Experience

Tactical Communications Group, LLC.

• Senior Test and System Integration Engineer

  • Aug 2010 - Present

  Participating in requirements, design, acceptance test plan, and acceptance test procedure document reviews in accordance with CMMI Level 2 processes. Creating Integration Test Plans and Procedures to validate product enhancements meet the Detailed Design. Performing manual integration testing of WindowsXP/Windows7 based application for simulating and communicating with Link 11 & Link 16 tactical data link networks and report defects. Performing manual regression testing and report defects. Reporting current project statuses using MS Project Web Server. Authored User manual for new product application. Executing integration performance test and publish Software Performance Test Report. Creating customer required Software Description Document and Software Test Report. Show less



Schneider Electric

• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SQA Engineer

  • Nov 2009 - Aug 2010

  Manually executed test cases for the installation and configuration of Windows-based Buildings Management System (Struxtureware) using HP Quality Center. Entered defects in HP Quality Center. Analyzed defects and escalated accordingly. Provided QA process and Struxtureware training to new SQA Engineers. Manually executed test cases for the installation and configuration of Windows-based Buildings Management System (Struxtureware) using HP Quality Center. Entered defects in HP Quality Center. Analyzed defects and escalated accordingly. Provided QA process and Struxtureware training to new SQA Engineers.



IBS Technics

• Germany
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software QA Test Manager

  • Sep 2001 - Feb 2009

• Software Testing & QA Manager

  • Sep 2001 - Feb 2009

  Key member of software design and delivery team involved in full software life-cycle and overseeing the product from requirements through release.Remotely managed domestic and off-shore QA Engineering team of ten Engineers in Massachusetts and Romania; which included mentoring and training lower level QA Engineers.Created detailed test plans from functional specifications using Mercury Quality Center. Developed and implemented all Software Quality Assurance methodologies and protocols used by VISaer.Addressed and resolved open software issues via daily triage meetings. Worked directly with senior management to recommend appropriate prioritization of software issues.Created test plan template from which all test plans were developed. This ensured completeness and consistency of every test plan. Determined product readiness and directed Release Engineering regarding code movement to QA and production environments.Created client release summaries documenting release features /fixes and synopsis of testing methodology.Project manager for migration of testing from manual to automated testing using QTP.Provided Tier 2 customer support and remotely resolved client specific issues. Created and enhanced QA reports using Cognos Impromptu significantly reducing turn-around time and providing clarity of responsibilities. Show less



Lucent Technologies

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

  • Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Developed and executed test plans for the installation and configuration of: Naviscore (NMS) Network Management System Report Generator server on UNIX platform. Report Generator Windows-NT and Web-based clients. Naviscore Provisioning Server GUI and Command Line Interface. Installed Lucent's Naviscore NMS, HP OpenView and Sybase SQL Server. Installed Netscape Enterprise Server, iPlanet Web Server and Apache Web Server on UNIX platform and tested the compatibility with Naviscore Report Generator's webagent. Tested the execution and validity of: NMS Report Generator Windows-NT and Web-based Standard, Custom and Service Level Agreement Reports. Java-based (CNM) Customer Network Management Gateway Web-based Reports. Analyzed User Documentation and Software Release Notes, reporting issues to authoring teams. Show less



Visibility Incorporated

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing

• Quality Assurance Engineer III

  • Jan 1997 - Jan 2000

  Managed the implementation effort of an automated test environment used for regression testing. Wrote test scripts for testing of Visibility's GUI and VB applications running on UNIX and Windows-NT using SQA Robot Test Script Language. Evaluated the compatibility of Rational's Team Test product with Visibility's VB, Java and XHTML/HTML applications running on UNIX and Windows-NT. Sole Quality Assurance beta team representative for new GUI product. Developed and facilitated internal training of Visibility's GUI application for senior management and sales teams. Developed and executed test plan for Visibility's Electronic Data Interchange module. Seagate Software NSMG Show less



Seagate Software NSMG

• Software Quality Assurance Engineer

  • Jan 1996 - Jan 1997

  Wrote detailed test plans from functional specifications for network systems management product Installed and tested Cabletron Spectrum and Seagate Software Maestrovision on various UNIX platforms. Tested network systems management products under development on IRIX, HPUX, Solaris, SUN, IBM, Novell and Windows-NT platforms. Determined priority of defects and escalated accordingly. Visibility Incorporated Wrote detailed test plans from functional specifications for network systems management product Installed and tested Cabletron Spectrum and Seagate Software Maestrovision on various UNIX platforms. Tested network systems management products under development on IRIX, HPUX, Solaris, SUN, IBM, Novell and Windows-NT platforms. Determined priority of defects and escalated accordingly. Visibility Incorporated

• Quality Assurance Engineer

  • Jan 1995 - Jan 1996

  Managed the implementation of automated test environment using Mercury Interactive WinRunner for Windows and TestDirector for regression testing. Negotiated the purchase and financing agreement of Mercury Interactive's TestSuite. Wrote test scripts and functions for testing using WinRunner Test Script Language and assured reusability in network environment. Developed and facilitated internal WinRunner training. Managed the implementation of automated test environment using Mercury Interactive WinRunner for Windows and TestDirector for regression testing. Negotiated the purchase and financing agreement of Mercury Interactive's TestSuite. Wrote test scripts and functions for testing using WinRunner Test Script Language and assured reusability in network environment. Developed and facilitated internal WinRunner training.



John Hancock Financial Services

• United States
• Investment Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Systems Analyst

  • Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

  Created software product requirements and developed technical specifications to meet those needs. Developed and implemented reporting systems from multiple databases using Informix-SQL, ACE Report Writer and Brock Control Systems software in a UNIX environment. Developed and maintained report menus by designing and/or editing SAGE scripts. Created software product requirements and developed technical specifications to meet those needs. Developed and implemented reporting systems from multiple databases using Informix-SQL, ACE Report Writer and Brock Control Systems software in a UNIX environment. Developed and maintained report menus by designing and/or editing SAGE scripts.