Quality Assurance Engineer

Edward F. Martin III

*** ******* ***** ****** ****, NJ 08003 856-***-****

*******@*******.*** www.linkedin.com/in/edwardfmartiniii

IT Systems Professional

Analytical, highly technical professional with extensive experience planning and executing all phases of software development lifecycle in line with aggressive project requirements. Engaging leader of multidisciplinary teams in achieving on-time project deliverables. Trusted business partner to gather and align requirements with project processes, ensuring continuous updates and full transparency through all project phases.

Areas of Expertise

Test Management: SQA Testing & Methodologies, Test Planning, Test Case Design, Test Reporting, Test Automation, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Negative Testing, Defect Tracking

Methodologies: SDLC, Agile Life Cycle Management, Waterfall Software Development

Administrative: Documentation Management, Vendor Relations, Stakeholder Engagement, Quality Assurance, Team Leadership, Training & Development, KPI and Reporting

Platforms: Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms, Mainframe z/OS, z/VM with z/Linux and CMS

Technical Skills

Languages: IBM Assembler, CLIST/REXX, SQL, Visual Basic, VBScript, HTML, XML, BASH, C and Java

Tools: Selenium WebDriver & Grid, TestNG, Eclipse, Ant, Jenkins, Maven, Cucumber, VersionOne, CA Clarity PPM, HP ALM/QC, Bugzilla, SVN, SharePoint, Rapid Test, CA-Verify, IBM Rational Team Concert and MS Office Suite Products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Mainframe Software: SMS, CICS, JES2, TSO, ISPF/PDF, VTAM, SMF, SMP/E, SLES, DFDSS, TCP/IP and others

CA Products: CA Common Services, CA Top Secret, CA Dispatch, CA Spool, CA View, CA Deliver, CA Output

Management Web Viewer, CA DRAS, CA Endevor, CA VM: Secure, CA VM: Director, CA AppLogic for System z,

CA Guest Manager for System z and CA UIM for System z

Professional Experience

CA TECHNOLOGIES, Ewing, NJ

Principal Quality Assurance Engineer 1990 – 2015

Direct quality assurance processes for all software development projects, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, functionality and quality of products. Execute all testing, refinement and configuration prior to release.

Key Engagements:

2014 – 2015 UIM for System z – Unified Infrastructure Manager (a scalable monitoring solution)

oInstalled MYSQL database onto Windows 8 server

oCoded required SQL statements to create database

oInstalled UIM hub component onto Windows 8 server

oProvisioned zLinux VM and installed and configured UIM probe for z/VM on to zLinux VM

oDesigned test cases and bash scripts to generate system activity to ensure that the probe collected the system data and returned metrics to UIM hub; displayed them correctly in the UI

oTested that the critical alarms triggered when alarm thresholds exceeded the defined limits

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CA TECHNOLOGIES (Continued)

2013 – 2014 CA Guest Manager for System z Project

oPerformed installation tests and regression testing in line with SDLC and SQA methodologies

oCreated a fix creation procedure for each system to deliver code fix to the customer. The fix creation procedures were in place before product went Beta.

oRequested access to ftp server to place product deliverables and test download of deliverables. Placed Beta version of product deliverable on ftp server for customer download.

oWorked with Product Owner, Scrum Master and Product Management to meet biweekly deadlines. Continually met long term goals of Product Development

2011 -2013 CA AppLogic for System z Project

oDirected weekly QA meetings between 5 CA associates in 3 countries: US, India, Czech Republic

oLed Daily Agile Scrum meetings when Scrum Master was unavailable

oWorked with Product Owner, Scrum Master and Product Management to meet Monthly deadlines

2010 – 2011 Software Configuration Service (SCS) phase of CA CSM

oAnalyzed and designed which product configuration options were appropriate for SCS

oTrained three additional software engineers to assist with the SCS project for Enterprise Report Management (ERM) products

oTransitioned and trained development team members with the new product build procedures that included creation of installation images (cart and pax files) and maintenance of CSM XML

2009 – 2010 Software Deployment Service (SDS) phase of CA CSM and Product Packaging and source code repository transition

oCoded XML, tested, debugged and fixed all defects for the Software Deployment Service phase turning over the code to Quality Assurance

oBuilt SMP/E product carts and pax files manually from the source code repository (CA Endevor)

oConverted the CA Bundl release 6.0 product installation to industry SMP/E standards; Also packaged the SIS and SDS XML with this release

2008 – 2009 Software Installation Service (SIS) phase of CA CSM and Electronic Software Delivery (ESD)

oCoded XML for Enterprise Report Management (ERM) products for a modernized web interface, tested, debugged and fixed all defects for the Software Installation Service phase turning over the code to Quality Assurance

oConverted the Enterprise Report Management product line installation tapes into an electronic software delivery media (pax file)

Early Career

CA TECHNOLOGIES, Ewing, NJ

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Technician

CIGNA SYSTEMS, Voorhees, NJ

Network Control Technician

Education & Certifications

BA, Temple University

Programming Diploma, Maxwell Institute

Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, License 00396343, February 2015 – February 2017

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