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I am a Software Quality Assurance Tester with almost 20 years of experience. I take my job seriously and try to provide the best service I can.

NE Contractor (Software Quality Assurance)
AT&T DirecTV
January 2016 – January 2018 – El Segundo, California
APGHE Advanced Programming Guide Headend – Quality Assurance
Participated in a Scrum Team as an individual contributor with duties including Story Point estimation, Story prioritization of future sprints, determining which user stories were automation candidates, test case creation, execution, and automation of the User Story.

Performed peer review of test cases and automation scripts created by other QA Scrum members providing feedback to enhance scripts. Also assisted in mentoring other team members on best practices of automation using the CA LISA Automation framework in regards to the APGHE system.

Manually execution of test cases with defects found during execution with defects submitted to Jira Defect Tracking system.

Test Case Automation using the CA LISA Automation Framework. Some examples of tasks automated for testing are as follows:
1. Automation of SSH Protocol to access remote systems running RedHat Linux via the CLI. Some CLI operations included parsing logs, executing Shell commands, checking running process, starting and stopping services.
2. REST – Sending POST requests with JSON message format to initiate backend processes.
3. Database – Automated database queries against a MySQL database for data validation.
4. Test Case Flow control using JavaScript, Groovy, or BeanShell scripting languages.

Investigated and reproduced issues encountered in Production which were documented and converted to test cases.

Reviewed release notes for accuracy after release testing was finished.

Deployment of new releases and troubleshooting of connectivity or database issues.
DTSS - Onshore Quality Assurance Lead / QA Engineer
Quality assurance of DTSS (DIRECTV Traffic and Scheduling System), a web-based System utilized by AT&T/DirectTV Operations for definition of channels, programming of inventory, playlists, and broadcasts. Services were composed of