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Burlington, Ma

Charles River Development is a front- and middle-office investment management software solutions provider for hundreds of buy-side firms worldwide. Part of the Compliance team for the IMS product (C#, Java, Perl, Tomcat, SQL Server, Oracle), performing manual and automated (SilkTest/Silk4Net) testing, maintaining test documentation, and assisting with the development of the automation infrastructure.Highlights• Created a framework for executing and managing automated tests that is used company-wide (PowerShell)• Redesigned Compliance performance/engine tests, drastically reducing the time to load databases, prepare the environments and execute tests (PowerShell)• Implemented a reporting system for the team, displaying test/automation data on a web-based dashboard and sending emails when appropriate (Apache, PHP, Ruby, PowerShell)• Developed a module allowing automation hosts to control remote machines (Windows/Linux/Solaris), allowing the addition of Linux/Solaris hosts to our automation environments and reducing the number of required SilkTest licenses by more than 50% (PowerShell, SilkTest/Silk4Net)

Bedford, Ma

Casenet provides a customizable health management solution for payers and care coordinators. Worked on the TruCare product (Adobe Flex, SQL Server, JBoss), performing manual and automated testing, test coordination and planning, test plan creation/maintenance, and test repository management.Highlights• Created an automated smoke test for TruCare, which interacted with the Bamboo build server (PowerShell, SilkTest)• Implemented a reporting system for automation results (Apache, PHP, SQL Server)• Created a suite of automated web services tests (SoapUI)

Cambridge, Ma

A leader in real-time healthcare communications, NaviNet provides a multi-payer portal to manage payer/provider transactions (C#, ASP.NET, IIS, SQL Server). Performed manual and automated testing of core product; wrote and maintained test documentation; assisted with the management of test environments, including load balancer configuration.Highlights• Scripted complex server configuration and installation tasks (Batch, PowerShell)• Rebuilt data-driven automation framework (SilkTest)• Created a suite of smoke tests for new customer/feature roll outs (Watir)

Boston, Ma

Resolve produced data management and reporting tools for the real estate investment market (C#, IIS, SQL Server). Performed manual and automated (TestComplete) testing, validated calculation results, wrote and maintained test plans, assisted with domain administration and machine configuration.Highlights• Created a suite of data-driven automated tests (TestComplate, JavaScript)• Developed tools to automatically create tests for newly-introduced reports

Boston, Ma

SunGard (BancWare) provides integrated asset/liability risk management solutions to financial institutions. Performed manual and automated testing of the ALM product (C++, SQL Server), verified product calculation results, wrote and maintained test documentation.Highlights• Created an automated test harness from scratch (SilkTest)• Re-wrote and maintained ALM's Excel Add-In (VBA)• Set up, managed and configured distributed computing environments

Norwood, Ma

IMS was a producer of gas separation membranes for industrial and laboratory use. Tested quality of physical product and wrote/maintained in-house software applications (QBasic, C, VBA).Highlights• Re-wrote interface for module winding machine software, added new calculations to output (C)• Designed, built and wrote software for a hardware automated test system (VB)

Cambridge, Ma

AspenTech produces a suite of products focused on process engineering and optimization. Performed manual and automated (SilkTest) testing of the Aspen Plus product, a process design and simulation software package (C++); created and modified test plans; performed test "lab" maintenance, including the installation and imaging of OSs in a variety of languages.