Stephen Edward Donner's Resume (Last updated April 21st 2008)

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Stephen Edward Donner

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OBJECTIVE

I seek to be part of an organization that directly benefits the lives of its end users, and to that end, by striving for excellence as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Mozilla Corporation
Software Quality Assurance Engineer

July 9, 2007 - Present
Mountain View, CA

Lead QA for Mozilla.com's content/web-development testing, which included the Add-ons website redesign, Operation Firefox, Online Security, download, first run, update, and other pages.

Responsible for test coverage of Download Manager, Location Bar, and Visual Refresh components in Firefox 3.

Ensured high quality with rapid turnaround for the Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.0.x security/stability releases, including several firedrills.

Sole QA engineer responsible for the successful launch of the popular Rock your Firefox Facebook web application.

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Google, Inc. (Contracted via WorkForceLogic)
Quality Rater

May 2006 - Sept. 10, 2006
Telecommuted

Carefully using Google's proprietary page-ranking system, ranked wide varieties of pages for quality based on their many attributes. Involved cross-referencing six separate documents as well as continually incoming communications to determine specific page quality.

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AOL, Inc. (Contracted via Spherion)
Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Dec 2003 - April 2004
Mountain View, CA

Created and maintained a 70+page testcase for various critical features of our AOL by Voice product. Tested upgrades to Voice Services via menu-driven phone interface using DTMF and speech recognition. Troubleshooted voice recognition/transition failures using debug server logs.

Regression-tested Alerts & Reminders functionality.

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AOL, Inc.
Software Quality Assurance Engineer

2002 - 2003
Mountain View, CA

AOL Personalization (my.aol.com, QuickView tab in the Welcome Screen)
Wrote and executed functional testcases for 8 modules, stress-tested Virtual Lock (an internal-authentication API), LDAP migration and purging scripts/binaries on Solaris. Developed and maintained testcase template for entire QA team, as well as compiled the basic functionality testcase. Helped design team standarize UI specifications.

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Netscape Communications Corp.
Software Quality Assurance Engineer

November 2000 - 2002
Mountain View, CA

Client Products Division (Netscape 6.x, Netscape 7.0x)
Responsible for Mail client functional, performance, and footprint testing, NNTP protocol testing and bug triage. Leak work using Rational Purify and XPCOM leak logs. Filed bugs across product components. Along with another QA engineer, was responsible for testing integration of our application with Mac OS X's (then still in Alpha/Beta) Carbon library. Gave an overview to entire QA team of our bug system's integration with crash reporting, how to obtain stack traces, and how to better file and triage crashers. Was the only QA team member to compile and patch Mozilla. Informal liason between Mozilla (open-source community) and our commercial team.

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EDUCATION

Indiana University South Bend
BA in English

(August 1996 - May 1998) - (May 2004 - May 2007)
South Bend, Indiana

3.424 Grade Point Average

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Clark University Computer Career Institute
Certificate of Completion in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Administration Certificate Program

January 1999 - March 1999
Braintree, MA

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SKILLS

Operating systems: Windows Vista/XP/2000/NT 4.0/98/ME, various Linux flavors, Mac OS 9/OS X, Solaris.
Scripting/markup I can read: HTML, JavaScript, CSS
Applications/utilities: Rational Purify, CVS, Bugzilla, Tinderbox, Bonsai, Task Info 2000/2003
Protocol familiarity: NNTP, LDAP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4

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AWARDS AND HONORS

Dean's List: Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007
English Excellence Award in Writing

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