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SENIOR SOFTWARE QA ENGINEER
Career Overview
Highly skilled SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER with over 20 years experience in testing diverse software products with strong test automation and troubleshooting skills.
Qualifications

Expert in UNIX/LINUX, Perl, Python, Shell Scripting, SQL (MySQL, Oracle), XML.


Proficient in Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML, DOM, JUNIT, TESTNG.

Work Experience
Senior Software QA EngineerMay 2008 to Mar 2015
YAHOO, INC － Sunnyvale, CA
  • Debugged diverse kinds of problems in the whole advertising platform that includes several backend ad servers with their specific functions and the UI interface used by advertisers.
  • Used HADOOP, Pig scripts, Hive and Python to mine specific ad impressions, clicks and other data from our huge Grid advertising data feed.
  • Used Firebug and other web developer tools to debug web page ad problems.
  • Used MySQL and Oracle DB with Sequel Pro and SQL Developer tools, and other in-house tools to get contracts information necessary for debugging problems.
  • Guaranteed Delivery Advertising: Worked in GD2 (Guaranteed Delivery) group of Yahoo's Internet Advertising platform (APT) doing functional integration backend testing of various GD2 features.
  • Made steady contributions to the success of GD2 by executing on a large variety of features and developing automated tests in Perl, XML and Java using Eclipse IDE.
  • Contributed to launch velocity project by improving the CI (Continuous Integration) speed by 6 times which helped in quick turnaround time during patch release cycle.
  • Wrote tools in Perl like parsing logs that helped in debugging GD2 problems.
  • Successfully released a very large number of core features for all of GD Serving.
  • Delivered signoffs for GDFE, ADS, CM RISE, BEAP, SU and CU.
  • Created Test plans and Test cases.
  • Ran tests and analyzed failures.
  • Filed bugs using BUGZILA.
  • Reported test results using Hudson.
  • Used SVN and GIT source code control.
  • Maintained and enhanced Regression test suites.
  • Ran E2E tests.
  • Agile Experience: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Retrospective Groups (Discussion Board): Tested Activity Logging and Tracking, Notification and Email Attachment features of Groups App.
  • Developed web tests using Selenium RC, JUNIT, Java, JavaScript, Python and HTML.
  • Tested backend server using Python checking SQL data schemas, data integrity and correctness.
  • Automated source build and deployment of packages to different test VM machines using Perl.
  • Saved test cases and results in TESTLINK.
  • Used Perforce for source control, BUGZILA for bug reporting, and Eclipse/EPIC as IDE.
Senior Software QA EngineerJun 1993 to Mar 2008
HEWLETT PACKARD － Cupertino, CA
  • Neo Database Appliance: Automated functional and failover tests for Genus Data Loader ETL application using Perl and Python.
  • Created tests for loading, extracting, and recovery of the data loaders including writing API tests.
  • Wrote Test Framework to run tests automatically.
  • Integration testing of Neo Database Appliance by running and checking availability, longevity, load, huge database queries, ODBC/JDBC tests, and materialized views.
  • Backend testing (both server and SQL database) of web management application by checking data integrity, data correctness, data type and size, check constraints, stored procedures, triggers, table indexes, data performance and data security.
  • Frontend testing of the database appliance web app using Selenium, JavaScript and Python.
  • SQL/MX database: Ran, debugged, added and fixed tests of SQL/MX database test suite that runs on a new Nonstop Server platform.
  • Implemented SQL tests using Perl.
  • Tested SQL DDL, DML, queries, joins, transaction management, backup/recovery, views, maintain and other utilities of SQL/MX.
  • Web Logic: Tested E-commerce J2EE application server BEA Web Logic Server and Web Logic Integration that were ported to Nonstop Server for certification.
  • Debugged Web Logic test problems.
  • Coded additional tests specific to the changes in Web Logic for the Nonstop Platform using Java.
  • Tuxedo: Automated tests for Nonstop Tuxedo using Shell Scripting, C Language, and SQL.
  • Wrote API, admin, functional, negative, limit, stress, nonstop, failover tests.
  • Developed GUI test suite using QA Partner, Silk Test and Prevue GUI test tools.
  • Languages: Added API tests for C language and Unix-like utilities using C for PCTS and Perennial test suites.
Education and Training
BS, Electrical Engineering1980Saint Louis University － Baguio City, PhilippinesElectrical Engineering
C Programming, 1987, UC Berkeley Extension Java Programming, Hewlett Packard SQL Database, Hewlett Packard Web Logic, Hewlett Packard
Skills

ad, ADS, Advertising, Agile, API, APT, backup, C, C Programming, C Language, contracts, Database, debugging, Delivery, designing, DML, DOM, E-commerce, Eclipse, Email, Engineer, ETL, XML, features, functional, GUI, Hewlett Packard, HTML, IDE, J2EE, Java, Java Programming, JavaScript, JDBC, LINUX, Logging, Logic, meetings, MySQL, ODBC, Oracle, Oracle DB, Developer, Perl, Python, QA, quick, quick learner, reporting, Scrum, servers, scripts, Shell Scripting, Silk, SQL, test tools, Tuxedo, type, UNIX, utilities, VM, web developer, web page, Web Logic

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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • YAHOO, INC
  • HEWLETT PACKARD

School Attended

  • Saint Louis University

Job Titles Held:

  • Senior Software QA Engineer

Degrees

  • BS , Electrical Engineering 1980
    C Programming, 1987, UC Berkeley Extension Java Programming, Hewlett Packard SQL Database, Hewlett Packard Web Logic, Hewlett Packard

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