SUMMARY:

• Results - driven IT Consultant with twenty years of experience in leading the planning, development, and execution, of high-performance business software solutions. Provided excellent management, customer support, communication and training through User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Distinct leadership abilities accompanied with exceptional cross group coordination skills. Impressive history of improving processes to increase productivity and efficiency while reducing costs.
• Manual, Automated, White Box, Black Box, Modular Testing, Grey Box, System Testing, Integration, Unit, API, Regression, Test Plan, Test Cases, Matrix Preparation, API Testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing, Localization Testing and Internationalization testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Redmond, WA

SDET Engineer

• Designed, Developed and implemented in-house custom applications using C#
• Established Control Quality metrics, with Scalability in mind
• Built automation given feature documentation, using Java (little), C# (Application Tech stack UI, Business logic, Backend DB/SQL).
• Wrote test plans for manual testing
• Developed new tests: Prepared and executed new test plans as per test plan.
• Designed, Developed and executed Automation test cases for testing
• Investigated and Troubleshoot test issues and provided more information to feature team.
• Developed tools in C# and PowerShell to help with the automation of tests in the lab environment.
• Involved in system testing to test the end to end of the application.
• Tested the application functionality testing is performed manually as well.
• Provided technical assistance for feature, functional and regression testing.
• Suggested and automated new features.
• Run User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Implemented bugs reporting and assisted in project meetings.
• Developed SQL queries for testing functions.
• Test Automation liaison: Checking Daily BVTs of Performance.
• Created test planning and participated in execution for API testing using Test harness tool.
• Extensive API testing.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Senior Product Integrator Engineer

• The IDMS (Integrated Distribution and Management System) product team is an R&D software product used by the utilities to control both transmission and distribution grids.
• Created Hype-V to manage (create, modify and run) virtual images.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Managed offshore team (Luxoft) Kiev, Ukraine.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.
• Liaison between the IDMS product team and the Project Engineers from various projects and departments.
• Created test planning and participated in execution for API testing using Test harness tool.
• Extensive API testing.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

BFD - Build Facilitator Dev/Software Build Engineer

• Supported a large volume of Code flow processes (integrations) - an average of 25 daily integrations.
• Maintained the build recovery process of 350 branches with a team of five.
• Automated the build cert installation on newly adopted and newly rebuilt machines increasing efficiency across 350 machines.
• Very popular depository Created to address commonly asked questions reducing emails to the windows build team by Confidential least fifty percent.
• Added features to Confidential ’s build tool “Timebuild” which is Confidential ’s build flag ship script.
• Produced a full plan to automatically fix specific build break types by collaborating with the Tools team such as Publicchanges.txt: out of order warnings, Missing publics, extra publics.
• Produced a full plan and produced the script to auto identify build breaks such as same depot build breaks, Sync failure build breaks, as well as the their offending change list, and Developer.
• Designed and developed build tools using C#, PowerShell, Perl.
• Maintained three Product Unit Branches, Orcas/PU/FxServer, Orcas/PU/FxClient and redBitsLHS.
• Automated the Daily builds for both retail and checked flavored using C#, perl and batch scripts.
• Utilized a webpage to post (RI/FI) integration (a total of over 1500 integrations), and daily builds progress - Servicing Whidbey and all External teams under ScottGu
• Maintained the Service Pack (SP) branch and other servicing branches for both Venus and ASPNET team.
• Lead BFD for both rtmLHS, rtmLHSd, UiFxRed, redBitsLHS, ClickOnceWinForms, ClickOnceVSTO, FWVistaRed and redBits. Lead BFD for both BetaLHS and RTMLHS branch and redBitsLHS.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Shortlisted as one out of four companies (including IBM) to bid for the million dollar project.
• Gathered requirements from the City of Dubai IT department, Chief Engineer, management, field Engineers, and civil Engineering contractors.
• Developed a web based alpha prototype.

Confidential, Kirkland, WA

Instructor

• Designed course layout/Syllabus and curriculum.
• Prepared and administered exams.
• Discussed student progress with other instructors.
• (ITAD 111) Introduction to programming,
• (ITAD 123) C++ Programming I.
• (ITAD 134) SQL Programming I.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Consultant, Software Eng (SDET)

• Went through M3, and the beta1 milestone and currently going through the beta2 milestone.
• Worked extensively with the Setup team of -the US-DEVDIV Build lab as well as various other teams and groups.
• Coordinating with the US-Developer Localization team to resolve loc issues, utilizing locStudio.
• Designed and developed plans to automate the PostBuild process in private branches to completion.
• Successfully, built detailed setup automation scripts; Automating the FLDB build process in the private branch, on the run building the config files, creating DFS links, setting up the StageBin phase manipulating certain files and syncying to the appropriate BuildSyncDate, then running the postbuild, and finally emailing the appropriate individuals and aliases.
• Worked with MSI, WIX and Install shield.
• Managed the Venus (Whidbey) setup bugs. Tracking bugs, defining resolutions, and then applying fixes.
• Resolved side by side issues, coordinated App Isolation with C#, J#. (Bug resolution count 75).
• Developed innovative and challenging test cases.
• Revised and developed test plans for the windows update site as well as driver testing.
• Tested (extensively) the Windows update site especially the driver update scenarios.
• Wrote automation using C#, SQL queries and modified and Manipulated Visual Basic .Net automation programs.
• Read and investigated XML scripts sent to and returned from the server.
• Operated on all flavors of Windows (Win98 through WinXP and Win 2000).
• Extensive usage of Raid, ACCESS (ATCM cases), EXCEL.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Developer/Program Management

• Contracted work from the City of Seattle.
• Produced Software Spec based on the clients input.
• Developed innovative and challenging test cases.
• Managed the bug report process to the client’s satisfaction.
• Submitted weekly reports to the client for assurance of the product development.
• Coded part of the UI according to the spec reports.
• Designed the Access database tables and columns as well as coded in Java, VB the SQL queries to query the DB.
• Programmed the interaction logic between AutoCAD files and the applications GUI.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Development Lead / PM

• Managing Facet and dB Planner - A fixed wireless RF propagation design and analysis software that works on top of MapBasic.
• Managed a team of three to four employees.
• Conducted product analysis meetings with the users.
• Produced a spec report.
• Coordinated the production of a user Manual with the end-users.
• Acted as a liaison between the developers and the users to add features and resolve outstanding bugs.
• Submitted weekly staff evaluation to upper management.
• Conducted interviews with qualified candidates.
• Created and communicated detailed designs for meeting the product requirements in code.
• Implemented and tested Facet and its components for the Windows platforms.
• Supported the end-users installation and usage of Facet as well as dB Planner.
• Managed and developed various in-house software tools using C, C++, VB, for the wireless teams and equipment in the filed.
• Created other tools using Java.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Consultant, Software Development Lead

• Managed and developed an Automation software package to Control several software packages as well as several peripheral devices.
• Produced specs from users input.
• Compiled an easy to read 'user manual' based on the software's functionality and behavior.
• Conducted weekly team meetings.
• Wrote up reports about the team’s progress.
• Assigned tasks for the various team members with deadlines to meet.
• Utilizing the RS232 port, designed several instrumentation software packages to control multiple DATs