SUMMARY:

• Deadline oriented professional with experience in QA life cycle for large scale video applications and streaming web applications.
• Excels at supporting multiple complex projects under tight deadlines, often with competing priorities; implementing QA methodologies like Agile and Waterfall methods, test plans, test cases, test scenarios and test deliverables in WINDOWS, MAC, UNIX, and mobile device environments.
• An effective team member; demonstrates strong interpersonal, collaborative and communication skills. Focused on delivering high quality work both as an individual contributor and a team member.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: MS - DOS, UNIX and Windows 95/98/NT, Windows 7, Mac OSX, Apple IOS, AndroidDatabase: Oracle 9i/8i, 10g MS SQL Server, DB2, MS Access 97, UNIX

Languages: JAVA, J2EE, EJB, Applets, JDBC, AWT, Java XML, JavaScript SQL, C, C++, JSP, Visual Basic, ASP, VB.Net, JavaScript, VB Script, HTML

Tools: Dream weaver, Microsoft PowerPoint, Rhozet Carbon Coder, WFS, Telestream, Final Cut Pro, Leightronix, Princeston Server, Adobe Creative Suite, Corel, Quark, VT3, Globecaster, Trinity broadcast, Media 100, Compressor, Encore, Secure Media, Adobe Flash, Playready, Aspera, Signiant, Rsync, SoapUI, Open Text, Interra Baton, Cerify, Digital Rapids, Amberfin, comscoreTesting Tools: HP Quality Center 10.0, 11.0, Quick Test Pro 10.0

Web Applications: EJB, JSP, Java Servlets, XML, WML, Java Swing, JDBC, Web Servers, Web logic, Web sphere, Java Web Server, Apache Tomcat, and IIS

Utilities: MS-Office, Excel, Putty, Notepad ++, Xml Marker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Functional & Manual Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Business and Technical requirements gathering.
• Participate in code Walk through sessions to understand the Business Requirement and to be in sync development team.
• Responsible for preparing Effort Estimation and Test Strategy.
• Responsible for creating Permanent Virtual Circuit using LAB equipment to transfer secure data.
• Test Plan design, Test case purpose writing, mapping Business Requirements to Technical requirements, Test case writing.
• Import test cases excel into Quality Center and export test case in word document format for internal and external Review.
• Responsible for internal and external Reviews for Test Description document and track the Review records till closer.
• Responsible for performing Sanity and Acceptance before the start of testing cycle.
• Responsible for System, Integration System, Performance, Configuration, Regression & Adhoc testing using Quality Center 10.0.
• Performed Back End Testing using SQL (SQL Developer).
• Also using Quick Test Professional 9.5 for Regression testing.
• Participated in regular meetings with developers for reviews, walkthroughs and bug dance.
• Using Quality Center for complete defect management and reporting.
• Conducting Readiness before Testing and Go or No Go before Delivery meetings.
• Participate in Deep Dive meetings after each Release to work upon improvement areas in the project.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, Oracle 9i, C++, Windows 2000, Quality Center 10.0, SQL, UNIX, Quick Test Professional 9.5.

Functional & Manual Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• STB testing mortorola box and att wifi set top box
• Evaluate and troubleshoot any operations issues on electronic devices, using various methods
• Conduct diagnostic testing on electronics, such as cell phones, computers, gaming consoles, etc.
• Developed deductive reasoning troubleshooting system to increase overall efficiency during initial diagnosis
• Provide feedback to customers and recommend corrective actions for device repairs
• Perform hardware/software repairs and aesthetic modifications on all devices
• Ensure software compatibility with programs and operating systems during “jailbreaking” of devices
• Assist customers/ employees with correct usage of various programs and software on iPhone, Android, and Windows cellular telephones
• Bridge gap between IT jargon and customers by using effective communication skills
• Coordinate with vendors to order replacement components and maintain accurate inventory
• Document sales and customer payments via QuickBooks
• Repair and/or diagnose issues with any electonic device, software or hardware

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, C++, Windows 2000, Anroid OS, iOS, WinSCP, Terminal, Quality Center 10.0, SQL, UNIX, Quick Test Professional 9.5.

Digital Media Engineer

Confidential, Dallas/DC

Responsibilities:

• Perform and training team on various video transformations (transmux, encoding, trancoding, Closed captions, color space, HD vs SD, Resolutions, bit rates, bit depth, filters, various ABR formats - HLS, HDS, Smooth Streaming etc)
• CDN (Velocix, Amazon S3, Edgecast)
• Live linear (UCDS, DCDS)
• QC validation tool (Interra Baton) Manual and Auto
• Digital Rights Management (DRM) - Google widevine, Secure Media, Play Ready
• API testing for Associated Press (file system - Json, SMIL)
• Designing using Rhozet WFS Workflows
• VOD Services - ingesting, transcoding, publishing to CDN
• API Order & Account Management
• Asset management - organization of EIDR, Rights management keys, metadata info on assets
• Advance Advertising Insertion of ads on VOD platform, and linear stream broadcasts
• Scheduler for linear streams using Vod assets for Over-the-air and internet stream.
• Review functional specification and technical requirements document. Meet with business systems consultants and discuss any ambiguities or gaps identified in the requirements.
• Create test cases based on the rules provided in technical requirements document. Write positive and negative test cases and review them with the team to ensure full coverage of each requirement.
• Created and executed QTP test scripts suites for daily regression runs from HP ALM Quality Center.
• Wrote variety of QTP scripts including HTML Document Object Model (DOM), dynamic parameterization using Data Tables and Database Tables, Excel and File System Objects to handle excel and text files, and descriptive programming.
• Create requirements in HP Quality Center ALM, map each test case to the requirements and move them to the Test lab.
• Setup Test data and execute Test cases to make sure that data is converted and mapped correctly according to the business rules provided.
• Test the End to End ETL process and verified the data at the Landing Tables and the Base Object Tables using DBvisualizer .
• Performed front end validation on Informatica Data Director (IDD) by comparing the UI records against the values obtained from XREF Database tables.
• Validated the ‘Match and Merge’ rules by identifying the data in the BO tables and executing the SQL’s on XREF, validated them against the UI records on IDD.
• Verified that the records were merged based on the right Automatch Rule .
• Validated the ‘Trust and Survivorship’ Rules by Verifying each Customer attribute comes from the most trusted source in the golden record.
• Validated the ‘Rejection’ rules by querying the hub rejection table for rejections.
• Performing SQL queries to verify GUI front-end results and to extract and manipulate data to satisfy test cases/requirements.
• Log defects in ALM Quality Center and retest them as they are resolved.
• Regression testing using SOA Test after deployment of every build in Test Environment.
• Involved in GUI testing and functional testing.

Environment: SQL, QuickTestPro, iSeries/AS400, Sharepoint 2010, DBVisualizer8.0.9, SOA Test 6.2, ALM 11.0,MDM HUB, IDD, JIRA

QA Functional & Manual Tester

Confidential, Dallas/DC

Responsibilities:

• Design test cases based on requirements document
• Execute test cases and log issues
• Performed testing in system and integration environments
• Coordinated with Business and development in resolving the issues
• Created the RTM for traceability
• On boarding New Employee & Contractors
• Give Technical Video Training Sessions
• Assist in Design sessions
• Assist in writing Breq & Treqs,
• Create/find open source video assets for testing

Environment: Manual, QTP, Windows NT/2000, UNIX, Java 2.0, EJB, JSP, JDBC, Servlets and Oracle

Self-Employed Mobile Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Started from the beginning on hardware of cell phones and laptops so I can repair parts on them.
• Also looked into software to restore data or whole systems if neccecary. I do this just on the side for many years.

Environment: Windows 7, Quality Center 10.0, QTP 10.0, IBM, Websphere, BPM Open Text, Aspera, Signiant, SFTP, Rhozet, Telestream, Soap Ui, Putty, Interra Baton, Cerify, Rsync, XML, HTML, Oracle, Sequel, Envivo, Digital Rapids, Amberfin, Media Info, Microsoft Silver light, Adobe Flash, JSON, SMIL, Java 6.x, Shell-Scripts, IPlanet Web-Server 7.x, Weblogic 10.x, LDAP v3, ATG Dynamo 9.x, Oracle 10.x, 11.x, Solaris/SunOS 5.10, Visio