SOROUSH STEVE AFNANI

Cumming, Ga. *****

PH: 678-***-****

Email: ac3ar9@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: Quality Engineer

SUMMARY

Quality Engineer with 17 years of experience as Lead QA Engineer, Automation, Performance, Security, Network and Wireless and QA processes. Test Engineer involved in the leading edge of technology with comprehensive communication and analytical skills working with cross-functional teams to produce a robust product and to implement industry’s best practices in quality including software automation and development of Automation framework. Identifying defects and performing root cause analysis, reporting and measurements for compliance and supporting a wide range of quality engineering and reliability test activities including creating test plans, Test scenarios and test cases, planning, design of various test suites including sanity tests, functional, system, Integration, Regression, UAT, Performance and Security tests.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Building Automation, Network and Wireless infrastructure technologies, wireless security, Network protocols, Analyzers, Network monitoring, Quality Processes and procedures, strong testing concepts and methodologies including waterfall, Agile, Agile Scrum, kanban ACE Lean models focused on process improvement efforts and software development lifecycle SDLC .Test environment staging processes, setup and configurations of Network routers, controllers and devices. Web applications, User Interface and system testing, defect analysis, route cause and Gap analysis, Scripting languages including JScript and VBScript incorporated within the Test Complete automation tool.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Helping Hearts Hospice

EMR Electronic Medical Records Software Quality Engineer

Snellville. GA. Feb 2017- present

Medical IT Quality Engineer to verifying and validate new EMR software application designed and modified for Medicare including software defects identification and tracking, fixed defects verifications, regression tests and performance testing. Measurement and metrics.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield

March 2016 – Nov 2016

Test Designer, Requirements analysis of multiple interactions. Thorough understanding of software testing processes, operations and implementing large software rollout efforts. Software test development process knowledge with emphasis on waterfall development Methodology. Test planning and execution as needed. Testing walkthroughs and reviews of test results prior to customer testing to ensure a complete testing matrix is in place by tracing requirements to test cases. Defect Management with effective communications with development team and the customer testing.

Helping Hearts Hospice Snellville, Ga.

Medical IT Director

Oct 2015- March 2016

Network Administrator in a fastest growing business with network management solutions in the post-acute healthcare market, a team-player implementing concepts and techniques as well as foster and encourage sharing of knowledge. Network Engineer incharge of design, implementations and support of communication networks in a 24/7 mission critical applications in Healthcare industry including Configuration of firewalls, routers, switches LAN, WAN, WiFi, IDP, ADP, Content Filtering, Virus Detection and prevention to Ensure high availability of network infrastructure to provide maximum performance for users. Network securing and HIPAA compliance requirements to ensure compliance by establishing and enforcing policies.

AutomatedLogic - ( United Technologies ) Kennesaw Ga. April 2012 - June 2015

Senior QA-Automation Engineer

Lead Test Engineer guiding QA Team to incorporate manual and automated testing efforts for the building automation systems projects, Responsible for the creating manual test development and automation framework using TestComplete and Javascript, authoring and execution of system validation deliverables related to BACnet Network in an agile environment with understanding of activities of Analysis, design, modeling, code, test, and reviews. All aspects of manual and automation efforts, library of test units, integration and system level tests including Smoke tests, System Tests, Functional Tests, Regression Tests, Exploratory tests, End to End tests.

AT&T (AT&T Communication Manager) SmithMicro Software Inc. Atlanta, Ga. August 2008- March 2012

Systems Quality Engineer

Test and automation development of AT&T Communication manager products working as technical liaison at AT&T Midtown Atlanta campus involved in 3G, 4G, LTE GSM Technology development efforts, leading quality and performance assurance team and working with development team to establish mobile communication software. Document results and issues, work with the team to maintain effective communication. Develop tools to extract log data from platforms and understand root cause analysis. Simulate system load to identify system limits and areas that require improvements. Testing AT&T Communication manager software using TestComplete . Problem solving skills involving complex, critical and elusive problems with the ability to provide innovative methods in problem characterization and root cause determinations.

SteelBox Networks, Atlanta, Ga. August 2007 - March 2008

Systems Quality Engineer

Lead QA Engineer - Performing quality assurance verification and validation processes for the video surveillance monitoring tools software and hardware products. Responsibilities include Creating test plans, test Cases, Automation Test Scripts using automated QA "Testcomplete" in conjunction with XML and SQL servers to simulate customer environments for web based testing, Initialize System Requirement Specifications, performing impact analysis on new development and released products, defect identification, tracking and problem resolutions. Participating and driving corrective actions, analyzing and reporting complex issues, and ensuring all products are in compliance with company standards and design specifications.

Scientific Games Corporation, Alpharetta, Ga. April 2005- July 2007

QA Engineer

As a senior member of QA Racing team to Autotote Systems gathering requirements, Technical and functional specifications and providing complex hardware and software systems that accept wagers, calculate odds and payouts, and process wagering pools, creating QA Test approach and methodology and testing process, Quality management plan, creating test plans, Scenarios and test cases.

AirDefense, Alpharetta Ga. Oct 2004- April 2005

Wireless Security Analyst - QA Engineer

QA Security analyst providing cutting-edge wireless security solutions to the organization to adhere mission-critical business without compromising security or performance. As the lead QA Engineer performed Wireless security tasks including performance tests, Stress and stability tests performing denial of service attacks, Spoof attacks, Malicious attacks on wireless networks to measure security and stability of wireless networks using wireless analyzers, packet Sniffers, SmartBits and Spectrum Analyzers.

Accenture Technology Solutions, Atlanta, Ga Oct 2003- Oct 2004

Senior QA Engineer - QA analyst

AT&T CRM Application tesing including BellSouth DSL Broadband and Long Distance services for SAP implementations, integration, rollouts, upgrades and production support and maintenance. Established test methodologies for Web-Based applications creating manual and automated test scripts using LoadRunner, WinRunner and test management tools including test director, Seapine and Testlog to provide corporate intelligence and metrics to management teams.

Contributed to successful release of several official BellSouth Work Requests Releases

LUCENT Technologies, Agere, Proxim Atlanta, Ga. 2000-2003

Member of Lucent Wireless LAN Founders Team - QA Engineer

Systems Test and Support Engineer - Development testing methodology for wireless access point products test plans, Test cases and procedures to identify systems and security defects within the Wireless software image codes including client authentications, Performance Testing, Load stress and stability tests, Load balancing, Hardware and Software compatibility tests using manual and automated scripts. Wireless Network Virtual LAN ( VLAN ) Testing and Duplication of customers network issues and problem resolutions. Contributed to successful release of Proxim Access Points and WIFI certification testing and QA process design and implementations of Lucent Test Lab and implementations including installations of Servers, Routers, DMZ, Switches, Firewall, Access Points, Authentication Servers and primarily Working as Network and test Engineer to align with Lucent Technology security requirements, Preparation of systems, Functional and regression tests, preparation of Scenarios and Test Cases, executions and Wireless evaluations for WIFI Certification in Support of Orinoco products.

Contributed to creating and maintaining test methodologies, User Stories, Use Cases,Scenarios, Test Scripts, System connectivity and network security.

EDUCATION

Masters of Science in Computer Science, Stafford University (Distance Learning) London, UK May, 1999

MEMBERSHIPS

Member of QAI- Quality Assurance Institute.

Member of Atlanta SPIN- Software Process Improvement Network.

Member of ASQ- American Society for Quality.

CORPORATE TRAININGS

Mercury Interactive LoadRunner 8.0 Mercury Training Center

Microsoft MCSE 2000 Courses New Horizons Computer Learning Center

MS Security+ New Horizons Computer Learning

MS IIS New Horizons Computer Learning Center

TCP/IP Analyst Global Knowledge Inc.

NetFrame 7000 and 8000 Series Lucent Technologies Training

UNIX Operating Systems Accenture Learning and Development

BellSouth and BSLD Security Accenture Learning and Development

Agile Scrum ALC Training and Development

Electronic Medical Records EMR Healthcare First HIPAA Compliance

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