SUMMARY:

Seeking contract software test engineering assignments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX (SVR4; HP - UX 9.0/10.X/11.X, Tru64, AIX 3.X/4.X, IRIX 4/5/6); RedHat Linux 3.X; SuSE Linux 10/11/12.X; Ubuntu 16.X; XEN 4.X; Linux Containers

Languages: C, C++, BASH/SHELL, HTML, CGI, PERL5;

Software: HP QualityCenter ALM, UFT (QTP/LR), 10.X/11.X QuickTest Pro 10.X, LoadRunner 10.X; JMETER 2.X, MicroFocus SilkCenter 15.X; SilkTest 5.x; MS Office 2013, MS Project 2013; MS Visio; MS Sharepoint; DDTS (defect tracking); ClearCase, SVN; JIRA, Bullseye C-Cover 6.X; Rational Purify

Hardware: Multi-core X86, HP 9000/700/800/ {V,N,L}-Class, Superdome(SD64000)/RP2XXX/RP7XXX, SGI O2/O2XX/O2XXX/O3XXX, HP Enhanced Virtual Array, Brocade 2xx series

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Freelance Creative Writer

Responsibilities:

• Writing short story fiction. Completed LinuxFoundation.org Containers Fundamentals (LFS253), Containers for Developers and Quality Assurance (LFS254) (JUL2017).

Contract Test Engineering

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

• StudioCentral, a digital asset management platform. Spearheaded design and deployment of a DevOps infrastructure using web-based test center for continuous integration via high-speed regression test to accelerate release qualification (2H wall-clock for ~6K black/white-box functional test cases against HP-UX @ pre-checkin and baseline post-integration qualification).
• Configured and administered multi-Tbyte storage area network and fail-over clusters to facilitate qualification of HP’s logical volume management product.
• DevOps infrastructure built products from configuration management platforms (SVN @ SGI and ClearCase @ HP). Applied for SGI’s StudioCentral Digital Asset Management platform and for HP-UX @ HP. Authored ~2000 multi-threaded test programs in C/C++ and PERL to evaluate function, performance, and reliability coverage.
• Performed code coverage of C/C++ operating system kernel and application stacks using Bullseye, memory leak coverage using Purify.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Efficiency & Quality Improvements: To assist requirements authoring and release qualification, use case templates, user stories, and as-is/to-be business process flow content were reviewed to sponsor master test plan authoring traceable to business requirements maintained in a system of record (HP ALM). SharePoint-organized project documentation. To-be process transition plan templates for product skus, parent product lines and families were authored to capture and document business process elements and SOP evaluation for training and stakeholder communications prior to deployment and for post-deployment surveys. A multi-level business process taxonomy was constructed to assist globalization alignment. Test management workshops and matrix-team building to align business process qualification, IT delivery, and test management functions.
• Scaled Infrastructure Provisioning: Production infrastructure revisions were adjusted to align with elastic scaling and performance objectives using cloud-provisioning of virtual platforms. Scaling and performance was measured using HP ALM/QTP and LoadRunner. Test scripts placed under revision control. Automated data comparator extract report content was applied to ensure data warehouse alignment between global and regional ecosystem data payload deliveries. Reports generated with Business Objects with SQL to customize.
• Program Management: Led release management planning and qualification on 5 separate projects of 9 months duration, each sized at US$ 10M with multiple teams and over 100 participants in EMEA, APJ, and AMS regions. Negotiated release scope/requirements review with multiple matrix business and IT teams. B usiness process RACI definition for role-based business of systems of record access, business continuity, and user acceptance test (UAT) engineering under agile and waterfall SDLC models. Tracked scrum velocity and backlog/burndown/burnup and prioritization with story points. Negotiated entry/exit (definition of done) criteria w/IT, and definition of shippable for go-live. Identified and negotiated key performance indicators (KPIs) or business success. Vendor management oversight for multi-region/country web-content translation, risk management/mitigation tracking.

Confidential

Contract Project Manager

• Stakeholder Management: Authored project plan using charter documents and as-is/to-be business process content. Project plan detailed requirements, risks, schedule, WBS, deliverables, staffing of matrix teams from business functions, status reporting, earned value management measures, and change management protocol per ITIL standard practice.
• SharePoint for project life cycle content. Identified and tracked project risks and issues, tracked escalations, prepared status reports. RACI definition for role based access to business systems of record. Led US$ 1M lab hardware procurement. Constructed infrastructure system of record to assist data flow and system impact analysis.
• RFP/RFQ preparation and cost negotiations with vendors to integrate custom application stacks replacing legacy IBM COBOL stacks.
• Test Management: Integral participant in all phases of the project life-cycle, including requirements analysis and tracing through MicroFocus SilkCenter to estimate UAT coverage scope, test strategy and planning, test data refresh and specification, test environment capacity utilization, test completion/defect tracking, entry/exit criteria, application deployment management for go-live.
• Organized and presented kick-off deck for business analyst UAT participant teams of 100+ users.

Confidential

Contract Project Manager

• Team Management: Project schedule preparation and tracking, WBS review, and RACI definition for planning, execution, control and monitoring and closure life cycle phases using JIRA for requirements and defect tracking correlated against against production ServiceNow ticket density for root cause evaluation.
• SharePoint hosted and organized project content. Authored master test plan and job descriptions for software test engineering. Report test defect density, completion progress, and escalate issues to governance.
• Test environment based on XEN 4.X virtualized instances of candidate run-time stacks.
• Led recruitment and hiring of onshore and offshore teams.
• Tracked matrix team labor costs via earned value management in Clarity PPM.
• Mentored junior test engineers in performance using JMETER 2.X, XML and JSON payload stimulus, and reliability measurement for multiple software stacks using Pthreads, LWP, and barrier synchronization PERL modules.