SUMMARY

• Proven experience includes a broad range of Software & Hardware Test skills in Enterprise and Start Up Software Development environments for Storage & Networked Systems Test & Administration, FPGA Programmable Logic, and CAD systems. Experienced in a broad range of technologies with a focus on Quality Engineering & Test.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMWare: vcsa, vSphere client, Vendor plugin, Vendor based VMs, VM operations including deployment, migration, snapshot, I/O loading of storage systems, VMFS 5/6 datastore, VVols, HCIBench/vdbench, Storage Provider. Daily management of storage systems connectivity, vendor and guest VMs (I/O).

Storage I/O Tools: vdbench, FIO, IOMeter, robo copy, rsync, orion (Oracle)

Build/SCM: Jenkins, GIT, make, CVS/RCS, Mercurial, SVN Perforce, Purecov, Valgrind, Open Source Detection FOSSology

Agile: Rally/CA and Jira tools. 20+ years of writing and managing stories & tasks, and mostly focused in Scrum teams in testing focused and some feature owner SQA roles. 1 - 4 week sprints. I have experienced many varied implementations of Agile principles into various unique SDLC practices attempting to evolve from traditional based waterfall methodologies.

Shell Scripts/Automation: ksh, csh, bash, testing and implementation of in house developed software & hardware test frameworks based on shell scripts/perl//python/java/html interfaces, VMWare HCIBench, LSF and proprietary job distribution tools, execution of Restful API & curl http methods.

QA Related Test Case Management & Execution Tools: AP Test Manager, HP Quality Center/ALM

Defect Management: Jira, Bugzilla, Rally, and Internally developed frameworks

Enterprise: Confidential EDA framework of tools, Oracle ZFS Storage management, NexGen N5 UI, Confidential Acutiy and vSTAC

General: NFS/CIFS, Data deduplication, putty/ssh, winscp, java, MS office, Outlook. MS Remote Desktop, RDC, Junos Pulse, 7zip, Firefox/Chrome/IE/EDGE, Skype, Cisco Jabber, Adobe Acrobat, cmdtool, wireshark, notepad ++, ILOM/IMM/iDRAC, PXE, BIOS setup, Lenovo XClarity, Quick Hash, and of course Google

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead role within Quality Engineering focused testing of the company’s HCI Storage Products NVMe (Acuity) Software and Hardware (Lenovo, Dell, Supermicro) extensively utilizing VMWare infrastructure and I/O loading tools (HCIBench/vdbench, FIO). Defect & Feature management within Jira.
• Test case creation and deployment to test teams for new features including Detection & Automatic healing of faults, node recovery, Secure Boot, Run Time Kernel, Encryption, and regression testing of the full feature set of the HCI products and UI. Presentation of new feature implementation to internal teams.
• BIOS/FW management. All aspects of Hardware System management within a Lab setting.
• Waterfall methodologies evolving to adoption of Agile principles utilizing Jira.

Software Engineer QA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Test Lead Role and Mentor. Software testing of Hyper Converged and Storage data center applications. Manual and automated testing. Unit and Integration testing of platform builds.
• VMWare VMs (ESXi 5.5/6.0), Rest API using curl for UI testing. CentOS 6/7. Bugzilla, ALM, Agile/Rally.
• Software testing of NexGen N5 Hybrid Storage Systems utilizing Flash SSD and HDD technologies.
• Manual and automated testing of the company's N5 series of Storage Systems and Administration via UI WBI and CLI interfaces. Data I/O (1Gb/10Gb), fault injection and specification based test case execution for defect discovery, root cause analysis, and tracking (Jira). Adoption of Agile Scrum principles.
• VMWare integration with the NexGen Storage products and features (Vvols, VMFS, VM operations, iscsi)

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Software Appliance Kit and Hardware testing of Oracle's ZFS Storage Appliance enterprise class Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Network systems. Focus on the Oracle ZFS 7120, 7320, 7420, zs2-3 and zs2-4 series of Storage Appliances and Appliance Kit software GUI monitoring and OS tools.
• Upgrade, System Regression, and Fault Injection testing task assignments within manual and python based automated frameworks. Kernel test. Hardware fault detection & repair, Software fault detection and triage.
• Defect logging/tracking, and Test case development and execution within established schedules.

Staff Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• OMS SafeHarbor and Akamai Software Download Manager evaluation for Confidential FPGA Design platform web based software installation tools.
• Implementation of Fossology OSS & License source code detection tool for Confidential FPGA Design platform.
• Large scale data migration of global file server production environments (NetApp, Isilon, rsync, csh, CIFS/NFS);
• VMWare VM administration, NFS performance and load testing (Maestro NFS/CIFS, software installation, Wireshark, subsystem builds & unit tests, LSF job based file creation load tests).
• Alacritech NFS accelerator performance evaluation. Internal Job distribution system porting to the LSF framework of tools (perl, shell script, LSF).

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities for this position focused on software testing & verification for the company’s Workload Automation Analytics and Aggregation tools. Rally based Agile project management. Black Box testing.
• Linux and Windows support for java platform and web interface. Utilization of Oracle, SQL Server, and Sybase Databases interfacing with Job Schedulers for Computer Associates - Autosys/Opswise/Tidal.
• OMS SafeHarbor and Akamai Software Download Manager evaluation for Confidential FPGA Design platform web based software installation tools.
• Implementation of Fossology OSS & License source code detection tool for Confidential FPGA Design platform.
• Large scale data migration of global file server production environments (NetApp, Isilon, rsync, csh, CIFS/NFS);
• VMWare VM administration, NFS performance and load testing (Maestro NFS/CIFS, software installation, Wireshark, subsystem builds & unit tests, LSF job based file creation load tests).
• Alacritech NFS accelerator performance evaluation. Internal Job distribution system porting to the LSF framework of tools (perl, shell script, LSF).