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Username:	badianbrad
Name/Company:	US software
Country:	United States
City:	Williamsburg
Area of Expertise:	Data Entry Data Processing Linux Market Research Perl/CGI Proofreading System Admin. Telemarketing Visual Basic Web Promotion Website Design Windows XML
Average Pricing:	$12/hour
Profile:	Programming Languages: Expect/TCL: 6 months. C language, 2 years. WinRunner, 3 years, Silk, 9 mos, Unix shell scripting, 5 years. Oracle/SQL, 3 mos. Automated testing, 9 years. Manual testing, 15 years. Perl, 3 mos. BASH, 3 mos. Toad, 6 months.XMLspy, 3 months. Mercury Quality Center, 9 months. WORK HISTORY April 2008 to Present Remote Comsultant to Mexuar Communications.I tested a jave, web-based VOIP project, a web-based software licensing system, and a WEb-based store that brings grocery wholesalers and buyers together. November 2006 to September 2007 SQA Consultants assigned to CIGNA insurance. Testing a new Benefits-centric Plan Design written in XML, C#, DBII. Responsible for automation approach and testing approach. August 2006 to October 2006 Contract position, Charles Schwab Performance Technology, Raleigh, NC Tested the latest release of Portfolio Center, a financial portfolio management application used by financial advisors to track their clients' portfolios. The architecture is: Microsoft SQL server backend communicating with a C++ desktop application. The application can be configured to run in multiuser mode with SQL on a server, or in standalone mode with both pieces running on a single desktop. My role as Senior QA Analyst was to write and run manual and automated tests, report bugs, verify fixed bugs, modify and add test cases as functionality was added or changed, and modify the Silktest baselines as required. Our project group used the Scrum accelerated development method. July 2005 to May 2006 Blive Networks, Seattle, WA (work from home) Tested backend Session Server for an internet-based Desktop Sharing application by writing and executing BASH scripts. The environment is a Java-based application running on Windows clients communicating through secure sockets to Suze Linux servers running the session server and an SQL database. April 2004 to March 2005 Owner, Gradys Moving, Raleigh NC. Owned and managed a household, commercial and government moving company. Purchased a company that was losing money (they did not have a Raleigh Yellow Pages ad) and turned the company around through aggressive internet marketing and marketing to undermarketed niche markets (new home builders, apartment complexes, etc.). Increased sales from $240K per year to $350K per year. Sold business assets at a profit in March 2005. May 2002 to September 2003 Senior Software Test Analyst, Healthcare Automation, Inc., Warwick, RI. Senior member of the Software Quality Assurance team testing Healthcare Automations HomecareNet application, a Windows/Java-based (SQL Server) client/server product for home health nursing care (patient demographics, scheduling, third-party insurance billing and e-claims). Wrote and executed white/black box test plans and test cases based on use case scenarios and marketing, functional and HIPAA requirements; provided hands-on integration, regression and performance testing. Reviewed Functional Specs and supporting documentation as Cross Functional team member. Worked directly with Engineering, Support, and Product Management. Identifed, duplicated, investigated and reported product defects, providing solutions or workarounds. Used PVCS Tracker defect reporting/tracking tool. Automated my areas of test responsibility using Win Runner. Developed new test plans (for new functionality) and updated existing test plans. Software: Windows (2000/XP), Win Runner, Java, SQL. January 2002 to May 2002 Senior QA Consultant, Sophelle Inc., Framingham, MA Assigned to help revamp and streamline QA department, and perform testing, at Healthcare Automation Inc., Warwick, RI. Hired as full time employee by HCA in May 2002 (see above). August 2001 to October 2001 Senior Test Engineer, Student Advantage, Boston MA. Short term contract through Modis Inc. to test Student Advantages Java/HTML front end and their Oracle backend. Used SQL scripts and manual testing to perform the testing.Wrote test plans and test cases. September 2000 to June 2001 Senior Contract Software Engineer, EMC Corporation, Southborough, MA. Wrote and ran automated tests written in Silk and Perl to test EMC's Clariion Data Storage devices. Managed large heterogeneous test bed. Set up and installed FC 4700 and IP 4700 storage arrays. Set up Brocade switches with firmware and zoning configurations. Installed and configured network interface cards and/or Fiber Channel interface cards in the host servers. Installed and configured EMC Navisphere Manager and EMC Agent software onto host and client computers. Wrote a test database with Oracle and SqlPlus. Wrote Perl scripts to automatically install updated firmware onto the arrays. Wrote a Perl script to automate programmable power switches. Created RAID groups and LUNs as needed for testing. Set up user groups and user accounts. Used Silk to build automated system tests. Ran Silk automated system tests and modified the tests as required. Environments were NT, Win2K, Solaris with some exposure to HP-UX, AIX and Linux. November 1999 to August 2000 Senior Contract QA Automation Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Burlington MA Wrote automated tests for Sun's PC NetLink product. PC NetLink enables a UNIX server within an NT LAN environment to provide NT compatible file, print, authentication, and domain controller services. Tests were written in expect/tcl and Bourne shell. Areas automated were Installation and High Availability Failover. Maintained and upgraded an existing system level acceptance test written in Bourne shell. Performed manual testing of PC NetLink's NetBIOS and Print Service implementations. Wrote an automated PC NetLink installation script. Environments were Solaris, NT and Win2K. April 1998 to November 1999 Senior Engineer, GTE Internetworking, Burlington MA. Sole QA lead for 3 Internet Hosting Products. Wrote test plans, interfaced with development and Product Management, managed the Bug database, performed all testing tasks. Wrote the test plans and performed Y2K testing. Environments were UNIX and NT. Wrote automated tests in Bourne Shell. Dec 1997 to March 1998 Senior QA Engineer, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Danvers, MA. Used WinRunner and Test Director to write an automated test system for Liberator, A Workman's Compensation insurance rate calculator. I tested the product through the GUI front end and through SqlPlus scripts. The development environment was Visual C++, Win 95 and an Oracle back-end database. Sept 1996 to Nov 1997 Senior Applications Developer, Systems Research Group (A prime contractor to Lockheed-Martin), New Orleans, LA. Designed and coded automated tests for the NSIPS project. NSIPS will be the U.S. Navy's primary Human Resources system into the 21st century. Nsips will automate all aspects of all active duty, reserve and retired personnel records for U.S. Naval officers and enlisted personnel. My duties were to lead the test effort by writing an automated test system for the product prototype then the complete product using WinRunner and TestDirector. Responsible for developing test plans and test cases, and addressing Y2K issues. The development environment was Windows NT, client-server, PeopleSoft front end, Oracle back end with Template used for communications modules. March 1995-July 1996 Software Engineer, Phoenix Technologies Ltd, Norwood, MA Designed and coded an automated testing system Using WinRunner for the Phoenix Telephony Suite. Wrote test plans and test cases for the product, and ran the test suite to obtain pass/fail data and software failure rates. Also performed Third-party testing; three of the primary components were supplied by outside vendors. Lead tester for the Phoenix Voice-Activated Telephony Suite; the product performed speech recognition and voice synthesis. Performed competitive evaluations of our product versus other similar products. April 1992-April 1995 Software Engineer, Boston Technology, Wakefield, MA Tested real-time voice-processing applications. Evaluated the products, wrote test plans and test cases. Used XRunner, the Hammer, and Ameritech call generator to automate the testing. The products were large-scale Voice Processing systems. Our primary customers were the Regional Telephone companies and overseas telephone companies. The environment was Solaris and NT. Wrote automated tests with XRunner and Bourne Shell. Represented the company individually or as part of a QA group during on-site installations and customer test phases domestically and at several overseas telephone companies. April 1991-April 1992 Software Engineer, Digital Equipment Corp, Marlboro, MA Wrote the test plans for the TCP/IP, STREAMS and NFS portions of the SCO UNIX operating system being ported to DECs 433MP multiprocessing system. Designed and coded in C a network test suite, modified and debugged a TCP/IP test suite and a UNIX system test suite. Jan 1990-April 1991 Software Engineer, Boston Technology, Wakefield, MA Tested real-time voice-processing applications. Wrote automated tests in WinRunner and Bourne Shell. See above for more info about my work at Boston Technology. 1984-1990 Software QA Engineer Software QA Engineering positions with Lotus Development Corp., Analogic Corp., International Bureau of Software Test and Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. Details available upon request. EDUCATION Electrical Engineering study (3 years), University of Lowell WinRunner Training Test Director Training Perl Training OUTSIDE INTERESTS Private Pilot, Home Renovation References available upon request.
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Skills:	SQA, QA, test MS Office data entry Excel
Vision:	I am an American citizen. I have 25 years experience in software test. I have excellent internet and computer skills, and I am a good writer.
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