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San Francisco, California, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Nuremberg, De

Woburn, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Key technical leader directing Quality Assurance Team for the company's core product and hot fix releases. Collaborate across departments including product management, pre-Sales, development, support engineering and Professional Services, to prioritize and define needed test cases. Enhance the QA process for new releases and service pack distribution, including creating QA release schedules, defining the process for test execution and reporting, presenting weekly metrics to management on QA status, ensuring service packs are released with a known level of quality, and measuring impact/results. Incorporate system testing and drive the automation of test cases using a combination of Selenium and an internally-designed test automation framework. Manage team workload and resource optimization by forming and coaching high-performance team. Key Projects and Impact:Significantly improved overall QA process by adding test result trackability per release and per hot fix, and adding task and release scheduling with team accountability.Enforced hot fix testing before releasing to customer resulting in a significant improvement in the quality of hot fix deployment to customers.Increased team output by creating a schedule to help drive deliverables and identifying areas where testing could be combined, allowing for increased test development and execution.Elevated level of team skills and reputation within company by encouraging staff to do further research and proactively seek solutions. Promoted quality within engineering department and services team by incorporating the reporting and scheduling tools to back up overall quality reporting. Pushed issues of quality at time of estimation and at all phases of the software development cycle.

Austin, Texas, Us

Managed eight-member, globally dispersed WebLogic Server (WLS) Stress Test team, and oversaw work with release management, development managers and functional QA managers to set release schedules and ensure highest quality output. Directed, scheduled, and stress tested multi-tiered applications, ensuring enterprise level quality across all components of WLS and WLS Virtual Edition. Delivered results and recommendations to enhance existing architecture. Applied knowledge of software architecture to manage team tasks associated with developing and debugging applications according to provided design specifications. Developed and mentored staff and paved a strong engineering foundation by fostering accountable and empowering environment/culture. Key Projects and Impact:Worked with all areas of SDLC to promote required load/stress level of testing and delivered continural project status including potential risk areas.Successfully managed test lab consisting of over 100 machines and an F5 BigIP hardware load balancer.Successfully led team through the BEA acquisition by Oracle with no attrition; worked with my team on assimilation into Oracle big-company culture and processes.

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Technical Lead for QA of a distributed test team in the system test (full application) and RASp testing spaces. Implemented a customer-focused use case approach to test development to incorporate documentation, console, monitoring, usability and functionality in all test cases. Incorporated new testing methodology to allow for multiple product components to be included into an individual test case. Ran security regression tests and developing new end-to-end tests; focused testing on SSL, certificate management and user lockout management. Scheduled and developed test design specification and reviewed functional specifications while mitigating risks. Cross-trained and empowered team members to learn tests in the three major areas: recovery, load/stress, and end-to-end. Helped train developers on writing and monitoring unit tests based on the QA automation test suite. Key Projects and Impact:Successfully led the team to deliver new test design specifications and related tests for ten new features. Streamlined processes and communication that improved how BEA handled security-related product defects.Built, mentored and managed the system test team -- the first distributed QA test team within BEA and attributed to laying out the ground work for future distributed teams.Tested the WLS to WLE connector as part of the 6.x release of WLS, and continued into the 7.x WLS release by developing new tests around BEA’s Keystore implementation that secured mission-critical access to MBean data.Tested Tuxedo over SSL and Orbix interoperability testing. Assisted developers in identifying product defects. Began as individual contributor and left as highly respected and successful team manager known for delivering on-time, highest-quality projects.

Nashua, Nh, Us