Engineer Manager

Yaron Berko

Woodland Hills, California *****

Tel: 818-***-****

E-Mail: ac1mpo@r.postjobfree.com

Skype: ac1mpo@r.postjobfree.com (jayron)

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/yaron-berko/3/4b5/ab3

OBJECTIVE: To obtain a full time position as a QA Manager \ QA Lead \ Automation Engineer.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience writing automation with Selenium web drivers.

Experience in creating a new architecture of automation environments using page object

model

Three years of experience automating a web application using CodedUI and C#

One year of experience automating a windows application and a web application using

TestComplete and VBScript, Maintaining the automation launcher in C#.

Three years of experience managing and leading Manual\Automation Testers.

Experience working in Agile\Scrum environments using KANBAN.

Experience testing SOAP and REST APIs using SOAPUI and Fiddler.

Seven years of experience writing and running Test plans and Test Results, Developing new tests and automating testing environments.

Five years of experience gained working at a Fortune 1000 company.

Three years of experience working with AWS\EC2 and Azure environments,

spinning up new servers to lunch our webapp demos from

Efficient with bug tracking tools: Jira, Bugzilla, PVCS, Zendesk and Ontime.

Knowledge of networking and lab management.

Programming Languages: C#, VB.NET, VBScript, SQL.

Extensive knowledge of Windows systems through Windows 10 and Microsoft Office.

EDUCATION:

The Technological and Engineering Education Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Graduated with a Software Practical Engineer (P.E) professional degree in June 2006 (Equivalent to B.sc in Information Technology).

EXPERIENCE:

01/2016 – Current Bimini, Los Angeles, California

Co-Founder and Lead Developer

Bimini started an Idea to improve the accessibility and ease of use of technology to the millions of golden age citizens that as of today do not have the knowledge or ability to use it.

We started with a windows application and were developing a demo for investment stage.

I am responsible for the following:

Writing the engine and designing the UI using C# and WPF.

Architecting the framework for the application.

Hiring additional resources for project based needs.

Leading the vision and the technology of the software.

10/2016 – 01/2017 Rouse Services, Los Angeles, California

QA Manager \ Automation Engineer

Rouse Services are the leaders in construction equipment appraisals, used equipment sales and fleet management analytics, the company main product the “Sales Portal” is written in C# and the UI is in AngularJS.

I was responsible for the following:

Writing the automation environment to test the company's main application (Sales Portal), Using Selenium and C#.

Architecting the new automation environment.

Implementing my knowledge and experience of QA Process and SDLC.

Building the QA team, hiring additional resources.

Leading each testing cycle, bugs reported and maintained through JIRA.

07/2013 – 10/2016 American LegalNet Inc., Los Angeles, California

QA Manager \ Lead QA

American LegalNet is a legal software company that provides innovative, high-quality legal software, content and services to the legal industry.

The company’s main product is a web application hosted in IIS and written in C# called eDockets.

I am responsible for the following:

Co-writing and overseen the automation of the web application with CodedUI by creating a system that reads XML test plans in C#.

Co-writing the LauncherUI, an application written in C# designed to execute the XML Testplans.

Building the testing team from scratch, hiring new talents to a team that had no members.

Building the test plans and process from scratch.

Providing clarity and transparency to higher management.

Managing a team of three testers, two manual testers and one additional automation engineer.

Leading the team through each testing cycle, verifying quality results and bugs found have been reported (JIRA) and if not fixed by the developers proponed to a later release.

Working in tight relationship with the PM and the Development team to assure each release is delivered on time and at its best quality.

Provide accurate estimates for testing cycles.

Providing guidance and support to the testers and to other employees by mentoring and training them on the software.

Working closely with the Implementation and support team for smooth deployment.

Managing the testing environments including IIS management, installation and configuration (5 environments, totaling 15 servers)

Microsoft SQL Server database usage daily to diagnose end user issues and potential QA problems.

Debugging and bug tracking of issues found in the software.

Automating tedious repetitive daily tasks using C# and windows forms.

Helping the development team finding bugs within the code and fixing them upon request.

Writing test plan documents and test result documents upon new releases and new features \ enhancements.

Testing REST APIs & SOAP using SOAPUI and Fiddler, tested the Webapp API.

Spinning up new environments using AWS \ EC2 and Azure

10/2012 – 07/2013 Chrome River Technologies, Los Angeles, California

QA Analyst

Chrome River Technologies is an online (SAAS) expense reporting and invoice management service provides complete process automation and cost controls around an organization's accounts payable operations.

I was responsible for the following:

MySQL database usage daily to diagnose end user issues and potential QA problems.

Linux command line for log parsing and file location.

Jira bug tracking and Zendesk ticketing system.

Wrote test plans, tested and verified new features, including web services and ftp processes

01/2012 – 08/2012 Varonis, Hertzlia, Israel

Software Engineer in Automation

Varonis specializes in Data Governance suites that help organizations manage and protect their unstructured and semi structured data in an easy to do one stop shop solution.

I was responsible for the following:

Develop and maintain the automatic testing environment for new and existing testing plans.

Planning and developing new infrastructures to features that hasn't been automated yet for both engine and UI testing, the test Launcher was built in Visual C# and the automation engine was done with TestComplete and VBScript, the engine would read XML test plans and run the automation accordingly.

Maintaining and supporting the QA team with existing automation and on the spot help for issues found in automation testing environments.

Tools used for automation: TestComplete and TestExecute, scripts writing in VBScript (for UI testing), developing the corresponding XML documents to run those scripts and supporting new features in the Varonis's proprietary automation tool.

03/2009 – 07/2011 Sandisk, Kfar-Saba, Israel

Senior Test Development Engineer

The company specializes in developing flash memory solutions. I was responsible for the following:

Automating the entire firmware testing test plan using an automation environment called Test Shell Studio by Qualisystems.

Maintained responsibilities described below as a Test Development Engineer (2007 – 2009)

01/2007 – 03/2009 Sandisk, Kfar-Saba, Israel

Test Development Engineer

Writing, implementing and running Test Plans for firmware testing of SanDisk’s embedded products, development environment included Python, C++ and a proprietary test development tool called scripter.

live on-the-run debugging and support for the R&D team on a daily basis upon finding issues with the firmware and receiving new firmware for testing.

Analyzing and reporting tests results including opening new bugs and issues (Jira, PVCS).

Maintaining and running SanDisk’s QA Lab for embedded products, which includes: Installing new testing stations and re-installing malfunctioning stations (156 stations under my direct supervision), Parallel running of testing stations (48 stations every given cycle) .

09/2006 – 12/2006 Sandisk, Kfar-Saba, Israel

System & Support Engineer

The system was based on proprietary Linux distributions, and included hundreds of workstations and dozens of servers. I was responsible for Maintaining SanDisk’s flash drive mass production testing and customization system which included:

Implementing mass production infrastructure for new products according to the development team specifications.

Execute daily maintenance procedures.

Provide support for worldwide users including sales representatives and production engineers.

Working in a complicated Linux environment, Transition to mass production of consumer electronic devices, including assembly, test and Quality Control (QC).

01/2005 – 06/2006 Teleclal, Tel-Aviv, Israel

System administrator and IT

Installing and setting operation systems and maintenance software on workstations.

Backup the company’s ever growing database,

Daily maintenance and monitoring of the workstation’s and server’s functionality.

REFERENCES Available Upon Request

Fluency in English, Hebrew and basic Russian

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