Dara Rice

Dara Rice is a highly skilled Systems Software QA Specialist with a rich background in various test models including traditional waterfall, top-down, bottom-up, and agile approaches.

Her expertise spans the entire spectrum of test cycles, encompassing planning, development, execution, reporting, and analysis, with a strong focus on automation, process improvements, and knowledge transfer.

In her career, Dara has excelled in tasks such as documentation of test plans, analyzing requirements, designing test coverage, creating test suites, and developing support tools using languages like C, Ksh, Perl, and Python.

She is adept at both manual and automated testing, providing support for systems administration tasks related to NFS, DNS, and system management involving machine setup, virtualization, SAN, HMC, and firmware/OS updates.

Dara's skills extend to network management areas such as switch setup, VPC, IPV6, and SEA, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of various technical domains.

Furthermore, she has a proven track record in team leadership roles, serving as an architect, team lead, global collaborator, training coordinator, and mentor to nurture organizational talent.

Dara Rice holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at El Paso.

She has held key positions in reputable organizations, including Trend Micro as a QA Automation Engineer/Software Developer Engineer in Test and various roles at IBM, where she contributed significantly as a Quality Assurance Specialist in different product testing capacities.