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Austin, Texas Area

Functional skills and responsibilities1. Effectively manage a team of QA Engineers through test planning, budgeting, resource leveling, follow-up.2. Plan, develop, communicate and execute the overall quality assurance strategy for software deliverables, with attention to details.3. Manage multiple projects and priorities in a deadline driven environment.4. Well versed in Agile software development and testing in a cross-functional environment.5. Great critical thinking, problem-solving, analytical skills, failure analysis skills6. Principal evangelist for quality within the technology team.Soft skills and responsibilities1. Excellent communication, listening, follow-up, interpersonal, and negotiation skills2. Possess a strong team work ethic, with ability to work with personnel at all levels in all departments.3. Grow and mentor less experienced team members while maintaining high motivation level and initiative

Austin, Texas Area

Energetic and driven senior quality assurance automation engineer with a demonstrated history of developing AWL's QA and automation practices and infrastructure. There is no feature that I have not tested and no feature that I can't automate. I love testing challenges.Functional skills and responsibilities1. Expert in building automation test frameworks and automation to ensure that software deliverables consistently meet the required quality goals.2. Expert in leveraging Selenium/WebDriver for browser automation.3. Expert in unit, functional, back box, white box and regression testing.4. Expert in c# programming language5. Experience building and testing RESTful web services6. Exceptional troubleshooting ability. I have not just found bugs, but dug into product code to find the root cause and suggested fixes.Soft skills and responsibilities1. Flexible and adaptable in a fast-paced, start-up like environment. 2. Results-oriented, proactive self-starter, will lead project initiative.3. Team player/builder, possess a “can-do” attitude.4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Redmond, Wa

In summary, I was responsible for assuring my feature quality to the high standards that customers expect. 1. Key deliverable included product design reviews, code reviews, test plan and test strategy development, test case development, automation and sustained engineering. 2. Planned, estimated and prioritized test work items.3. Developed test framework, test tools, utilities that supported testing on multiple operating systems, processor architecture and languages.4. Validated functional, scenario based, integration, user interface and user experience, through automated and manual testing.5. Delivered automation that was reliable, repeatable, and reusable.6. Blogged on feature scenarios which made its way into product documentation.7. Supported customer issues in product forums, showcased features at product fairs, and advocated customer feedback into the product. 8. Adhered to the same code quality standards as product code.9. Improved test engineering practices and guidelines by recommending and implementing improvements to test processes.In addition to technical challenges, I demonstrated soft skills that are crucial to shipping great products. These include, among others, confidence, cross boundary collaboration, and interpersonal awareness.

Sena Systems provides identity and access management solutions. I deployed and validated a secure cryptographic key infrastructure that provided secrecy, confidentiality, data integrity, and source authentication of messages.1. Created and configured hosting environment using BEA WebLogic application server on SuSE Linux2. Partnered with internal resource teams to setup and configure server website, LDAP user accounts, SQL server databases3. Designed a windows script based infrastructure to allow easy deployments on developer, staging and production environments4. Developed a NAnt based framework to build Java source code and run UNIT tests5. Managed and coordinated with geographically spread resources and teams (London, New York, India)6. Reviewed and supported internal project audit and compliance processes

I contributed extensively to the third generation cell phone embedded software that combined data and voice services. 1. Developed embedded applications for the mobile phone software using NEC’s proprietary Operating System APIs2. Leveraged internal man-machine interface simulation software to execute, test and debug the phone code3. Reviewed and contributed to functional testing and code reviews. Developed and executed test cases as part of the systems integration and test group4. Documented cod as per the ISO guidelines5. Designed a framework for executing automated test scripts using WinRunner and NEC proprietary test software and special hardware

Redmond, Wa

Services for UNIX consists of a number of different components that can bridge the gap between Windows-based and Unix-based operating systems running in the same network. 1. Designed and developed the Username mapping service using Visual C/C++, Windows SDK, sockets, Sun RPC and multi-threading. Integrated it with Network File System (NFS) drivers2. Implemented graphical (GUI) and command line user interfaces (CLI) for the service and drivers using DHTML/JavaScript. Integrated it with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) based user interface3. Designed and developed Network Information System (NIS) property pages for user and computer objects in Active Directory (AD)4. Participated in NetWorld and Interoperability (N+I) 2000-spring convention at Las Vegas. Manned Services for Unix (SFU) booth and promoted product

1. Designed and developed a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Exchange for annotating the PDF documents with user defined annotations like lines, circles, rectangles, text additions, text highlighting, text underlining, and bitmap insertions2. Developed modules to add/remove annotations to the document PostScript format3. Upgraded the 16 bit implementation on Windows 3.1 to 32 bit version on Windows 95

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