Engineer Quality Assurance
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RANDY SANGINARIO
Princeton, MA ***41
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OBJECTIVE
Seeking a Full-time position in Software Quality Assurance where I can utilize my technical skills, experience and team player attitude to help build great products.
PROFILE
•Overall 16+ years of experience in Quality Assurance: Regression, Manual and Automation.
•Experience with Stress and Persistence testing
•Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
•Experience testing software in both virtual and physical environments.
•Responsible for architecting and leading a Patch release team.
•Experience mentoring team members with product knowledge and business processes.
•Offshore team lead
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Agile Tools: Jenkins, Jira, Jama
Scripting: UNIX shell script, PowerShell, Power CLI
Testing Tools: Toro, Etrack, Power GUI, Etrack, Perforce, ClearCase
Network Tools: Wireshark, Ethereal, Nagios
Platforms: Multiple Versions of Windows, Linux, and Solaris
Virtual: VMware 5 and 6, VMware Fabric, vCNS and NSX environments
EDUCATION
BS of Information Management and Technology (1994)
Syracuse University
Certificate in UNIX System Administration/C Programming
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1997)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SYMANTEC CORPORATION, Waltham, MA October 2006 - Present
Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Individual Contributor for multiple teams within Symantec (by way of internal transfers)
These groups encompassed the following:
Individual contributor (Sr. SQA Engineer) for Symantec Endpoint Protection, Data Center Security Server, Symantec Cloud Workload Protection, Symantec Advanced Endpoint Protection
•Developed Persistence Test Strategy for Symantec Virtual Appliance and executed weekly Persistence runs for VMWare Fabric Beta Project
•Developed test strategies for various features/components of the aforementioned products.
•Test case creation and execution.
• Installed/configured and administered VMware vSphere test environments as well as various
Windows and Linux environments that hosted Symantec software and functioned as client
virtual machines.
•Automated test cases using Power Shell, PowerCLI, on PowerGUI
•Developed simple bash and PS scripts/tools for the sake of regression and one-off testing.
Individual contributor (Sr. SQA Engineer) for Symantec Messaging Security Team
Developed and implemented test strategies/test cases for message filter products using functional specifications (FSDs).
Regression tested email message filters and message security products.
Stress testing lead on multiple projects.
Key skills for this position included SMTP, POP, DNS, Nagios and Ethereal/Wireshark.
Individual contributor (SQA Engineer) for Symantec Gateway Security (Customer Response Team)
Responsible for testing security, monitoring, clustering, routing and multicast features of the Symantec Enterprise Firewall Appliance.
Run automated (Java harness) and manual tests for Enterprise Firewalls and Client products consisting of protocols, proxies, antivirus, antispam and intrusion detection.
Set up test bed environments and TCP/IP networks consisting of IIS servers, Linux clients, and multiple server configurations.
Developing, writing and reviewing test plans for the testing of new features, protocols, and software.
Trained offshore team (Pune, India) on component regression testing.
Comprehensively tested routing protocols on new and current platforms, as well as conducting a complete regression test of routing functionality.
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Concord Communication, Marlborough, MA May 2000 – August 2005
Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Project lead for Patch Release Team
Implemented and managed testing schedule for quarterly Patch Release projects.
Developed a company-wide process for Patch releases.
Managed Patch/Distributed Cluster test lab.
Represented SQA in weekly triaged Patch meetings.
Developed a Python script that extracted high severity bugs from ClearQuest and emailed list to appropriate parties (Dev team and support).
Developed Regression test plan for Patch Release.
Tested hotfixes on multiple platforms (Solaris, HP and Linux).
Resolved customer Beta support issues via phone/email and site visit interactions.
TJX, Inc, Westborough, MA October 1998 – May 2000
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
QA contributor responsible for testing Point of Sale software
Tested store hardware, software and utility programs.
Extensive testing as part of Y2K project.
Performed installation, upgrade, functional and regression testing for in-house software.
Provided phone Technical Support on regular basis.
Computrition, Billerica, MA 1997
Applications Programmer/Analyst
Developed nutritional software in C.
C programmer.
Provided technical support to customers and field engineers.
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