OBJECTIVE

• Software Test Automation Consultant from San Jose to Menlo Park, CARan LoadRunner performance test scenarios and generated performance test reports with Performance Center 9.10.
• Programmed in Python, Perl, AutoIt, VBScript, WSH, C, C++, Java, Bourne & C shell and SQL.
• Created Python web application unit tests with Firefox and Selenium.
• Used Robot Framework to create Python test cases executing automated web application Python library.
• Automated Windows Internet Explorer and Excel applications with VBScript.
• Developed automated Juniper router web management tool with VBScript that reduced Juniper router test setup time from 30 to 5 minutes.
• Created and Ran LoadRunner 9.52 performance test scenarios and scripts.
• Recorded LoadRunner scripts using HTTP and Web Services protocols. Added correlations to scripts to support dynamically generated XML tag values.
• Experienced with Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems and VMware.
• Tested ETLs and Business Intelligence data warehouses.
• Started Software QA departments and managed Software QA teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Test Development Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created automated test suites and test cases with Python and Bash scripts run by AXIS test automation framework Server Automation software. Used VMware vCenter to deploy and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server VMs SA test bed.

Software QA/Test Development Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ran manual tests to verify Confidential vmPRO virtual machine storage management appliance functionality. Filed bug reports with Bugzilla and verified software fixes. Added automated vmPRO Vision API tests to Perl test harness with Eclipse and Subversion.
• Used VMware vSphere client to deploy and manage 300 Linux and Windows VMs and vmPRO releases on ESX4 and ESXi5 VMware servers used by Perl stress tests.

Software Performance Test Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ran LoadRunner HTTP and FTP file upload performance test scenarios Performance Center 9.10. Ran shell script to log file names and modification times after a file was completely uploaded to the external FTP site.
• Generated performance test reports with average file upload time, average (Mbps) and file migration times from the external FTP upload site to the internal FTP upload site.
• Fixed log message problem in Vugen scripts so it logs the full file name. Added Load Generator systems to LoadRunner test scenarios running 20 or more Vusers to prevent Vugen scripts aborting with memory access violations.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ran manual device tests against Confidential cloud service releases hosted in Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud as an Amazon Web Service.
• Tested these devices: Roku set top box; Wii, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3 gaming consoles; LG, Samsung and Panasonic Blu - ray players; and Sony TVs with internet connection. Reported bugs and verified fixes.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ran manual Chome web browser tests. Submitted bugs and verified fixes. Created automated Python tests to verify Chome infobar functionality with missing or outdated browser plugins.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Used Firefox with Selenium add-on to create automated web application tests that managed host data backups to Confidential ’s data storage cloud. Created Python libraries with parameters from Selenium. Integrated Python libraries with Robot Framework to create automated web application functional tests.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created Perl script that scanned test suite log files and created a report with grand totals of tests passed, tests failed and tests run. Used AutoIT to create automated test scripts for DropZone. Created photo, video and document upload tests to Kumlus cloud storage service.
• Created test scripts to share uploaded photos, videos and documents via email.
• Total Care Setup application with AutoIT script to configure Windows system on first boot. Added client-server test cases to Performance and Scalability Test Plan Quality Center. Created Python unit tests with Firefox and Selenium customer service web applications.

Software Performance Test Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created LoadRunner 9.52 web protocol tests to measure SSL certificate enrollment, query and approval performance. Used in-house tools to generate VuGen parameter files used by test scripts to enroll, query and approve over 500,000 requests.
• Used LoadRunner Analysis to generate all performance test metric reports including average transaction response time with varying loads up to 50 virtual users. Ran test scenarios with LoadRunner Agents running on physical and virtual systems to generate comparitive performance metrics between physical and virtual systems. Emailed test results that were published on QA automation web site.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created automated Excel spreadsheet data extraction and presentation tools in VBScript. Wrote Internet Explorer application automation utilities in VBScript.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created Windows Internet Explorer automation tool in VBScript and WSH (Windows Script Host) using Internet Explorer web browser object that automated Juniper SSL VPN appliance performance testbed setup with Juniper’s Central Manager web dashboard; reduced appliance test setup time from 30 to 5 minutes.
• Added correlations to existing LoadRunner scripts used in performance test suite. Added Excel spreadsheet object automation functions to LoadRunner 8 and 9.1 automation VBScripts that extracted Hits/Second, Response Time and Standard Deviation data from LoadRunner test results web pages and calculated 90% Confidence Intervals from LoadRunner test results spreadsheets.
• Created new LoadRunner test scenarios and scripts with LoadRunner 8 and 9.1. Added new LoadRunner test scenarios to SSL VPN LoadRunner performance test automation VBScript harness.
• Created VBScript Excel automation software that displayed current build LoadRunner performance test suite metrics, previous build LoadRunner performance test suite metrics and percent change from previous to current metric values. Verified LoadRunner scenarios and scripts developed with LoadRunner 8 migrated to LoadRunner 9.1 successfully.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Software Test Plan for digital medical image storage system using Solaris Cluster with 2 nodes and MD3000 modular disk storage array.
• Created perl test automation library that remotely degrades and recovers cluster node hardware, performs cluster resource group failovers and manages disk storage array during digital medical image file transmission.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tested Drobo Dashboard installation on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Macintosh OS X 10.4 and 10.5 (Leopard). Ran direct-attached FAT32 and NTFS format tests on Windows and HFS+ format tests on Macintosh.
• Ran network-attached DroboShare FAT32, NTFS, HFS+ and EXT3 format tests from Windows and Macintosh systems. Tested data protection and relayout with hot disk removes and adding larger disk drives during file I/O. Submitted bugs with Bugzilla and verified software fixes.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created FAB300 Client performance tests with LoadRunner 9. Used COM/DCOM and Web Services protocols to record test scripts. Added runtime correlations to XML tag data in SOAP messages and data table parameters to LoadRunner scripts. Created test scenarios with LoadRunner Controller.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ran automated NFS and CIFS test scripts against Confidential NAS FAS3050 filer and reported results. Verified NFS and CIFS file quota test script integration into existing test suites. Fixed code problems in test scripts.
• Used Mercury Quality Center to create manual and automated test repository and to run sets of automated tests. Tested Quality Center data extraction tool that generated test suite batch files from Basic Acceptance, Core Functionality and Bug Regression search criteria.
• Created automated Bug Regression and Core Functionality tests in Perl using Confidential ’s automated test script coding conventions.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Unix User Access with SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Compliance Test Plan.
• Created End-to-End web application test cases for hired, promoted, transferred and terminated Cisco employees. Tested Hostgroup Tool. Created test users with access to multiple UNIX role profiles. Created test tools with and C-shell scripts. Created web performance tests with LoadRunner 8.0.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote automated test cases in using Confidential Test Framework APIs for Veritas Cluster Server and Cluster Management Console CLIs. Added Test Cases and Test Scenarios to Test Management System. Ran automated test suites against new builds.
• Reported software bugs and verified fixes. Reviewed product documentation for accuracy and completeness of feature descriptions.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote K2 installation and data migration test plans. Ran Linux, Windows installation tests for Confidential K2 6.0 Enterprise Document Index and Search web application.
• Created Unix C-shell and DOS Batch scripts to support 5.0 and 5.5 to 6.0 data migration tests on same host. Created 5.0 and 5.5 to 6.0 data migration performance tests with LoadRunner.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test plan and created test cases for SupportEdge Secure for Government product.
• Ran tests, submitted bugs and verified fixes. Verified XML transformations that removed sensitive government information from Auto-Support emails.

Software QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote functional and performance test plans for Syndera Operational Intelligence Suite. Created test business process models with Architect and test event data. Ran tests, reported software bugs and verfied fixes.
• Created automated functional tests with QuickTest Pro 8.2 and performance tests with LoadRunner 7.8. Performed compatibility testing with iPlanet web, BEA WebLogic application and Oracle database servers and Apache web, JBoss application and MySQL database servers.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Used LoadRunner 7.6 to create HTTP, FTP, POP3, and SMTP test clients that accessed servers running on Spirent Reflector. Tested LoadRunner Integration with Avalanche Console.
• Created LoadRunner web performance test suite for Reflector. Created DNS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, POP3, RAW, RTSP, SMTP and Telnet protocol tests for Avalanche and Reflector. Enhanced Avalanche and Reflector test automation harness written in Perl.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed automated TCP test client software. Created web performance and stress tools using shell scripts and web client emulator written in C running on Linux.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created test automation scripts that ran Java test suites on Itanium systems Task Automation Harness. Fixed Java test suite bugs. Used XRunner to create automated functional tests for Enhydra web application server.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote BugTraq2 Software QA plan. Verified software fixes and created regression tests for Cobalt Networks RaQ servers running Linux. Used LoadRunner 5 to create automated RaQ web server performance test scenarios with 1 to 500 concurrent users.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tested Java client-server DSL billing system using Portal Software’s Infranet and Vitria Technology’s BusinessWare. Created XML test suite. Used Infranet Administrator to make or verify customer account changes.

Software QA Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Started and managed Software QA department. Created test plan for Ontology Builder consisting of Java Client, WebLogic Java Servlets using XML, EJB and Oracle Database Servers.
• Used WinRunner and SQL to create automated functional test suite. Wrote SQL scripts to validate functional test results. Used LoadRunner 5 to create automated performance test suites for Business Publisher and Commerce Hub Servers with 1000 concurrent user test scenarios.

Software QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tested Sun Solutions and Java Jump Start CDs against Solaris and Windows platforms. Created test plan and manual test procedures for Java audio mixer application. Ran PClauncher and PCFile­Viewer tests on Sun Ultra system with SunPCi (AMD K6 CPU) card. Created automated audio mixer functional test scripts with XRunner. Reported problems and verified fixes. Ran Y2K tests.
• Used LoadRunner 5 to create automated performance tests of Siebel CRM application used to manage Sun’s software and hardware bugs.