Firooz Yazdi

Summary of Qualifications:

Results oriented and hands on software engineer; with experience and a strong record of success in both large and small technical environments. Have proven strength in full software development cycle including its planning, developing, testing, release, delivery, and support.

Programming:

C++, Java and shell scripting, Swing and Spring API unit testing; SOAPUI and GUI testing; LAMP configurations scripting; RH-Linux administration and maintenance; web site development and testing, heavy use of PL-SQL-StoredProcedures(join,ETL,create/update)plus complex queries);Oracle Forms, EBS with knowledge of ADF, GRC and Noetix Views and report creation; VStudio 2008 development; SQL Server Management 2008

Automation :

Selenium/RC/WebDriver plus WatiN for .NET testing. Automation using QTP/Loadrunner plus management of SDLC ; Browser testing with Selenium IDE-RC-GRID Java add ons and Selenese scripting Unit and load testing with JUnit/JMeter, WebDriver/Maven/Eclipse, Load/scalability testing; also testing of EPIC modules.

Employment history

Screen Actor’s Guild, IT Los Angeles, CA

SQA Specialist/Manager Permanent 12/11 to Present

• Accommodating individual parts of the design requirements to the prototype to the product; performance testing and load matrix; running the entire QA department

• Testing and managing a large Oracle based EBS plus a very busy web site

• Knowledge of Linux administration; set up of virtual servers for test and dev

• Providing quality assurance procedures for successful migration of Solaris to Red Hat Linux and data base upgrades

• Assisting customer/user base interactions with Oracle Forms and data mining

• Build and release management of local and remote code base through subversion; committing and building dependencies via automated Ant/Maven scripts on Jenkins server; providing quality assurance for release and deployment on weekly basis

• Log file investigation for proper server redirect, config file match, property diff

• Use of server services for SOA integrity testing using SOAP-UI and REST

• Mobile phone simulation for testing of converted portions of the web site; familiarity with AVD and Android 4.0 API levels; use of JUnit extensions for unit testing; use of Eclipse

• Created QA Laboratory producing numerous automated and manual tests; testing of video/audio streaming plus media server/PDFEngine and XMLPublisher

• Exercising Agile Scrum project and Siemens PLM and

CardioNet, San Diego, CA Contract 05/11 to 12/11

Senior Lead SQA Engineer

• As a lead SQA engineer, in charge of end to end testing strategy, execution, and reporting.

• Automation and manual testing of a complicated three tier medical device application; MCOT(mobile cardiac outpatient telemetry).

• Wireless and web testing of monitoring and data base management on line

• Crystal Report 2008 set up using VS/.NET for EPIC clarity report generation/Business Objects and testing of EPIC modules like resolute

• Linux scripting, writing Java servlets and service oriented applications, Ubuntu and Solaris

• Use of Quality Center and Agile Advantage for test management and configuration

• Use of QTP and Loadrunner for performance testing, load, spike, and stress testing use of web_reg_find/web_image as well as Selenium and Selenese Java scripting for browser testing; creation of load matrices

• Unit testing of BSP using TUX and KATO on mobile devices.

• Use of SQL scripts for ETL purposes

• Initiation Build reference data, Extract from sources,Validate,Transform,Load into staging tables,Audit reports,Publish,Archive,Clean up with the use of tools like Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services(SSIS)

Edwards Lifesciences Irvine,CA Contract 10/09-04/11

Developer/SQA Engineer

• Providing quality assurance support to Development/QA group in unit and black box testing

• Help developers with Trace Macro and setting up of break points

• Bash scripting, perl and kshell scripting, data mining and report generation, updating config and bat files, linux server/network admin

• Testing of C# GUI software/MYSQL/Oracle 11g data base, data box simulation device

• .NET front end and Java API/Swing testing

• QTP and Loadrunner were used for performance testing

• JUnit and use of annotations and assertions for validation and verification of periodic fix patches

• Diagnosing and fixing of anomaly reports

• Memory leaks and core dumps plus creation of complicated test scenarios and reports

• Heavy use of SQL update and join, drop and create plus creation of stored procedures

• User defined functions and dlls through VS

• Dead code removal, synchronization and optimization of DB code

• Bug reporting and requirement management with QC

• Jira and SharePoint

CISCO Systems, San Jose, CA

Developer/SQA Engineer Contract 01/07-06/09

• Employed QTP and Loadrunner for performance testing as well as script generation for back end testing; used VuGen for client-server configuration and parameterization

• JUnit for unit testing of Java API creating test fixture

• JScript and EJB/JSP and server side testing, set up and trouble shooting of JMeter server, report aggregation and use of http manager measuring throughput and the response time, creating external library/ DLL files/user defined functions(GetPltForm, GetVersion) plus SQA suite testing tools to assure lifecycle quality from requirements to test planning, execution, and integration.

• As a Cisco contractor responsible for performance testing of Network Data Integrity I did the SQL injections testing, server redirect301, LDAP and XPath injections and HTTPS testing

• Proxy server testing and phishing techniques.

• Creation of test scenarios on different networks (WIFI, MAXFI, wireless and mobile phone applications).

Keen.Com(AT&T Interactive), San Francisco, CA Permanent 02/03 - 06/06

QA Lead/Manager

• Accommodated individual parts of the design requirements to the prototype to the product; performance testing and load matrix using mercury’s Loadrunner

• Created QA Laboratory and was in charge of end-to-end testing strategy

• Testing and quality assurance of a large web site connected to a PBX phone switch.

• Extreme testing activity with the help of a large group to apply white and black box testing techniques like user acceptance, system integration and unit testing for developers.

• Converted thousands of test cases to automated harnesses using SILKPerformer visual basic scripting language on 24/7 basis; used Loadrunner for parameterization and automated testing of user-input web pages plus performance testing

• set up of special repositories to store and analyze the test results for later graphing and presentation.

Siemens (Medical), Santa Clara/Pennsylvania Permanent 09/99 to 02/2003

Lead SQA Engineer

• Assurance of HL7 integration

• Clarity and Workbench reporting

• Strong SQL on EPIC Chronicle

• Practical use of Siemens SmartGrid and Data warehousing tools.

• EPIC OpTime

• Master files creation Preference cards

• Expert with Siemens Data Warehouse

• Siemens Openlink and CloverLeaf

• Programming in Crystal and SQL on legacy systems like MVS and AS400.

• Use of Perl to test phone servers residing on UNIX Solaris/Appolo

• Verification/validation of requirements for medical devices

• Vibration, thermal, humidity, module and system level testing.

• Utilized Mercury TestDirector and SQARobot to automate test fixtures.

Education:

BS in Computer Science; BA in Language/Literature CSUHayward, CA

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