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Cary, NC, US

Sydney, NSW, AU

Manage fully remote team of 9 QA Engineers and 4 SDETsDefine and adjust QA strategies to ensure consistent approachesEstablish/Monitor metrics and KPIs to monitor QA effectivenessCreate/Review procedures and test plansCoordinate QA efforts across 20+ development teamsAdvocate for improvements to automated test developmentHire/Mentor/Grow QA Engineers and.

Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely andrelevant feedbackBuild detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test casesEstimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activitiesDesign, develop and execute automation scripts using open source toolsIdentify, record, document thoroughly and track.

Lead testing efforts of Client/Service scenarios as well as Front end Website reporting.Lead development efforts for data collection application and remote inventory tools.Managed team of 3 developers in geographically distributed locations through sprints and ensured timely delivery of assigned tasks.Mentored developers on best practices.Worked with.

Seattle, WA, US

• Manage QA tasks and assign sprint story tasks
• Automation of recurring regression cases using Selenium IDE
• Test front end web experiences as items are identified
• Test backend cube changes
• Review SSRS reports to ensure red line compliance
• Create and maintain test plan documents to aid other testers

Redmond, Washington, US

• Drive Telemetry and Business Intelligence reporting for Xbox Dashboard features
• Prepare feature area usage and Business Intelligence reports using MS SQL queries and SSRS
• Provide OneNote documentation and in person training to feature teams on telemetry best practices
• Mentoring/growing junior SDETs in virtual team environment
• Managed 2 person vendor team that is developing an internal test case feedback tool
• Worked with test management across Microsoft to ensure cross product end to end scenario testing

Redmond, Washington, US

• Own Application Manager testing and test development
• Xbox Dash performance analysis
• Xbox Theme validation
• URI navigation automation and validation
• Xbox Dashboard Business Intelligence and usage analysis
• Internet Explorer for Xbox test/test development

Redmond, Washington, US

• Drove cross team testing of Zune music, video and application testing
• Own Zune setup and upgrade experiences
• Develop/maintain test tool installer MSI tool
• Feature and test strategy planning for E7 product
• Administration of large VM server deployment for test
• Hiring/Managing/Mentoring team of talented SDETs.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Managed a large v-team working in Redmond and Dublin
• Drove test planning and development for 4 separate projects

Redmond, Washington, US

• Managing/Mentoring team of talented SDETs.
• Drove testing of PBDA-IP API testing for 3 network tuner devices
• Test planning and coordination with Silicon Valley team for shared features

Redmond, Washington, US

• Maintain/develop relationships with internal and external storage partners.
• Hiring/Managing/Mentoring team of talented SDETs.
• Manage lab budgets, track lab spending and prepare budget reports.
• Create or review new test plans and procedures. Conduct periodic reviews of existing test plans and procedures.
• Drive creation and adherence to solid test architectures. Conduct regular code reviews.
• Ensure all automation is properly documented.

Redmond, Washington, US

Ensure quality of storage components (iSCSI/Fibre Channel/Multi-Path IO/SCSI/RAID/CDROM-DVD/CD Recording/Removable storage/Tape-Media Changers).Test, raise bug reports and ensure follow thru on problems encountered.Work with all teams within the company to ensure proper testing of shared components.Maintain lab hardware and devices. Procure new devices as.

Randolph AFB, TX, US

Monitor and predict solar flare activity, coronal mass ejections and energetic proton events. Issue warnings with sufficient lead time to protect government satellites and resources.

Randolph AFB, TX, US

Analyze weather data and prepare 72 hour forecast for local area. Prepare warning and advisories on severe weather events. Prepare worldwide en-route weather briefings for air crews.Programming C projects - Random file generation and storage stress test. Tape exercise/data integrity test.C# projects -.inf file validation tool. iSCSI login/session/disk.