Software Quality Engineering

Richard D. Ligols

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Berkley Ma. ****9

Tel 781-***-****

COMPUTER ENGINEER

Accomplished, energetic, software quality principal engineer with multifaceted skills across multiple computer environments. Well skilled at troubleshooting and testing both hardware and software platforms.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PowerMAX Vmax Symmetrix VPLEX XtremIO VNX IBM zOS hardware

Ficon Fiber channel fabrics with Dell EMC enterprise storage

RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dell EMC June 2016 – present

Senior Manager Software Quality Engineer

Provide technical expertise for developing solutions for a wide range of complex software engineering problems; Design and develop automated test frameworks; Write unit test cases and integrate that with the automated test framework; Design and develop the continuous integration and continuous deployment framework for the Mainframe Enabler team; Participate in the creation of software development artifacts, including functional requirements, design specifications, code and user documentation; Test software changes in a variety of configurations; Write performance test cases for collecting the performance data of the software components; Analyze collected data, identify and make the appropriate changes in the Solution Enabler software product for better performance.

Direct the efforts of the team towards achievement of strategic and operational objectives

Acted as a subject matter expert and advisor for specialized programs, systems and critical technologies

Lead role within a major project and determine project approach, system scope, resource allotment and budget planning to meet complex business requirements

Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to understand critical business success factors and key performance indicators

Manage and support the career growth of my direct reports

Performed quality assurance testing for enterprise storage subsystems such as PowerMAX, VMax, Symmetrix, VPLEX, XtremIO and VNX.

Worked on resolving customer issues including recreation of the issue, testing the corrective measure and insuring interoperability.

Performed base connectivity qualification for IBM zOS hardware, operating systems, Ficon and fiber channel fabrics with Dell EMC enterprise storage.

Tasked with test lead engineer responsibilities for the Transparent Cloud Tiering feature for IBM zSeries.

Consultant Software Engineer April 2006 – June 2016

Provide technical expertise for developing solutions for a wide range of complex software engineering problems; Design and develop automated test frameworks; Write unit test cases and integrate that with the automated test framework; Design and develop the continuous integration and continuous deployment framework for the Mainframe Enabler team; Participate in the creation of software development artifacts, including functional requirements, design specifications, code and user documentation; Test software changes in a variety of configurations; Write performance test cases for collecting the performance data of the software components; Analyze collected data, identify and make the appropriate changes in the Mainframe Enabler software product for better performance.

Qualified Linux on system Z for Red Hat and Suse on such platforms as VPLEX, XtremIO, VNX, VMax, Symmetrix and PowerMax.

Certified interoperability of both Cisco and Brocade hardware and firmware for both Ficon and fiber channel.

Documented support for mainframe products and hardware in the Dell EMC support matrix.

Performed customer proof of concept testing for Linux on system Z and VPLEX and PowerPath.

Set up and configured VPLEX and XtremIO platforms for Linux on System Z qualification.

Maintained VMWare platform for Linux ISO repository and Windows based Connectrix Manager Converged Network

Edition server.

Executed qualification tests for Elab multi-platform interoperability for VMax platforms.

Provided customer facing tour guide services for Elab.

Built customer like environment for testing Mainframe software and Ucode

Qualified with DB2

Wrote and executed test plans

Senior Software Engineer May 2000 – April 2006

Executed integrated quality assurance software testing of EMC hardware for all mainframe products.

Tested EMC mainframe software products such as SRDF, TimeFinder and Snap as an integrated stack for Software Integration Team.

Qualified zOS based products such as Catalog Solutions and VSAM Capacity Plus.

Performed proof of concept and certification testing for Bustech DLm virtual tape system for zOS.

VALITY TECHNOLOGY July 1997 – May 2000

Engenerring Consultant

Administer all aspects of technical development cycle

Develop and Redesign of technical projects involving

Data Warehouse using "packaged" and "unpackaged" toolsets

Schedule client onsite training and knowledge transfer cycles involving extensive travel (25%).

Documentation of all technical production materials involving Project Plans, Database Design, Project

Requirements Layouts, Flowcharts, etc.

EPSILON CORPORATION November 1993 – July 1997

Application Specialist

C shell scripting in a Production control environment.

Responsible for job control programming (JCL).

Converting from a mainframe to a unix environment.

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