PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

IT professional who is an accomplished Information Systems Consultant with over sixteen years of experience in systems integration & performance test engineering. Proven skills in integrating several large - scale projects within various industries (financial, energy, telecom, & manufacturing). Has extensive experience with automated & performance testing tools and a good knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: UNIX, Linux, Windows, & OS-X

Automation: Python, Unix Shell Scripting, PHP, Perl

Database: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, ADABAS

Monitoring Tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics

Languages: C, C++, Java, XML, Python, SQL, TSL, SQA Basic

Other: UML, OOP, SAP (GUI & Web), WebSphere, WebLogic, IIS 6.0, Mercury Suite, & Rational Suite, Informatica, CA/ITKO Lisa, BlueZone

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Performance & Automation Lead, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Monitor application environment using application monitoring tools to identify and resolve performance issues.
• Work with applications teams in diagnosing and designing tests to stress high volume applications.
• Responsible for creating & reviewing scripts within various protocols (Web HTTP/HTML, SAP, TruClient, RDP, JAVA, HTTP, AJAX, Web Services & Client/Server).
• Performance Analysis of .NET, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX servers and DB servers (Oracle, SQL Server)
• Create & analyze system testing requirements for test purposes and create test plan documentation.
• Training and troubleshooting test tools with HP, AppDynamics, & Dyantrace development and support teams.

Environment: Windows 7, Cygwin, Beyond Compare, Performance Center 12.20, Unified Functional Test 12.02, vSphere 6.0, DynaTrace 6.3, AppDynamics 4.3, SiteScope, Performance Manager

Confidential

Test Data Coordinator, Madison, WI

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and coordinating legacy test data migration within the various legacy regions.
• Responsible for project planning and coordination of resources between various application groups.
• Support testing & development projects within the organization by creating and seeding data.
• Troubleshoot issues with legacy data and work with application teams to resolve issues.
• Work with application teams to create auto, property, umbrella, & commercial data listings.
• Responsible for disguising production data using Informatica before data migration to test regions.
• Coordinate Initial Data Load ( Confidential ) runs to sync customer data with billing and customer portfolio.
• Help debug & fix production issues by moving data between production and test regions.
• In corporate new applications to the test data coordination effort to support testing and development needs within the organization.
• Involved in several test data process improvements and problem resolutions.
• Use Confidential to automate data creation process and also to virtualize services within testing.
• Setup projects to help drive new development into copying production size databases to test regions.

Environment: Windows XP/7, Informatica 8.5, CA Lisa7, WinSQL, SQL Developer, Toad, Cygwin, Beyond Compare, BlueZone, DB2, Oracle, ADABAS

Confidential

Sr. Performance Lead, Lincoln, RI

Responsibilities:

• Creating of performance test plan and multi-protocol (HTTP/Web Services/ODBC) load scripts.
• Responsible for test data creation and seeding.
• Performance Analysis of WebLogic & Apache Tomcat servers.
• Application monitoring for memory leaks, processor & I/O utilization, page faults, & network statistics.
• Work with SME’s to understand process flow for various business transactions being automated.
• Presentation & Analysis of various load test results to senior management.
• Rational ClearQuest used for documentation & defect tracking.
• Conduct daily meetings to complete work on time.

Environment: Windows XP/Vista, Rational ClearQuest, LoadRunner 11.0, QMF 9.1

Confidential

Sr. Test Lead, Warren, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Setup process to handle delivery and testing of production tickets
• Responsible for testing and timely delivery of production fixes
• Responsible for test documentation creation, execution and reporting for the business transactions involved
• Creation of various standards to manage and report the work between offshore and onshore teams
• Running Ab Initio jobs to ensure that files from various components in OPTIMA are processed successfully
• Setup jobs to be process inbound and outbound files
• Worked extensively on the adjustments application within the OPTIMA framework.
• Work with business teams to understand process flow for various business transactions being automated
• Presentation & Analysis of various test results to senior management
• QC used for documentation & defect tracking
• Conduct daily meeting to complete work on time
• Production support and functionality testing for various OPTIMA modules
• Manage offshore teams for 24 x 7 client test support needs
• Worked with load testing team to automate business functionality for load testing of WebSphere environment

Environment: Windows XP/Vista, QC 10.0, COGNOS, PeopleSoft, Oracle, SQL Developer, Ab Initio Processing

Confidential

Sr. Automation Lead, Warren, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for test documentation creation, execution and reporting for the business transactions involved
• Creation of various standards to manage and report the work
• Data driven tests are used to validate various test scenarios and processes
• Work with business teams to understand process flow for various business transactions being automated
• Created test documentation for QC upload
• Presentation & Analysis of various test results to senior management
• QC used for documentation & defect tracking
• Conduct daily meeting to complete work on time
• Automate business functionality using QTP
• Develop framework to automate Confidential functionality

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, QC 9.2, COGNOS, PeopleSoft, Oracle, SQL Developer

Confidential

Automation Lead, Long Island City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for test documentation creation, execution and reporting for the online Confidential transactions
• Data driven tests were used to validate various test scenarios
• Worked with business teams to understand process flow for various business transactions being automated
• Created test documentation for QC upload
• Presentation & Analysis of various test results to senior management
• QC used for documentation & defect tracking
• Conduct daily meeting to complete work on time
• Work with business stake holders in resolving issues to get through UAT
• Automate business functionality using QTP
• Develop framework to automate SNC functionality

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, QC 9.2, COGNOS, PeopleSoft, Oracle, SQL Developer

Confidential

Performance Lead, San Dimas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for test documentation creation, execution and reporting for the online Confidential transactions
• Creation of DataQuery statements to extract data from database and also involved in data cleanup for testing purposes
• Data driven tests were used to validate various test scenarios
• Worked with business teams to understand process flow for various business transactions being automated
• Performance Analysis of WebLogic servers and enterprise portal servers.
• Presentation & Analysis of various load and regression test to senior management
• Create Proof of Concept (POC)/framework for various proposals
• TestDirector used for documentation & defect tracking
• Application monitoring for memory leaks, processor & I/O utilization, page faults, & network statistics

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, LoadRunner 8.2, Confidential 3.1, CA-Datacom, IBM-DB2

Confidential

Performance Test Lead, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Setup test environment for various testing teams for conduction performance and regression testing.
• Technology used was Mercury Suite (Performance Center, Quality Center, WinRunner, LoadRunner, SiteScope, TestDirector, & IT Governance)
• Responsible for creating & reviewing performance scripts for various protocols (SAP, CITRIX, JAVA, HTTP, ODBC, & Client/Server)
• Performance Analysis of WebLogic servers and enterprise portal servers
• Create & analyze system testing requirements for test purposes
• Training and troubleshooting for offshore teams done using WebEx
• Responsible for creating gold image copies of test hardware and imaging of test systems using Altiris jobs

Environment: Windows NT 4.0/2000/2003 , UNIX, Oracle, HTML, Java, JSP, JDBC, WebLogic, LoadRunner 8.1, WinRunner 8.1, TestDirector 8.0, QTP, Test Center 7.8, Performance Center 8.1, Quality Center 8.1, I.T Governance/Mercury Project and Portfolio Management Center 7.0

Confidential

Performance Test Lead, Basking Ridge, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Load and Stress testing were done using the Mercury LoadRunner tool.
• Shell scripts were used to run batch jobs for completing various processes used as inputs to other processes.
• Involved with performance tuning and optimization techniques based on server utilization charts.
• TestDirector used for documentation & defect tracking
• Application monitoring for memory leaks, processor & I/O utilization, page faults, & network statistics

Environment: LoadRunner 8.0, WinRunner 8.0, TestDirector 8.0, HP-UNIX, Oracle, WebLogic, & Shell Scripts