Joel Plavec Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

• Developed Automation via Smartware for Arqiva RNI & TGB SNMP alarms/traps• Created a device (T.A.R.S - Transceiver Alarm Relay Station) utilizing a Raspberry Pi embedded computer and analog relays using GPIO libraries to automate TGB Alarms. Patent application submitted (2016). Fabricated six units and BOM that are used by other teams as well. This work alone reduced manual testing from 30 hours a week to less than two hours.• Created a Power Block T.A.R.S unit which allowed automation of power disconnect testing for R100e which uncovered a major issue with the power caps and boot loader on the R100e which if released in the field would have resulted in bricked units.• Manage the Arqiva Lab which consists of 60 physical servers, virtualized into 400+ VM's• Central Monitoring of all managed RNI's & TGB's with OpenNMS and Dell Servers with OME• Support Thames Water, NA Demo Lab, and multiple other POC's and Trials.• Budget analysis work to reduce OPex costs by approximately 40k/year (software licensing support levels & hardware warranty support)• Determine hardware/software needs, obtain quotes & negotiate discounts from vendors, submit IAR/PO/PR as necessary• Recognized for efforts on Arqiva Releases (CB3, CB4, CB5, Network Isolation project for Scale Lab and T.A.R.S unit creation.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Lead for RNI Installation Team planning and execution• Planned and drove initiative for converting QA Wizard Pro RNI Health Check automation to Junit/Selenium/Webdriver Health Check automation• Provide technical knowledge of Installing RNI and debugging RNI issues• Manage 130+ Servers, 35+ Transceivers (TGB, M400, FRP, FNP) for Software QA Lab• Configure optimal RF bandwidth usage for Dev & QA's transceivers on multiple frequencies• Rebuild and Allocate RNI VM's according to needs of the teams needs• Daily triage of SWQA RNI's by analyzing results from hourly health checks• Configure all transceivers for Software Development and Software QA Testing• Create and fix issues with RNI auto-deploys & check in code fixes to trunk for auto-deploy• Assist with customer issues as needed

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Lead of off-shore Performance and Automation Teams• Implemented strategy, provided direction, and assigned sprint work to off-shore teams• Corrected Performance workflow issues to provide the first Product baseline measurement• Configured, Installed, Updated Client and Server VM’s and Templates in Lab Manager• Conducted bi-weekly status meetings with off-shore and on-shore teams• Created Automation VM cloning process & documentation saving three hours on deployment• Established and completed plan to migrate Automation source code from SVN to TFS• Executed automated full regression suites on each released test build• Reported Automation failures to off-shore Automation team for RCA • Reviewed checked-in code for coverage and build success

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Lead installer for the Sensus RNI (Regional Network Interface) 3.0 platformDefined and created installation processes for Development, QA and ProductionDesigned and executed a plan to reconfigure 60+ Dell servers for maximum RNI usageDeveloped tools for the Install team to use during installationsAssisted production with multiple customer installsTrained QA with process changes from RNI 2.0 Platform to RNI 3.0 PlatformCreated automation for UI and SSH testing using QA Wizard Pro and Netbeans IDE.Established new processes for new projects (Data Migration, Clustering, Router)Setup QA's VM Infrastructure using ESX optimizing physical hardware for maximum and efficient VM environments.Filled in for Ops to drive customer installation with 600k meters.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Developed automated tests using Eclipse IDE for Red Hat's Customer PortalContributed in daily scrums, sprint planning and deep divesCreated and re-factored automation for Jenkins nightly regression runsMaintained sprint tasks and defects through TRAC.

Developed Automated Test Cases using C# in VSTSAutomated 30% of the manual test cases in functional areas saving 20 manual hours of manual testingInserted and Modified Database Tables in Oracle and SQLCreated HTML and JavaScript web pages with Iframes for ad callsInstalled AdManager on Linux and configured into clustered environmentsCreated bash scripts for product updates, port and IP product testingUpdated Test Case Results, with manual and automated resultsParticipated in Development Deep Dives and Estimations, Agile and Scrum methodologiesTracked bugs and enhancements using Trac and Tackle to monitor product sprintsTested web application and ad delivery in Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and Firefox 2 & 3Designed User acceptance test and manual test cases as defined by technical specifications Setup Rackable System with 20 1U Servers running Linux for clustered environment.

Administrator of Mercury Quality Center Maintained and modified Quality Center with 35+ projects running simultaneouslyDeveloped Excel reports querying the Oracle DB using macros and pivot tablesReported pacing, aging, open rate and defect statusMaintained 24/7 uptime of Quality Center ServersEstablished training, on-demand web page for up to date information for QAPerformed mass updates via SQL queries or through Quality CenterConducted & Participated in Weekly Planning, Review and Status Meetings

Developed automation scripts using Mercury QTP for applications on XP and Vista platforms. Customized complex vbs install script to copy and install Mercury QTP and log the results.Administered Automation servers containing Quality Center and Floating License Server.Innovated processes to conduct NLS language scripting using Mercury QTP Created scripting test plan and coordinate testing activities with team of six.Conducted ISV Certification (performance) tests for mobile workstations

Developed test cases for new Rescue & Recovery with Client Security offeringAdministered Windows and Linux file servers with SATA and SCSI RAID arrays Created batch files and scripts to run command line Organized master test plan and coordinate testing activities with 15 sub-contractors.Developed automation scripts to supplement Desktop preload testing

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