Engineer Software

MaryEllen Jurchak

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Franklin, MA ***38

508-***-**** *********@*******.***

SUMMARY

Quality Assurance professional with significant experience and extensive

knowledge in development methodology across many platforms. Key

contributor and dedicated individual with strong analytical skills

essential to assessing and troubleshooting problems areas under

development. A team player who enjoys mentoring peers and demonstrates

excellent communication skills. Embraces the Agile development process

which promotes team efficiency, high quality software with fewer defects

and lower development costs. Contributed to five major releases of Lotus

Notes / Domino across all platforms: MAC client,Windows,Linux, (Red Hat,

SUSE) AS400, UNIX (AIX, Solaris).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IBM / IRIS ASSOCIATES / LOTUS, Littleton, MA 1995 - 2010

Advisory Software Engineer 2003 - 2010

Involved in an Agile development project of the next release of Lotus Live

Notes cloud computing initiative (Software as a Service), 2009 - 2010.

. Automated feature assignments using JUnit test tool in Eclipse IDE for

Java

. Created validation and automation requirement documents and test cases

for assigned feature components.

. Created initial Test Plan for the High Availability component of the

project

. Used Lotus Automator Framework - a web interface tool to run teams

automation test suites, monitor results and distribute updates to team

members.

Key contributor of the Database / DB2 team who was involved in many major

Feature projects, 2003 - 2008.

. Involved in Agile development - Domino Attachment and Object Service

(DAOS) that saved significant storage space by reducing or eliminating

duplicate attached files within a single Notes Storage Facility (NSF)

file or across multiple NSF files on the same server.

. Wrote test cases based on user stories and written automated scripts in

XML to test various components of the DAOS project.

. Executed Fault Insertion test to injected faults in the code as a means

of testing error paths that are not being exposed in the current set of

functional testing.

. Involved in Agile development project NSF Reliability and Data Integrity

Improvements.

. Involved in a project that implemented a key component for the IBM Lotus

Notes product that helped manage, organize and handling incoming response

message through a new mechanism of Conversation threads.

. Involved in the implementation and support of Domino utilizing DB2 on

AIX, Linux, Windows platforms. Created QE-wide rollout of DB2

documentation for the teams that are involved in the testing of DB2

against their assigned areas of the Domino product.

. Created test cases for assigned DB2 feature components for the Database

area.

. Involved in the DB2 installation, setup and configuration on test systems

utilized by the QE Database team.

. Collaborated with development counterparts to learn and document

extensive testing procedures on all projects.

. Established an excellent working relationship with development,

documentation writers and support.

. Mentored and trained new members of the Database / DB2 team on the

Database components of the Lotus Domino server product.

. Managed, configured and monitored teams QE test system environment.

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IBM / IRIS ASSOCIATES / LOTUS (continued)

Principal Software Engineer 1998 - 2002

Lotus Notes Domino Messaging team

. Demonstrated leadership role in leading 3 team members during release of

a product, providing technical assistance, mentoring and supervision and

effectively communicated with Project management.

. Collaborated and established an excellent relationship with development

and management teams. Ensured strict adherence to the scheduled timeline

by ensuring the team's target dates were met during all phases of the

development.

. Key QE player in helping Lotus Notes release the support of Native MIME

messages based on compliance of IEE standards. 5 years testing

experience with messaging technologies that included extensive knowledge

in native MIME and in depth knowledge of SMTP, IMAP and POP3 protocols.

. Formulated testing strategies by utilizing my extensive knowledge and

experience in developing, reviewing and executing test plans though

Feature, System, Stress and Interoperability level testing.

Senior Quality Engineer 1995 - 1997

Lotus Domino Server team

. 2 years experience in the testing Replication, a key component of the

Lotus Notes Domino application, which integrated with other components of

the product. Exposure to Lotus Notes Administration Process components

and usage of the Lotus Notes client.

. Created and executed test cases through Feature, Full Pass Regression and

System level testing.

. Involved in a project that tested the support NNTP protocol.

MEDIQUAL SYSTEMS, Westborough, MA 1994 - 1995

Senior Level Quality Engineer

Tested medical application components that provided clinical information

management (CIM) systems and services to the healthcare industry.

DUN & BRADSTREET SOFTWARE, Framingham, MA 1986 - 1994

Senior Quality Engineer 1986 - 1994

. Tested financial software applications client / server base - SmartStream

product which integration of MAPI and VIM compliant mail systems: Lotus

Notes 3.x, cc:Mail and MS Mail.

. Part of the Accounts payable team responsible in writing and components

of the Accounts Payable product.

Administrative Assistance, Fixed Asset Group 1986

TRAINING

DHTML, JAVA, JUnit, Eclipse IDE, XML DB2, PowerBuilder, Sybase SQL, Visual

Basic, FoxPro

EDUCATION

Continuing Education program, University of Massachusetts

Lowell. Lowell,MA

Continuing Education program, Northeastern University, Framingham, MA

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Framingham State College, Framingham, MA

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