Charles Fernandez Email & Phone Number

Fremont, Ca

- Lead various high profile/highly visible quality assurance projects.- Lead teams with specific assignments, including myself.- Determined task lists and effort estimates, then communicated information to managers.- Created test reports and other metrics applicable to the project.- Actively participated in the QA process through requirements/design analysis and development of test plans and strategies, for both internal and external products.- Developed localization, internationalization, and workflow test cases.- Suggested, implemented, and evaluated approaches to testing strategies across a wide variety of platforms.- Performed automation, functionality, performance, and stress tests.- Performed Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese localization and internationalization tests.- Logged defects in bug database with clear and complete information, and tracked the defects to ensure resolution.- Troubleshot basic defects, networking, and operating system problems.- Troubleshot customer defects.- Interacted with the Engineering team to help in problem reproduction, provided information related to the defects, helped in its resolution, and informed the Engineering team of trouble areas.- Analyzed failure reports and made recommendations to improve existing quality assurance processes.- Reviewed customer documentation and verified release media.- Participated on the additional task of introducing Pseudo-Localization while working in parallel with regular work.- Mentored junior team members and new hires.

- Performed black box tests on the Spanish version of HEAT 8.03, and reported functionality, layout, localization, translation, and truncation issues using an internal bug tracking system called ReleaseManagement.- Performed Spanish translation and localization fixes on the Spanish version of HEAT 8.03.- Performed Spanish translation and localization fixes on the Spanish version of HEAT Demo database using Microsoft Access and HEAT's Administrator and Call Logging modules.- Performed Spanish translation and localization fixes on the Spanish Crystal Reports using HEAT 7.0 and Crystal Reports.- Performed regression tests to verify bug fixes, closed them, and/or reported a new regression related bug.

- Wrote, tested, and implemented a check services daemon, which port scanned a service to verify that a network line is alive.- Aided other software engineers by maintaining and performing quality assurance tests on both the Mask Utilities Manager (MUM) and the Automated Utilities Management System (autUMS).- Wrote, tested, and implemented both an autUMS and a MUM Default Reader Class, which read autUMS and MUM Default files respectively from any local and remote directory.- Wrote, tested, and implemented a Log Out Class, which opened and appended information into an autUMS log file at different levels of performance.- Wrote, tested, and implemented a checksum function in accordance to SEMI P10-0301 standard.- Performed HP-UX systems administration.- Performed basic Mask Tooling tasks.

- Tested functionality and performance of new and/or existing hardware components and application software according to customer specifications. And reported results.- Aided in the performance of package drop test and system shock/vibration test. Checked for systems functionality after such tests.

- Designed models and tested components for Wind Tunnels.- Prepared detail drawings from drafting board and workstations.- Incorporated drawing changes and developed details for fit and assembly of used test hardware.- Assisted other engineers with their designs and project research.