Ry Jones

Ry Jones

White-glove QA

Greater Seattle Area

Current
  • Senior Test Engineer at n-Link.net
  • Volunteer at Distributed.Net
Past
  • Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft
  • Software Development Engineer at WSU
  • Security Consultant / Service Developer at Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
  • Software Development Engineer in Test at Chromium Communications
  • Software Test Engineer at Sun Microsystems
  • Software Test Engineer at Spyrus
  • Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft
  • Software Development Engineer in Test at Appliant
  • Software Development Engineer in Test at Sun Microsystems
  • Test Lead at McCaw Cellular
  • SQL & C at ICTT
Education
  • Indiana State University
Connections
168 connections
Industry
Telecommunications

Ry Jones’s Summary

15+ years industry experience in many roles - software testing, development, estimation, and project management.

Ry Jones’s Specialties:

Software testing, specification writing


Ry Jones’s Experience

  • Senior Test Engineer

    n-Link.net

    (Hospital & Health Care industry)

    May 2009Present (7 months)

    Implementing browser automation using WatiN for unit and stress tests.

  • Volunteer

    Distributed.Net

    (Telecommunications industry)

    January 2002Present (7 years 11 months)

    Providing email support responses.

  • SDET II

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    March 2008March 2009 (1 year 1 month)

    SDET on http://exp-platform.com; customer support for Microsoft's MVT platform.

  • Test Lead

    Zumobi

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    September 2007January 2008 (5 months)

    Lead client test for Zumobi's platform for mobile phones.

  • Software Development Engineer

    ZenZui

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    August 2007September 2007 (2 months)

  • Software Development Engineer II

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    March 2005August 2007 (2 years 6 months)

    Owned testing for the SMS gateway for MSN Mobile; tested with carrier partners, including Orange, Verizon, AT&T, and Docomo.

  • Software Development Engineer

    WSU

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; E-Learning industry)

    April 2003March 2005 (2 years )

  • Security Consultant / Service Developer

    Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

    August 2001April 2002 (9 months)

  • Software Development Engineer in Test

    Chromium Communications

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 2000April 2001 (8 months)

  • Software Test Engineer

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; JAVA; Computer & Network Security industry)

    November 1999August 2000 (10 months)

  • Software Test Engineer

    Spyrus

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

    March 1999October 1999 (8 months)

  • Software Development Engineer in Test

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer & Network Security industry)

    May 1998August 1998 (4 months)

  • Software Development Engineer in Test

    Appliant

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Security and Investigations industry)

    December 1997April 1998 (5 months)

  • Software Development Engineer in Test

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; JAVA; Computer & Network Security industry)

    April 1997November 1997 (8 months)

  • Test Lead

    McCaw Cellular

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    19931994 (1 year )

  • SQL & C

    ICTT

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    August 1986November 1989 (3 years 4 months)

    My first non-construction job; part-time during high school. I developed C front ends using curses to Informix SQL databases.


Ry Jones’s Education

  • Indiana State University

    19891991


Additional Information

Ry Jones’s Groups:

DCTI, Seattle Wireless, Boomershoot

  •    Microsoft Alumni Network
  •    SeattleWireless

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