Software Testing, Quality Assurance (QA) and Configuration Management (CM) – Michael W. Meissner

Michael W. Meissner is a highly experienced Solutions Architect at Ethernautics, Inc. having performed in various roles throughout his career, executing multiple projects across the Information Technology and Management Domain from inception to delivery through operations and ongoing maintenance. Mr. Meissner possesses experience in Information System Management Technologies incorporating strong technical credentials with exposure in all phases of systems and network design; development, deployment and management, tempered with excellent general business skills. His talents come from years of experience working for international industry giants including: IBM, Schlumberger, AT&T, Bellcore, Telcordia, TCI, Qwest, Comcast, One Communications, France Telecom, Time Warner, TECO Energy, US Cellular, Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, Urenco, Computer Sciences Corporation, US Army and US Government.

Having an engineering background Meissner has strong skills in requirements analysis and software development which has built a strong foundation to lead test organization. Meissner has not only worked on many projects as a tester, but he has also built and led test organization throughout his career. Serve as a manager and mentor to test automation engineers.

As a software test automation engineering Meissner designs, builds, tests, and deploys test-ware solutions that put the power of test automation into the hands of the Software Quality Engineers (SQE’s).

Meissner applies software engineering best practices in documenting and developing the test automation architecture as well as test cases for the full scope of R&D projects, supporting load and performance testing as well as functional acceptance testing.

Meissner researches, evaluates, and recommends new test tools and methodologies; helps plan automation strategies that maximize the return on automation investment.

As a manager of Test Automation Meissner has lead and build Technology Solution’s test automation strategy and team and will be the owner of our enterprise test management solutions and tools. Meissner has managed teams of Test Automation Engineers that developed and oversees the implementation of enterprise test automation capabilities to ensure that production applications are delivered with high quality and cost effectively.
Meissner has created, maintained, and drives consistent use of a standard set of test automation tools and best practices across the Technology Solutions portfolio

Serving as a SME for test automation; Meissner has practically applied expertise & prior experience to continuously improve test automation capabilities,

Meissner has served as a consultant to Technology Solutions development teams; ensuring test automation strategies for projects across the portfolio drive maximum ROI.

Meissner has objectively quantified the value of test automation through metrics

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Test Tools, Test Automation Tools and Configuration Management Tool Kit

Meissner is familiar with a variety of Test and Test Automation tools using Unified Functional Testing (UFT) including:

• Atlassian suite of tools (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket), Git
• JIRA Studio –
  • Subversion for revision control
  • Confluence for content Management (a wiki for enterprise)
  • JIRA Agile (formally GreenHopper) for agile planning and management (bug tracking, issue tracking, project Management)
  • Bamboo for continuous integration
  • Crucible for Code Review
  • FishEye is a revision-control browser and search engine for Source code repository browsing.
• HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) – Formally Mercury Interactive
• Selenium
• GhostPro – to create backup OS installations for Load testing
• Fiddler
• QC
• Test Complete
• Wireshark
• Spirent Quality Center
• LoadRunner

Configuration Management

• Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Ticketing

• Remedy

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Technology Stack Testing Experience

Meissner has expertise in skills required for effective testing execution including:

iMySQL, C++, Java, Visio, XML, HpOpenView, Microsoft Office, Beta, Secore, Sord, Boss, CPSOS, Kayako Portal, @Task, BREW, video codec, HTTP, AHLS, TCP/IP, APIs based on REST and Java.

Meissner has tested software in the following OS environments:

iOS, Android, PCs, Mac, UNIX, Linux, VMware

Meissner has tested software wireless software in the following environments:

CDMA, TDMA, Android, Rim, Windows mobile

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