DIANA ESCOBAR-PAZO

Deltona, FL 32738
(407)556-7114 | descobarpazo@yahoo.com

SUMMARY

I am a natural at negative testing applications, tools, and just about anything to find out how things work. This has made it easy for
me to work in Quality Assurance but want to apply that enthusiasm into the Penetration Testing and or the Digital Forensics field.

SKILLS
Education Cyber Security, Digital Forensics, Incident Response and Investigation, CIA Triad, Information Systems Security,
Network Security, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Administration, Data & Risk Analysis
Employment Software Quality Assurance experience with Information Security and Engineering internships

Personal Fully Bilingual (English/Spanish), Fast Learner, Team Leader, Teamwork, Collaborator, Critical Thinker, Flexible,
Negative Tester, Analytical, Responsible, Strive To Exceed Expectations, Organized, Detail Oriented, Proactive,
Innovative, excellent written and verbal communication, great listener, Gamer (PC and console, PlayStation)
Coding Microsoft VBScript, C, C++, JAVA, JavaScript, Bash, Python, Batch, DXL, Assembly, VHDL, SQL Server, GIT
Applications HP QC ALM, QTP, UFT, Selenium, JIRA, VMWare, Kali Linux, Metasploit, Archer, ArcSight Logger, SMP, Verizon
Wireshark, Burp Suite, Splunk, NMAP, FTK, EnCase, Stealthwatch, TrafficWatch, Python, MS Office, Linux/Unix
OS, Windows OS, Visio, DOORS, Role Administration Tools, PowerShell, Remote Server Admin Tools
Regulations NIST, SANS, COBIT, PCI, ISO, SOX, DAST, SAST, CVSS

EXPERIENCE

Information Security Tester, January 2022 – Present Career Break

 Hands on experience conducting Web Application Security scans, Ethical Hacking using commercial and non-commercial
applications/methodologies on networks, operating systems, databases, and applications
 Collaborate in building, troubleshooting, and deploying web services—like AWS
 Assess and calculate risk based on threats, vulnerabilities, and shortfalls uncovered during testing
 Engage in threat hunting activities to proactively search for threats

Lead Quality Assurance Testing Analyst, January 2012 – January 2022 Pershing LLC, a BNY Mellon Company in Lake Mary, FL
 Developed tools and processes to improve and automate manual procedures that increase team and management
efficiency
 Tested new and existing functionalities on front-end and back-end, with SQL, provided analysis, suggested and delivered
improvements, troubleshoot, and offered first through third tier incident support in waterfall or agile SDLC projects for
automated testing, integration, functional, web service testing, regression, end-to-end, smoke, and performance testing
 Wrote test estimates, testing schedules, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, master test strategy, and
automation scripts for validating UI, API, or Web testing in the QA, UAT, XAT, Prod environments, and PQ, for iPad/Mobile,
desktop/laptop, and Adaptive devices after providing feedback during requirements’ reviews, test analysis, and test design
 Yearly, created over 500 defects, added and tracked over 20 projects as administrator, ran daily UFT automation scripts,
added 600+ test cases, test scenarios, imported test cases, exported reports, and ran service virtualization through HP ALM
 Supervised project defects submitted by internal or external clients, debugged to find the root cause, validated resolved
defects in all test regions prior to delivery into the Production region, where I would test again before closing them
 Assisted the development team with code debugging, code modification, and code fixes for security threats and new code

Cyber Security and Incident Response Intern, July 2013 – December 2016 Pershing, LLC in Lake Mary, FL
 Assessed servers for specific process to port mappings
 Identified and resolved false-positive threats from traffic log analysis
 Monitored SIEM access management security events and alerts of terminated users and misuse of credentials
 Performed companywide traffic data mining intelligence to augment detection and response capabilities
 Manipulated data with regular expressions for Vulnerability Management reporting and discovery

EDUCATION
University of Central Florida
Masters of Science in Digital Forensics, December 2013
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering with minor in Secure Computing and Networking, December 2011
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, December 2011