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-Served as QA Project Lead for quarterly release cycles with a focus on stability, scalability, and performance for Cloud service integration platform and enterprise class UI that managed IAAS, PaaS, SaaS, DRaaS, and BaaS deployment strategies.-Qualified features relating to custom private and public cloud models, billing/invoicing subsystems including usage and revenue reporting, integrated 3rd party backup solutions including Falconstor Recovertrac (BaaS, DRaaS) and Acronis (BaaS), and roles based dashboarding.-Refocused testing efforts to bridge gaps across Business, Technical Service and Development groups. The subsequent adoption of DevOps practices resulted in significant cost savings for the company. Initiated efforts to define requirements and establish process and procedures for installation and configuration of production systems. -Routinely communicated design review improvements, including challenges to inefficiencies and overlooked requirements, which led to prevention of costly product redesigns.

-Met regularly with development architects and Executive VP of engineering on high-level requirements analysis.-QA Project Lead for key feature releases of Egenera PAN Domain Manager, a single managed resource pool of heterogeneous hardware including Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and NEC.

-Led QA functional test group responsible for key feature releases of Egenera PAN Domain Manager. -Fostered creativity, energy, and individual growth in teams while achieving business objectives.

-Helped define requirements for building a test automation framework written in Java based on STAF (Software Testing Automation Framework) Java API. Member of cross-functional team responsible for establishing automating processes and coding standards.-Automated test cases using Perl and STAF that were integrated into the automation framework.-QA Project Lead for major releases of Egenera PAN Domain Manager.

-QA Project Lead for major software and hardware releases of Egenera BladeFrame and PAN Manager software (the BladeFrame was a hardware stack that combined bladed servers, fabric backplane, firmware and management software). -Coordinated and managed the testing efforts of 10+ QA Engineers of varying abilities in multiple time zones. -Automated server patch installations, VMware host and guest setup and designed an overnight run manager that emailed automation test and log scraping results.-Led VMWare driver certification on GSX 3.0 and 3.1.

-Developed beans and client applications using Java, and XML for Hitachi Enterprise Java Beans server (EJB) and assisted in porting Sun’s Compatibility Test Suite.-Qualified Hitachi TPBroker Notification Service. Ported tests written in C++ to Solaris and HP-UX platforms including a redesign of a portable list data structure class in C++ for NT, Solaris, and HP-UX. Configured and maintained network configurations involving homogeneous and heterogeneous platforms.-Qualified OSIRIS HI-OSF/1-M operating system. Mainframe device configuration, network troubleshooting (Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI/CDDI, and Cisco routers). Performance and stability, NFS, TCP, system administration.