Mark Boot Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

evolutionQ provides robust quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum Delivery Network (QDN) software product BasejumpQDN™ provides quantum-safe security services to high-speed networks. A quantum-safe software product that allows organizations who are building a network based on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) devices to easily deploy and.

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Completely overhauled and updated the software release regression test and release procedures to improve software quality and facilitate company growth out of the start-up phase. Implemented realistic soak and stress.
• Resource Management: Interviewing and hiring Senior Management, QA Engineers and co-op students.
• Technical & Thought Leadership: Improved and documented QA and Agile processes, displayed more efficient ways of working and a hands-on approach to testing and troubleshooting.

Waterloo, Ontario

• As the Senior Engineering Manager, I am proactive in ensuring customer facing software releases are delivered on time using Agile methodology and that my team produces high-quality deliverables. I prioritize customer.
• Resource Management: Interviewing and hiring new Development and QA Engineers. Allocating resources according to project and business needs.
• Operations Management: Spearheaded 5+ teams/25 engineers including Software QA, Software Development and Customer Escalations Development; provided resource planning and budget management services in addition to.
• Project & Product Management: Integral participant in cross-functional planning of projects for companies of all sizes (large international to small local), including software and hardware deliverables, applications.

Waterloo, Ontario

• I created and executed detailed Test Plans and Strategies for new features. I reproduced customer issues in-house to help developers debug the issues; I created a new software release process and improved software.
• QA & Release Process: Reimagined various aspects of QA process, created and implemented a new software release process at Exinda that dramatically improved the quality of customer-facing software releases, leading to a.
• Introduced Automated Testing: Championed developing and introducing automated testing and automated test suites. Previously all testing was done manually at Exinda
• Team Leadership: Mentored testers who were investigating problems by giving them the tools and guidelines they needed rather than just giving them the answers; fostered a true learning environment by putting.

Kitchener, Canada Area

• I Developed and implemented Test Plans and Test Cases for new and existing features; I performed in-depth performance testing because this was a very difficult problem to solve.
• Test Planning & Strategy: Created a complete Product Test Plan for end to end test coverage of all existing and new features; determined which test cases should be executed manually and which should be automated.
• Test Execution: Conducted functional, system, usability, and performance testing in physical hardware and virtualized environments.
• High Bandwidth Traffic Suite: Created a high bandwidth traffic generation suite using open source tools.

Montreal, QC

• Some of my contributions during this time include:
• International Team Coordination: Coordinated software development and technical issues on an international level between Research and Development organizations in Canada, Germany, Finland, Croatia and China.
• Process Improvements: Implemented a Fault Slip Through Analysis process for software faults found at customer sites, resulting in improved test methods and test coverage
• Customer Relations: Performed customer demonstrations of new equipment and features and conducted customer Acceptance Testing.
• System Testing: Wrote System Test Plans and Performed System Testing on Mobile Network core nodes. Debugged and fixed complex software faults in test site and live customer site environments.