Engineer Manager

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Raleigh, NC ***** 919-***-****

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QA ENGINEERING:

Over 35 years of experience in designing and implementing wide variety of Enterprise applications, Advanced Networks, and embedded systems QA engineering experience.

Functioning as both lead role as well as individual team contributor updating current software/hardware systems QA teams, recreating complex customer exposed defects,

solution analysis and resolution. Test Engineering practices writing end to end system test specifications, test plans and test cases, QA project designing. Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Test driven development.

Excellence in time management and teamwork skills.

Technical areas of expertise:

* Languages scripting - Python * Selenium * C * PERL * RUBY * JAVA – Script/Applets/JSP/NodeJS * UNIX * LINUX * WINDOWS * System Programming/Scripting sh, csh, bash, bat, Power Shell

* Infrastructure - cloud (AWS/AZURE ), Terra Form, * S3 * VPC * MongoDB * ORACLE * Network Architecture * Embedded * Cellular/Telecom * RTOS * UNIX * vms/vax * microcode DevOps – GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, * AD * JIRA

* Process – SDLC, Kanban, Scrum agile.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cisco Systems (contractor), Research Triangle Park, NC QA/Test Automation Engineer 01/2019 – 07/2020

Completed work on to Develop test automation framework Selenium/Python used for authoring executing and repotting on automated test case, use case development for agile sprint stories. Applications for inventory management, Issue tracking and password management applications in the Government Trust department. DevOps Testing Terra Form, Groovy, Ansible automation for CI/CD Jenkins pipeline builds.

Design Test plan and execute GOV Cloud (AWS) test cases to verify AMI creation, Host and Application deployment, autoscaling, load balancing.

Testing applications developed for the cloud and applications lift and shifted..

Data Domain (Dell/EMC), Research Triangle Park, NC Principle QA Engineer 2015 - 2018

Using Agile/Scrum development processes and tools to provide continuous integration feature delivery. Developing, executing, reporting on automated and manual test cases. Providing technical leadership and guidance in quality assurance and engineering on project teams. Customer problem re-creation for fix verification and customer support. Continuous incremental integration development and maintenance. Automated health and problem detection tool creation and development. Performance benchmark testing to provide performance base line and regression identification. Continuously drive high quality into product releases with Quality Engineering techniques and principles. Cloud based Test Environment Setup and Design with AWS, AZURE (Cloud)

Data Domain (EMC), Research Triangle Park, NC Senior QA Engineer 2011 – 2015

In the DDBoost (DataDomain Bandwidth Optimized Open Storage Technology) component area. Designing, writing, executing test cases manually and automated using Ruby, C API, Python, Perl and Manual test case execution for Enterprise Backup Applications: Symantec’s NBU and BE products and EMC Networker. Oracle 101 12g RMAN. Fiber channel test environment setup and testing on NAS/SAN. Develop nightly automation build tests. Test lead on maintenance and patch releases. Writing test plans, test specifications, and test case, project planning and sizing.

Tivoli (IBM), Research Triangle Park, NC Staff Engineer (Team Lead) 2000 – 2011

Team lead throughout product development life cycle in software verification. Security compliance and vulnerability testing and certification. Write test cases, executing both manual and automated tests. J2EE applications. Middle ware installs, setup and configuration Websphere, Tomcat., Apache, Oracle, DB2, LDAP. Training testers on the end-to-end automated test for handoff to continue regression testing to offshore teams. Automated verification using API, JMETER, JUNIT. Test process, tool, and automated testing development for Joint Tivoli Cisco OEM VPN monitor project. Real and simulated Network environments design and setup for software verification of VPN (L2/L3) monitor application. JAVA Script, Applets, Servlets, JSP. IPSec, L2 tunneling, SNMP, IP, Router protocols. Other IBM Tivoli Enterprise applications:

TSIEM – Tivoli Security Event Manage – Security event identification via managed end point log collection and analysis.

TKLM – Tivoli Key Life Cycle Manager - Vulnerability test lead - Keys, key groups and certificates used to en/decrypt data on disc and tape.

ITIM – IBM Tivoli Identity Manager - Technical lead - managing access and user accounts using WF and policy features.

ITPM – IBM Tivoli Privacy Manager - Automation test lead - managing access compliance for SBOX HIPPA.

VPM monitor – Cisco OEM partnership - test team lead - Application to monitor VPN traffic on Cisco and IBM routers, concentrators.

I.B.M, Research Triangle Park, NC: Network Engineer, Contractor 1999 -2000

Internet security, firewall software verification. TCP/IP, AIX, NT. Test case development and execution. All Internet protocols. WAN topology design and configuration.

Ericsson, Research Triangle Park., NC: Staff Engineer 1997 - 1999

Cellular digital phone software design, development, and verification. Complete product life cycle planning, scheduling, and development. TDMA IS-136/130/135 software specification-based development. Cellular base station, terminals (phone), switch, and network.

Test coding for simulations over air interface and test boxes. Development on all layers from hardware up to high level protocol OSI. Solaris, SCO and Linux Unix. Network Test, Token ring and Ethernet, network test environment modeling for card adapter's quality assurance. TCP/IP, Warp, Dos, Windows [all], Novell, Lantastic, VM, Routers, Gateways, Novell. Lan Server, Bridges, AIX.

Previous experiences in multiple positions in the Electronics test, development and manufacture 1984-1997

Aero-space, medical, industrial and commercial components and complete systems for both Private sector as well as Government end consumers.

EDUCATION

A.S. Data Processing

UCONN (Previously Naugatuck Community College)

CMS/MVS, Pascal, C, Assembler, CASE, COBOL, PL/1, DOS

A.S Computer Electronics Technology

Porter and Chester Institute

Z80, 80x8X, 68000, assembler, CP/M, AC/DC, UARTs,

Motors, Encoders, resolvers, controllers.

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