Software Quality Assurance Engineer

LaoTong Zhang

Cupertino, CA *****

408-***-**** (Cell) ************@*****.***

Senior Software QA Engineer

Improve and Maintain Good Software Quality and Effective Development Results

Senior Software QA Engineer with full system development lifecycle experience, including designing and implementing test plans and test cases, executing functional, performance, stress and regression testing. Build strong work relationship with cross-function teams, provide analysis and input of product usability enhancement. Continuously improving testing code coverage, root cause analysis, and other quality matrix. Completed various Software Quality Control related training courses.

Areas of Expertise:

Software Automated Testing Implementation Load Runner / Win-Runner C Shell SQL Perl Programming System Performance Test Plan/Procedure Defect Tracking Systems Root Cause Analysis User Interface Design SDLC Agile/Scrum JIRA Web Testing

Professional Experience:

Senior Testing Engineer, Synopsys Inc. Mt. View, CA 03/2002- 04/2017

Worked in high-paced software quality team to cover various Electrical Design Automation products, focused in GUI and overall Infrastructure areas of products. Execute both interactive manual and automated functional, performance, stress and regression testing. Write test plans and test procedures. Used several different software defect tracking tools such as HP Quality Center and SAP/CRM. Utilize Perl and C shell and programming. Create various test cases and suits for the software testing.

Worked with product development teams worldwide, helping debug software defects and run monthly root cause analysis meeting for the customer reported critical software defects.

Used quality matrix, monitoring product quality improvement process. Wrote detailed test plans and procedures and conducted requirement analysis and design reviews, managed multiple projects for each release, improving software development cycle (SDLC Agile).

Executed software installation test, supporting each major release for different platforms such as Linux and Solaris. Participated in various customer acceptance test and on-site beta test.

Helped to build /managed / trained new Software QA team in Synopsys Shanghai, China site, managed all Synopsys software GUI related QA projects, and all remote reported defects.

Software QA Engineer, SAP Ariba, Mountain View, CA 2000 - 2002

Led on enforcing good engineering practices, and evaluating product quality for various SAP Web Applications (Ariba Procurement/Payment Systems), worked with members of various cross-functional teams, to design, develop, automate and maintain test suites, to make test systems explore and validate the functional correctness, performance capabilities, and resource usage.

Defining quality, and test strategies for products respecting defined process and standards.

Evaluated to adopt and enhance new test automation tools.

Created detailed test design (including writing test plans and procedures), and executed manual and/or automated tests.

Coordinated bi-weekly communication meetings with development team and beta-test customers, detecting and analyzing defects in early product development cycle.

Additional Relevant Experience:

QA Engineer, St. Jade Medical Group (Ventritex). Sunnyvale, CA

Executed validation and verification tests for the Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) products. Follow the FDA guidance to prepare and execute the Quality Control process. Ensure the compliance to device level under FDA policies and guidelines ((FDA 21 CFR part 820) and ISO 13485). Provided evaluation of product safety and efficacy and elevation of risk-based issues. Creates and reviews risk management documentation to reduce or eliminate risk. Participated discussions across various departments including external suppliers.

Wrote test plans and detailed test procedures, and test summary reports.

Participated in full process of software verification and validation activities include Design Controls/Design Review, Test Metrics, Code Coverage, Defect Report and Tracking, Failure/Root Cause Analysis, and Test Result Review.

Completed class training on Quality Control Management, ISO 13485 / FDA 21 CFR 820..

Education:

Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, China SouthEast University, Nanjing, China

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