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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Key Accomplishments: Organized and led all QA activities of Tealeaf component of IBM Watson Customer Experience Analytics. IBM Analytics portfolio was merged into Acoustic Inc. in April 2020. Expanded automation coverage from 15 to 95%. Zero high or medium-priority production defects for the last 4 years. Technical Leadership Developed and drove strategy and vision for 8 test automation developers and 12 manual testers to establish a clear and repeatable process emphasizing QA fundamentals and best coding practices for development velocity and maintainability .Test Automation Expanded and improved Java/Selenium framework to allow for fast development that led to growth of test automation coverage from 15 to 95%. Implemented Selenide (Selenium wrapper), expanded Page Object Model, integrated API, DB, and other libraries into framework, to increase average test case development velocity from .5 to 2 test cases per day. Continuous Integration and Delivery Architected, implemented, and evolved build and deployment pipeline to integrate automated Unit, BAT, Smoke, and 1300 Regression tests. Cross-Team Integration Established Agile development process with well-defined product quality standards, monitoring, and self-evaluation. Measured and analyzed inefficiencies across development and quality teams and implemented solutions that addressed them.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Key Accomplishments: Served as a hands-on leader at an established startup prior to, and after purchase by Cox. Combined Director of QA responsibilities with working as Developer, Dev Manager, Dev Ops Manager, Automation Architect, and an Agile Coach. Expanded automation coverage from 20 to 80%. Xtime Quality Organization Provided technical leadership in all aspects of day-to-day team operation though product knowledge, technical expertise, and QA fundamentals. Grew quality organization from 12 to 30 QEs, operating in 10, 3-person teams.Test Automation Architected Java/Selenium-based framework and written a significant portion of automated test cases. Created sample code and templates for the rest of the team to follow. Architected automation framework to execute 1500 test cases on nightly basis with only 4-hour runtime and stable pass rate. Agile/SCRUM Acted as an Agile Coach to help convert engineering organization from Waterfall model with 3- month development cycle, into Agile model with 2-week Sprints, Test-Driven development, and Continuous Integration. Transformed QA team into an Agile QA with focus on test automation.Xtime Engineering Organization Developed and executed a plan to merge isolated development and quality teams into cohesive Scrum teams. Helped developers to implement test-driven process with automated Unit Tests that were incorporated into hourly CI builds along with functional Build Acceptance tests (BATs).

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Key Accomplishments: Reporting to CTO, responsible for hands-on contribution and leadership for 3 teams: Back-End Engineering Team (10 SEs), Test Automation Team (5 SETs), and Ecofactor Quality Organization (10 QA/QEs supporting FE and BE teams). SCRUM master for all 3 teams’ associated projects. Actively recruited 15 of the 25 current team members.Ecofactor Quality Organization Started out as 50% tester, 50% manager while growing a team of 2 testers into 15-member Ecofactor Quality Organization, supporting over 30 developers with manual and automated test coverage approaching Continuous Integration. Shifted focus from individual contribution to management tasks as needed.QE Automation Team Acted as a lead developer and framework architect to the team of 5 quality engineers in India, to design Java-based automation framework using Selenium Web Driver for UI object interactions and Jenkins for automation job scheduling and execution. Used Appium for extending automation framework to run Selenium tests on over 30 mobile devices on a wide range of Android and iOS versions. Over 1000 tests cases are executed on daily basis on a farm of 30 Jenkins slaves and 60 executers, providing 95% automated regression coverage in 1 hour.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Key Accomplishments: Provided hands-on leadership to a team of five local and three offshore test automation developers for Social projects (Facebook, Tweeter, email ads, Pinterest, etc.) for eBay’s View Item page. The SLA for this project is zero production issues, with 80% of testing automated. Successfully delivered this level of quality and automation coverage, though multiple releases of four Social projects.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Key Accomplishments: Provided leadership, and technical expertise in developing, expanding, and implementing 2 Automation Frameworks, in fully automated (no manual testing) Continuous Integration (CI) environment. Integrated both frameworks into Jenkins (Hudson) CI.

Neuilly Sur Seine, Ile De France, Fr

Key Accomplishments: Managed a team of 15 offshore and local Software Engineers in Test in design, development, and implementation of a fully featured Test Automation Framework for Sephora’s E-Commerce Web and Mobile sites.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Acted as a manager and lead architect and developer of an extensive Test Automation Framework that used WinRunner, LoadRunner, and TestDirector for a Java-based telecom equipment Monitoring, Security Auditing, and Administration application. By project completion, over 90% of manual test cases were automated, which reduced combined test cycle (smoke, verification, integration, regression, and data conversion) from 6 to 2 weeks. Responsible for training and mentoring more junior members of the automation team, while sharing various techniques, frameworks, and libraries accumulated over years of working with WinRunner, QuickTest, and TestDirector.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for hardware and software testing of Avidia DSLAMs and associated (ADSL, SDSL, OC3, DS1/DS3/DSX, T1/E1, IDSL) cards. As well as ADSL, SDSL, and IDSL modems, using SmartBits Traffic Generators, RedBack SMS, and various Routers, Bridges, and Gateways. All PairGain(ADC) products were targeted for telephone company infrastructure environment providing networking and cellular cervices. This position included responsibilities for Security Auditing, Quality Assurance, and Test Automation.

Cupertino, California, Us

Worked on porting Novell NetWare Servers to Apple PowerPC hardware. As an expert of Novell networking and client-server software and Apple hardware, was responsible for testing and integration of Novell/Apple hybrid into IP/IPX, AppleTalk, and Token Ring environments. Performed testing of NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) on the server, and NetWare Directory Services management tools on Intel and Apple-based clients.

Provo, Ut, Us

Performed manual and automated testing of Novell NetWare network software, directory services, server and client-based products. Completed several Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) courses on Networking, Network Infrastructure, and Client-Server Network Administration. Tested a wide range of Server-based NLMs and client-based NetWare administration, configuration, and management applications. Implemented security techniques, US and Export Encryption standards, and Active Directory development.

Mba, Fully Employed Mba (It Emphasis)

B.S, Computer Engineering