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Professional Summary:• I have over 24 years of experience in Information Technology, including 11 years of Field Support, 6 years of Senior Support as a Systems Engineer and Network Administrator, 10 years of Project Management and Manual Quality Assurance Testing Web, Mobile, Embedded software and hardware with experience on APTOS, APTOS ONE Mobile, IBM 4690, Oracle X-Store POS, Toshiba CHEC SurePOS ACE and SA, Fuel (Radiant Systems – NCR - RPOS) (Forecourt Controllers – Tiger / Panther), Mobile Testing (Android/iOS) as well as electronic payments EMV and PCI Compliance and End point security such as Carbon Black and Symantec• Led API testing efforts for GET, PUT and POST calls, entering API keys and values, modifying responses and replicate push notifications on mobile devices and verifying successful responses utilizing Postman and Swagger.• Experienced Analyst with extensive experience working on all phases of the POS and systems implementation cycle• My experience also includes installing and configuring workstations, servers and POS systems as well as network hardware and software.• Provar, selenium IDE/Katalon and Eclipse IDE Tools.• REST & Web API testing done with Swagger, Postman, Webservice SoapUI/Ready API tools.• Experience on Prod issue trend (from AppDynamics and Sumologic logs) analysis with Python.• The major levers that were focused on Test Automation leverage, QA enabled DevOps and Continuous Testing by implementing industry standard Frameworks, Technology and Processes.• Defining approach and implementing processes around Quality Engineering (QE) aspects of the CI/CD process.• I have also worked on troubleshooting LAN/WAN (TCP/IP - Switches and routers) issues on POS (Retail/Grocery) and manufacturing facilities’ networks.• I am POS software heavy in my QA roles (Agile/ Agile Scrum and some Waterfall Methodologies), as I have functioned as a software test engineer and 3rd level support.• Utilizing HP ALM, HP Quality Center, Jira for Defect tracking and Zephyr, SQL, Cucumber and Selenium for Automated testing functions and Postman for any API testing with a familiarity of C++, Visual Basic, SQL, and .NET.• I have held various management roles that include personnel (Offshore Engineers), hardware inventory and projects.• My experience is not limited to POS.• I also have extensive experience with Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016, Win XP and Win 7 Win 10.• I have performed duties as Network Administrator and am competent in Exchange, AD and Group Policy.

Listed skills include Cisco Technologies, Network Administration, Active Directory, Windows Server, and 16 others.