I am a principal engineer with approximately twenty-five years of extensive hardware and software industry knowledge, including networking, security and geospatial disciplines. I am a high achiever who loves to learn new ideas and concepts while bringing harmony to any group I work with.I have been responsible for designing, developing, implementing and maintaining manual and automated test plans within an existing team for validation of requirements, verification of new features, enhancement and bug fixes. I worked side-by-side with Software Developers, System Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Technical Document Writers as part of our agile team. I have a passion for testing and software test automation.Helped to promote best practices and defined new patterns within our development teams to ensure quality was central.Assisted in the documentation of software requirements, plans, procedures, and result methodologies.Participated in design and code reviews for the team's automation work.Provided technical support as needed. Performed root cause analysis in both black box as well as white box testing paradigms.Experience translating business requirements provided by subject matter experts into user stories.I have conducted Manual, Acceptance, Functional, Integration, Unit, Stress, Performance and Regression testing concepts.Participated in Agile development methodologies.Provided guidance to overseas field service representative resources in Asia and Europe.Mentored junior quality assurance engineers both locally and internationally.Tested enterprise level applications in a SaaS environment.Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and critical thinking skills.Programing Languages: Java, C, C++, IDL, ENVIScripting:TCL/TK, Expect, Perl, Python, SeleniumGeographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools:SocetGXP, QGIS, ENVISoftware Tools: Perforce, CVS, EMACS, VI, Wireshark, Bugzilla, CDETS/QDETS, ATS, SilkTest, VMWare, VersionOne, JIRA, GIT, Stash, Bamboo, ConfluenceWeb: HTML, XML, CSS, CGI, JSON
Listed skills include Test Automation, Test Planning, Agile Methodologies, Testing, and 46 others.