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Software Development Engineer with experience in the testing discipline, specializing in UI and object model automation, data-driven designs and distributed systems. I am fluent in various programming languages and technologies, and learn new ones easily. I also hold a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, with experience in mechanical design, CAD and 3D Solid Modeling. A life-long musician, my interest in music and acoustics has led me to tackle several hobby projects in electronic circuits as well as instrument building and restoration. • Driven by a passion for building reliable and efficient solutions and solving hard technical problems. • Broad experience creating and testing software solutions on a variety of computer systems and programming languages. • Large relational databases and distributed systems. • Black-box and white-box testing complex client and service software used by millions of customers worldwide. • Delight in debugging existing programs as well as writing new code. • Proven ability to quickly learn and utilize new programming and scripting languages, data structures and design patterns, platforms, and tools. • Develop and test applications based on the Windows Store and Android stacks, in addition to Windows desktop. Languages and Technologies: C#, C/C++, SQL, Java, Android, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, .NET, ASP.NET, HTML, XSLT, CSS, Unity 3D, MSI, Application Virtualization, Ada (Unix), HP ME10/30 CAD and 3-D Solid Modeling, Pascal Competencies: Complex problem solving, Root cause analysis, Test Automation, Large Databases, Distributed Systems, Web Services, Agile Software Development (Scrum, TDD, Pair Programming)Software Test Engineer @ From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Software Development Engineer in Test 2: Microsoft Office Worldwide Delivery @ Automate and test new features of a world-wide string resource management service. Develop and test tools for refactoring of string collateral and related API for cross-platform availability. • Pioneered expansion of automation to the Android platform, coding in Java and C++ via JNI to add a resource metadata parser and a matrix of API verifications, raising Android coverage to parity with the XAML version. • Verified web-based data filtering features, and addition of a BI layer to our SQL backend. Empowered managers, vendors and translators around the world to better distribute their work, with permissions-based access to views on a wide variety of statistics, trends, and business metrics. • Generated complex SQL queries to simulate the results processed from regular data warehouse updates, ensuring high confidence in the results displayed on our BI dashboard. • In collaboration with scrum team, developed a tool and test automation for internal source tree analysis, providing key resource metadata to development teams throughout the organization, and enabling refactoring efforts to reduce product footprint and establish a cross-platform build architecture. From January 2013 to November 2014 (1 year 11 months) SDET2: Microsoft Office Click-to-Run virtualized deployment @ Drive testing of key features of v1.0 streaming deployment of Office suite, based on App-V virtualization technology. • Owned licensing configuration for all Office SKUs, testing and automating license-based run-time feature enablement and new Office 365 Subscription features. Worked closely with Windows licensing platform team to verify security and reliability of both front-end and back-end logic. • Solved a compatibility issue between virtualized applications and automation harness, collaborating with developers locally and remotely to design, prototype, develop, and test a reliable solution that enabled over 75% of the total automation suite to complete successfully under Click-to-Run virtualization. • Made innovative use of automation system to quickly update configuration scripts for additional data gathering needed to investigate and fix non-deterministic failures which eluded traditional debugging methods. • Quickly learned to configure and debug web services, testing Disaster Recovery features of new Office365 licensing service, and troubleshooting critical issues in global datacenter synchronization. Drove high quality of reliability, security and performance into the final product. From November 2007 to January 2013 (5 years 3 months) SDET: Microsoft Office Deployment and Engineering @ Serve as test automation expert for the Office Setup and Deployment team. • Designed, developed, and tested an API for automating consumer and enterprise deployment scenarios within a sophisticated test framework, then generated samples, documented best practices, and delivered training sessions to test partners. • Innovated and prototyped core automation management features that pushed the limits of the system. Collaborated with engineering team to integrate the concepts using C#, JavaScript, C/C++, SQL Server, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, CSS, and Perl. • Contributed infrastructure and end-user test components to a release verification system that reduced time-to-market of localized releases of Office by several months. • Peer reviewed code for team automation. From November 2000 to November 2007 (7 years 1 month) SDET: Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology @ Perform manual and automated testing of core features of a v1.0 setup engine based on a SQL relational database. • Contributed innovative tools and test collateral for automation of various features, shipping a product used by virtually every software package installed on Windows since 2000, being the core technology behind InstallShield installations. • Represented the Windows Installer team at the 1998 Professional Developers Conference, interfacing directly with customers from around the world to advertise the product, research customer needs, and elicit feedback. From April 1997 to October 2000 (3 years 7 months) Product Support Engineer @ Provide support to enterprise and consumer end-users nationwide for Microsoft Office and Word Setup / Installation, with friendliness and ensuring complete solutions. • Supported all versions of Microsoft Office on Mac OS 3.0 - 7.5.2, MS-DOS, and Windows 3.1 / 95 / NT 3.51, mentoring peers and handling escalations. Actively investigated new issues, wrote KB (knowledge base) articles for publish to web. • Developed database program for automating process of sending replacement media, and assembled and presented a training series on Visual Basic to help increase technical knowledge across the team. From February 1995 to April 1997 (2 years 3 months) BSME, Engineering @ Santa Clara University From 1987 to 1991 Bellarmine College Preparatory From 1983 to 1987 Rolf Robe is skilled in: Test Automation, C#, Software Engineering, Windows, Software Design, Testing, Software Development, JavaScript, Databases, Active Directory, Visual Basic, VBScript, Perl, Agile Methodologies, SQL