- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- June 15, 2019
Software Quality Assurance, SQA, test engineer. Excels at creating thorough and efficient manual and automated tests. Diligent and resourceful tester utilizing new tools and technologies as needed. A collegial team player, excellent communicator, viewed as friendly, focused, and passionate about helping to deliver on time quality software solutions.
Experience
Test lead for verifying new web-based version of traffic monitoring software.
• Analyzed requirements from multiple sources – documented and undocumented, from product owners, managers, developers and testers to identify gaps in testing and create layers of smoke and regression tests to ensure test coverage.
• Integrated manual testing and test reporting using MTFS.
• As team moved to using Jira for project management - developed rest API updating of automated Jira test case results using python and Zephyr.
• Worked closely with developers to understand how best to test new features, documenting the steps needed and then adding results back into Jira.
Prime test lead for several multi-server multi-product solutions for VOIP and LTE - created test plans, executed tests, analyzed root causes of errors found, documented and tracked defects (using Jira), consulted and interacted with cross team colleagues speeding resolution of critical defects.
• Created Automated Tests for our LTE Solution across different products and system– saving hundreds of person hours of testing time.
• Extended existing custom command line interface python test framework to include GUI testing of a both Web and Windows based user interfaces - integrating python, iMacros (Web) and AutoIT (Windows Apps) – allowing for common reporting and logging across programs and applications.
• Performed the pre-demo walkthroughs of new solutions to be presented to top tier VOIP and LTE cable providers – created detailed set up and scenario instructions enabling successful presentations.
• With knowledge gained from pre-running tests was able to provide real time assistance when on site engineers ran into last minute blocking issues - thus providing solutions and
resulting in successful demos.
• Performed integration and migration testing for multi-server end-to-end network monitoring
system (xSIGHT - with customer to network and service visibility) providing early alerts
to developers and program managers about potentially gating issue which could block deployment.