Ibm Work Values

Daily Duties at Ibm:

Advisory Programmer/Analyst Quality Assurance Lead responsible for the development and execution of functional and system verification tests for the MultiMedia Server application on the RS/6000. This application serves multimedia content from an AIX server to PC, MAC and other UNIX clients across FDDI, Ethernet, Token Ring or ATM networks. As Beta coordinator served as key interface to our customers to ensure product quality and directions meet customer needs. Managed 1500 square foot test lab. Managed subcontractors on the development and test team. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Advisory Development Manager First line development manager responsible for the software development, SQA, customer support and manufacturing support for the IBM Xstation product line. Brought in to focus on improving product quality and customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction was increased by 25% due to providing faster response time to customer problems and implementing repeatable and automated testing techniques. This along with enhanced diagnostic features improved overall product quality. Managed multiple product deliverables while concurrently providing customer support, maintaining schedules, quality and budget considerations. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Staff Programmer Quality Assurance lead responsible for the development and execution of functional and system verification test suites for DOS and Windows Emulation technologies on the RS/6000, PowerPC, SUN and HP workstations. Technologies allowed for DOS/Windows to run on AIX (UNIX), OS/2 for PowerPC and software emulated MPEG video decoding for Windows NT. Automated test suites resulted in reduction of test cycle by 50%. Manager of 2000 square foot test laboratory responsible for scheduling, staffing, hardware and software acquisition, maintenance and system administration. Supervised subcontractors and vendor on premise and product build teams. Acted as key interface with business partners to ensure product success across multiple hardware platforms. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Staff Programmer Product development lead for Distributed CAD Client/Server application, responsible for the scheduling, staffing, quality as well as major development activities on the project. This project was developed onsite at the customer’s location and delivered into production on time with high quality. In addition to development responsibilities as the System Verification and Functional Verification lead I automated the test process resulting in a 10X quality improvement and a 25% reduction to the test cycle. Provided systems administration, TCP/IP, NFS, NIS, Oracle and Xstation support. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Senior Associate Programmer Member of Advanced Architecture Design team responsible for Knowledge Based Systems and Object Oriented solutions. Completed Knowledge Engineering Apprentice program with the Intellicorp Corporation sponsored by the corporate AI Project Office. Design work allowed development to implement solutions to changing business conditions exceeding customer expectations. Prototypes and proof of concepts written in C++ and LISP. Development programmer and technical team leader responsible for mainframe based financial applications. Sought out by management to solve complex problems and to recover schedules while maintaining current workload.

What they like about Ibm:

Organizations with strong, centralized leadership are particularly attractive to you. You require a work environment with leadership that aggressively seeks to expand and grow the business and does so in a visible and decisive manner. In general you prefer to work in an environment in which there is a strong link between leadership, its actions, and a strong set of company-wide values.

Tags

QA Director, QA Manager, offshore, test automation, test strategies, test tools, testdirector, loadrunner, silk test, Mercury winrunner, performance testing, sql, unix, java

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