Engineer Quality

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S UMMARY

IT team leader with a hands-on approach. Extensive experience in training and managing

culturally diverse QA teams. Interdepartmental liaison identifying and resolving software design

issues in collaboration with all teams. Effective management team collaborator.

T ECHNICAL SKILL

Quality Assurance 15 years

Operating Systems System Administration proficiency on all the following:

Linux (RedHat, Suse) – 5 years; HP-UX (10.09-11.23) – 11

years; AIX – 2 years; Sun (SPARC, x86) – 2 years

Storage and Networking SAN, NAS, administration level of host-based networking,

switches (Cisco, Foundry, Dell)

Languages Unix shell – 11 years; C – 7 years; Perl – junior

Virtualization VMWare ESX; VMWare Server

Configuration Management Borland’s StarTeam – user level; IBM’s CMVC – 11 years;

trac – 2 years

Testing Tools Mercury’s QuickTest Pro, Quality TestDirector, LoadRunner

– junior; Borland’s SilkTest – intermediate; Convex TD – 11

years

Software Methodologies Agile/Scrum

Microsoft Windows Server Administration – 2 years; MS Office (Word,

Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel) – 10 years

E XPERIENCE

R ACEMI INC, Atlanta, GA 2007 – 2009

(Early stage virtualization software company)

QA Manager

Racemi’s product is DynaCenter - a tool to provide automation and virtualization processes in

data center management.

Founded, staffed, and managed a QA team (up to 5 people), resulting in immediate

improvement in product quality and leading to a large scale engagement with channel

partners.

Contributed regularly to product requirements, standards, and delivery schedules as a

member of engineering management team.

Created procedures, plans, best practices, and delivery schedules for QA team, resulting in

increased usability and overall quality for product.

Provided guidance and mentorship to team members.

Collaborated with development, field services, and sales to assist them and increase product

quality and visibility.

Developed full knowledge of data center mobility procedures: Disaster Recovery, Rapid

Application Recovery, Data Center Relocation, both physical and virtual servers.

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Broad knowledge of OS installation (Windows servers, Unix, Linux), configuration,

networking, and storage management on wide array of platforms (HP, Dell, Sun, IBM,

VMWare).

Worked closely with business partners like BMC.

B ORLAND SOFTWARE INC, Atlanta, GA 2006

Member of an R&D QA team

Planned, developed, and executed manual tests for CaliberRM and Caliber DefineIT.

Researched implementation of test automation for the CaliberRM and Caliber DefineIT

products using SilkTest.

A CCENTURE, Atlanta, GA 2005 – 2006

System Analyst and a QA Team Member of ISP System Project

Planned, developed, executed, and debugged LoadRummer scripts against Siebel CRM

system, part of large ISP transition project. Identified product bottle-necks thus contributing

to product reliability.

Performed manual tests for a development team of a complex billing system (Singl.eView) of

a major ISP provider (Bellsouth), directly contributing to the quality of the billing process.

H EWLETT - PACKARD COMPANY, Atlanta, GA 1996 – 2005

QA Lead for OS Configuration Project (2002 – 2005)

Participated on a team that developed a transition process for major customers (ie major financial

institutions and retail industry) from the secure web server to the standard HP-UX System.

Collaborated with management, architects, and engineers to transition customers from an end

of life secure web server to the standard HP-UX system, with new security functionality,

increasing customer loyalty and retention and ensuring all previous functionality was

available on the new system.

Participated in the creation and review of project investigation reports, ensuring that targeted

deadlines and milestones were met.

Ensured the integrity of both manual and automated transition procedures, documentation,

and scripts by analyzing newly developed processes and scripts.

Provided other members of the transition team with the customer’s perspective of system

usage, creating a process that was user-friendly and contributed to the smooth transition.

QA Lead for Secure OS Development Team (1996 – 2002)

Provided QA technical leadership on a secure OS development team.

Founded, trained, and served as the technical lead for a QA team in India, contributing to

improved quality of the product.

Created testing strategy and detailed test cases that were developed, documented, and

executed, contributing to the product’s quality.

Analyzed and validated test conditions and results to ensure test and product integrity.

Trained HP engineers from GTL (Government Technology Lab, Cupertino, CA) in the

principles of designing and writing tests for a secure OS, enhancing their independence.

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S ECUREWARE, Atlanta, GA 1994 – 1996

Junior QA Engineer for Secure OS Development Team

Setup and configured complex environments and platform/OS configuration to execute tests.

Involved in the design and implementation of department test procedures.

Made improvements to software testing process, including code review and methodology

improving product quality.

MILITARY

Israeli Defense Force, Sergeant, Honorable Discharged

E DUCATION

BS, Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Water and Soil Practical Engineer, Rupin Agricultural College, Israel

P ROFESSIONAL DEVELOP MENT

Mercury QuickTest Pro, Quality TestDirector, LoadRunner, 2006

Intermediate Perl, 2005

Star@Work, 2004

Linux Administration I, 2001

Programming with Unix System Calls, 1996

LANGUAGES

English: fluent (read, write, speak)

Hebrew: fluent (read, write, speak)

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