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Accomplished Senior Software Test Engineering professional with 25+ years of experience. Extensive knowledge of theory related to area of expertise and a very strong knowledge of computer systems in general. Strong ability to investigate, design and develop state of the art test strategies to assure requirements and functionality of complex products are achieved. Demonstrated consistent technical excellence - leading investigations or technical advice with the ability to develop long term strategies. Several recognitions for both personal performance excellence and significant company contributions. Exceptional team/technical leadership on projects with significant scope and complexity - valued for hard work, strong contributions and dedication.Summary of Qualifications:• Ability to analyze and evaluate entire subsystems, complex problems and issues requiring a substantial level of creativity and ingenuity. Capable of making project level decisions of a technical nature based on own research. • Able to work autonomously and on multiple projects simultaneously with the utmost trust in technical judgment. • Excellent project management skills – constant verbal and written communications; determine and track project level deficiencies and issues, as well as provide information to other responsible parties within the organization. • Ability to learn software systems and components independently, with documentation and access to source code, when needed. • Functions as a test project leader or highly skilled individual contributor on small/large, complex projects or on projects which cross functional boundaries.• Develops and directs test development project plans, schedules, functional specifications, documentation, design specifications, test plans, new code and bug fixes.

Listed skills include Perl, Linux, Unix, Vmware Esx, and 16 others.

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  Senior Qa Software Engineer

  Stratus Technologies

  Nov 1987 - Present - Maynard, Ma

  • Senior individual contributor and project leader across multiple organizations. • Leads team of engineers through complex projects, influences management decisions within a department and provide consulting services when called upon regularly by peers and management. • Identifies and addresses technical resolutions for fixing complex software defects through testing and inspections. • Consistently evaluates options, project needs and provides recommendations for the best overall solution. Independently researches areas of emerging technology and proposes projects to test their viability and applicability to the company. Capable of proving feasibility and developing explorative “proof of concept” prototypes. • Publish and disseminates research and technology findings through the internal software engineering community. • Accountable for evaluation, recommendation and implementation of test development and support processes within the department. Current work to include:• Designed and implemented software automation using PERL program language in an object oriented approach to test common functionality across different operating systems (Windows, Linux, VMWare/ESX). • Developed automated test harness used to run and monitor both functional and application stress tests for Windows and Linux. •Developed and ported application stress tests from Windows to Linux and from Linux to proprietary operating system VOS which is POSIX compliant. • Designed and implemented application tests for both Windows and Linux, using C/C++ programing language. • Lead test automation projects to reach over 50% functional test automation goal using both VBScript and PERL. • Produces test plans and strategies for all size software projects. Reviews functional and design specifications and inspects specifications for large projects. • Provides technical bug reports; prepares project proposals and manpower loading estimates.

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  Framingham State College

  Computer Science