University of Massachusetts Lowell

University of Phoenix

Orange County Community College

QA Automation Architect and DevOps Architect for getting to quality software efficiently and productively.

Skills: Selenium · Scrum · Test Automation Frameworks

Navarro Computing LLC

DevOps Lead, QA Automation Lead, Engineering Manager

Skills: Selenium · Test Automation Frameworks

Self-employed

Senior Quality Assurance Consultant

* Lead the Product Qualification test automation tools teams toward consistent tool validation required by the FDA and internal processes.
* Automated the deployment of firmware to a medical device product.
* Lead the SW test effort (unit, integration, system) for a new medical device.

Dräger

Staff Software Engineer, Lead Automation Engineer, Lead SW Test Engineer

* Design and deploy Atlassian software tools and services that enable an Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution.
* Design and deploy a full CI/CT/CD pipeline using Jenkins for automated building, testing and deployment through Dev, QA, and Production environments.
* Trained pilot teams on SDLC tools and best practices.

ACS Group (American CyberSystems)

Enterprise DevOps Architect

* See my resume for additional information.

Transitional Data Services - TDS

Quality Consultant

Designing and developing the automated test infrastructure for cloud services.

MONSTER WORLDWIDE INC

SQA Automation Engineer

- Improved the UI and functional quality of threat protection software that resulted in a successful product release.
- Developed performance test reports using JMeter that determined environment and product performance characterization.
- Collaborated with adjacent product development and QA teams to successfully integrate two products.

Raytheon

Principal Cyber Engineer

- Maintain Perl Test Automation Infrastructure
- Add new Integrated System Perl Tests

Stratus Technologies

Software Engineer

- Develop software testing framework that automates the quality assurance process for a new social networking application.
- Test server functionality, robustness, and performance.
- Utilize open source testing solutions; jmeter, groovy

Aeturnum

SQA Automation Consultant

- Provided automated tests using JMeter and Bash scripting that emulated mobile phone to server interactions.
- Developed tools that automated the creation of tests.

Vlingo

Performance and Automation Consultant

Software Consultant on assignment through Advantage Technical Resourcing for the leading provider of storage hardware solutions that promote data recovery and improve cloud computing, located in Hopkinton, MA.

Advantage Technical Resourcing

Storage Automation Software Consultant

• Designed and developed a test lab for automated performance testing of their Acute Care Documentation system for MGH and BWH.
• Simulated HL7 traffic from various interfaces to test main third party component.
• Identified performance limitations with the design of main third party components.
• Analyzed and identified application network bandwidth limitations early in the test cycle.
• Managed source control for performance simulation and load tools using Microsoft's TFS.
• Integrated Open Source tools as well as Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Test Controller and Test Agents into performance testing suite.

Partners HealthCare

Software Performance Consultant

- Developed USB automount feature for Mandriva Linux to assist field service
- Developed and tested an automatic installation DVD for the Infinity Central Station patient monitor
- Built RPM packages needed by ICS.
- Created automated Linux tools for the smooth installation of necessary packages.

Draeger Medical

Linux Software Engineering Contractor

- Improved the quality of Nasuni's Filer; a gateway to cloud storage
- Executed test cases and test runs using Testopia
- Created detailed bug reports using Bugzilla
- Worked with developers to ensure problem resolution

Nasuni

Quality Engineer

Successfully completed customer projects by getting product to meet acceptance criteria for deployment to production environment.
- Led the test plan creation for ESP 5.0, 5.1, 5.3 on Dow Jones Factiva search engine and Comcast search projects
- Improved test coverage, reusability, repeatability and reporting by developing test automation using Bash, Python, Perl and other GNU tools..
- Identified various bugs (consistency, performance, memory leaks, functional and regression) within ESP releases that contributed to improving the overall quality of ESP before customer release.
- Engaged R&D to integrate project tests into their general ESP test cycle; thereby improving overall quality of ESP for all FAST customers.
- Technical Environment Competence: InStream 4.1.x, ESP 5.0, 5.1, 5.3, Bash, Python, Perl, RedHat Linux, Java, Cygwin, SSH, Confluence Wiki, MediaWiki

Fast Search and Transfer (a Microsoft subsidiary)

Systems Quality Assurance Consultant

- Developed open source test automation framework that provided software testing efficiencies.
- Developed tools that simulated production server and client environment that identified bugs, ensured requirements adherence, and made the product more robust.
- Created Application and Server performance profiling that exposed scalability design flaws in the product.
- Developed high quality specialty Linux installation DVD for medical workstation company.

NavarroComputing LLC

Principal: SQA Automation Consultant

- Release Engineer: Automated the development sandbox release process for IBM Lotus Domino on iSeries.  Developed build tools that enabled compiling and building of Domino for iSeries platforms. Still in use.  Coding included the creation of UNIX scripting and the maintenance of PERL scripts.
- Software Engineer: Ported log collection tools (Java, J2EE and scripts) that improved serviceability of IBM Workplace products to iSeries.  Simplified the customer interface for ease of serviceability.
- Software Engineer: Performed software maintenance and new feature development using LINUX, AIX and other UNIX operating systems.  Ported C/C++ code to iSeries.  Resolved customer product problems (crisis intervention) for the Lotus Domino R5 & 6 LotusScript feature on the IBM iSeries (AS/400) platform.
- Technical Environment Competence: Java, C/C++, Websphere, J2EE, DB2, AIX, Linux, Windows, iSeries, AS/400, ClearCase, Kshell, Lotus Notes, LotusScript, Domino, Perl

- Software Quality Assurance Engineer testing National Language Support on Domino for the IBM iSeries (AS/400).  
- Specialized in developing automation suites using Lotus Notes to test Domino servers.
- Held positions of increasing responsibility: SQA Technical Lead and eventually Manager before completing the testing project in December 1999.
- Software Developer maintaining LotusScript C/C++ interpreter engine on Domino.

Concero

Quality Assurance Manager

Sing, produce concerts, write fund raising grants, chair development committees, implement new fund raising opportunity.

Heritage Chorale

VP Production, VP Development, and Member

- Developed and deployed throughout the enterprise a system for providing high availability to desktop applications
- Managed the deployment of Windows 95 throughout the enterprise.
- IT Software and Hardware Desktop and Server Support

Ralph Navarro