Experience

Stratus Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior QA Software Engineer

  • Nov 1987 - Present

  • Senior individual contributor and project leader across multiple organizations. • Leads team of engineers through complex projects, influences management decisions within a department and provide consulting services when called upon regularly by peers and management. • Identifies and addresses technical resolutions for fixing complex software defects through testing and inspections. • Consistently evaluates options, project needs and provides recommendations for the best overall solution. Independently researches areas of emerging technology and proposes projects to test their viability and applicability to the company. Capable of proving feasibility and developing explorative “proof of concept” prototypes. • Publish and disseminates research and technology findings through the internal software engineering community. • Accountable for evaluation, recommendation and implementation of test development and support processes within the department. Current work to include: • Designed and implemented software automation using PERL program language in an object oriented approach to test common functionality across different operating systems (Windows, Linux, VMWare/ESX). • Developed automated test harness used to run and monitor both functional and application stress tests for Windows and Linux. •Developed and ported application stress tests from Windows to Linux and from Linux to proprietary operating system VOS which is POSIX compliant. • Designed and implemented application tests for both Windows and Linux, using C/C++ programing language. • Lead test automation projects to reach over 50% functional test automation goal using both VBScript and PERL. • Produces test plans and strategies for all size software projects. Reviews functional and design specifications and inspects specifications for large projects. • Provides technical bug reports; prepares project proposals and manpower loading estimates. Show less