Engineer Quality Assurance

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To obtain a Software Test Engineer position in a technical, challenging

and successful environment involving individual responsibilities and

cooperative efforts; learning new skills and applying my abilities,

experience and education in order to produce and/or lead high quality

software releases.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

- Five years of combined professional experience in the software

industry, served in Quality Assurance and Software Development

positions.

- Served in a variety of Black Box and White Box roles: SQA Lead

Engineer, SQA Technical Lead, Software Test Automation Engineer,

Software Developer, Test Analyst and System/Functional/Black Box

Tester.

- Proficient in Object Oriented Programming and Software Engineering

Methodologies.

- Proven Experience with OSS (Open Source) and Proprietary Test

Automation Frameworks.

- Involved in Large and medium size Automation Projects; successfully

designed, developed, maintained and deployed Test Frameworks; some of

the automation tasks/techniques employed are unit tests, test drivers,

test stubs, mock objects, wrappers, batch/shell scripting and a

variety of customized test tools and test artifacts.

- Worked in all stages of the SDLC (A&D, development, implementation and

testing) and STLC (unit/structural, exploratory, system functional/non

functional, acceptance and regression testing), acquiring a solid

knowledge and understanding of Software Engineering, Software

Development and Software Testing processes and techniques.

- Participant on a variety of QA Projects performing Unit, Integration,

System, Performance, Stress, Load, Acceptance, Recoverability and API

testing, following SRS, BRS and Design Specification.

- Strong reporting capabilities of results and status reports

(Traceability and Test Matrices, Checklists, Status Web Pages and

scripted/static Excel work sheets).

- Excellent decision making, risk analysis, problem resolution,

implementation and negotiation skills.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE (Bolivia) Completed 4 years towards a Software

Engineering Degree (2002 - 2005).

SECURITY CLEARANCE AND IMMIGRATION STATUS

Legal Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder) Authorized to work for

any employer in the USA.

Currently I hold No Active Security Clearance.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Programming Languages and IDE's:

C#, Java, VB 6.0, VBScript, Shell Scripting, XML/XSLT, DOM,

RESTful Interfaces, HTTP.

MS Visual Studio and VSTS, Eclipse, Test Design Studio, SVN.

Data Bases:

SQL Relational Databases, simple and complex SQL Queries, Simple

SQL Store Procedures, Data Serialization for Test Automation and

Data Driven Testing.

Operating Systems and Related:

Windows Server 2008, 2003, 2000/NT, Vista, XP, Red Hat Linux

9.0.

Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services (S3, SQS and EC2).

Statistical Analysis & Reporting:

Excel, Crystal Reports, VB Report Designer, ASP.NET, HTML.

Test Frameworks and Test/Debug Tools:

MS VSTEST (Team Edition), Quick Test Pro (QTP), Selenium and

Selenium RC.

NUnit, JUnit, HTTPUnit, HTMLUnit TestNG, ANT, NANT.

Firebug, JMeter, Bugzilla, HP Quality Centre, Attlasian JIRA,

Confluence.

Other:

MS Project, OOP, Visio, OMT, Structure Modelling, UML, RUP.

WORK HISTORY

ANYSTREAM www.anystream.com Dulles, VA (December 2008

- Present)

The company is the leader in the video encoding/transcoding and

distribution segment, provides and enterprise class platform for the

automated production and distribution of streaming video, customer

portfolio includes all of the leading broadcasting networks in the globe.

Software Engineer in Test (10/2008 - Present)

Manual/Automation Tester for Agility V2.x, responsibilities include

creation of an automated process for repetitive manual test tasks and the

design of a Regression Suite. Owned the API (web service) testing for our

flagship product. Task is achieved via a set of Automation Suites (Unit,

Structural, API, Performance, Stress and Functional/GUI), also served as

the responsible manual tester for installation among other manual testing

tasks.

- Integrated the manual Test Cases into our automation suites creating

and "End to End" Test Platform, this provided QA with a push button

BVT/ Regression Framework, which provided a measurable test base for

our nightly builds, this resulted in a considerable advantage,

regression testing efforts were drastically reduced from 3-4 days to

only a few hours.

- Expanding, maintaining and redesigning a Test Framework based in Java,

which relies on XML/HTTP/REST as the messaging layer. ANT and TestNG

drive the execution of the suite, validation and verification of test

results is done via JUnit and TestNG assertion methods.

- Developed multi/cross platform shells, scripts, stand alone programs

and helper methods in C# and Visual Basic which were later reused from

the JAVA test framework.

- Guiding, driving and evaluating the approach for a GUI driven Test

Automation Framework; currently working on initial scoping,

prototyping and evaluation/recommendation, the effort has 2 parts and

in house effort which is Selenium based solution and an outsourced QTP

driven suite.

- Supported QA manual efforts by writing customized testware and test

tools (C#/.NET and VB).

TELVENT FARRADYNE www.telvent.com Rockville, MD (September 2008 -

December 2008)

Leading provider of IT services and customized software applications for

the ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) industry.

Software QA Analyst - Consultant (09/2008 - 12/2008)

Quality Assurance Analyst, had manual and automation roles on a refactored

"legacy product".

- Manual/Automated Tester (Functional-QTP) for a web base Traffic

Incident Detection Application.

- Created an Excel based reporting engine, it used QTP test scripts,

generated reporting Check Points and automatically updated Test Runs

and Test Result Status to a Traceability Matrix. Technologies

involved: QTP/API (AOM COM Object), VBA/XPath (excel and word) and VBS

(for the scripting engine driving QTP).

- Modeled and Prototyped a QTP "Functional Automation Framework" to

drive and manage the execution, integration and customized reporting

of Test Projects.

JUDICIAL POWER www.poderjudicial.gov.bo Cochabamba, Bolivia (November

2006 - November 2007)

The Software Development Department of the Judicial Power branch for the

city of Cochabamba - Bolivia, develops and supports the information systems

in charge of Judicial Cases, land tenure, cadastral and Property Ownership

Registration.

Software Tester - Contractor (05/2007 - 11/2007)

Software Tester for "Cadastral TEMIS System" and "Case Management System -

CMS".

- Actively participated throughout the SDLC for CMS, from collection of

Requirements from the field

to performing system, functional and performance/stress testing.

- Developed the test plan, test procedures and test cases for the TEMIS

System. Also built the test environments, selected and installed

simulation test tools for the TEMIS systems.

Software Developer - External Contractor (11/2006 - 04/2007)

Served as a Jr. Software Developer for "CMS Case Management System".

- Migrated CMS from Visual Basic 6.0 to a .Net platform using C#.Net.

- Primarily focused on the development of the Case/Judge/Court

assignation module. Development activities included porting the logic

from a structural to an OOP design, developing new features and

reshaping some old features as per BA requirements.

- Extensively Unit tested the application classes and public interfaces

in Isolation mode and its integration with other Components and Layers

of the System.

NetIQ CORPORATION www.netiq.com San Jose, CA

(February 2000 - April 2002)

NetIQ-Attachmate, is a leading provider of comprehensive systems and

security management solutions for IT companies worldwide.

Succeeded in diverse positions of increasing responsibility, became a Team

Lead for the SQA Department, delivered successful results and exceeded

management expectations in all of the tasks assigned.

Quality Assurance Consultant (01/ 2002 - 04/2002)

Regression Test Contractor for "AppManager 4.2.0" backend, project goal was

to perform Regression Testing on a recalled release tested by offshore

contractors.

- Delivered and extensively tested SUT for integration, system and sub-

system level including functional tests (installation, stability,

endurance, recovery) and non functional tests (load, stress,

scalability, usability and compatibility).

- Provided training to newly assigned Test Engineers and assisted new

Test Lead to ensure a smooth transition.

Quality Engineer - QA Technical Lead (05/2001 - 12/2001) Multi Site Project

(NC, TX, WA)

Technical Leader for Connectors, Applications and Installation test teams

for "XMP V1.0 for MOM".

- Managed, monitored and provided technical assistance for a group of

five Testers.

- Served as a QA liaison for the Advance Test Team for our distributed

testing locations (NC, TX, WA), became a key player in making a "first

time" cross site/remote release successful.

- Escalated severe bugs, reported the scope, risks and impact of the

flaws to upper management and other stakeholders in War, Bug Triage

and Risk Analysis meetings.

- Design and implemented a thorough and successful Test Plan for a

Middle-Tier connector used to synchronize our product with MSFT MOM

consolidator and agents. Found relevant design issues which were to be

addressed in a joint effort with Microsoft for a patch MOM/XMP

releases.

- Achieved the distinction "Top Performer Engineer", awarded among 20

SQA engineers.

Quality Engineer - QA Team Lead (12/2000 - 07/2001)

Applications/Installation Groups Lead for "AM 4.0". Led a group of 7

Engineers (5 local and 2 offshore).

- Served as a foundation and backend components tester for the complete

STLC for AM 4.0. The team was also in charge of module integration

with the back end of the product.

- Coordinated efforts with other Team Leads (DB, UI and Performance) for

integration testing.

- Contributed to automation efforts for the installer, using a GUI

automated test tool.

- Reported progress of testing directly to the SQA Director and CTO.

Presented the group milestones to Product Manager's and upper

management.

- Assessed release readiness to Bug Triage Team on a weekly basis,

active participant of CCB meetings with Project Managers and Dev.

Management to gauge the impact of newly found bugs; the technical role

meant "been the voice" for QA on the CCB meetings.

- Implemented, customized and deployed a Test Management Solution (Test

Director/HP Quality Centre). Instructed QA/TS personnel in the use and

administration of Test Director.

Software Tester (02/2000 - 11/2000)

Responsible Tester throughout the STLC for AM Web Solution Modules "V3.4+"

(Alpha, Beta and GA).

- Designed, improved, and executed the entire Test Plan, increased test

coverage and established test matrices templates.

- Created automation scripts (VBScript) to Access Data Collection

Interfaces for Remote Clients.

- Conducted Performance, Load Testing and Memory Leak analysis at the

sub-system/Component Level.

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