SUMMARY:

• A position which offers a challenging work environment as well as a potential for career advancement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Software Tester Engineer with 11 years of testing experience.
• Proficient in system engineering and software quality assurance.
• Strong knowledge of testing computer software and testing methodologies
• Strong knowledge of computer hardware
• Strong knowledge of various operating systems; MS - DOS, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7, Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2008 Server
• Experienced with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, both SQL and Exchange Server Clusters, NLB, database replication, various server configurations and network topologies
• Experienced with Virtual Server and Hyper-V
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge of SQL Server 2003, 2005, 2008, IIS6, IIS7, BizTalk, OCS, SharePoint, Exchange 2003/2007 (installation/configuration/administration), powershell
• Knowledge of T-SQL, XML, XSL
• Strong knowledge of Networking (TCP/IP, SIP, hands on experience with Cisco routers/switches, Voice Gateways)
• Knowledge of Product Studio, WTT/ASI, Tactics
• Knowledge of WinRunner
• Knowledge of NT shell scripting and batch files
• Knowledge of C/C++ and Visual Basic programming languages
• Knowledge of Data Modeling/Relational Databases
• Knowledge of OO methodology, UML diagrams and notations
• Knowledge of Analysis and Design for client/server & GUI systems
• Knowledge of Web Authoring, HTML, CSS with FrontPage and/or Visual Interdev
• Knowledge of various Microsoft applications like Visual Studio, Visio, Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Tester Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• System engineer for Mombasa (Hyper-V servers configuration and maintenance, also configured WTT and ASI local servers for the entire group)
• Performance and Functional testing for Windows Multipoint Server 2010
• Third party hardware/software configuration and troubleshooting

Senior Software Tester Engineer

Confidential

• Worked on the both 4.0 and 4.5 versions of the Confidential solution
• Automated and manual tests (xml/soap requests, web services, namespaces)
• Deployment and configuration for multiple tiered architectures of 22+ servers
• Installed and configured AD, DNS, MPS/MPF, clustered SQL 2005, clustered Exchange 2007, ISA 2006, MOM, Windows Sharepoint 3.0, LCS
• Responsible for the Hosted Active Directory and Internet Security (ISA) area testing
• Responsible for Office Communicator and Live Communication Server area testing

Senior Software Tester Engineer

Confidential

• Tests performed on Microsoft Office Communicator, PSTN, VOIP, Microsoft Office integration, Audio/Video Conferencing
• Responsible with setting-up/configuring SIP PSTN Voice Gateways (SHOUT 900 and Mediant 2000), routes, various network topologies for VOIP traffic (both TCP and TLS).
• Wrote the “Microsoft Office Communicator integration with SIP PSTN Gateways” Test Plan and test cases
• Responsible for running/analyzing and troubleshooting Phone to PC/PC to Phone test scenarios for various network topologies.
• Localization test pass on French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese and Korean

Senior Software Tester Engineer

Confidential

• Used WTT to run tests on x86, AM64 and Itanium64 machines for both Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 Server SP1 OS (UDP,TCP, ICMP, IPSec, multicast/unicast traffic).
• Boot Time Security Testing for IPv4 and IPv6 (various tools e.g. Netmon, Packetyzer)
• Interoperability testing (Windows Firewall interaction with various components)
• DC, DNS, DHCP, WEB and FTP server, VPN, RRAS, multi-layered network configurations

Senior Software Tester Engineer

Confidential

• Installation/configuration/administration of Domain Controllers (Active Directory), DNS, Exchange, SQL, MOM, MPF, SMS, IIS, OWA servers (test environment 15-20 servers)
• Wrote test cases and ran all the provisioning tests (SOAP/XML requests) through the MPF engine
• Automated the testing process
• Configuration/installation/administration of Tactics Database (both front-end and SQL DB)

Senior Software Tester Engineer

Confidential

• QFE Localization for the PocketPC IPAQ, Active Sync testing (Chinese and Japanese)
• Wrote test cases and ran all the provisioning tests

Senior Software Tester Engineer/Automation Lab

Confidential

• Managed the Windows CE Automation Lab
• Ran all automated tests for Windows CE Embedded OS (over 90% of the Testing Process), on various platforms (SHX, MIPS, ARM, PPC and x86 processors), configurations and languages in the Automation Lab
• Configured and maintained all hardware for the Windows CE Automation Lab (DHCP, PPP, ICS/NAT, RAS, SQL database connectivity/queries)
• Established the acceptance criteria and as well as updated all prototypes (OEM platforms with various processors/motherboards architectures)
• Performed tests (BVT, Functional, Stress and Performance) on various components of the Windows CE OS (Kernel, Networking, Multimedia, GWES, GDI, etc.)
• Worked closely with the Development Team and PM’s
• Helped co-workers with technical related issues
• Created detailed Reports, Graphs, Testing Cycle Status
• Participated in decision making issues regarding the project

Lead Senior Software Test Engineer

Confidential

• Managed the Windows CE Core OS team of 5 people
• Managed the Windows CE Networking OS team of 4 people
• Developed and implemented test plans, test cases, test reports and presentations.
• Performed manual and automated tests, black box/white box
• Participated in decision making issues regarding the project
• Designed and maintained various internal web sites
• Coordinated the test activities with business analysts, development teams and system personnel as well as hosting postmortem within the test group once the application had been delivered to the customer.
• Worked with the Testing Team to define automated testing process, involving the development, testing and configuration team.

Software Tester Engineer II

Confidential

• Implemented and configured Test Studio managerial tool
• Performed manual and automated tests, black box/white box on IECE browser and printer
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Reports and Presentations (PowerPoint)