Alan Jahns

831-***-****

adcbvh@r.postjobfree.com

Skills

● Experienced in building collaborative relationships between all levels including customers, executives, engineering, legal, data governance and marketing to build not just the product the customer wants, but a successful product the customer needs

● Operating Systems: OS X, Linux, most Windows versions

● Languages: Shell scripting, WATIR/Ruby, Python, SQL

● Technologies: Hive, HDFS, NoSQL, Netezza, AWS

● Black/Gray/Whitebox Testing

● Services: Tomcat server, Windows Server, Apache Server, AWS, Docker

● Tools: DBeaver, PL/SQL Developer, Toad, SQLPlus, Eclipse, CVS, Mercurial, Bugzilla, JIRA, Git, Cloudera Manager, JMeter, Informatica, Alation

Employment History

LogMeIn - Senior Software Engineer, SDET 05/2018 to Present

● Documented testing process to promote SOX compliance

● Created Automated tests for a REST API data syndication service in Python

● Verified ETL process which included verifying Oozie workflow and data into Hive tables stored in AWS S3 buckets.

Intuit - SWE in Quality 2 10/2013 to 10/2017

● Lead QA in effort to migrate data from RDB to HDFS target and in some cases Vertica/Nz targets

● Acting Product Manager, gathering/documenting requirements for in-house ETL testing tool

(project name ZipLock)

● Project Manager/Scrum Master for ZipLock, worked with team of 4 to plan work for sprints

● Interview customers to articulate issues into bug reports and brought to completion

● Managed team of 3 contractors on various data migration projects

● Coordinate offshore testing team activities

● Stepped into role of Security Champion to work with all levels and encourage best security practices as well as find security issues via testing

● Collaborated with Data Governance to ensure protection of PII data

● Completed AWS Essentials Training course

● Functioned in an operations role to build out the QA Environment (e.g.: Informatica, Tidal) Rhapsody International - Sr STE 4/2010 to 10/2013

Real Networks - Sr STE 3/2007 to 4/2010

• Lead creation of automated test suite using WATIR to test Customer Service, Marketing and Editorial Tools

● Modified existing Perl code to expand automated testing and set up media publishing system in Pre-Prod environment

● Configuration and Ad-hoc testing of a web service to send media to Echonest for fingerprinting

● Verify FTP functionality to LimeLight host via Perl based media publishing

● Forged test plan, spec documents and release plan for new Linux based media encoding service

● Built automation for above Linux based encoding using SQL scripts and Bash shell scripts

● Create/organize tasks and stories using Agile methodology

● Setup production system architecture using Linux and Tomcat for media processing system

● Verified media created with the following tools met required specs: o Dolby Media Generator

o dBpoweramp

o LAME Mp3 encoder

● Worked with Dolby to obtain/update licenses as needed

● Wrote test cases for PC clients versions 2.0 to 4.0

● Ad-hoc testing of PC client software versions 2.0 to 4.0

● Regressed PC client software against new server releases

● Managed releases and updates to Pre-prod environments to limit downtime to multiple teams using this shared resource

● Validated finished product met contractual obligations to partner companies

● Wrote user guide for proprietary content encoding and data management software used to rip CD media and create entries in database

● Mentored new hires and contractors on all facets of system, DBs, server architecture, company software/tools

● Configured production publishing servers in preparation of company split from Real Networks to Rhapsody and verified functionality once we went live LogiGear – Software Tester (Contract) 2/2003 to 3/2007

• Worked on the following accounts while employed there:

● Fisher Price:

o Tested PowerTouch system, grey-box testing of a learning device using embedded software

● Learning Resources (Interactive talking toy):

o Grey box testing of a learning device with embedded database and a hardware scanner to “read” printed words and find a match in database o Made updates to code to correct pronunciation of words to match database entries

● Pearson Education (Web and CD based education:

o Followed client provided test plan for regression testing o Whitebox testing based on provided HTML code

o Trained and managed a team of 12 contractors

● Created and deployed PC images using Norton Ghost and VM Ware Philips Semiconductors – QA Engineer/Lab Manager 3/2000 to 6/2001

• Managed and maintained QA lab

o Repaired and Built hardware for lab

o Maintained and set up electrical test equipment

● Hardware testing of an embedded USB stack master/slave on one chip

● Created functional hardware displays for trade shows and dev work Web Site Designer/Consultant – 7/1998 to 2/2003

● Created Philips intranet website for home networking group using HTML and JavaScript References available upon request.

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