Albert S. QA Mgr. -Resume

1. ALBERT SEDIGHPOUR SW QA PROJECT MANAGER
[phone]  [email protected]

Over nineteen years of experience in software analysis, design, programming, unit & integration testing, QA and program
management. Good understanding in software engineering methodology, software development practices and test architecture.
Strong communication and management skills. Collaborative communicator continually focused on building relationships and
promoting synergy across team lines. Effective leader skilled at promoting time management and efficiency, while encouraged
growth.
EXPERIENCE & NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
CORE COMPETENCIES
Software: Solaris/SunOS, UNIX, Windows, CDE & Open Window applications
Hardware: SUN Microsystems/Oracle, HP, IBM & PCs
Languages: C, JAVA, C++, HTML, TKL_TK, Csh, Awk, Perl, Lisp, Assembly, Pascal
SW Tools: StarOffice, FrameMaker, McCabe (code & path coverage app), automated testing tools such as XRunner (UI Automated
Tester), SunDiag (a system diagnostic app), SunVTS (a system diagnostic app), DBX debugger, Sun Bugtraq
COMMERCIAL KEY PROJECTS & EXPERIENCE
Construction Project Mgr., Elan Innovative Construction, Los Altos & Los Angeles, CA 2007-2015
Scheduled projects in logical steps and budget time required to meet deadlines.
Determined labor requirements, and dispatched workers to construction sites.
Inspected and reviewed projects to monitor compliance with building and safety codes, and other
regulations.
Negotiated contracts and revisions, changes and additions to contractual agreements with architects,
consultants, clients, suppliers and subcontractors.
Qualified and contracted subcontractors to bid specific trade items.
Maintained all project licenses and permits in accordance with industry and government regulations.
E-Commerce Mgr., Fantasy Collection, Inc., San Jose & Los Angeles, CA 2007-2012
The E-commerce Manager will execute our strategic vision and corporate objectives on www.gift-centre.com.
Develop (through NitroSell Portal for Retail Management) and refine functionality and client experiences.
Participate in defining the E-commerce strategy, including marketing, business development and content
initiatives.
Manage daily E-commerce operations including item set-up, inventory management, promotion planning and
execution.
Manage all site performance analytics including but not limited to merchandise performance, traffic and other Key
Performance Indicators.
Availability QA, SW QA Mgr., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Menlo Park, CA 2000-2007
Lead and manage a team of software and hardware engineers in the quality assurance of High Availability
applications (diagnostics). Lead across-product group community of test developers.
Interact with a broad spectrum of users/customers, such as developers, test floor, manufacturing, field and third
party users.
Managed schedules and activities consistent with the central engineering Product Life Cycle (PLC) process at Sun
Micro.
Established QA processes (set up criteria for QA to accept a new release, labeling a release, branching & merging;
state transition of bugs in the bug tracking system, etc.).
Wrote test plan and test specification for our Business to Customer Web Application.
Staff performance plan and job assessments were performed every six months and discussed as part of departmental roll up.

2. ALBERT SEDIGHPOUR RESUME | PAGE 2
Common Technology, SW QA Lead, Sun Micro, Menlo Park, CA 1997-2000
Through team effort, we were able to produce the following results:
New test suites and test suite improvements
Minimize test runs to meet weekly/biweekly releases of diagnostics packages
Improve hardware configuration set ups (baseline configurations)
Improve software installation (OS & unbundled software) as part of PreConsolidation Test.
Initiated and scheduled cooperative sessions between QA teams and diagnostics developers for test process
improvements.
Improve environment setup and regression tests (utilize TestLink, EZtask tools).
Y2K & I18N compliance set up.
Come up with the performance measurement and comparison standards
Moving away from Black Box testing to White Box testing
Common Technology, SW QA Engineer, Sun Micro., Menlo Park, CA 1994-1997
Through my effort as an individual contributor, I was able to produce the following results:
Improve test suite execution through developing and executing automation scripts such as CVT and SVT.
Improve the log collection & analysis (RVT) for faster software validation cycle and failure analysis/processing.
Examine test code and path coverage tools and their promotion.
Improve negative testing routines in our validation process.
Compile & update steps and procedures to achieve coverage for all necessary test areas.
Update and publish "Sun Family Product Chart" to provide SSQA and other technical staff with a product cross
reference chart.
Basic HTML framework employed for construction of the group's WEB site.

System Integration Engineer, Test Engineer, Sun Micro., Mt View, CA 1987-1994
Proven ability to successfully initiate and complete complex projects to meet deadlines.
Ability to quickly identify hardware and software problems and implement effective solutions while validating Sun
Federal applications such as SunDiag, Boot PROM, printer postscripts
Effective presentation and technical writing skills
Acting as a role model and mentor by providing training to others.
Reviewed documentation manuals.
Set up systems, configure, test, analyze results and report to test teams.
Other duties were: write test plans, create inventory of features to be tested, write test specifications and implement automated
test suites that run under Unix.
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, Electrical & Electronics
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO | Chico, CA
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:
Harvard Bus. School Pub. - Coaching for Results
Managing Within the Law I
Benchmarking for Process Improvement
Object Oriented Analysis and Design
Creating and Implementing Innovation
Fundamentals of Software Quality