Alan Abreu
Senior SQA Engineer at 908 Devices
Senior SQA Engineer at MedAcuity Software
Software Quality Engineering Specialist for 20+ years with extensive knowledge of both manual and automated software testing and methodology. Experience as an Automation Team Leader and Quality Center Administrator.
908 Devices
https://www.linkedin.com/company/908-devices
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Senior SQA Engineer
MedAcuity
https://www.linkedin.com/company/medacuity
MedAcuity delivers safety-critical engineering services to medical device companies around the world to create innovative products that increase patient safety and improve clinical outcomes.
•	Work with multiple clients testing Class (I/II/III) medical devices at all stages of the software development lifecycle
•	Perform manual testing, embedded software testing, ad-hoc, regression, GUI, black/white box and installation testing
•	Write and manage test cases, gather test metrics and report defects
•	Devices tested included a simulator for various blood pumps, an implantable visual prosthetic’s GUI application, hand-held software used to drive robots for the United Stated military and law enforcement and an insulin management system on a development board setup with Bluetooth low energy capability.
•	Write test tool validation plans and reports for various applications within client’s automation framework
Westford, MA
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Senior Software Quality Engineering Specialist
Boston Scientific
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Boston Scientific Electrophysiology produces the Rhythmia Mapping System. Rhythmia generates accurate, high-resolution 3D electro-anatomical maps designed to facilitate assessment and ablation of both atrial and ventricle arrhythmia substrates. Rhythmia is a class II medical device. Rhythmia was developed using C++, Qt Creator and Open GL and runs on the Linux CentOS operating system.
•	Work in an agile/scrum environment in two-week sprints including sprint planning, daily stand-up and sprint review and retrospective meetings to create, review and run tests for the Rhythmia software.
•	Track issues and project management functions in Jira
•	Deploy builds locally and remotely using Jenkins
•	Create and execute tests in Jama based on pre-approved protocols.  Tests are run using pre-recorded data streams in a simulated environment or by using various mapping, reference and ablation catheters in a saline tank to create real-time maps.
•	Enter defects using Bugzilla
•	Create summary test reports
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Senior SQA Engineer
Boston Scientific
https://www.linkedin.com/company/boston-scientific
Boston Scientific Electrophysiology produces the LabSystem EP Recording System. LabSystem allows physicians to record, display, and diagnose heart arrhythmias using the electrical signals recorded from catheters within the heart. LabSystem is a self contained class II medical device. LabSystem was developed using C++ and MFC and runs on the Windows 7 operating system.
•	Worked with the offsite development team to review and update functional and UI specifications until all specifications were officially approved
•	Created functional, integration, negative, system and regression test cases based on the specifications for various LabSystem projects. Automated over 50% of these tests using the QTP/UFT test tool.
•	Entered defects found in LabSystem using the QC/ALM test tool
•	Worked with the test team to complete various Verification and Validation test cycles for major releases and service packs
•	Administered QC/ALM:
•	Created domains and projects
•	Created users and defined user properties (permissions, passwords, groups, etc.)
•	Set up project workflow (customized lists and fields, default values, etc.)
•	Created summary reports (pre-executed test cases, test run results, etc.)
•	Created and ran SQL queries against the project database to update fields and create additional reports
Cambridge, MA
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Senior SQA Engineer / Quality Center Administrator
SRU Biosystems
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sru-biosystems
SRU Biosystems was a global provider of novel, label-free, detection tools used in drug discovery and life sciences research. SRU Biosystems produced the BIND Scan and BIND View software applications.

BIND Scan is a data acquisition software application for a plate-based scanner capable of measuring cellular responses at an individual cell resolution using label-free assays. The application was developed for Windows 7 (64-bit) utilizing the .NET 4.0 platform, C# and WPF. The function of the application is to acquire image data for analysis by a separate application, including BIND View.

BIND View is a Windows 7 (64-bit) data analysis software application, utilizing the .NET 4.0 platform, C# and WinForms. The function of the application is to analyze image data from a label-free, plate-based scanner for various cellular applications, including cytotoxicity, differentiation, chemotaxis and low cell number assays.
•	Utilized QC to:
•	Create over 300 tests based on requirements entered by the software development team
•	Map each test to the appropriate section(s) of the functional specifications
•	Track defects
•	Create summary test reports
•	Utilized QTP to:
•	Automate 80% of the test cases
•	Create numerous functions and function libraries to use along with the built-in functions of QTP to streamline the process of automating the tests
•	Utilized VMware Workstation to create virtual machines for testing the software with various versions of Microsoft Office and varying user permissions and to ensure a baseline for installation tests
•	Participated in a defect triage near the end of each release to decide which defects to fix and which to defer to a later release based on severity and priority
•	Administered QC
Woburn, MA
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Senior SQA Engineer / Quality Center Administrator
Bard Electrophysiology
•	Assisted in developing a test plan for LabSystem in accordance with the following regulations and guidelines: ISO 13485, ANSI/AAMI SW68: 2001 and Guidance for FDA Reviews and Industry Guidance for the Content of Premarket Submission for Software Contained in Medical Devices
•	Developed over 1,000 combined manual and automated test cases and created and customized numerous functions using WinRunner and QTP until all requirements were covered
•	Utilized QC to manage the entire testing process including the creation and execution of tests, entering and updating of defects and requirements mapping of tests to the appropriate sections of the functional specifications
•	Administered QC
Lowell, MA
Senior SQA Automation Engineer / Quality Center Administrator
Certified Product Specialist for TestSuite 7.0
WinRunner and TestDirector
HP (Mercury Interactive)
Certified Product Specialist
LoadRunner Web 6.0
HP (Mercury Interactive)
Certified Product Specialist for TestSuite 6.0
WinRunner and TestDirector
HP (Mercury Interactive)
Master Certificate
C/C++ & Windows Development
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Boston University
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        Alan is the best SQA engineer I've ever encountered and an absolutely delightful colleague and employee.  He's prolific at writing automated scripts with Quick Test Pro and his knowledge of and appreciation for the broader Quality Center suite is comprehensive.  He's amazingly self-motivated and is always found at his desk, tirelessly translating functional requirements into new test code.  Each of his colleagues at SRU loves him, and I could not recommend him more highly.
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Marília, SP
Alan Abreu
Analista de PCP Pleno na Carino Ingredientes
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Fortaleza, CE
Alan Abreu
Devops Analyst at Letsbank
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São Paulo, SP
Alan Abreu
Especialista em Mídia na i-Cherry
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Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Alan Abreu
Especialista em Sustentabilidade na Reserva
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Stoughton, MA
Alan Abreu
Systems Administrator at EMC