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Houston, Texas, US

• Software developer and quality assurance engineer for Software Defined Opportunity Engine (SDOE), a pre-sales product that automatically generates a sales pipeline for replacement of existing HPE storage servers.
• Build, deploy and test of the full software stack from scratch and validate connectivity with the many external endpoints for data ingest
• Author, enhance, and fix automation tests including unit, integration, and End-To-End (E2E), with Pytest, PHPUnit and Cypress frameworks
• Design, maintain, and enhance automated CI/CD pipeline scripts for continuous integration with multiple GitHub repositories for code and Dockerhub Trusted Registry for images
• Organize and facilitate User Acceptance Testing with our Go To Market team

Houston, Texas, US

• Team player within the HPE SimpliVity HCI engineering organization, on the Agile Scrum team providing the public RESTful API and Docker-based centralized cache management service.
• Develop and test with Java, Spring MVC, Rest Assured, JUnit, Swagger, VMware, Docker.
• Review API design proposals, author and automate test strategies for new feature reliability.
• Triage, reproduce and define defects, fix test framework and product defects, validate fixes.
• Engage in story refinement, backlog grooming, sprint planning, review, retrospective.
• Create internal technical documentation in Confluence to collaborate with dozens of teams.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Integral part of the Verizon Cloud Storage product’s engineering team since inception, primarily responsible for test planning, automation, and execution of its Amazon S3 compatible interface.
• Developed test suites using Java and TestNG for Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift APIs.
• Created and integrated a testbed with VirtualBox including VMs, UI, networks and storage.
• Scripted turnkey solution using Vagrant, saving hours of setup time per test iteration.
• Coded test cases with bash and expect scripts, Java, TestNG, and.NET.
• Executed manual, functional, performance, scalability, availability, and durability testing.

San Jose, California, US