OBJECTIVE:

I am an ambitious, highly motivated, results - oriented professional with an excellent reputation for hard work and accomplishment. I have outstanding networking skills, field support and software testing skills. I most recently worked as a Quality Assurance Engineer for Elekta and have outstanding problem-solving skills and great attention to detail. I am very organized and adept at organizing tasks, processes and teams. With my upbeat and positive attitude, coupled with my technical skill, I will bring a proven record of success and achievements to your company.

SUMMARY:

• Experience manager of a software quality assurance team focused on python script augmented manual testing
• Experience with risk based testing methodologies and Agile software development life cycle approaches
• 4 years experience programming in VB.NET with knowledge of LINQ applied to the creation of automated testing tools
• Seven years experience as a TCP/IP LAN administrator and three years experience as an OSI LAN administrator
• 16 years experience working with multiple computing platforms to include Windows, HP UNIX, Sun OS/Solaris and Linux
• 2 years experience installing, configuring and maintaining SONET/SDH optical network elements in a network management software test lab
• 1 year and 4 months experience working with multiplatform, Web enabled Java messaging software as installer, maintainer, field support technician and software tester
• Experienced manager of software and hardware labs of various functions

Computer Systems: IBM Blade Servers, HP Blade Servers, Personal Computers and Servers with 286, 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III and Pentium IV processors, ~ Sun Sparc 5, 10, 20, Ultra Sparc, Enterprise 2, Netra, Sunfire and Sunblade platforms, ~ Hewlett Packard 712, 725, K series, N series and L series platforms

Enterprise Networking Hardware: Cisco Systems Ethernet Switches, Routers and Terminal Servers, ~ Linksys WAN Router, ~ Lucent P550 Cajun Ethernet Switch / Router, ~ 3Com Ethernet Switches, ~ Intel Ethernet Switches, ~ Netgear Ethernet Switches ~ Netgear Wireless Access Point, ~ Network cards Various PC and Laptop NIC cards

Wide Area Networking Hardware: Lucent Wavestar Bandwidth Manager SONET/SDH Optical Network Element, Lucent Wavestar 2.5G and 10G SONET Optical Network Elements, Lucent Wavestar 10G SDH Network Element, Lucent 400 Gb/sec and 800 Gb/sec Dense Wave Division Multiplexers, Lucent Globeview 2000 20 Gb/sec and MX-1000 10 Gb/sec multi-service ATM switches

Testing Hardware: HP Broadband ATM Tester, ~ RADCOM ATM Tester, ~ Adtech ATM Tester ~ PC based emulator for the Motorola PowerPC MPC603 microprocessor, ~ standalone emulator for the Motorola MPC860 Integrated Communications Processors

Military Communications Systems: Military Confidential Frequency Up and Down Converters, BPSK/QPSK modulator/demodulators, Viterby Forward Error Correction Encoders, 10 Mb/sec Point to Point Fiber Optic System, Military Confidential Low Noise Amplifiers and Transmitters, Military Confidential Spread Spectrum Communications Systems and Antenna Auto-Tracking Systems

Software Experience

Operating Systems: Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, Windows XP, MS-DOS, ~ Sun Solaris 6.0, 8 and 9, HP-UNIX 9.05, 9.07, 10.20 and 11.0, ~ Red Hat Linux 7.0, ~ SUSE Linux 7.0, 7.3 and 8.1, ~ Mandrake Linux 8.1, 8.3, 10.0, 10.1, ~ Mandriva 2005.1, 2006, 2007

Software Programs: Microsoft Office 95, 97, 2000, XP and 2007 (includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access), ~ JIRA Sprint Tracking Tool, ~ Team Track Software Defect Tracking Tool, ~ Service Manager Change Management Tool, ~ Visio Technical 4.0 and 2000, ~ Microsoft Publisher 97, ~ Easy CD Creator 5, ~ AiMetrix NeuralStar Network Management Software, ~ Esri ArcView and GIS mapping Software ~ Telnet, ~ FTP, ~ SSH

Databases: Access, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Dbase III, Informix

Web Servers and Services: Apache Web Server, ~ Tomcat Web Server ~ Microsoft Internet Information Server ~ Netscape and iPlanet LDAP Servers, Netscape and iPlanet Enterprise Servers, Netscape and iPlanet Compass Servers ~ Esri Web Based Map Services

Programming Environments: Visual Basic 4.0, Visual Basic .NET 2008 and 2010

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, ~ NetBIOS ~ SMB, ~ DNS, ~ DHCP, ~ Active Directory, ~ HTTP, ~ ATM, ~ SONET, ~ SDH, ~ PPP, ~ SLIP, ~ Microsoft Message ~ Queuing Service, ~ Java Messaging Service, ~ RIP, ~ OSPF, ~ NAT, ~Bridgenet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Execute manual test cases in the ESP batch environment
• Design test cases to test the Confidential Retail applications
• Report on testing activities in a hybrid waterfall/agile environments
• Enter requirements and test cases into HP ALM
• Demo JIRA / Confluence / Zephyr to upper level management for consideration as a Project Management, Development and QA tool set
• Provide leadership and mentoring to other team members as needed
• Author Master Test Plans for various projects

Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential

• Author automated test cases for mobile device running Android and iOS using Xamarin Studio and Nunit
• Write automated tests for REST API testing using Postman and the Newman command line Postman Collection Runner
• Conduct manual testing on Android and iOS devices when required
• Manage stories with TFS for QA work items

Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential

• Responsible for the conversion of manual test cases to automated tests using a proprietary automation tool developed by Elekta to test the Monaco Radiation Treatment Planning software
• Create keywords for the test tool in C #
• Commit code changes and automated test using Code Collaborator and Tortoise SVN
• Use test tool composed of C #, Autotest, Robot Framework and Python also employing automation providers that utilize the Microsoft Test Automation framework

Senior Product Acceptance Tester

Confidential

• Execute manual product acceptance test suite for Confidential next generation electronic program guide, pay per view and video on demand system running on customer premise cable TV set top box
• Log software defects with JIRA
• Design and author automated testing scenarios using the Witbe video and audio automation testing tool
• Convert manual test cases to automated test cases running on a continuous regression testing automation tool
• Responsible for the configuration and maintenance of set top box devices connected to the automation testing tool
• Create automated testing reports based on the reporting of the continuous regression testing automation tool

Software Quality Assurance Team Lead

Confidential

• Design, author and execute manual tests for application processes running on the Linux operating system
• Manually test a real-time message distribution system composed of proprietary messaging software and proprietary message processing software
• Manually test software written to normalize data from 180 distinct contributors and distribute normalized data to data consumers
• Manage the daily activities of a QA team composed of 6 members
• Manage the development of a home grown testing framework used to execute manual tests augmented by python scripting
• Manage the development of manual testing scripts using the Python programming language to automate tasks such as data comparison
• Author and execute testing scripts in the Python programming language to improve the efficiency of manual testing
• Manage the release of software to the Pre-Production and Production environment following agreed upon release process and using HP Service Manager 9
• Perform the Change Manager role to release software to 400 plus servers in 6 regional data centers distributed globally
• Record test suites, test cases and test steps in HP Quality Center 11
• Perform system administration activities in the QA environment on the Oracle Linux operating system, a Red Hat derivative Linux OS
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in the QA, Pre-Production and Production environments running the Oracle Linux operating system

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential 

• Apply risk based assessment to test suites to determine priority of test cases to be executed
• Manage the acceptance testing and release of software before and during deployment to the production environment
• Perform the test team leader role for the proprietary NRG, NBB2 and TLD real time news delivery servers
• Analyze NRG, NBB2 and TLD server software design and author test cases for system and integration testing
• Automate real time server testing with VB.NET
• Maintain the St. Louis Quality Assurance environment as Lab Manager focused on system administration
• Participate in software development, testing and deployment meetings to establish time lines for software releases
• Ensure the correctness of production installation instructions and correct functioning of installation scripts associated with production software changes
• Review run books used by production operations staff for the day to day operation of NRG, NBB2 and TLD servers for correctness
• Report software defects using the Team Track defect reporting tool
• Process production software changes forward after QA testing of software change, installation scripts and support documentation

Network Analyst

Confidential

• Created diagrams of power plant LAN networks for the Ameren electrical power generation fleet
• Collected information at power plants used to create network diagrams
• Supported PI servers and develop operator screens deployed in power plant control rooms

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Columbia, MO

• Developed test cases for an Confidential . e-commerce solution for college bookstores
• Authored step by step test procedures to support testing of an Confidential . e-commerce solution developed in the Microsoft ASP.NET development environment
• Conducted system testing, load and stress testing and performance testing of an Confidential . e-commerce solution
• AS/400 to Windows 2003 Server communication
• Setup and configuration of the client workstations and servers

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Arlington, VA

• Took the lead role in the development of test cases for the testing of a Web Portal used to front end an implementation of the Java Messaging Service in the Publish and Subscribe mode of message transfer
• Executed test cases and created quality assurance documentation for Confidential . messaging software
• Conducted onsite field support for Confidential . customers in various locations in the United States
• Responsible for the day to day operation of the Integration Test Lab used to perform final quality assurance testing of Confidential . software
• Received a letter of appreciation from the Commanding General of Fort Gordon, GA for outstanding field support during the 2002 Augusta, GA Crisis Management exercise

System Test Lab Manager

Confidential, Holmdel, NJ

• Installed, configured and maintained SONET and SDH optical network elements, multiple OSI LAN networks, a TCP/IP LAN network and the PC’s, UNIX server and terminal servers supporting lab operations
• Assisted with the space layout and consolidation of several labs into a single lab
• Consulted with System Testers, System Engineers and Software Developers on the proper operation of optical network elements
• Coordinated with hardware development teams to bring up multiple prototype optical network elements during the Lucent Technologies Optical Networking Group (ONG) business units development of 3rd generation optical networking systems
• Systems Integration
• Networking Solutions

Software Unit Test Lab Manager

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

• Designed and implemented the space layout, LAN network and patch panels for lab
• Ordered, tracked and received furniture, computing equipment, test equipment, LAN network equipment, microprocessor emulators and software on an ongoing bases for a lab valued at five million dollars
• Installed, configured and maintained thirty PC’s, thirty UNIX workstations, sixty microprocessor emulators and thirty MX-1000 prototype multi-service ATM switches
• Consulted with Hardware Engineers and Software Engineers to install and troubleshoot prototype hardware and software during the MX-1000 projects development

System Test Lab Manager

Confidential, Red Bank, NJ

• Installed, configured and maintained fifty UNIX workstations running HP-UX 9.05, 9.07 and 10.20
• Configured and maintained ten Globeview 2000 ATM switches
• Maintained and performed troubleshooting for the lab LAN and managed the lab LAN’s IP Address space
• Assisted in troubleshooting of the software development environment
• Designed and supervised construction of a computer room to house the Globeview 2000 projects software development computing assets

Confidential

Terminal Ground Station Equipment Operator and Repair Technician

• Operated, maintained and repaired the AN/GSC-52 Confidential ground station equipment, the AN/USC-28 spread spectrum communications system, and the Exide 250 Kva solid state uninterruptible power supply
• Served as shift leader for the Bad Aibling Station Confidential facility from 1989 to 1993
• Performed the duties of the Information Security Officer for all facility computing equipment
• Awarded three Army Achievement Medals and an Army Commendation Medal for exceptional performance while stationed at the Bad Aibling satellite communication facility