Ali Sabouri

***** ** **** **. #***, Redmond, WA *8052 206-***-**** aczwlt@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Over 16 years of industry experience shipping quality software, working with a variety of products, teams, people and technologies. Developed high quality test plans and test scripts for various products, successfully performed set up, functionality, globalization, system, integration, regression, load, stress, performance, deployment testing using manual methods and automated tools. History of collaboration and success in rapidly- changing and Agile environments ensuring the delivery of quality products. Awarded for exceptional troubleshooting and problem solving aptitude. Excellent interpersonal skills that have been acknowledged for competent leadership, professional conduct, strong commitment to quality and work ethic. Fluent in English, French and Farsi. A constant learner of new technologies updating my skills throughout my career.

Skills

Operating Systems:

-Windows - Windows Mobile 7/ 6.x - Android

-Linux - iOS - WinCE

Applications:

-HP Quality Center (ALM) - Jira - Rally

-TFS - MS SQL Server - MS SharePoint Portal Server

-MS Visual Studio - MS Exchange - MS Product Studio

-Tortoise SVN - MS Test Manager - Microsoft Office

-MS Project - MS Visio - MS Visual SourceSafe

-Windows Media Player - WTT - iManage (Interwoven)

-WorkSite - VMware - Citrix XenApp

-MacPac - Workshare

Languages:

-Test Scripts - T-SQL - UML

- C# - Visual Basic - HTML

-PHP & JavaScript - ASP.NET - XML

Experience

SYNCRONOSS TECHNOLOGY JULY 2016- DEC 2016

Senior QA Engineer

Assisted in product requirement Analysis

Identified and generated test cases for multi-component Cloud Application from requirements for Web UI and Mobile App

Executed all Test cases on Web UI and Mobile App on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, MS) and devices from multiple OEMs.

Reported design flaws and product defects and coordinated investigation and bug fixes with Developers

Provided Test Summary & Test Exit Reports

PUGET SOUND ENERGY SEPT 2015- FEB 2016

Senior QA Engineer/Test Lead- Consultant

Gathered and refined project requirements with Business Analysts, in Agile environment

Defined Test strategy and created Test Plans for various Ecommerce Projects (Mobile and Desktop applications)

Generated Test Cases and Test Suites, in TFS and HPQC, Generated Test Data and maintained Test Environments

Guided and Led QA Team on their daily tasks including writing and executing Test cases, logging results and reporting defects

Executed planned Test cases and Test Scenarios, and provided status and progress report for upper management

Assisted in Testing various Projects on demand

BSQUARE CORPORATION JAN 2015-JUNE 2015

Senior QA Engineer/Test Lead - Consultant

Created and wrote Test plan, Test Suits and Test cases for a new version of Coca Cola dispenser, in Agile environment

Guided QA members on their daily tasks including writing and executing Test cases, logging results and reporting defects.

Executed planned Test cases and Test Scenarios, and provided status and progress report for upper management

Provided daily status and progress report for Team

AT&T E-COMMERCE JUNE 2014-DEC 2014

Senior QA Engineer/Lead- Consultant

Gathered and refined project requirements with Business Analysts, in Agile environment

Generated detailed requirement matrices to assist Dev Team in project implementation

Defined Test strategy and created a comprehensive Test Plan for Project

Generated Test Cases and Test Suites including Acceptance, Business Validation and exit criteria, in Rally and HPQC

Executed planned test cases on each phase. Guided and led Test Team on running tests, log results and defects throughout project

Owned, and Provided daily status and progress report to upper management

T-MOBILE MARCH 2014-MAY 2014

Senior QA Engineer/Test Lead - Consultant

Refined Process of gathering requirements and Testing schedule for each project in agile environment

Created Test Plans for various Project (Portal and device testing)

Generated Test Cases and Test Suites including Acceptance and Business Validation criteria for each project

Executed planned Test cases and Test Scenarios, and successfully shipped each project per schedule

Guided and led Test Team on running tests, log results and defects throughout projects

Owned project Sync up meeting, provided progress report for Team and upper management

PREP SPORTSWEAR MAY 2013-NOV 2013

Senior Test Engineer/Test Lead - Consultant

Defined Process of gathering requirements and Testing for each project in agile environment that fitted company’s business model and development

Created Master Test plan, Generated Test Suites including BVT, Acceptance and Release criteria for each project

Signed off on testing and shipped 5 major projects in 4 months (Front and Backend features)

Executed planned Test cases and Test Scenarios, opened quality defects, assisted Development on debugging and bug fixes, in daily builds

Guided and led Tech Team on running tests, log results and defects and troubleshooting on reported issues by customers, in daily basis

COSTCO CORP OCT 2012-MAY 2013

Senior QA Engineer - Consultant

Test Lead on POS(Point of Sale) Application designed to deploy for all retail stores

Assisted on completing Project Specifications by gathering and identifying the project Core Requirements and risks

Created Project’s Master Test plan including, Project Breakdown, Test Matrices, Test Suites & Test Criteria, to generate Test suites

Generated Test Cases and scenarios and uploaded to ALM/HPQC and executed Test cases and scenarios

Guided Testers on running tests, log results and defects on each Test Pass

PERKINS COIE, LLP DEC 2011- AUG 2012

Software Test Engineer/Test Lead - Consultant

Performed a System analysis on firm wide workstation upgrade Project and identified Project core requirements and risks

Created Project Master Test plan including, Breakdown, Test Matrices, Test Suites and approved guideline and Test Schedule

Generated Test Case Template and created Test Case management Tools

Guided and trained The Firm IT staff on overall QA process and methodologies including, performing required verification on each milestone, writing and executing Test Suits and test cases for required product validations

Completed Test suites execution and deployed new image for firm-wide usage on over 2500 workstation and successfully met Project goals and metrics

BSQUARE CORPORATION DEC 2010-NOV 2011

Senior QA Engineer - Consultant

As a member of PES (Professional Engineering Services) Provided QA estimate on time and resource allocation for all involved projects

Coordinated test effort in all projects with Off-Shore Test Team, PM and Dev

As Windows Mobile LTK (Logo Test Kit) coordinator, executed all Test Cases and verification to obtain MS Logo Compliance and successfully shipped 3 Embedded devices to the Market

Wrote Test plan, and executed all test cases for Kindle Reader (a document reader application) on PC and Mac platforms in Agile environment

Planned and defined Product requirement, wrote Test plan for “Content Delivery Feature” of kindle Fire (Amazon tablet device).

Executed Manual and Automated test cases for Content Delivery on first version of Kindle Fire in Agile environment

MICROSOFT JUNE 2009-OCT 2010

Software Test Engineer Mobile Division – Consultant

Coordinated LTK (Logo Test Kit) Test efforts between Test, Dev and PM and participated OEMs for Windows Phone 6.x devices

Tested various Mobile devices from Different OEMs including LGE, Qualcomm, HTC and Motorola

Investigated product bugs to determine if the core code issues were caused by OS or OEM bundled applications

Ran Automated and Manual Test suites, on actual devices and Device Emulator.

Investigated failures and provided log files for Development Teams

Developed Test Cases for various features of Windows Mobile phone 7

MICROSOFT AUG 2005-AUG 2006

Software Test Engineer - Media Group - Consultant

Wrote and executed Functional Test cases for “Window’s Media Connect” on Windows Media Player

Generated test cases for End-to-End user scenarios, stress and Performance

Executed Automated and Manual test cases for Performance Stress and E2E scenarios

Provided log files and assisted Dev Team on debugging defects

Provided weekly Progress Report and presentation

Trained and guided new testers during the product cycle

MICROSOFT NOV 2000-APR 2005

Software Test Engineer/SDET - Office Server Group/SharePoint Portal Server - Full Time Employee

Feature Tester for various features of SharePoint Portal Server in 2 complete product cycles

Wrote Test Plans and Test Design Specifications for all owned features, including Site Setting, Search, People and Alert

Assisted on writing Automated Test Cases using PKMTest for SharePoint Portal Server 2001

Designed, and deployed and managed automated solution for “Performance and Stress Lab” consisting over 140 Server and clients

Test Lead for BVT, Acceptance and QFE Teams on SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and 2003

Assisted in writing automation framework for Performance and Stress Test Tool for SharePoint Portal Server 2007

Tech Lead for shipping Service Pack 3 for SharePoint Portal Server 2001

MICROSOFT JUL 1999-OCT 2000

Software Test Engineer & MS Logo Compliance PM - WinCE Mobile - Consultant

Investigated, troubleshoot, and presented solution for testing issues and product defects encountered by all Partners and OEMs (Over 25 OEMs)

Co-authored Pocket PC Logo Compliance Test Kit –LTK containing over 120 manual and automated Test cases

Co-authored product specifications and logo compliance documentation for Pocket PC 2000 and Handheld PC 3.0

Built, tested, and deployed Pocket PC Logo Compliance Test Kit (LTK) for all OEMs and partners.

Coordinated, and supervised testing on Independent Test Labs (ITL) and all participant OEMs during the product Life Cycle

Education

SEATTLE CENTRAL COLLEGE SEATTLE, WA 2007-2009

Information Technology - Database Administration & Development

SEATTLE CENTRAL COLLEGE SEATTLE, WA 1997-1998

Computer Science

B.E.E.S.A.N PARIS, FRANCE 1990-1992

A Certificate in Physical Education, by MINISTER DE L’EDUCATION NATIONAL in France

Additional Certifications

Microsoft Training and Education:

-Product Cycle Model - Testing International software

-Fundamental of Secure Software - Writing secure software - Cross Teams and group Management

-Peer Mentoring and leadership - Windows Security Training

-Management in Global work environment - SQL Server: System Administration

-Testing Websites and Content Testing(Advanced) - Programming Concepts (Object Model)

-Smart Hiring Interviewer (Behavioral Interviewing) - Testing Fundamentals

-Networking Essentials and Administration

References Available Upon Request

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