Mary Bennett

Automation Architect

2017 - 2024

Engineering Manager, Software Development Engineers in Test (SDET)

2011 - 2016

Individual contributor testing Advertising Software System at start promoted to Engineering Management in 2012.

Sr Manager, QA

2010 - 2011

Engineering Manager/Principal Engineer

2007 - 2010

First in QA. Wrote testing tools in Python. Defined test methodology and process. Wrote test plans and managed Development team as volunteer testers to execute against the plan. Became Blackwave, Inc and was promoted to Engineering Manager. Grew dedicated team of 5 software developers in test.

Sr. QA Engineer

2006 - 2007

QA lead for remote replication feature. Wrote test strategy, test plan and designed test cases. Automated test suites in Python. Drove down bug verification backlog. Worked on inter-departmental process. Started as Archivas and bought by Hitachi.

Contract QA Engineer

2005 - 2006

Write and execute Test Procedures for Course Authoring system (UCDE). Mentor other QA engineers. Review Test Procedures. Analyze and optimize process.

Software Developer

2004 - 2005

Built tools for electronic publishing using Linux, Apache, MySQL, modperl, PHP and XML

Software Engineer

2001 - 2003

Software Engineer in IT Development group. Developed functions for the small-medium size HP Customer portal. Developed portal authentication and login facility. Initiated QA in the IT group. Defined process and methodology. Developed test plan and most test cases required. Transferred QA responsibilty to French Team. Coded in Java, used Netegrity Siteminder for authentication and login.

Quality Engineering Manager

1998 - 1999

QA Manager for Clearcase and the Clear* family of products. People management as well as project management.

R&D Manager

1994 - 1998

Lead advanced development team providing prototype integrations of HP Security Technology (smart-cards, Web security, Enterprise File System (EFS), OpenPix) applied to solve Financial and Telecom industry customer problems; Lead Consolidated User Administration strategy; Define and deliver the initial architecture and framework for a heterogeneous security management product providing single point of management capability across HP and 3rd party security products; Manage 17 engineers working across 6 projects; Manage advanced development projects and key customer relationships.; Member of HP-wide Security program-management team.

Software Engineer

1989 - 1994

Distributed Security Technology developer. Tech lead and architect for the Apollo Network Licensing system. C/Unix based distributed system built on top of the Apollo Network Computing System. Led technical defense of architecture and implementation resulting in selection as the standard licensing component for the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Management Environment. Developed security components including Auditing sub-system and Extended Registry Attributes.