Category: ENGINEERING

         ENGINEERING MANAGER           Career Overview     A practiced, professional Test Manager with over 20 years of success managing test and validation of next-generation software / hardware technologies across multiple concurrent projects and releases. Delivered effectively to time and budget on a variety of complex, large-scale, multi-platform projects including: complex network framework, IoT (Internet of Things), telecommunication and hosted services, business process tools, automation frameworks. Managed, trained and mentored multi-disciplinary, geographically dispersed teams including, software development, test and validation, planning, QA, configuration management, agile scrum master and product owner.       Qualifications          Product, system and software testing across multiple OS platforms (Windows, Windows Store, Android, iOS, Arduino & Linux) over full product life cycle, including Agile, V-model and Waterfall development methods  Managing multiple on-going projects with geographically dispersed teams, establishing and using sub-contract resources with on and off-shore models  Developing clear test strategies, proven ability to translate functional, non-functional and use case requirements into test plan, scripts and automation with full traceability to requirements  Leading continuous improvement of development, testing and organization processes  Proficient MS Office, Visual Studio, Eclipse and C      •Scrum master for multiple concurrent scrum teams. Facilitate and organize all scrum ceremonies including the daily stand-up, retrospectives, demos, release planning and backlog grooming meetings. Support the scrum team member to mitigate impediments, resolve conflict.  Tool administration and usage including, Jira, Rally, Clear Quest, Quality Center, ProtexIP, Sub-version, GIT, RTC, Bugzilla, Quality Center, Jenkins, Gerrit and others  Experience in testing software as a service (SaaS) applications  Design performance and stress testing of peer-to-peer / device-to-device network application and cloud XMPP server            Work Experience      Company Name     September 2011   to   Current     Engineering Manager   City  ,   State      Managing and overseeing highly technical, multidisciplinary team of 15+ testers and developers, which were responsible for developing device to device and IoT automation framework, developing 10 different SDKs test tools across 5 different OS platforms (Windows, Windows store, Android, iOS and Linux) and simultaneously testing and validating multiple independent software products for Intel WPRD Wireless Software Services (WSS).  Cultivate partnerships with globally cross companies and teams in managing on-time, successful product (including open source) releases.  Establish and manage fully functional outsourced validation operation in Bangalore, India, leading to significant cost reduction and enabled follow-the-sun testing to reduce the product development cycle and freeing full time employees for higher-value work.  Collaborate with executive management, product owner, sales and marking to provide validation and test estimated for feature or product release Formulate and implement software testing strategies for multiple concurrent projects Designed and supervised the development of cross OS platforms peer-to-peer/device-to- device test automation framework Designed and supervised the development of 10 different SDK test tools using C/C++, C#, Java, and Objective C Defined OIC/IoTivity compliance and certification test cases for open source community Chair bug weekly bug scrub review and prioritization Instrumental in reducing traditional project integration phases from a two weeks to one day by implementing continues integration (CI) automated build and test systems that enabled 100% build acceptance test automation.  Instrumental in setting up Gerrit web based code review, as results the code quality has significantly improved and reduced regression test cycle by 50% Tool administration Rally, Clear quest, Jira and others Volunteered to be the scrum master for multiple scrum teams in additional to fulfilling my job responsibilities Managed and put process in place to ensure the off shore development center become seamless extension of our development team.  Delivered incremental automated feature level testing on multiple projects across different OS platforms for wired and wireless technologies.          Company Name     July 2009   to   September 2011     Director of Quality Assurance   City  ,   State      Responsible for testing Qwarq transport agnostic wireless connectivity framework, the goal was to create new user experience leveraging multiple wireless technologies to make device-to-device connection easy.  Developing clear test strategies, proven ability to translate functional, non-functional and use case requirements into test plan, scripts and automation with full traceability to requirements Establish the quality assurance department for the company Managed, hired and trained test engineers Planning all resources and schedule test activities within and cross companies Worked closely with development, and support to implement and promote quality policies and processes throughout the company Worked closely with multiple PC OEMs simultaneously to understand their quality criteria and ensure the product quality meet or exceed their quality requirements.  Procure Hardware and software for test and development Instrumental in conducted usability tests.          Company Name     November 2006   to   July 2009     Director of Quality Assurance   City  ,   State      Establish the quality assurance department for the company  Planed all resources and schedule test activities while working closely with clients  Worked closely with development, support, marketing and sales directors to implement and promote quality policies and systems throughout the company  Tested Ultra wide band (Wireless USB) PHY, MAC, drivers and applications for both windows and embedded platforms   Tested Bluetopia Bluetooth stack and profiles on different PC and embedded OS platforms  Testing WIFI (802.11a/b/g/N) application including standard, Intel and cisco security supplements   Microsoft WHQL drivers certification for Stonestreet One Ultra wide band, and Bluetooth drivers          Company Name     May 2004   to   November 2006     Quality Assurance Manager   City  ,   State      Manage, mentored and train test engineers who were responsible for testing (SaaS) time and attendance Product   Developed and worked with development team to implement quality process and procedures for the company to improve code quality and stability, as results reduce internal and customer reported defects by over 50%   Manage defect tracking system   Manage test case development and execution following Ceridian CUSP process   Perform defect postmortem on all field reported defects and implement the necessary change to prevent future incidents  Manage testing lab.          Company Name     August 2001   to   February 2003     lead test Engineer   City  ,   State      Create manual and automated test cases, setting up and maintaining test environment for the department, execute functional, regression, stress, and load testing.          Company Name     July 1995   to   December 1999     Lead Test Engineer   City  ,   State      Lead group of quality assurance engineers testing and validating ITU H26X standard based video codecs namely H263 Plus, H263, I263, H261, Indeo 5.x, Automatic Echo Cancellation (AEC) audio codec for Intel videophone.  Scheduling regular bug scrubs sessions with the development team.  During the bug scrubs assigning owners to the new defects, priorities defects to be included in future phase of development.  Scheduling code inspection and design review to find the bug in early stage of software development cycle.          Company Name      Owner / President   City  ,   State      Installed the requested software and tested the compatibility of the new multimedia software and hardware Test and debug multimedia products, such as sound cards, video recorders, video capture cards, CD-ROMs and others Developed functional tests for stress, volume and continuity testing of software and hardware Configured system with various peripheral (scanners, printers, video digitizers) Reproducing bugs the were found during the test and compile all results Write reports and results that were found during the tests.          Education and Training      Webster University     2004       Master of Science  :   Computer Resource Information Management    City  ,   State              Kabul University     1992       Bachelor of Science  :   Computer Science              Skills    audio, automation, C, C++, CD-ROMs, Ceridian, cisco, Hardware, cost reduction, clients, drivers, executive management, Functional, inspection, Intel, Java, Linux, MAC, Managing, marketing and sales, C#, Windows, Windows XP, multimedia, Objective C, OS, policies, printers, processes, product development, quality, quality assurance, quest, sales, scanners, Scheduling, scrum, scripts, software development, software testing, sound cards, sun, test tools, USB, validation, video, Vista