Engineer Software

Deb Creger

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Summary of Qualifications

. 15+ years experience in Software Quality Management and Quality

Engineering

. Expertise in testing leading-edge technologies including smart phones,

social networking services, web applications, backend servers, set top

boxes, web browser, Personal Java, online chat, and SQL databases.

. Valued for resourcefulness, business-focused results and good-natured

sense of humor.

. Ability to collaborate in cross-functional environments in order to

deliver software products on time and on budget.

. Motivational and results-oriented leader and manager with proven

success in building, managing, and retaining large-scale teams.

Professional Experience

Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft Inc., Palo Alto, CA

2008 - April 2010

Sr. Software QA Engineer

Designed and implemented automated test suites for backend, social

networking services (Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live!, and Twitter) for

Danger's Sidekick and Microsoft's feature phone.

. Authored test plan, produced test matrix, developed, and automated white-

box test cases using C# with over 70% code coverage in an agile

engineering/scrum development process (SDLC).

. Additionally responsible for test execution, regression testing, and

product quality for the desktop interface, a web application.

. Identified and documented product failures. Verified bug fixes and

developed automated test cases as appropriate.

. Experienced at reading event log files for debugging tests and

identifying/verifying bugs.

. Successfully launched 2 new Sidekick devices in June 2008 and 2009.

Sun Microsystems Inc., Santa Clara, CA

1997 - 2001

Software QA Engineering Manager

Managed Quality Assurance teams in Consumer and Embedded Product

Development for Java TV, Java Auto, Personal Java and Java Web Server.

. Set overall Quality strategy and direction for Consumer & Embedded

Products Division to corporate priorities.

. Defined and implemented Software Development Life Cycle Quality

Engineering processes which reduced test cycle time by 50%.

. Developed and implemented the use of data analysis and reporting as a

means of assessing risk, determining product readiness, and communicating

status to the Product Team, Marketing and upper management.

. Successfully worked cross-functionally with Product Engineering, Project

Management and Marketing teams to determine features, develop schedules,

identify resource requirements and deliver consumer software products on

time and within budget.

. Recruited, trained and managed 14 QA Engineers/3 teams in the pioneer

software testing effort for 3 software digital television products in an

environment of constantly shifting priorities and aggressive scheduling.

. Pioneered and implemented the complete setup of 2 multi-million dollar

digital television labs and 14 staff offices with cable hookups, digital

TV's, set top boxes, etc. Also responsible for successfully relocating

both labs and offices to Sun's Santa Clara Campus.

. Developed and delivered presentations to Sun executives and business

partners.

OnLive! Technologies Inc., Cupertino, CA - start-up

1996 -1997

Sr. Software QA Engineer

QA Project Lead for testing website conferencing and chat room server

software.

. Lead all QA activities for The OnLive! Server which enabled web group

voice conferencing and avatar virtual world chat. Assigned testing tasks

and monitored progress.

. Responsible for developing the testing strategy, test suites and test

automation using test automation tools UNIX scripting and c programming.

. QA UNIX system administrator.

Tandem Computers Inc., Cupertino, CA

1990 - 1996

Sr. Software QA Engineer

Designed, documented and developed automated test suites for SQL.

. Responsible for reviewing product specifications, creating test plans,

setting up test data, implementing test cases, automating and executing

tests for datetime data type, NULL, statistics, predicates and left

joins.

. Collaborated with SQL developers to ensure high and medium risk product

areas were adequately tested. Participated in code reviews.

. Identified & documented bugs, verified fixes and reviewed product

documentation.

Education

California State University, San Jose

BS, Business Marketing

Technical Expertise

Software Languages: C#, c, SQL, HTML, XML, Shell Scripting

Tools: Microsoft Visual Studios, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Brio,

QA Tester

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris

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