QUALIFICATIONS

Accomplished, certified IT professional with proven success in technical management to achieve the organizational mission at both new and well established firms. Strong quality assurance engineering background with a value maximizing combination of agile and waterfall project management skills and solid leadership experience in the software and engineering industries. Thorough working knowledge of all phases of software development from product specification, design, development, testing and debugging, transition, operation, end-user training and service improvement. Superior communication skills, easily interacts with executives, clients, vendors, and distributed staff. Technically proficient in multiple programming languages, Oracle and SQL databases, operating systems, as well as test and evaluation applications. Certified ScrumMaster. Fluent in Russian and Ukrainian.

Confidential,San Bruno, California 2010 – Present
QA Architect

• Plan, coordinate and oversee execution of all software testing activities onsite and offshore. Includes the allocation and management of all QA resources to all eCommerce projects and de-confliction of testing priorities optimizing team efficiency.
• Successfully managed quality assurance testing for a $10B project, directing a team of 15 QA Engineers.
• Efforts supported the seamless transition of payment, checkout, website performance, mobile web services, order management system, and business intelligence projects.
• Collaborate with development, product, and project management as well as operations staff to schedule project tasks and resources in multiple, diverse agile environments.
• Review software requirements, test approach, strategy and implementation developing innovative testing solutions that meet market needs including: performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to testing goals and principles.
• Initiated the “Bi-weekly Release Industry Best Practice” presentation for the Vice President of Engineering, directors and staff.
• This briefing identifies opportunities, activities and methods to improve deliverables, productivity and efficiency.
• Proposed, managed, developed and implemented an enterprise-scalable the web services automation testing framework in a continuously integrated infrastructure to support quality upstream performance of mobile customer-facing web services.
• The framework is now being used globally by multiple company engineering teams.
• Key driver of increased team test effectiveness and productivity through introduction of processes and tools aimed to reduce redundant testing, accelerate automation and increase code coverage.
• Components included a cross browser testing policy supporting 500 concurrent clients; centralized exception logging, and Omniture site catalyst data reports.

Confidential,San Jose, California 2000 – 2010
QA Staff Engineer

• Responsible for end-to-end test activities of infrastructure related projects in a Waterfall/Agile software development model.
• Included architecture, kernel, DAL, DB, system components, operations, build management, CS tools, catalogs, selling, and Pay Pal integration.
• Worked directly with local and offshore QA, development, project management and business partners to review functional specifications, architecture design, test plans, test design specifications, and test cases for high transaction volume web applications.
• Successfully tested and delivered over 35 core and international conversion off-shore code releases, consisting of a combined 2000+ train seats equating to approximately $100M of developer effort.
• Collaborated with the operations team and supported developers, project and product managers to perform regression testing for multiple Java-based conversion projects on production environment.
• Led an effort to review existing functional test cases identifying candidates for automation, including updated API and Selenium automated test scripts and validation of new functionality, features and domain areas.
• Assisted stakeholders and project managers in iteration planning meetings and build configuration management teams minimizing the build availability risks.
• Developed and performed eBay web application Payment and User Account flow functional, ad-hoc, regression, end-to-end, acceptance, and browser testing in multiple environments.
• Participated in new eBay features design review with implementation and automation teams.
• Worked with localization and internationalization teams in order to implement the software internationalization guideline.
• Facilitated requirements entry, test case creation and defect tracking in the Mercury Quality Center, which improved efficiency and traceability.
• Developed and maintained a comprehensive Database & Architecture overview, which provided a clearer understanding of the enterprise architecture and infrastructure.
• Included a testing procedure reference document describing the company testing environment and QA testing life cycle.
• Directly involved in hiring QA Engineers in US, India and China.
• Mentored and led QA Engineers promoting testing best practices, procedures and pushing quality upstream.

Confidential,Campbell, California 1999 – 2000
EcoSYSTEM Quality Engineer

• Developed comprehensive testing of the Enterprise Management System, which optimized network performance.
• Designed Test Plans and Test Cases for EcoSCOPE to validate all the functionality of the Enterprise Probe Manager, Merging and Correlation, Compact PDB generation and Lock Filtering Connectivity.
• Participated in every aspect of product development from pre-alpha to final release.
• Analyzed customer complaints to determine product impact and identify refinements to the QA process.

1980 -1999: Three previous engineering positions supporting the successful execution software and mechanical engineering projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES: SQL, Java, JS, CSS, JSP, XML, HTML5, Flex, Flash, Pearl, C, C++

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 8/7/XP/VISTA/NT/2000/2003, UNIX, MS DOS, MAC

APP/WEB SERVERS: Tomcat, WebSphere-4/5/CE, IIS, VMWare, Spring

SOFTWARE: PLSQL Developer, Omniture, Clear Quest, HP Quality Center, Test Director, Firebug, Fiddler, Remedy, SnagIT, Wiki/Wiki2, SharePoint, Charles, CAD Tools, MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project, Adobe Products, Hadoop, Rally, Citrix

DATABASE: SQL Server, Oracle 10g/11g, MySQL

TEST AUTOMATION: Eclipse, JBert, SoapUi, WebPagetest, dynaTrace, Selenium, Clover, QA Run, QA Partner/Silk, MSTest
SOURCE CODE
CONTROL: Rational Clear Case, CSV, Hudson, TeamCity

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Project and Program Management (CRM)

Project Management Certification
Introduction to Java
Data Communications and Networking