Mark Tooski
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst at Zeetta Networks- Claim this Profile
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Andrew Baxter
I have worked with Mark on the development of Active Inventory for ECOMP and ONAP for three years. Mark is a very professional test engineer and manager and a strong advocate of agile, test automation and TDD/BDD. He has developed strong automation frameworks for Active Inventory and takes the time to ensure he understands the business and technical behaviours required of complex software. He is driven by a desire to achieve the correct outcomes, not simply to achieve a set of KPIs for test coverage. He is a good mentor to other test engineers and can be relied upon to find innovative and cost effective test approaches to challenging problems. I look forward to working with Mark again in the future.
Stephen Weatherly
Mark worked for me as the lead Test Engineer within the UK R&D department of Amdocs and throughout his tenure at Amdocs he demonstrated a very high level of ability. In his role of lead Test Engineer Mark was responsible for understand high level requirements, designing test plans, working with the Agile teams to execute on the plans, and driving improvements to test best practices and processes within the team. He did an excellent job of all of these responsibilities and demonstrated his strong BDD, TDD and test automation skills along the way, helping to deliver a high degree of test coverage and ensure the overall quality of the software. Mark works very well within a team and is very much a team player. His communication (both within the team and upwards) is excellent. I have no hesitation in recommending Mark for test lead positions and believe he would be a strong addition to any testing function within an organization.
Andrew Baxter
I have worked with Mark on the development of Active Inventory for ECOMP and ONAP for three years. Mark is a very professional test engineer and manager and a strong advocate of agile, test automation and TDD/BDD. He has developed strong automation frameworks for Active Inventory and takes the time to ensure he understands the business and technical behaviours required of complex software. He is driven by a desire to achieve the correct outcomes, not simply to achieve a set of KPIs for test coverage. He is a good mentor to other test engineers and can be relied upon to find innovative and cost effective test approaches to challenging problems. I look forward to working with Mark again in the future.
Stephen Weatherly
Mark worked for me as the lead Test Engineer within the UK R&D department of Amdocs and throughout his tenure at Amdocs he demonstrated a very high level of ability. In his role of lead Test Engineer Mark was responsible for understand high level requirements, designing test plans, working with the Agile teams to execute on the plans, and driving improvements to test best practices and processes within the team. He did an excellent job of all of these responsibilities and demonstrated his strong BDD, TDD and test automation skills along the way, helping to deliver a high degree of test coverage and ensure the overall quality of the software. Mark works very well within a team and is very much a team player. His communication (both within the team and upwards) is excellent. I have no hesitation in recommending Mark for test lead positions and believe he would be a strong addition to any testing function within an organization.
Andrew Baxter
I have worked with Mark on the development of Active Inventory for ECOMP and ONAP for three years. Mark is a very professional test engineer and manager and a strong advocate of agile, test automation and TDD/BDD. He has developed strong automation frameworks for Active Inventory and takes the time to ensure he understands the business and technical behaviours required of complex software. He is driven by a desire to achieve the correct outcomes, not simply to achieve a set of KPIs for test coverage. He is a good mentor to other test engineers and can be relied upon to find innovative and cost effective test approaches to challenging problems. I look forward to working with Mark again in the future.
Stephen Weatherly
Mark worked for me as the lead Test Engineer within the UK R&D department of Amdocs and throughout his tenure at Amdocs he demonstrated a very high level of ability. In his role of lead Test Engineer Mark was responsible for understand high level requirements, designing test plans, working with the Agile teams to execute on the plans, and driving improvements to test best practices and processes within the team. He did an excellent job of all of these responsibilities and demonstrated his strong BDD, TDD and test automation skills along the way, helping to deliver a high degree of test coverage and ensure the overall quality of the software. Mark works very well within a team and is very much a team player. His communication (both within the team and upwards) is excellent. I have no hesitation in recommending Mark for test lead positions and believe he would be a strong addition to any testing function within an organization.
Andrew Baxter
I have worked with Mark on the development of Active Inventory for ECOMP and ONAP for three years. Mark is a very professional test engineer and manager and a strong advocate of agile, test automation and TDD/BDD. He has developed strong automation frameworks for Active Inventory and takes the time to ensure he understands the business and technical behaviours required of complex software. He is driven by a desire to achieve the correct outcomes, not simply to achieve a set of KPIs for test coverage. He is a good mentor to other test engineers and can be relied upon to find innovative and cost effective test approaches to challenging problems. I look forward to working with Mark again in the future.
Stephen Weatherly
Mark worked for me as the lead Test Engineer within the UK R&D department of Amdocs and throughout his tenure at Amdocs he demonstrated a very high level of ability. In his role of lead Test Engineer Mark was responsible for understand high level requirements, designing test plans, working with the Agile teams to execute on the plans, and driving improvements to test best practices and processes within the team. He did an excellent job of all of these responsibilities and demonstrated his strong BDD, TDD and test automation skills along the way, helping to deliver a high degree of test coverage and ensure the overall quality of the software. Mark works very well within a team and is very much a team player. His communication (both within the team and upwards) is excellent. I have no hesitation in recommending Mark for test lead positions and believe he would be a strong addition to any testing function within an organization.
Credentials
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ISTQB Certified Tester
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Experience
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Zeetta Networks
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
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Jan 2020 - Present
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Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Agile Software Test Specialist
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Apr 2016 - Jan 2020
Agile development team member responsible for QA and testing of Amdocs Operations Support Systems (OSS) products.Responsible for testing Open Network Automation Platform microservices, as part of a co-creation project with AT&T.ONAP is an open source Linux foundation project, that allows network operators to adopt Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN) and cloud architectures.Supporting two Agile scrum teams, to drive QA and testing best practice. Working with product owners and development teams to define and agree acceptance criteria. Exploratory testing of Rest APIs using the Postman tool. Functional/Regression testing followed a BDD approach, using Gherkin/Cucumber to create component and integration test suites. Deployment of microservices via Kubernetes and Helm to OpenStack cloud VMs. Debugging of test failures and fields issues; defect tracking and verification of fixes. Took the lead role for demos to AT&T co-development teams, and internal Amdocs teams. Provided hands-on support during AT&T software upgrades into production.
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Teradata
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Automation Test Analyst
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Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
• Automation test harness maintenance and development.• Part of an Agile orientated development team – SCRUM.• Running regression test suites as part of continuous integration.• Analysis of test failures and resolution of issues.• Hadoop installation and configuration – Hortonworks 2.3 & Cloudera 5.3.• Installation of NFS shared-storage test clusters on Teradata Cloudforms Virtual Machines. • Automation test harness maintenance and development.• Part of an Agile orientated development team – SCRUM.• Running regression test suites as part of continuous integration.• Analysis of test failures and resolution of issues.• Hadoop installation and configuration – Hortonworks 2.3 & Cloudera 5.3.• Installation of NFS shared-storage test clusters on Teradata Cloudforms Virtual Machines.
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Nokia
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Finland
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Principle Test Engineer
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Mar 1989 - Mar 2015
• Requirements specification for the automation test system.• High level design and Low level design review of the automation test system.• Roll-out of the automation test system to other test teams at remote sites.• Use of ESXi VM images to provide a pre-installed automation system that requires very little configuration to get up and running.• Java programming and scripting language skills.• Linux (Fedora/Debian) administration and usage.• SVN used for version control of the automation system.• Develop test plans and call models to simulate real-life network conditions.• Produce and review acceptance test objectives and detailed procedures.• Coordinate the automation test activity across multiple sites.• Publish test status reports and record test results in Quality Centre.• Product defects management - raise bug reports using Quality Centre to track product issues.• Assist the FEMTO development team by providing trace logs and testing fixes.• Continually review test plans to ensure adequate test coverage of individual features.• Continually look at ways of increasing and varying the overall call load on the FEMTO in order to stress the system and more accurately simulate real-life network conditions.• Responsible for the recruitment and interviewing of new team members.• Responsible for mentoring and training new members of the team.• Provide automation test training material – a mixture of classroom based hands-on training and written documentation.
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