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Southborough, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Spearhead evolution of product design and architecture, sales rollout plan, and engineering roadmap for firearms digitization and regulations PoS and ecommerce platform.Drive business development for start-up company, identifying and selecting open-source tools and third-party companies (on-shore and off-shore) to partner with and/or acquire for development of different components. Set corporate vision and standards, selecting languages and implementing best practices for coding, documentation, and testing.Designed and led implementation of flow of firearm transferring process verified by FIPB (Firearms Industry Programs Branch) of ATF as compliant and without need of variance.

Boston, Ma, Us

As technical team lead, defined, broke down, and prioritized work for engineering operationsManaged cross-functional offs-shore and local teams, facilitating meetings and leading engineering-wide initiatives, defining best practices for coding, documentation, layout, and testing. Created microservices for engineering and other teams to help standardize and automate common tasks. Architected, designed, and defined incremental deliverables, and story mapped several cross-engineering projects in Python 3.7.x.Designed environmental service for VMWare, Hyper-V, and multiple clouds to spin up different product endpoints or test clients on or off premise.Led development of cross-platform, cross-team, cross-product automation framework to replace legacy framework, creating several Python packages and micro-services to assist with CI/CD pipelines, utilities, and product testing.Conducted proof of concept investigations for new tools, libraries, and techniques.Created CI/CD pipelines for internal code using Drone and Docker containers; auto-deploying microservices across engineering.

Boston, Ma, Us

Architected, designed, and led implementation of modular, cross-platform, cross-product, cross-team automated testing framework for enterprise and consumer products.Championed design and implementation of best practices and processes, including Scrum processes, test driven development (TDD), and source code standards. Drove change through engineering to help transition from waterfall to Agile, encouraging cultural change from siloed organization. Served as point person for off-shore teams, hiring and training developers, defining and reviewing work and correcting functional deficiencies.Created automated Azure Active Directory integration tests using Python.Built and managed team that developed highly scalable client and server performance testing infrastructure in Azure.Designed, built, and implemented CI/CD pipelines for engineering.

Boston, Ma, Us

Architected and designed object-oriented cross-platform automation framework and tests from scratch for API and UI testsDeveloped and implemented code design standards, guidelines, policies, and best practices, leading local and off-shore teams in development of robust and flexible automated test modules. Scoped, scheduled, and conducted code reviews, prioritizing which features to automate in collaboration with internal product development, marketing, and sales teams.Implemented CI in parallel across multiple clients and operating systems, using Jenkins against SVN and Git repositories to improve testing for weekly product deployments.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Designed, implemented, improved, and maintained automated tests and harness infrastructure for security endpoint products and hardware.Designed and maintained complex NAC testing environments, including hardware, infrastructure, and test cases. Served as Automation Team Lead for 13-member international team, overseeing development of MDS/MDM feature and all components for ISE (Identity Service Engine) appliance and AnyConnect client (iOS/Android). Managed department project scope and schedule, identifying which features to automate and coordinating product releases for AnyConnect.Designed, implemented, and automated tests cases across different networks for multiple NAM testing scenarios.Won "Seymour Cray Execution" award (Q3, FY12) for NAC sustaining transition to team in India, remotely setting up lab and test beds and providing detailed training.

Burlington, Ma, Us

Designed, implemented, and maintained embedded system tests and testware infrastructureConstructed and executed tests and environments to verify storage system responses (using Python and C++) during differing error conditions and data redistribution recovery processes (SMB, CIFS, NFS, NTFS). Played key role in designing and maintaining complex automated testing environments, working with manual testers to automate workflows.Built more efficient data generation/verification tool, used by most tests, that increased speed by approximately 60%.

Product Support Department - Senior Quality Assurance EngineerLead tester for an imaging toolkit, written for many DLL, ActiveX, and .NET languages to support Windows, Macintosh, and Unix/Linux, primarily using C/C++, VB, C#, C#.NET and VB.NET.Greatly improved product quality, stability, and reduced the number of ticket related defects by ~29% in 2007.Discovered and filed over 1200 unique defects in the different products.Proposed and implemented several processes to help track issues, create valuable metrics, pass information between QA and Developers, and to improve general day-to-day activities.Oversaw and coordinated all test cycles from development to release day for all product releases and patches.Designed, created, and executed all test plans and tests for all versions and variations of the product.Worked closely with development teams, both on site and overseas, to work out defects and enhancements to the product.