files used to retrieve and calculate totals used in web based reporting. Wrote SQL queries querying both against SQL Server and Oracle embedded in ASP source code as well as in visual basic script source code. Wrote and assembled SQL queries querying against Oracle used for two large EIS web based reports. Administered Kana - an enterprise wide CRM application.

Confidential, Bellevue, Washington

Contractor/Software Developer

Created VB 6.0 .exe application using ADO and SQL to daily convert Telco related data from a data extract file into an Confidential Access database. Created a daily report using VBA in Confidential Excel, ADO, and a T-SQL/Transact SQL stored procedure while utilizing SQL Server.

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Contractor/Software Developer

Created middle-tier COM classes in two dynamic link libraries with Visual Basic 6.0 for an Intranet web site used for the administration of the Internet site. Utilized SQL Server, and created stored procedures, that were called from VB, and that contained Transact SQL. Created ASP pages (VBScript, JavaScript, and HTML) used to manage contract and company information for the Intranet site. Fixed bugs and created features for the website using ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, VB, and HTML.

Confidential, Portland, Oregon

Programmer

Assisted in creating client-server internal inventory Windows application in VB 6.0 including Windows/Ruby Form User Interface development, ActiveX COM development, and data layer development.. Maintained existing programs and created new programs written in UniVerse Basic.

Confidential, Beavercreek, Oregon

Programmer/Analyst

Assisted in creating three separate client-server Windows applications in VB 4.0 and 5.0: Capital Credits, Bad Debts, and Billing applications including Windows/Ruby Form User Interface development, ActiveX COM development, and data layer development. Wrote many stored procedures and queries in SQL and T-SQL/Transact SQL for SQL Server. Utilized SQL Server for ad-hoc queries, data integrity validations and modifications, setting up a test database environment, support related database updates, reporting, and many other development/IT related tasks. Created many reports using Crystal Reports and the related SQL Server stored procedures that the reports used as a data source. Reports used in Billing, Capital Credits, and Bad Debts Windows applications. Maintained existing VB3 Windows applications such as an Accounts Receivable application. Converted Non Pay Windows application from VB3 to VB5.