Qa Lead Engineer Resume
Burbank, CA
SUMMARY
- A top - performing true hands-on QA leader with over 19 years of quality assurance and business management experience. Successfully troubleshoot, solve, and prevent problems in order to achieve corporate and project objectives.
- Highly proficient with SQA, Scrum and SDLC methodologies, techniques, and testing tools, and consistently makes successful deliveries to the market.
- Software Quality Methodology
- Analysis and Design
- Test Automation
- SCRUM/Agile
- People Management
- Analyzing Information
- Reporting Research Results
- Technical Understanding
- Process Improvements
- Communications
- Developing Standards
- Complex Problem Solving
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Quality Assurance Tools: SoapUI, Rational® VisualTest™, Segue® SilkTest™, Empirix® eLoad™, Empirix® eMonitor™ Empirix® eTester™, Moniforce® WebStress™, Mercury® LoadRunner™ 7.x, Mercury® WinRunner™ 7.x, Astra® QuickTest™ Pro 6.0,
Test Management Tools: Jira, Mercury® TestDirector™ 6.x, Empirix® e-Manager™, Empirix® e-Monitor™ Enterprise, Rational® ClearQuest™ 2002
RDBMS: Oracle® 9i/7.x, Microsoft® SQL Server
Web Technologies: API, Web Services, Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Microsoft® Internet Information Server™ (IIS) 6.0/5.0/4.0, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), QuickTime™, RealPlayer™, Component Object Model (COM) / Dynamic Component Object Model (DCOM)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential,Burbank, CAQA Lead Engineer
- Excelled at performing test activities on 5 high availability and visibility company products including API automation testing (SoapUI), websites, Cloud-based applications and Video Servers, cloud-based News Room Computer systems, mobile, and windows-based video streaming applications
- Employed expertise to ensure that tests were well planned and executed efficiently with minimum recourse
- Adopted and highly utilized test automation resulting in 10-30% automation coverage for core and legacy products and shorter testing cycles
- Achieved successful changing of testing process to support Agile/Scrum software development process
QA Manager
- Improved management of testing efforts on company QA environment
- Conducted weekly meetings that improved team communications, project coordination, and accuracy of product delivery
- Established, developed, and trained a QA department, including test infrastructure and implementation of successful testing processes that incorporated all aspects of test planning, execution, automation, and defect management throughout each phase of the project life cycle
- Coordinated and led effective testing efforts between internal teams, multiple participating vendors, and offshore teams
- Coordinated and led effective testing efforts of implementation of IPTV technology- streaming VOD content over internet using embedded streaming data transferring devices
Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
- Lead and thoroughly trained QA team members that implemented industry best practices, support internal software development, and advanced company goals.
- Streamlined definitions of QA project activities and sequences, estimation of duration and cost, scheduling of activities, planning for resources, and creating effective proposals
- Successfully leading testing efforts on complex IPG navigation solutions for variety of DST’s and interface solutions.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
- Lead a QA team that successfully tested 3 sites developed in ASP, HTML, VB, SQL Server, and Perl
- Basic QA testing of products including on-going bug fix verifications and implementation of formal test plans. Write and implement forma QA test plans using technical requirements and design specifications as an input. Write automated test script were appropriate. Assist developers in quickly determining the cause of problems reported in production systems