THOMAS W.

AMIRO
90 Westford Street, Chelmsford, MA 01824
Home: 978-256-4813 Cell: 978-726-3787
tomamiro@comcast.net

Career
Software Quality Assurance Engineer/Team Leader
Focus
Experience • Expert User-Focused Tester—Unique background as a software developer,
Summa technical writer, and SQA engineer/team leader provides for a keen user
orientation and interest in installation, configuration, and administration of
ry
software products.
• Passionate Team Leader—Inspires others by sharing enthusiasm and
technical information; mentors junior QA engineers; collaborates well with
developers, customers, and all levels of management
• Proven to Deliver Results—Highly effective in planning and communicating
test priorities, defining procedures, writing test plans, assessing quality,
getting bugs fixed, and meeting key deliverables with distributed global
teams
Awards/ • Recognized at All Hands meeting by Director of Application Platforms for
Achiev perseverance in setting up Siebel for Mobile Enterprise Platform testing, 2009
ements • Recognized as Employee of the Quarter as SQE Lead for PC-NFS, Spring, 1998
• STC Awards of Merit and Achievement for Technical Publications, 1993, 1996
• Promoted to Staff Engineer for superlative job on Java Web Services
Developer Pack, 2003-2005
Profession SQA Staff Engineer/Team Leader – Sun Microsystems, 2007 -
al Burlington, MA 2009
Experie Sun Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP)
nce • Implemented test priorities, led test development/automation
and all test execution for MEP; tracked and filed numerous bugs
greatly improving the product quality
• Tested the samples, demos, data synchronization use cases (on
wireless toolkit emulator and BlackBerry), the Administration
Console, and the Installer
• Programmed Ant script to automatically install the MEP gateway
and executed automated use case tests across platforms
• Led other test engineers, inspiring them to write procedures on
the “howto” wiki that benefited the whole team
• Installed Solaris, Linux, and Windows platforms and set up and
administered Siebel CRM, Oracle, Remedy, MySQL, and
WebLogic on test machines
• Answered user questions on the MEP forum and by blogging

• Assisted partners and potential customers to set up and launch

MEP
• Spearheaded the migration of MEP from GlassFish to WebLogic

• Reviewed MEP documentation such that its quality was

significantly improved
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SQA Staff Engineer – Web Services Interoperability 2005 -
Technologies (WSIT) 2007
• Programmed Ant script to automatically install WSIT on Sun
AppServer and execute web service smoke test
• Tested samples, documentation, and NetBeans tooling

• Created overall project test plan for product delivered into Sun
AppServer
• Go-to quality guy – created and posted comprehensive bug
queries, tracked bugs, reported bug status, administered Issue
Tracker, and approved product release
SQA Engineer/Team Leader – Java Web Services Developer 2003 -
Pack (JWSDP) Releases 1.2 to 1.6 2005
• Led distributed, international test team delivering Java
technologies into Sun AppServer
• Developed overall test strategy and project test plan

• Certified Xalan/XSLTC in JAXP; co-wrote Ant script to run

conformance tests
• Certified JAXB TCK; wrote batch mode scripts for Windows and
Solaris
• Tested samples, documentation, and administration GUIs
resulting in much improved quality
• Quality champion – created and posted comprehensive bug
queries, tracked bugs, and reported bug status, and gave go-
ahead for product release
SQA Engineer/Project Leader 1996 -
• Tested XSLT compiler (XSLTC) at Sun and at Apache XalanJ2 2003
open source project
• Created in-house XSLT conformance automated test suite

• Developed "real" web application at coolrunning.com using

JSPs and XSLTC
• Added tests to open source Xalan Conformance test suite at
apache.org in collaboration with IBM
• Tested Apache Web Server on Solaris 2.8 – ran automated suite,
and verified HTTP conformance
• Scripted automatic install/testing of Solstice Network Client (PC-
NFS) 3.2 using WinBatch, Ghost, and QA Partner
• Championed test effort for installation, configuration, and
licensing of SNC 3.0 and overall test effort for SNC 3.1, 3.1Plus,
and 3.2 on Windows NT/95
Principal Technical Writer – Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA 1990 -
• Authored PPP Guide; PC-Admin 2.5 Administrator’s Guide (STC 1996
Excellence Award); PC-NFS 5.1 Installation and Configuration
Guide; System and Network Administration Framework API Man
Pages; SunOS 5.1 Setting Up User Accounts, Printers, and Mail
(STC Merit Award)
Principal Technical Writer/Project Leader – Wang 1989 -
Laboratories, Lowell, MA 1990
• Led Freestyle 1.21 documentation project

• Authored Freestyle/Light guide; Freestyle/Light functional

specification, Wang Inter-System Exchange Guide for OIS and VS;
and updated Freestyle Programmer Reference
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Senior Consultant – Booz, Allen, & Hamilton, Bedford, MA 1987 -
• Authored spec for VAX/VMS MIS system using ORACLE and 1989
CA/ISSCO
• Tested system, tracked bug resolution, and supervised contract
writers
• Pentagon Security Clearance

Plant Design Product Specialist – Computervision 1985 -

Corporation, Bedford, MA 1987
• Ported FORTRAN CADDS code to Sun/UNIX platform

• Supported Stress Analysis/Electrical packages

Plant Design Documentation Manager – Computervision 1982 -

Corporation, Bedford, MA 1985
• Hired, supervised, and managed technical writing staff

• Planned user documentation set and authored the Plant Design

User Guide
Plant Design Application Programmer – Computervision 1978 -
Corporation, Bedford, MA 1982
• Designed, coded (FORTRAN), tested, and documented CADDS
commands
• Organized and participated in internal training and supported
customers
Databases JDBC, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Remedy, and Siebel
Languages Ant, Java, Javascript, JSP/CGI, Fortran, Perl, SQL, and Unix and DOS Shells
Platforms Sun, Intel, Solaris, RedHat Linux, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT,
and Windows Server
Tools BlackBerry JDE, CVS/SVN, Ghost, Hudson, WTK, NetBeans, QAPartner,
Selenium, and WinBatch
Web Apache Web Server, GlassFish, JSP/CGI, .NET, SyncML, Tomcat, WebLogic,
XML, and XSLT
Education M.A., Experimental Psychology, University of Hawaii, 1978
Honolulu, HI
Clinical Psychology Program, University of Vermont, 1975
Burlington, VT
B.A., Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 1974
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