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Software Test Engineer with extensive experience in test automation, tool development, specification
review and analysis, test case design and implementation, technical documentation, and project
management. Innate curiosity drives me to perform detailed systems analysis and create elegant, robust
design, usability, and testability solutions focused on significant return on investment (ROI) and improved
end-user satisfaction.

My arsenal of skills includes:

• • Automated test and tool design, data provisioning, application programming interface (API) and
   web service interface verification 

• • Automated GUI testing for web and Windows products using commercial and my own test
   applications (QA Partner, WinRunner, Squish-Web; Java, C# GUI and console applications ). 

• • Extensive knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL, HTML, Java , Python, DOM, AJAX, C++, C, PHP,
   and JavaScript 

• • Testing multitier systems with remote general packet radio service (GPRS) devices 

• • Early development cycle white box issue discovery, root cause investigation and solution ideas 

• • Requirements-based cause and effect graphing ambiguity and testability specification review 

• • Clear, concise requirement, use case bug report documentation (Bugzilla, Excel) 

• • Design of test domains matched to business needs, function, regression, compliance, coverage,
   and focused risk assessment 

• • Specification and end-user documentation creation, analysis, and editing focused on
   maximization of testability, validity, and user satisfaction 

• • Multitier system test environment administration 

• • Software quality metrics design and analysis reports 

Professional Experience

Software Quality Engineer, HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc. (HPDS), Petaluma, CA              2005 – 2009

• • Responsible for testing web applications and supporting systems.  Created C# Window and
   console applications, improved efficiency of test and development at each rapid product release.
   Responsible for writing test plans and test cases for iterative development cycles.  Trained and
   mentored lower level test staff. Developed regression suite of many thousands of tests run able
   in less then an hour covering 90% of possible display states and configuration settings possible
   on the irrigation device’s interface. HPDS is the leader in ‘Smart Irrigation Controllers’. 

• • Designed and implemented C# application tools for provisioning test data records removing
   dependency upon another department’s personnel. 

• • Independently developed a tool for editing a binary data structure to increase testing efficiency.
   This tool’s success lead to its use as a model for development of a customer facing web
   interface for setting device configuration values into its binary-large-object repository.  

• • Developed QA tools adopted on several occasions as best practices for repair of live data on
   production systems, significantly reducing customer impact, and eliminated customer site visits. 

• • Successfully managed the use of an outsourced testing team, providing test cases, training, and
   data support improving regression turn-around time. 

Test Analyst, Critical Logic, Burlingame, CA                                                                            2004 – 2005

• • Efficiently reviewed requirements for ambiguity and testability of a large bank’s web application 

• • Acquired skills to perform Requirements-Modeling using Cause-Effect Graphing tools which then
   generated test cases. This methodology effectively tests requirements before code is written. 

Owner, Software Testing Service, Santa Rosa, CA                                                                  2002 – 2004

• • Multiple contracts were completed successfully before schedule to customize data input and
   reporting of an inventory management application. 

• • Performed IT tasks for several small offices, including computer setup, software installation,
   networking,  and installing CAT-5 Ethernet wiring