JonJepsen@hotmail.com             

Jon Jepsen

 

 

OBJECTIVE

 

Software QA Engineering professional seeks front-end development position that will challenge both technical skill as well as managerial skill while continuing pursuit of SET degree at Oregon Institute of Technology

 

 

 

SUMMARY

 

QA Test Lead:4 years experience

Program Management:9 years experience

Black-box software testing:9 years experience

Waterfall methodology:9 years experience

Writing test plans / test cases:6 years experience

Hardware testing:4 years experience

White-box software testing:4 years experience
Software validation:4 years experience

Web-app/eCommerce testing:4 years experience

Test Automation Development:2 years experience

Agile methodology:2 years experience

Project Management:1 year experience
Game testing:6 months experience

Scrum Master role:3 months experience
Load testing:4 months experience

Military service:25 years (reserve and active combined)

Security Clearance:Dept of Defense Secret Clearance

 

 

TECHNOLOGIES & TOOLS USED

 

OS, Databases & configurations

DOS 6.22, MS Windows 95 - 2012, Mac OSX, uEFI, Novell Netware, Unix AIX 6.2.5, PICK/Universe System, WDS, RIS, ADS, DHCP, TCP/IP, VLAN, FTP, iSCSI, PXE, Redhat Linux, SQL Server, Oracle7, Oracle9i, VMWare, ROLMS, CAIMS, OIS, TAMIS-R DB, OIS DB, Kronos

 

Testing Tools

Eclipse, Jazz, MS SharePoint, MS InfoPath, JIRA, Mercury Interactive Test Director 8.0, Merant PVCS Tracker & Version Manager, HP Quality Center & Quick Test Professional, Selenium, HSD, TCMS 1 & 2, Ghost, Acronis

 

Diagnostic Tools & Hardware

W3C validators, WireShark, NDISTester, EEedit, Dugway, Diags, CELO, EEupdate, Gigconf, IBAUtil, iSCSIUtl, IBABuild, GT, EEGEN, IDadapt, LANconf, Microsoft Debugger, oscilloscopes, Fluke multi-meters, switches, routers, KVM, Ethernet, FDDI

 

Development Tools / Languages

Microsoft Visual Studios 2003-2012, MS Visual Source Safe, Java, NetBeans, Komodo Edit, Dreamweaver CS5, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, C, C++, C#, CSS3, HTML5, PHP, JavaScript, VBA, VBScript, Visual Basic .NET

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXPERIENCE

 

4/2016 – presentU.S. Air Force – Portland Air National Base, Oregon

Aircrew Flight Equipment Technician

Updating certifications and qualifications.

Maintaining military skills proficiency.

Attending various military schools and training.

 

4/2015 – 3/2016Nike – MBG – Hillsboro Oregon

Quality Management Lead for NikeTech Quality Management Group

• Wrote and communicated test strategy, test plans and test scenarios with business systems analysts, project managers, stake holders and testers. 

•  Drove and oversaw testing efforts for 15, mid to large sized, projects impacting several components in the system landscape as well as several functional teams, spanning two major bi-annual software release cycles.

•  Provided governance, auditing, test case arrangement, test status tracking, defect tracking and documentation updates throughout all phases of the SDLC to ensure product quality, release quality and ensuring SOX compliance.

 

 

11/2014 – 4/2015Intel – Artech – Hillsboro Oregon

Validation Engineer for NG CVET Team

Reproduced and characterized complex driver and firmware bugs by: Setting up and configuring Desktop and Server platforms & Ethernet devices. Installed drivers and network software for 10/100/1000MB, 10GB and 40GB wired Ethernet controllers, network interface cards, and network devices for functional evaluation/validation and/or customer reported issue reproduction. Communicated and interacted with group/product managers, developers, marketing, and other evaluation engineers and technicians. Ran prescribed test procedures, updated obsolete test cases, accurately documented work performed, and submitted timely reports.

 

 

4/2014 – 11/2014U.S. Military - Temporary duty as trainee, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas

•  Assumed the duty of Class Leader and coached 16 personnel (trainees) through a challenging military training program

 

7/2013 – 3/2014NIKE – Mainz Brady Group – Beaverton Oregon

Senior Software QA Engineer

•  As a senior QA professional performed both manual & automated testing of web applications and RESTful web services using JMeter, cURL scripts, DB querying, HTTP Fox, HTTP Poster and FoxyProxy  - all of which to analyze root cause of problems and to propose software enhancements to decision makers and stake holders.  Also provided bug tracking & metrics, using JIRA, SharePoint, Google Docs and HPQC, in a fast-paced agile scrum team utilizing the test-driven development methodology.

•  Responsible for designing, writing and executing test cases to support smoke, functional, UI, regression and user acceptance testing of multi-tiered, Nike-Digital ecommerce web applications built with Java, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Flex Oracle 11g.  Executed full test cycles on QA, Dev, Staging and Prod environments.  Testing platforms used:  Mac OSX, Windows, iOS, Chrome, IE, Safari and FireFox.

•  Filled in Scrum Master role for 3 months during transition period / absence of FT Scrum Master

 

 

5/2013 – 6/2013AxiomEPM – Tigard Oregon

QA Engineer III

•  Provided ADHOC/exploratory testing as well as white-box and black-box validation testing of Axiom Enterprise Performance Management software on 4 platforms: windows, web-browser, Android and iOS.

•  Opened, verified, closed and tracked defects as per development schedule delivering results on-time and within budget

 

11/2011 – 5/2013NIKE – Experis – Beaverton Oregon

Senior Software QA Engineer/Tester

•  Provided testing for 3rd party packaged software, eCommerce & web applications (PHP, Java and.NET), client-server app, large-packaged software, flash-based software and validation of HTML and CSS

•  Supported projects & software tested:  ECM CRANiUM, Index DocIt, RRD AxsOne, Department of Nike Archives, GPAY-GTLA (Kronos and SAP) with Ad Hoc, regression, functional, UAT and blackbox testing as well as automating test scripts with QTP/VBscript and Selenium and HP QuickTestPro

•  Reviewed and analyzed  use cases, user stories and functional specs to provide feedback and for test information to write test scripts

•  Exhibited proficiency and flexibility in assessing cost vs benefit for the application and businesses goals. Assisted is business analysis and process improvement to fit the workflow/bug-management into an SDLC framework.

•  Aligned testing efforts and methodologies across multiple teams and geographic locations

•  Wrote thousands of test scripts and test cases across multiple projects

•  Developed UI examples and mockups using VS2010 and C# to improve UX

•  Acted as QA Lead while QA Lead was on leave

•  Interviewed applicants for QA Test contract positions 

 

 

09/2011 – 03/2012Internet Startup, part-time volunteer work

Software QA Engineer

•  Wrote test plans & test matrices for social networking project

•  Automated test cases with Visual Studio 2010

• Testing web app / database and logging defects in agile development environment using Scrumy and TortoiseSVN for workflow, sourcecontrol and bug tracking

 

12/2010 – 05/2011U.S. DoD - Deployment to Afghanistan ISO DoD Operations

•  Assumed role as Ordnance & Weapons Program Manager – overseeing armories, weapons and ordnance stockpiles for Afghanistan Ministry of Interior Border Police Academy

•  Filled part-time role as Section Leader and helped train and mentor over 900 Afghani recruits for Afghanistan border patrol operations

 

11/2010 – 12/2010INTEL® CORPORATION – LAN Access Division – Hillsboro Oregon

Software Validation Engineer

•  Provided purchasing support to Engineers, Technicians and Managers of LADV group

 

11/2009 – 05/2010U.S. DoD - Deployment to Afghanistan ISO DoD Operations             

•  Assumed role as Ordnance & Weapons Program Manager – overseeing armories, weapons and ordnance for Afghanistan Ministry of Interior Border Police Academy

•  Filled part-time role as Section Leader and helped train and mentor over 900 Afghani recruits for Afghanistan border patrol operations

 

02/2008 – 09/2009U.S. Military - Deployment to Gulfport Mississippi ISO U.S. Navy Operations

•  Assumed role as Ordnance & Weapons Program Manager – overseeing armories, weapons and ordnance for Naval Expeditionary Combat Skills Learning Site Gulfport

●  Maintained 100% accountability of all weapons and ordnance which enabled the safe & efficient expenditure of 3,935,260 rounds of ammo and helped graduate over 2000 Navy students.

●  Managed a team of 9 personnel (5 Sailors & 4 contractors)

 

01/2007 – 02/2008INTEL® CORPORATION – LAN Access Division – Hillsboro Oregon

Software Validation Engineer
•  Tested and validated network card drivers with EFI, Microsoft Vista and Longhorn on IA-64, X86 and X64 platforms resulting in 52 successful builds submitted to Microsoft supporting Intel’s success in Microsoft’s Driver Signature Program. 

• Completed various validation and exploratory testing with LOM and NIC drivers in the 10GbE and 1GbE ranges with both copper and FDDI pushing Intel software to exceed industry standards

 

 

01/2006 – 01/2007U.S. Navy - Deployment to San Diego ISO U.S. Navy Operations

Involuntary recall to active duty to assume Ordnance Manager of NCWG1 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. 

●  Successfully managed a 1.9-million dollar ammunition budget for Naval Coastal Warfare Group One community including 29 teams located both stateside and abroad while ensuring strict compliance with explosives safety regulations.

●  Helped train & prepare 6 NCW units, over 400 Reservists, for deployment to Iraq

 

 

9/2005 – 01/2006DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY – SAIC – Battle Creek Michigan
Software QA Engineer

Test web applications and databases as member of Team HP/SAIC during Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) assuring the successful migration of distributed servers and applications from the Defense Logistics Agency location in Battle Creek, Michigan to the Enterprise Data Center.
Support government testing during Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) and Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) in agile development environment.
Used Mercury Interactive Test Director 8.0 to input application requirements, tests, test plans, test designs, document test results and track defects to closure. Prepared management tracking reports using Test Director’s analysis features.

 

05/2005 – 09/2005U.S. Navy - Full Time Reserve Support at Reserve Center ISO U.S. Navy Operations

•  Filled in as Weapons & Ordnance Department Head while teams were being trained and prepared for a deployment to Iraq

 

07/2004 – 05/2005INTEL® CORPORATION – LAN Access Division – Hillsboro Oregon
Software Validation Technician

•  As a Software Validation Engineer, Conducted black box & white box testing on Intel’s network software & utilities in NQL team. Testing conducted with: Intel Proset, EEedit, Dugway, Diags, CELO, EEupdate, Gigconf, IBAUtil, iSCSIUtl, IBABuild, GT, EEGEN and IDadapt which validated successful compatibililty between firmware, drivers and Intel tools

 

 

07/2003 – 07/2004CEDAR MILL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LLC – Tualatin Oregon
•  Served as IT Analyst offering Windows 2000 Server support & Windows XP administration, support and maintenance (in small workgroup environment).

•  Technical support and instruction. Consultations, assessments and purchasing IT equipment

 

 

01/2003 – 07/2003U.S. Navy - Deployment to Iraq ISO U.S. Navy Operations

 

06/2001 – 07/2002U.S. Navy - Deployment to Bahrain ISO U.S. Navy Operations

 

 

03/2000 – 04/2001OREGON CATHOLIC PRESS – Information Systems Department

Software QA Lead

•   Built a complete QA effort from ground up, established a system of QA policies and procedures, administered the implementation of PVCS Tracker and project databases, facilitated meetings and coordinated efforts between departments, trained employees in QA procedures, use of PVCS Tracker, and source control

• Conducted compatibility evaluations, learned PICK/Universe database administration on the job and conducted white box and black box testing on PICK/Universe database and CISPUB/PDQ system, helped management clean up old source code in agile software development environment

• Wrote scripts for Mac users to automate routine administrative tasks

 

 

06/1999 – 03/2000CENTERSPAN COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION – Engineering – Hillsboro Oregon
•  As a Software QA Engineer, Wrote new test plans and test matrices which worked seamlessly between QA and development

•  Played a key role in CenterSpan Socket™ software’s evolution from beta to release candidate

 

 

11/1998 – 05/1999INTEL® CORPORATION – OEM Products Manufacturing – Hillsboro Oregon
•  Performed various levels of black box testing on Intel’s VideoPhone™ v3 in LAN / WAN configurations while simultaneously testing various audio/video telephony communications software with Intel’s VideoPhone™ v3 under H.323 and H.324 specs which aided in successful retail launch of VideoPhone™ v3

•  Edited and updated test plans and test matrices

 

 

01/1998 – 10/1998NORTHWEST TRAILER PARTS – IT Department – Wilsonville Oregon

•  As IT Systems Analyst performed various IT roles including black box testing the EDN software application with Prelude system

•  Logging/reporting software defects in tracking system and communicating with system programmers aiding in successful launch of EDN

• Assisted network administration and operations in hybrid network

• Managed the help-desk (tech support) duty, assisted with modernization strategy and system rollouts

 

 

03/1996 – 09/1997INTEL® CORPORATION – OEM Communications Products Engineering – Hillsboro Oregon – Lab Technician/Purchasing Agent
• Managed software/hardware purchasing, generating purchase requisitions while accounting for a 7-million dollar engineering budget and coordinating efforts between internal manufacturing teams, engineers and finance analysts.

• Performed black box testing on Intel’s VideoPhone™ v1 in LAN / WAN configurations helping in the successful retail release and sales goals of Intel Create-and-Share™ kits and Intel VideoPhone software

•  Performed black box & game testing on Intel Teladdin modems and drivers

 

 

06/1995 – 09/1995INTEL® CORPORATION – OEM Products Manufacturing Division – Hillsboro Oregon
•  Mastered all aspects of computer assembly as a Manufacturing Technician

•  Helped build over 2500 PCs and servers accomplishing division goals

 

 

EDUCATIONCurrently pursuing Bachelor of Science Degree in Software Engineering (OIT)

 

1990High School Diploma.

 

 

CERTIFICATIONS

 

2012NRA Certified Range Safety Officer

2011Glock Certified Armorer

 

VOCATIONAL TRAINING

 

Linux System Administration Certificate,

Oracle certificates O-806 & O-807,

Microsoft Official Curriculum Certificates earned:

MS-2151 Microsoft Windows 2000 Network and Operating System Essentials,

MS-2152 Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server,

MS-2153 Implementing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure,

MS-2154 Implementing and Administering Windows 2000 Directory Services,

MS-1572 Implementing and Administering Microsoft Exchange 2000,

MS-2071 Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Transact-SQL,

MS-2072 Administering a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database,

MS-2124 Programming in C#,

MS-2310 Developing ASP.NET Web Applications using Visual Studio .NET

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