Dan Webster has over 30 years of experience in software quality assurance, with a focus on testing complex applications on various operating systems. He is proficient in many programming languages, testing tools, and databases. His previous role was as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Mentor Graphics, where he developed and executed test plans, implemented automated testing, and ensured quality goals were met for several projects. He has extensive leadership experience managing teams and transitioning projects.

1. Dan Webster
Greater Portland, Oregon Area
503-591-5893 (H) 971-221-4994 (C)
dan.s.webster@comcast.net
http://www.linkedin.com/in/danswebster
Software Quality Assurance
Extensive experience in software development life cycle with a focus on quality. Experience
designing, implementing, and executing manual and automated test suites for complex
graphical user interfaces and application functionality on UNIX, Linux, and PC platforms.
Demonstrated ability to join new projects and quickly learn the skills needed to produce results.
Technical Skills
Programming Languages: Shell Scripts, AMPLE, C, Pascal, FORTRAN, OCCAM
Experience with Languages: C++, Java, Learning Python and C#
Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, IBM, Sony, NEC, Apollo,
VAX/VMS
Development Tools: ClearQuest, Scopus, MS Project, CVS, RCS,
MatrixOne/DesignSync, ClioSoft/SOS, Subversion
Testing Tools: SilkTest, Squish, KD Executor, Mentor Graphics Proprietary
Database: MySQL
Other Skills: Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Inspection Moderator, ISO 9001 Internal Auditor
Professional Experience
MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION, Wilsonville, OR
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Custom IC Design (2002-2011)
 Group consists of 60 engineers in R&D distributed between Wilsonville and other US
locations, Grenoble, Cairo, and Armenia.
 Responsible for running, reporting, and adding new tests to regression suites for the
following types of applications: design management, netlisting, schematic capture and
simulation, and hardware language modeling.
 Team won the Corporate Quality Improvement award for delivering quality new products
and updates as voted by annual customer satisfaction survey.
 Member of technology team that developed new design management application; provided
interactive and automated testing against requirements and engineering specifications.
 Installed and maintained Revision Control tools from ClioSoft and MatrixOne; testing their
integration with Design Manager; recently tested with Subversion.
 Primary interface to the Analog/Mixed Signal group in France, install and maintain alpha,
beta, and customer releases, reporting integration problems to both teams.
 Managed CICD regression test source in CVS, providing procedural description on the
group wiki for creating individual work areas for specific release tags.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Software Product Solutions (2000-2002)
 Defined quality goals for new waveform view (EZwave) in quality plan; wrote and executed
test plan for EZwave.

2.  Evaluated and recommended automated testing tool SilkTest for the Java-based EZwave
waveform viewer; implemented test suite using SilkTest.
 Mentored two college Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program (MECOP) interns.
 Presented CMMI description to company-wide forum that discussed quality assurance and
testing issues.
 Directed usability testing for new waveform GUI using scripted tasks and videotaped
sessions for evaluation of difficulties and new features.
 Collaborated with developers in a rapid turnaround development-test cycle for new features
in waveform viewer GUI.
 Reported and tracked hundreds of defect reports and enhancement requests to meet
release goals; customer/client reported defects account for small percentage.
Project Lead / Lead Quality Assurance Engineer, Digital Simulation (1998-2000)
 Lead transition of all digital simulation development responsibilities to the Cairo, Egypt
office to meet Corporate Strategic Objectives.
 Wrote and executed transition plan for all quality assurance and testing responsibilities to
the Cairo, Egypt office.
 Trained new engineers in Product Life Cycle documentation, Defect Tracking procedures,
and using internal test harness for running, analyzing, and reporting regression tests.
 Transitioned Library Management System (LMS) from Singapore to Wilsonville; applied bug
fixes to existing test suite.
 Qualified the port of the digital simulation tool suite from UNIX to the Windows environment.
Quality Assurance Engineer, Digital Simulation (1994-1997)
 Wrote and executed the quality and test plans for the release of a new product of dual-
kernel simulator for VHDL with two simulators, one for digital designs and one for mixed-
signal designs.
 Lead effort to reduce customer reported defect backlog by automating reports to
management and engineering which resulted in exceeding the goal by 40%.
 Served as internal secondary auditor for in-house ISO 9001 audit resulting in report of non-
compliance to documented processes.
 Moderated documentation inspections within Mentor Graphics that resulted in a reduced
number of incorrect assumptions, missing information, and errors early in the production
cycle.
Quality Assurance Engineer, (Synthesis, PTD, CASE) (1988-1994)
 Developed automated regression suite for a graphical user interface that conformed to
divisional standards to support multi-team ease of use; based on Mentor Graphics virtual
device driver and Mentor’s AMPLE language.
 Participated in requirements gathering for product and testability specifications.
 Wrote high-level quality plans followed by a more specific test plans detailing tasks to
increase function coverage and verify new functionality.
 Analyzed and corrected reported problems with the user interface source code which
allowed the other team members to focus on developing new functionality.
 Analyzed, classified, and reported regression suite results for a simulation graphical user
interface on ported platforms including Sun, HP, Sony, and NEC.
Education
Master of Software Engineering - Oregon Graduate Institute, Hillsboro, OR. (OMSE)
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science - Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
Bachelor of Science, Forest Management - Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
Bachelor of Science, Range Management - Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
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