Paul Edgar Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx

IBM, Austin, TexasSeniorVerification Engineer/Lead Inventor, Senior Software Verification. Experienced with Storage Systems from IBM, EMC, Netapp administration. Using Rational Team Concert for change management in a continuous delivery agile environment.• Responsible for quality advocacy, planning, implementation, testing & validation, and quality reporting across multiple development projects• Defined testing strategy and execute from end to end• Wrote test plans… Show more IBM, Austin, TexasSeniorVerification Engineer/Lead Inventor, Senior Software Verification. Experienced with Storage Systems from IBM, EMC, Netapp administration. Using Rational Team Concert for change management in a continuous delivery agile environment.• Responsible for quality advocacy, planning, implementation, testing & validation, and quality reporting across multiple development projects• Defined testing strategy and execute from end to end• Wrote test plans, designed test cases, setup project specific environments, coordinate defect tracking, and testing effort across inter-dependent projects• Performed and coordinated unit testing, integration testing, functionaltesting, scenario testing, UI testing, acceptance testing, among team members• Developed and improved quality assurance methodologies and procedures to ensure delivery of software that is on-time and of acceptable quality• Provided regular updates to scrum team, QA Manager on testprogress and any outstanding issues• Analyzed business requirements, and functional requirements in order to identify gaps and risks. Escalate and rectify any gaps and risks identified with software architects and technical managers appropriately.• Communicated with stakeholders on expectations and acceptance criteria of functional requirements and expected quality of software product being developed• Attended scrum stand-ups, planning sessions, retrospective meetings, demomeetings with the team• Researched and remained current with industry tools and standards for testing• Lab administrator lead, performing and delegating lab tasks to insure network and machine uptime was maximized• Tested and validated the CAPP/EAL3 and CAPP/EAL4 certifications on RedHat and SuSE.• Published three papers, two available on the Internet. Show less

Testing Enterprise level software in an Agile environment, working globally with Team members in the US and the EU.

QA on various products

Austin, Texas Area

Testing software in a variety of environments, form web based applications, to centralized files distribution systems, to storage sub systems, to the linux kernel. Relying of virtualization for effeceincy, and agile methodologies for time to market.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCESoftware VerificationVerification of database software, new development, hot fixes, service packs

Software VerificationVerification of software drivers, and connectivity for Reflection software from personal computers to mainframes