KEVIN DAYO

Topeka KS • 785-***-**** adiwzo@r.postjobfree.com

QA ENGINEER IN IT INDUSTRY, AGILE METHODOLOGY & PROJECT DELIVERY

Sr QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER

Tech-savvy and accomplished professional with extensive years' experience in software development, hardware digital design, product development, and complex QA automation. Skilled at leading QA automation, implementing SAP and agile methodology. Success in resolving critical issues, and improving product performance and yield. Recognized for long-term business assessments, integration support, and delivery of targeted technical improvements. Adept at developing performance standards for all operations to optimize cost productivity while delivering best customer service. Known for the ability to produce high-quality Automation Framework that meet or exceed standards.

Key Competencies

Agile Project Management Project Lifecycle Management Automation Testing Manual Testing Test plan strategy

Quality Assurance Process Improvement Proficient in Waterfall and Agile Technical Issue Resolution SDLC Functional, Regression, UAT, Integration Product verification Performance Testing Product life cycle SDLC Cloud Web Services Integrations Testing Requirement Code Deployment

EDUCATION

MBA in Management of Engineering & Technology, North Central University, Phoenix AZ, 2016

Bachelor of Science in Communication System Design & RF Signal Processing, Kansas State University, 2005

PMP Certification, 2018 SPO Certification 2020

AWARDS

Innovation Designed in Selex Sistemi Integrati Technical Review (Finmeccanica Company)

•Steps to Implementing a Boundary-Scan Methodology by Kevin Dayo (top 10 innovator in Aerospace)

•Published as one of the top ten innovator in Polaris

•2012 MLAT digital system design award

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Layout Tools

Altium Designer, Mentor graphics, PCAD, OrCAD, JTAG

Technology

FPGA design, CPLD, RS-485, RS-422, RS-232, I2C, CP Gateway, Central Office (CO), SPI, Uart, USB buses, PMbus, SMbus, PCIe, OC12, OC3, VDSL, ADSL, SDSL, DS3, T1, ISDN, SLIC, Compact PCI, Mini PCI, PCI, Express, H.110, USB, Ethernet, ATM, IP, SAR, Utopia, POS PHY, LVDS, 802.11b/g Wireless VoIP, LCD.

FPGA Tools

Leonardo, ModelSim, ORCAD, Viewlogic, Agile, SAP, Actel, Xilinx, Altera, Quartus

Database Technologies

Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Kibana, OpenShift, containers, Dockers, AppDynamics, AWS, Cloud Web Services

Languages

Java, JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery, HTML5, xml, C, C++, C#, MATLAB, LabVIEW, VHDL, Verilog, Swift, PowerShell, ISML

QA Tools

Maven, TestNG, Junit, Android SDK, Selenium WebDriver, Robotium, Appium, Expresso, Nunit, CI/CD, Docker, Ant

Agile Tools

Jira/Tracking system, Trello

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr IT PM / Sr QA Engineer Chocolatey Software Inc. Topeka KS Sep 2019 – August 2020

Facilitate current and potential clients by leading the project of Chocolatey Change Management deployment to monitor packages installation on all employee desktop and servers. Oversee Ansible CI testing for new project, lead team by using Kanban and Agile methodologies, and report project progress to senior management. Liaise with lead senior development and CEO to generate business proposals and development requirements. Hire and mentor skilled staff by providing effective guidance to meet set business targets.

Process improvement of website redesign projects to enhance performance and administer over 70 million packages download per day while managing the rate-limiting cache.

Implemented agile methodology and Trello board to effectively manage six developers on a remote basis.

Provided effective training to staff on selenium WebDriver using PowerShell and pester test for test kitchen.

Backend Testing using virtual Box and Vagrant for test kitchen to test any combination of platform and test suites

Created Test procedure for manual testing of CCM deployment

Testes key operating system and target environment window server (2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016)

Created Requirement for Development and Front end Test using selenium

Provided Business and Software requirement for stakeholders to the development Team

Project Manager Contract SE2 Topeka KS Feb 2019 – Sep 2019

Directed the implementation of Informatica for the MCS uncalc process from LifeCad to MCS. Implemented the Unclac extraction process and commission calculation in LifeCad and MCS. Administered budgeting and cost control initiatives of each project planned hours. Utilized PeopleSoft for execution of parallel testing for the MCS uncalc file. Achieved project milestones by articulating project goals and scope, translating business needs into technical terms, preparing detailed work breakdown structures (WBS), and instilling shared accountability.

Migrated MCS commission calculation from LifeCad to MCS and annulization, as well as managed migration of all commission schedules and agents to MCS.

Held accountability for performing legacy architecture improvement migration and design from the legacy system to a modernized system.

Infrastructure Testing of Migration from LifeCAD to MCS

IT Infrastructure Program Manager/ Business Architect Contract Sprint Kansas City, MO Oct 2018 – Feb 2019

Purchased software and hardware for the new Sprint TAPAS infrastructure within the set time and budget of $12 million. Liaised with the architects from Amdocs and Sprints to review all hardware implementations. Conducted analysis on the software design and implementation of the API gateway.

Enhanced new customer experience by creating a process flow Architecture diagram for Sprint TAPAS.

Created architecture design CI/CD for Jenkins servers by interfacing bit-buckets, Dockers, OpenShift, micro-services

Cyber security framework, help prioritized flexible cost effective approach helps to promote protection and resilience of critical infrastructure and other sectors

Process flow design of complete infrastructure operational needs, maps and value stream

Worked with Amdocs creating Architecture flow diagram in Sprint infrastructure and Sequence diagram

IT Program Manager/ HRBLOCK Kansas City, MO Jul 2017 – Oct 2018

Spearheaded large projects related to business growth, technology advancement, and process improvement and led 17 developers by applying the agile methodology. Created the architectural design of all documentation for Kafka, elastic search, and Kibana. Implemented agile methodology by leading agile projects to manage tax season readiness, technical debt, and platform dependencies. Monitored and prioritized ODS backlog and refined each story with the lead developers. Applied Kanban methodology for projects and 600 stories in the backlog that categorized team members in pods.

Successfully identified and resolved Kafka message failure scenarios by debugging data noise through Kibana and server saturation.

Analyzed API impact, dependencies, and code changes and developed a Microsoft Master project, that reduced the miscommunication between the ODS team.

Set up Kafka cluster in the QA and production environments using nodes through close coordination with Kafka developers and DevOps team.

Improved staff functional efficiency by providing effective leadership and ensured successful project execution within the set time and quality.

Managed forty four projects and worked closely with thirty six stakeholders

Cyber security framework, help analyzed security breach for the ODS middleware team using elastic search

Lead Sr. QA Engineer PAYLESS Shoe Sources Topeka, KS Mar 2016 – Jan 2017

Recruited agile team members by providing agile training and education through collaboration with learning and development department. Implemented E-commerce wide agile adoption strategy and rollout plans across the team. Built Demandware / Salesforces for the E-commerce IT department for the backend development of the Desktop website. Set business priorities to achieve goals and analyzed and mitigated issues by liaising with the developers. Generated Mobile website backend software by collaborating with the Mad Mobile.

Migrated Build deployment from Bamboo CI to Jenkins server and developed Selenium Automation code using JUnit4, Maven, and TestNG.

Improved application delivery by creating solutions for scaling agile methodology across projects.

Migrated Build deployment from Bamboo CI to Jenkins server and all build deployment to Jenkins.

Development of Automation framework using SauceLab and selenium, WebDriver, maven, Junit and testNJ.

Implementation of Demandware cartridge

Lead Software team in deployment of new build on two weeks sprints

Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer Soltekh Lawrence, KS Mar 2013 – May 2016

Analyzed and resolved system issues and filed three patents for company innovations. Created schematics design of digital board with RF signals, layout procedure, and documentation using Altium designer. Played a key role in software development using IAR software, Swift, and Android SDK. Created website for Wearable using Angular, HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, Java, and developed an android app using Android Studio and XCode. Monitored and reported project updates to senior leadership to ensure successful delivery within required standards.

Mentored team members to successfully apply agile methodology for ongoing performance excellence.

Verified RF signals integrity and manipulated RF signal by creating new filter that requires less power.

Lead Sr. QA Engineer Google /Arris Inc Lawrence KS 2013 -2016

Designed, developed and maintained Automated for Android SDK and IOS platform and Advanced Descriptive Java Programming based on Test Case Documents.

•Collaborated with Project Managers, Developers and QA Organization to define bugs and create solution to problem.

•Maintained Robotium automated framework

•Successfully converted manual to automation Testing using Jenkins server, Java eclipse, Android studio, espresso, UiAutomator and Robotium.

•Selenium WebDriver full application web browser testing on all multiple windows Operating Systems including Mac.

•Conducted technical interviews for new hires and participated in the hiring process for new automation developers for the Automation Team.

•Provided training for six new hires on automation tools and SDK coding.

•Supported India QA development Team with Automation Script Issues.

•Developed and maintained Automation Metrics for Management Team using Jenkins Server and MS Excel.

Federal Aviation Agency Selex Contract Overland Park KS 2014 -2016

Firmware / Test Engineer

Designed test System for DME system on the RTC, MONITOR, LCU Board

Total Project control on designing the Schematic hardware using FPGA designed and JTAG Boundary Scan

Layout process using Altium Designer, PCAD to verify for signal integrity

Built board manually and placed all FPGA's using soldering profiles on ROHS compliance methodology

Microprocessor implementation to verify voltage regulators by using C++

Designed of generic Blackfin bootloader used throughout company product line

Production Aviation Test Engineer Selex ES 2008 -2013

Trained, coached and mentored 35 high level technicians on new Automation test for MLAT and ADS-B aviation system

Created new work flow for ADS-B production, trained technicians on MATLAB and JTAG Boundary Scan

Allocated different responsibility to different technicians depending on their expertise and ADSB-Ground Station

Lead team members on customer requirements review, system partitioning, architecture design, and schedule development for ADS-B Ground Station

Lead Presenter on Signal/Data Processing Methods during Preliminary and Critical Design reviews (CDR/PDR) with end customer

FPGA hardware design and JTAG boundary scan

MATLAB Modeling of Mode-S Degarbler, UAT Transmitter, and UAT Receiver

Developed Hardware Requirements Specification for Transmitter and Receiver FPGAs

Developed Software Requirements Specifications and Software Detailed Design Requirements for Linux based ADS-B Message Handling Software

Implementation of Time Correction Algorithms (30 ns RMS Error to UTC), FPGA interfaces, and Transmitter scheduler in C++.

MODE-S, designed Software test using Python and JTAG boundary Scan on Mode-S Transponders to test the Digital and Analog system

Designed a test fixture to automate the process at the manufacturing site MLAT (Multilateral Non radar system)

Complex FPGA design to interface with Stratix and platform Flash

Created Altera signal tap to verify modulation signals on A/D converter on 1090 RX Designed standalone GUI for technicians to automate sensor level test and functional test

Digital / RF Test Engineer ( JTAG boundary Scan) /QUVIS 2005 -2008

Implemented new design changes on CPU and VSP circuit board, which dramatically Increasing their yields from 50% to 95% on the production floor

Ensured that new designs operate effectively and could be tested in the field while being user friendly to operators and technicians. Implemented Boundary scans devices to all circuit boards allowing for much faster testing of memory DDRAM, FPGA, and surface mounted designs

Improved profile on ROHS soldering procedures to reduce the levels silver whisker. Designed Flash programming board to access the flash and read and write to flash using USB (UART) SATA and SCSI hard drives. Created new profiles for Reflow on BGA rework for ROHS and non-ROHS devices which also include reballing

Programmed flash memory for Gig card, main Power PC 440 (AMCC) and USB controller through a 64bit PCIBUS

Created and implemented register test to verify functionality of all addresses and data lines by using QBOB Script

Troubleshot and repaired more than 100 CPU 6.12 and 7.3.1 worth over $1million

Accomplished 90% test coverage using boundary scan (JTAG) and C programming.

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