Engineer Quality Assurance
Resume:
Maryam Sirjani, MBA, PMP
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San Diego, CA, 92128 Cellular:
SUMMARY
Over 10 years of experience in Technology with strong expertise in Verification & Validation, Quality Assurance of
Mobile Phones, Medical Diagnostics Instruments software application and Project Management. Proven experience in
managing international projects with scheduling, prioritizing and multi-tasking assignments. Strong background for
supporting and assisting projects base on customer requirements.
Flexible, proactive and able adapt to new environments, quick learner of new Protocols, excellent communication skills
and interpersonal skills.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GEN-PROBE Inc, San Diego, CA Feb 2012- Present
SW V&V Engineer Feb2012 –Present
Projects:
• Responsible for commercialized Medical Device system, functionality, design, platform and different phases of the
software development testing and service quality for Blood Bank and Diagnostic Assays.
• Performed Smoke, Sanity, Core Regression and Feature Regression Testing on new released builds.
• Works cross-functionally in the development and or maintenance of products or services to resolving the
equipment and process-related production issues, activities including equipment, process, materials and
method validation as well as statistical analysis.
• Support quality operations the maintenance and created use cases base on FDA/ISO requirements &
developed functional & system test cases.
• Validated software risk mitigations function correctly by testing at the system level.
• Verified defect resolutions provided by the software development team.
• Ensure FDA guidelines were maintained and followed in implementation of Software Verification & Validation
procedures and guidelines.
• Reported defects observed during the various phases of the software testing with detailed analysis and logs.
• Recreated field reported issues in the lab environment to assist and facilitate troubleshooting of complaints.
• Utilized in-house test platforms & various software tools during the verification and validation of in- house IVD
products.
• Worked with team members to continually expand on and improve the Software quality and release processes.
NOKIA MOBILE PHONES, San Diego, CA Feb 2004- Feb 2012
SW Test Manager March 2008 –Feb 2012
Projects:
• Delivered technical management of assigned product program with focus on target customers. Supported all
aspects of planning and preparation for carrier product acceptance testing. Addressed all resulting technical issues.
Ensured the product test team’s compliance with standard operating procedures for customer compliance and
business systems management
• Developed test plan and strategy for different SW product testing projects
• Led multiple local test teams as well as the international teams simultaneously through test projects
• Supervised the daily activities of the testers to ensure that the platform and integrated developed applications
were tested in a timely manner and did not miss any deadlines.
• Created and maintained test processes needed to test Validation, Risk Migration, Regression,
Operator/Customer acceptance, MTBF, User Guide, sale check functional, nonfunctional, service and
applications
• Developed an end to end test strategy to ensure the platform was tested as efficiently as possible with the
limited resources that were assigned
• Created weekly test status reports for senior management that showed the development and test progress
• Maintained a strong working relationship with test group and developers
• Created supporting training documentation and participated in training sessions for Nokia centers
• Developed key software processes and presented the best practices - resulting shorten the error life cycle
within test entities by educating team member on impact of failures on quality and the process, set issue
priority and assignment (trainings, presentation, pilot testing, etc)
Feature Test Lead Engineer Feb 2005 – Mar 2008
Features Supported: Messaging, Multimedia, BREW Music Player, Kodiak PTT
• Developed and improved test cases and test plans for messaging components and multimedia applications for
Nokia Series 40 through use case development based on requirements, UI design specifications, and standards in
time to allow Development Group to meet requirements deadlines.
• Coordinated different test phases for messaging and multimedia features (SMS/EMS/MMS, Audio Player,
Multimedia Player, Camera, Video Player,) on various Nokia handsets. Captured more than 90% of total errors
of the entire product line prior to customer base release.
• Led SW testing from impact study to Feature testing, Regressions testing and implemented improvements to
our current SW Testing processes to help Nokia further develop systems..
• Key member in the Conception and Product Development team to proactively manage product quality,
durability and reliability issues and opportunities, proven experience on seven product programs.
• Ensured that all messaging features complied with industry standards and met requirement exit criteria prior to
release.
• Provided validation testing of the integrated phone SW prior to delivery to the mainstream and production
branches, including basic/frequent release, full feature and regression level testing.
• Worked as a liaison between the test team and other Nokia group to understand outstanding issues
• Created use cases for the customer requirements, troubleshooting and error detection
SW Test Engineer Feb 2004– Feb 2005
• Tested Nokia CDMA SW and ensured that all SW deliverables met industry and customer specifications prior to
final release to network operator labs.
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Caltrans 2002 – 2004
Traffic Operations- Transportation Management Center (TMC) San Diego, CA
• Monitored flow of traffic on major highways, utilizing engineering principles and analysis, different cameras, network
and communication equipment and Interconnection Cisco Network Devices (ICND).
ERICSSON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Inc. 2001 - 2002
Cellular Network Design Engineer San Diego, CA
• Performed geological analysis, using a GIS based program, to manage antenna deployment across varied terrain.
LEAP WIRELESS Inc. 2000 - 2001
Cellular Network Design San Diego, CA/ Engineer Intern
• Developed a realistic model of cellular clutter and grids using GIS based software.
EDUCATION
• PMP, Project Management Institute.
• MBA, Organizational leadership, National University,San Diego
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, San Diego
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