Arthur Weinstein Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Gagagtown, Gb

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Gb

New York, Ny, Us

Process engineering, test planning, scripting, and execution, and team building.

QA tester for legacy and emerging user applications supporting corporate cultural assessments and improvements . Responsible for test planning and manual testing as well as guiding development of automated tests.

Bridgewater, New Jersey, Us

Newark, Nj, Us

Responsible for testing web portal products with related architectural elements (middle layers and back-ends/database processes) as well as managing the release process that controls deployments.• Developed a highly flexible and effective small team of testers to cover QA for a large number of projects.• Cross-trained testers within the team to enable rapid/effective response to product/customer demands. • Managed 400+ releases/year in response to dynamics. • Improved product quality as measured by decrease in roll-backs and re-releases. • Eliminated the perception that QA was a bottleneck • Instituted UAT(QA) and post-release testing cycles to ensure stability in the production environments.

Redwood City, Us

Responsible for managing planning through post-launch of product deployments and services for major telecommunications clients throughout North, Central, and South America. • PMP Certification• Managing installation, configuration, customization, integration, deployment, pre- and post-launch testing, including coordination of complex cutovers.• Managing teams of diverse, remote (global) personnel. • Close collaboration with customer representatives in multiple locations.• Projects’ total revenue is more than $10M to date.

Responsible for product building, packaging, integration and system testing of SS7, SIGTRAN, and SIP/IMS middleware, host interfaces to specialized SS7 boards, including board software, embedded software and firmware, OS ports, and development of installation software and internal test tools. Created, trained, and directed five groups with individual managers and 35 staff members: integration/porting/installation, system test in NJ, France and India, and tools in India. • Successful delivery of products on time and on budget, incl. complex middleware, communication circuit packs, test tools, and sample applications. Systems involved SNMP, LANs, WANs, web applications, and multiple complex communications protocols.• Strong methodology/process definition, documentation, implementation, deployment, and improvement, leading to TL-9000 re-certification. Expert in SDLC.• Close collaboration with sales and marketing on product direction, customer meetings, and feature prioritization. • Increased revenues to record levels with simultaneous release of products on multiple OSs, 50% reduction in turnaround time on estimates, 4x increase in automated and manual regression testing, introduction of performance test automation, 10x increase in automated functional tests, 100% increase in Change Request closures, 3-x increase in executed test cases, 3x increase in integration tests, and 100% increase in the number of baselines in development.• Managed test efforts of Java, C++, C, XML, Perl, and shell using ClearCase in Solaris, Linux, and AIX environments. Avg. 3% yr-over-yr increase in customer satisfaction. • Instrumental in formulating corporate strategy and in creating aligned vision and mission statements. • Expanded test lab environment for massive parallelism to facilitate development and test.

• Prepare strategy for NMS for an optical switch; command-line interface, prepare technical and business documents. Start-up.• Researched six patent applications.• Produced presentations for venture capitalists.• Corporate expert in network/element management systems.

Manage requirements, architecture, and design of an EMS for a high-speed, high-capacity, carrier class optical switch. Start-up.• Establishment and nurturing of highly motivated, high performance teams. • Corporate expert in network/element management systems. Forged effective relationships with colleagues in Iris Labs, Matera, and Latus Lightworks.• Experience with business cases, detailed project plans (schedules and resource budgets), prioritization, project monitoring, issues and risk identification, issue resolution and risk mitigation, escalations, project scope change and/or requirements change negotiation.• Systems involved RDBMS, SNMP, LANs, WANs, web applications, and multiple complex communications protocols.• Strong methodology/process definition, documentation, and implementation.• Close collaboration with entire company, product direction, customer meetings, and feature prioritization. • Managed development efforts in Java, C++, and C.• Hands-on gathering and documenting requirements• Instrumental in formulating corporate strategy. Strong tactician.

Manager of system test, customer support, software development, integration test, test tool development, project management, customer requirements, technical documentation, and internal and customer training for telecommunications projects in data networking and wireless businesses.• Systems involved RDBMS, SNMP, LANs, WANs, web applications, and multiple complex communications protocols.• Corporate expert on network and element management – co-author of article in Bell Labs Technical Journal.• Black box, white box, integration, regression, system-level, sanity, performance, stress, load, duration, fault-tolerance, exit, acceptance, and unit testing. Test planning, specifications, execution, defect identification, liaison with development to assist in planning fixes, defect tracking and management, retest, test tool development, test automation.• Strong methodology/process creation/definition, documentation, implementation, deployment, improvement, and training, leading to ISO-9001 certification/re-certification. Ensured adherence to project level standards for coding, test specification, and defect reports. Familiar with SEI/CMM. Expert in SDLC.• Groups of 3 to 25 staff members; departments of 3 to 6 managers with 25 to 100 staff; matrix management of teams to 200.• Managed development and test efforts in Java, C++, C, VXWorks, Perl, and shell, using Sablime and ClearCase, in UNIX System V, HP-UX environments. Prepare architectures, designs, code reviews, and unit test plans for client/server platform, device drivers, application libraries (APIs), OA&M products, and business applications. Formulate customized solutions.

Ph.D, Physics

Bs, Applied Math And Physics

Ma, Physics