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Redmond, Wa, Us

• Embedded Linux• High latency satellite communications products, software and hardware• Strategic and tactical test planning• Agile focused shop• JIRA/Jenkins/JAMA tools• Mentoring• Interviewing/hiring input for expanding QA staff• Organizational analysis

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Principal responsibility for design, architecture, and implementation of test automation strategy f for F5 BIGIP vCMP virtual cloud provider product line: https://f5.com/resources/white-papers/virtual-clustered-multiprocessing-vcmp• Automated test/design for dynamic resource allocation for virtual cloud provider products.• Load Balance/Scale/Performance test automation• Design and implementation of high volume network traffic test schemes• Automated testing of network traffic disaggregation into clustered multi-processing chassis• Test automation for protocol validation, Class of Service/Quality of Service, DoS protection • Provide strategic and tactical support for other teams working on Test Automation within F5• Mentoring of techniques and coding practices organization wide.

SDETVirtualization (late binding hypervisor)DebuggingConcurrency• Primary quality assurance responsibility for concurrency bug finding and reporting tool• Testing of late binding thin hypervisor, kernel driver, Linux daemon/Windows service• Extensive automated test coverage for Windows and Linux platforms• Complex test coverage matrix for multiple platforms, compilers, and CPU models• Test automation written in Python, C, C++, C#• Automation infrastructure design and implementation for complex multi-platform test lab• Custom UI test automation library design and development

Suwanee, Georgia, Us

• Lead engineer responsible for test automaton for Cable TV DVR set top boxes• Developed from scratch automated test harness and all automated tests• Primary development responsibility for automated tests covering 7 device platforms• Technologies included CableCard (one-way and two-way), QAM, HD, DAC configuration• Responsible for daily test results reports distributed inter-department to set organizational development/sustaining priorities• Primary automation language used was Ruby; work included significant C++ and C#• Design and implementation of load and stress testing strategies, automation, and result reporting

Buffalo, New York, Us

@Microsoft• Responsible for test design and execution for scan feature of anti-malware software project• 85% automated (C++), 15% manual testing• Extensive development of C++ automation, including support framework, for automated testing• Project involved significant inter- and intra-team communication responsibilities• Development included file system filter device, thorough knowledge of file system security concepts

• Responsible for automated testing of IBM Host Emulation (Mainframe, AS/400 Terminal Emulation)• Coded 95% of tests automated; test language and harnesses in C++• Participated in design and coding of harnesses for automation• Win32 API, COM, DLL API's• API testing specialist (VB/A, VB, C, C++)• Some in-house host administration responsibilities (multiple mainframes, AS/400s)• Team rigidly adhered to Extreme Programming (XP) Agile Development discipline

Us

• Responsible for code implementation of distributed cache middleware for network cluster enablement; scalable to 20 nodes• Software designed and tested to meet "five nines" reliability requirement.• High performance/ultra-scalable implementation.• Target distribution platform: Solaris 2.x. Maintained x-platform for Win32, Solaris, and Linux at all times.• Full responsibility for all deliverables, including cross team integration, documentation, and API/usage dissemination across multiple development teams.• Design and implementation of memory management schemes, including multi-gigabyte scalable, fast, shared memory manager• Extensive use of both System V and Posix specifications.• Implemented proxy specifications, including SOCKS4/5; custom proxy systems and architectures.• Extensive experience with all facets of the UDP datagram protocol, including proxying.