Experience

IPS Group, Inc.

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Test Engineer / QA

  • May 2018 - Present



Solekai Systems

• Greater San Diego Area

• Software Developer / Senior Test Architect

  • Jul 2004 - Apr 2018

  Software development/maintenance of an Enterprise Java Application based on the Eclipse platform used for the design and development of set-top box (STBs) tests Develop and maintain build scripts with Apache Ant to automate Java application builds As a sole Test Architect on the team, utilized knowledge of XML, XPath, XSLT and XSD to design, develop and execute functional, integration, stress, acceptance, regression and ad-hoc tests Mentor junior Test Engineers and provide support to Technical Writers and Testers Manage competing priorities for test case delivery based on requested delivery dates Leverage expert knowledge of industry and proprietary technical specifications and requirements to develop new feature test cases Analysis of customer JIRA tickets to troubleshoot and resolve issues reported from a customer library of ~3000 tests, estimate work involved, log progress to resolution and monitor customer feedback on reported issues, collaborate with multiple technical teams across companies to troubleshoot reported issues with customer tests Prepared instructional information documents for software configuration, installation, and testing steps to achieve proper test results Maintain a knowledge base document on test design and development to ensure product quality control Lead formal company and on-site customer training sessions highlighting the features of the enterprise application enabling the design and development of new test cases, lead informal stand-up meetings to discuss investigation of existing tests affected by updated or new STB requirements Collaborate with internal teams and customers to propose test cases that are critical for proper STB feature implementation Propose new customer requirements to enable the team to improve initial test development and save critical time involved in the development and testing cycle Maintain STB testing equipment and infrastructure including computer software/hardware and RF modulators Show less



Wind River

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test Architect / Bitstream Developer

  • Jul 2000 - Jul 2004

  Created functional and UI test plans based on functional requirements Participated in formal reviews with development team Designed, engineered, tested and maintained STB black box tests, targeting various test cases using DIRECTV’s DSS transport, MPEG-2 video formats, measured video and audio synchronization with oscilloscope, conditional access, encryption, protocol injury, and UI functionality Traveled to customer headquarters, provided onsite support to Software Engineers, Systems and Integration Engineers, and QA Testers Show less



San Diego City Schools

• Primary and Secondary Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Systems Analyst / Programmer

  • Jan 1997 - Jul 2000

  Supported a migration from a mainframe to a client/server for Y2K Rewrote legacy mainframe production control procedures to reflect the migration to a client / server environment For a Y2K project, wrote EBCDIC to ASCII conversions for VSAM, binary, and database files; Trained other analysts to do the same Wrote NT scripts that performed backup/restore procedures of SQL database tables Created JCL batch jobs to provide users with specific data per job requests Tested JCL batch jobs by creating test files and reports for comparison with parallel production runs on an NT Client/Server environment Show less