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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

* Drives the product engineering team to embrace and adopt modern testing methodology emphasizing quality driven by customer data and resulting in acceleration of delivering business value to end-users* Performs hands-on software testing of mabl's SaaS product delivered on Google Cloud Services* Introduced exploratory testing sessions as a regular practice which are now independently conducted by all teams* Revitalized The Ministry of Testing Boston Meetup group by finding speakers, setting up, organizing, advertising a handful of meetups since November 2019 both onsite at the mabl office and online* Updates and maintains internal end-to-end testing framework using the dogfooding technique* Provides daily and weekly reports on software quality using cloud monitoring, tracing, data analysis tools such as Google BigQuery, Google Data Studio, Google Error Reporting, Rollbar, FullStory* Working across the organization, introduced and implemented a unified process and tooling for issue tracking using Atlassian Jira including adding automated processes using Groovy* Implemented new CircleCI (bash), Octopus Deploy (PowerShell), updated Jenkins (Java) integrations* Rewrote existing Selenium-based Java tests to use BDD-style JavaScript framework with CodeceptJS and webdriverio* Helped a major enterprise client by updating unattended, failing tests and helping them to learn best practices on test automation* Contributes to the product with minor bug fixes typically found while reviewing Google Error reports using Java and JavaScript

Austin, Texas, Us

* Contributed continuous improvements to company’s risk-based quality assurance processes such as risk assessment, risk monitoring and risk grading on the entire product portfolio* Monitored and analyzed escaped product defects for root cause and bug cluster analysis* Implemented test data strategy to mitigate risk of escaped product defects due to insufficient breadth of testing* Improved hiring practices for quality assurance engineers by formalizing interview scripts* Drove cross-cutting projects within engineering – such as test automation framework enhancements, selection of next-generation test automation tools – with collaboration from each and every product team* Set up knowledge sharing lunch n’ learn sessions to effectively share and disseminate information. Coordinated and improved cross-team communication of testing activities.

Austin, Texas, Us

* Managed a quality assurance team of 10 engineers in a matrix engineering organization following Agile practices (Scrum & Kanban) with employees in Austin, TX and Des Moines, IA.* Hired QA engineers using recruiters and internal referrals. Mentored junior QA engineers on testing practices and test automation best practices. Introduced an engineering internship program.* Successfully transitioned some QA engineers to more suitable roles in support and development. Provided continuous feedback to engineers during weekly one-on-one meetings.* Implemented additional quality processes such as code reviews between QA and development engineers, created test plan templates (master, user story), and introduced session-based testing prior to product releases with participation from non-engineering staff (customer support, training, professional services)* Introduced test case management to capture both manual as well as automated test cases and to track their execution* Evaluated and introduced a cloud-based test automation service (SauceLabs)* Presented testing practices at the Test Leadership Congress in New York City (June 2018)

Denver, Co, Us

Same role as at UnboundID Corp. UnboundID was acquired by Ping Identity.

Austin, Tx, Us

* Managed a team of six QA engineers (based in Austin, TX and other US locations). Hired QA engineers through recruiters, internship programs and recruitment at local meetups. Managed out underperforming engineers in a humane and respectful manner. Facilitated career advancement of QA engineers in both testing and non-testing roles. Provided continuous feedback to engineers during weekly one-on-one meetings and 360-degree feedback during annual reviews.* Implemented additional quality processes such as coverage of patch releases, enabling code quality tracking with SonarQube, requiring code reviews by QA engineers for all product changes. Ensured a high level of automation at multiple testing levels (unit, functional, system as well as performance) against a complex product suite.* Introduced new tools and services to improve engineering productivity such as: improving integration between source control, code review and issue tracking systems, switching to Slack as the primary team communication with integration of key engineering services and pushing the company to move from on-premise to hosted services (e.g. moving from on-premise data center to Amazon AWS, leveraging hosted source control for new projects).* Managed engineering lab infrastructure, systems, and tools

Austin, Tx, Us

* First person to receive job offer from UnboundID with 4 co-founders. Worked as a backend developer of a Java-based high-scale identity management product suite deployed across data centers in environments with millions of users and memory usage often exceeding 100 GB.* Developed and enhanced the replication feature to keep data in sync between product instances with extreme high-scale, high-throughput and low-latency requirements. Introduced WAN-friendly feature to significantly reduce cross-site traffic.* Performed work duties for the first year as a remote employee

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

* Developed an extranet-focused, high-scale identity management J2EE application (Identity Manager Service Provider Edition). Designed and developed LDAP connector including a novel state-based change detection technique.* Prototyped and later integrated (a now patented) on-demand password synchronization between Active Directory and iPlanet Directory Server.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Designed and developed automated tests for security and replication features of iPlanet Directory Server. Developed stress and scale tests to exercise product limits. Outstanding work was recognized by the "Good Enough Never Is" award.

Developed model for web proxy caches using colored Petri net. Managed web proxy cache hierarchy in higher ed network. Provided pre-sales support for middleware applications from Process Software, Inc. and Innosoft International, Inc. Beta tested messaging and directory products. Numerous bug reports led to job offer from Innosoft (acquired by Sun Microsystems).

Ms, Information Technology

High School Diploma