QA Engineer

Release Engineer

Software Engineer

  

 

Email

Mobile Phone (Preferred)

Web

apmack@gmail.com

+61 458570756

http://Andrew.Mack.cc

 

 

Professional Experience (Summary)

 

From

To

Company, Location

January

2010

Present

FNZ Australia, Level 57, MLC Centre, 19-29 Martin Place, Sydney 2000

 

Release Manager

In addition to the duties of Release Engineer

-  Scheduled Releases for numerous projects to ensure no interference and reduce waiting times.

-  Liaised with infrastructure to set up a release service that reflects standards in the uk, creating one unified release method for global deployment.

-  Scripted and carried out regression testing in QTP against the latest code streams

-  Liaised with developers to ensure code was checked into the correct places and no errors were present prior to release

 

 

November 2008

November

2009

FNZ UK, 23 Silvermills Court, Henderson Place Lane, Edinburgh, EH3 5DG

 

 

Release Engineer

-  Responsible for setting up build boxes subsequent environments to be released to

-  Work with nant and c# to automate the release process and script running

-  Worked with Accurev version control to maintain code stream integrity

-  Worked with TeamCity to co-ordinate the builds previously created through nant and c#

-  Created other c# programs that monitor url’s,  allow for release of sql scripts and monitor effects of these scripts

-  Performed Troubleshooting on released code and scripts.

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June 2008

October 2008

Pilz GmbH & Co. KG, Model Farm Road, Cork, Ireland

 

 

Software Test Engineer

-  Responsible for testing on  two of the main products provided by Pilz

-  Also provided administrator support for HP Quality Centre

-  Created automated tests using Quick test pro to make regression testing quicker.

-  Created test plans and reports for new projects

 

December 2007

June 2008

Harvey Norman, Little Island, Cork, Ireland

 

Salesperson, Computing Department,

 

April 2007

November 2007

EMC Corporation, Ovens, Cork, Ireland

 

QA Engineer

Participated in the quality assurance of Symmetrix software to be incorporated onto the Symmetrix Storage Unit. (EMC2)

-       The Symmetrix Storage platform is widely distributed throughout the world and has an unparalleled level of security and reliability so QA engineering on their system was carried out to a strict set of rules.

-       I worked as a part of the QAConfig group and we stressed the software and Equipment to its limit as much as possible, we set up numerous configurations of the systems and tested them very stringently to find and report bugs.

-       The software and fixes we were testing always had to be perfect as the end result was it would be integrated into EMC2 next code release.

-       Regression testing was a big part of our daily testing to ensure that previous problems didn’t reoccur, regression testing was automated in a lot of cases and could be easily implemented using EMC2 in house system. Reporting of these tests and clearing the system for the next user was the main work load when doing regression. I also ensured that systems running regression code levels could be updated to the new code levels if the customer required.

-       I also had to monitor and benchmark some of the tests to compare test runs from an old regression next to the latest code release.

 

September 2005/06

September 2005/06

Allied Irish Bank, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland

 

Bank Representative, Student Drive,

 

March 2005

March 2007

Maplin Electronics, Blackpool Retail Park, Blackpool, Cork, Ireland

 

Technical Sales Assistant,

 

October 2002

February 2005

Pendrix Display, Patricks Quay, Cork, Ireland

Store Room Administration

 

 

Core Skill Profile

Programming languages/ utilities/ Skills

Java

JavaScript

C++

nant

Assembly Language/Assembler

C

HTML

SQL

PHP

Software / System Testing

C# .Net

Software Architecture

 

Database expertise

MySQL,

MS Access, SQL

 

Operating Systems, Environments/Protocols

Unix (Sun Solaris)

Suse Linux

Slax

Real Time Systems(OS9)

 Windows (Vista, XP, 2003 server, 2000, 98se, 98, 95, DOS)

SIP, DHCP, TCP/IP, SMTP, IMAP4, ATM, POP3 and HTTP

TCP/IP (Unix & PC environments), FTP

Networking/Telecoms background

Network Design

Network Engineering

 

SAN: Storage Area Network

Ethereal(Wireshark) Protocol Analyser

Network Analysis

Other Software Products knowledge/usage

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

MS FrontPage

 

Macromedia Flash

Adobe Photoshop

 

Academic and Professional Qualifications

 

2004 - 2008                    Cork Institute of Technology

                                     Honours Degree in Software Development and Computer Networking

                                    

                                     Later received a McAfee sponsored award for Final Year Results

 

1999 - 2004                    Glanmire Community College

                                     Leaving Certificate

 

 

Further Formalized Training in:

n Cisco Systems (CCNA and CCNP course work)

n Storage Area Networks

 

 

 

References

Available on request.

 

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