Engineer Quality Assurance
Resume:
Ron Schakel
*******@*****.***
Summary
An experienced Software Quality Assurance Engineer looking for a new opportunity to make software better. In-depth understanding of the software QA process, from test planning and design to automation development, regression planning, and continuing support work. Multiple years of automation experience. Experience working alone, in small and large groups in Agile and waterfall environments. Experience in leadership positions. Excellent communication skills.
Experience:
CIS by Deloitte: September, 2015 - Current
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Led effort to purchase test automation suite. This involved vetting tools, negotiating with vendors and advising management on purchase.
Created and maintained QA status dashboards with Confluence.
Test Lead: GP Calcs. Created, documented and executed GUI test cases in Agile environment. Automated UI tests via UFT. Executed APIs via Postman. Deployed Docker containers via Ansible scripts. Created push button deployment via Jenkins.
Test Lead: Medicaid Claims. Created, documented and executed GUI test cases. Executed API tests via Postman. Deployed Docker containers via Ansible.
NetApp, Inc: August 2008 - July 2015
Senior Engineering Instructor, NetApp University November 2014 - July 2015
Curriculum creation and instruction for Test Automation, Data ONTAP Administration, and Data ONTAP Data Protection.
Reviewed and collaborated on Agile Training
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, SAN QA August 2008 - October 2014
Test Lead, Data Mobility-LUN Copy/Move
Lead project to completion. Duties included project sizing, test design specification, scheduling, writing and reviewing test suites in OO Perl using AGILE methodologies, gap analysis, and reporting status to management via ALM.
Reviewed developers code and unit tests written in C, and offered comments when necessary.
Wrote scale-out test suite to aid in debugging large systems.
Co-Test Lead, Data Protection-SnapVault
As part of a two person team, I sized the project, wrote the test design spec, wrote 80% of the automated test code using AGILE methodologies, and reported status to ALM.
Test Engineer, SCSI-Target
Converted SCSI-Target test scripts from a 3rd party tool to an in house tool. Conducted gap analysis and created new test suites where needed.
Sony Ericcson: February 2008 - July 2008
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, GPS
Executed weekly test cycles on multiple platforms. Analyzed errors and reported status.
Wrote custom GPS tests using Rohde & Schwarz equipment.
Taproot Systems, Inc: May 2004 - November 2007
Senior Engineer
Wrote and maintained wifi test application in C++.
Wrote application interface libraries in C++.
Wrote and demoed VoIP proof of concept.
Wrote Windows test plugin libraries.
Nokia, Inc: April 2000 - May 2004
Software Engineer, Mobile Applications
Worked on a team of developers developing aFlash-Player plugin for Symbian phones. Wrote test application and proof of concept.
Lead developer on Dynamic File Explorer to display file lists in various formats as desired by applications.
Promoted from development associate to lead developer on Visual Ring Tone Composer using C++.
Education:
Bachelor of Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington.
Skills:
Languages: C/C++, Object Oriented Perl
Software Technologies: Clustered Data ONTAP, Storage Area Networking, ALM test management, QTP/UFT, Perforce
Protocols: SIP, SAN, SCSI, ISCSI, FCP, HTML, PHP, XML
Other skills: Java, SQL, Python, UFT, Docker, Ansible, Postman
Certified AGILE scrum master
Personal:
Involved in mentoring high school students interested in technology careers.
Webmaster for high school band program.
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