Senior Software Quality Engineer

Daniel Dansberg

Solon, OH 330-***-****

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Senior Software Performance Quality Engineer / Data Engineer

Leverage Automation to Streamline Performance Testing & Reporting & Deliver Valuable Insights to Stakeholders

Versatile problem solver with senior-level expertise in software quality engineering, data engineering, software integration engineering, software performance engineering and software quality automation engineering. Resourceful collaborator skilled in communicating effectively with others, developing a quality framework, managing the methodology and presenting results on time. Solid history of improving operational environments and fostering collaboration and alignment. Diverse experience includes roles of manager, lead, automation developer, and documentation writer and manager, all of which are reflected in current personal work style.

Skills

Mathematics, Statistics, & Data Modeling

Ground-up QA Department Building

Test Dashboard Development

Azure & Cloud-Based Testing

Software Functional & Integration Testing

QA Leadership & Training

Test Automation Script Development

Test Planning, Documenting, & Reporting

Database Data Mining & Analysis

Software Performance Testing & Analysis

Technical Tools

SQL / Oracle

Azure VM / Portal Management

Visual Studio

Azure Databases (Bronze / Silver / Cassandra)

Microsoft ADO (Pipelines / Bug Tracking)

Teams

Excel

SQA Testing

PowerShell

Ruby

C#

Python

Cucumber

QTP (now called UFT)

JMETER

Automation Tool Suites

Professional Experience

HUBBELL (ACLARA), Solon, OH

Senior Software Performance Quality Engineer - Hubbell SIT Team 2012 to 2024

Founded and built performance team. Created team’s framework and methodology, and developed training for onboarding new staff. Served as subject matter expert (SME) in software, OS, database, data mining and Azure performance testing.

Collaborated with project managers, developers, and managers, defining requirements and expectations for performance team and identifying what team needed from others to succeed. Every new project required new negotiations on these points.

Created models for each test, determined metrics, and metric meanings, resulting in standards and best practices used for performance testing today.

Built very large automation framework to collect, analyze, predict and present data in dashboard form, which was very flexible and easy to use and became the core of the performance test framework.

Developed training and knowledgebase, helping to maintain and allow others to participate in performance framework. Created 100s of documents and videos.

Proved framework and methodology while overseeing over 40 tests, each validating viability of the software while demonstrating key points for development to improve.

Selected to travel to Bilbao, Spain to build high-performing test team for Europe. Created 100+ scripts and training manuals.

Aclara Senior Software Quality Assurance Lead 2009 to 2012

Developed new methodologies for collecting and reporting results and built first automation suites for SQA.

Created Acara’s first dashboards for test monitoring and data mining, providing critical resource for tracking progress and validating results.

Defined method for data-driven automated testing allowing tests in modular form to be handed off to engineers outside of QA, which accelerated issue discovery.

Introduced and developed automated testing of firmware and software. Gaining the ability to test against highly repetitive tasks, and freeing up more manual test time for smaller tests.

Became #2 person to ask for all points on system, after person who developed the point of interest.

Increased team efficiency by reducing manual testing from 2.5 weeks to 8 hours of hands-off automated tests.

Additional Relevant Experience

CHARLES SCHWAB, Richmond, Ohio

QA Automation Developer

MYRIAD HEALTH SYSTEMS, Chagrin Falls, OH

QA Automation Developer

NOTEWORTHY MEDICAL SYSTEMS, Landerhaven, OH

Help Desk Manager

XEROX, Webster, NY

QA Manager

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Phoenix, Online

Completed Coursework for Master of Science in IT Management, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

Bachelor of Science (BS), Astronomy-Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH

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