SUMMARY:

Contribute my knowledge in Quality Assurance, Configuration Management and Performance Testing for the successful implementation of related software products and services.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Senior Performance Test Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Independent Performance verification team, daily duties on the CMS Marketplace project included testing REST API’s as well as UI and Batch processes. The project was run in Agile and took part in daily scrums as well as Iteration planning. MIRO cards were used to create tickets that were eventually put into JIRA and monitored in Confluence.
• To test the REST API and UI, the scripts were written in both JMeter as well as LoadRunner. Was responsible for creating and maintaining scripts as well as creating load models as well as the creation and maintance of the test data.
• To test the Batch processing, I was responsible for designing SQL scripts to create the test data, as well as working with the client to create the correct load model for the test data.
• Responsible for creating all test plans as well as producing Test Summary Reports for test engagements that would be reported to the client and upper management.
• Splunk and NewRelic were used to deep dive and help find the root cause on performance bottlenecks. Wrote Splunk queries to find any possible data patterns from the production data that could be included in the next performance test iteration.
• Also worked with development performance engineering team to help test prototypes as well as regression test any defects.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Senior Performance Test Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Daily duties included writing Web Service scripts in Load Runner to test the Partner Interfaces for Confidential SAP implementation.
• Responsibilities included monitoring, creating and reporting to upper management on individual tests.
• Tests were executed in both Performance Center as well as Loadrunner.
• Version 12 was used. Participated in presentations as well as meeting with senior leadership from both the client and Confidential .
• Created reports, coordinated back ups and restores for the test environment as well as patches and upgrades to SAP.
• Ensured all team members were updated and informed of progress.
• Created final reports for distribution to the client on the test results as well as the methodology for the testing.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Senior Performance Engineering Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Daily Responsibilities included traveling to client sights and setting up Performance testing environments.
• Tool used was Loadrunner 11. I set up the performance center environment, and wrote and executed Loadrunner test scripts against the upgraded PeopleSoft Application.
• Responsible for setting up the performance test environment as well as test scripts for the state of Ohio PeopleSoft upgrade from version 7.0 to 8.1.
• Tools used were Rational Load test, as well as Quest Spotlight for monitoring.
• Responsible for creating Performance test plan, and methodology for MCP project.
• Responsible for setting up the testing harness using Confidential Visual Studio.
• Test scripts were written in VSTS 2013 using C#. Monitoring was done using Dynatrace.
• Responsible for creating Performance test plan, and methodology, helped design the load test environment as well as set up the testing harness, and monitoring.
• Responsible for creating custom dashboards as well as instrumentation using Dynatrace.

Confidential, Frendship Heights, MD

Responsibilities:

• Performance and Profiling tests. Executed load test cases written in C# in Visual Studio Test Suite to directly access client’s API.
• Also wrote custom scripts in Quick Test Professional to capture actual end user response time.
• When a bottleneck was found I profiled the C# source code using the RedGate Ants profiler for .NET, and proposed solution to bottleneck.
• I was also responsible for setting up and maintaining several scalability databases that were created in SQL server 2008.
• The database size ranged from 1 Petabyte to 500 GB.
• During the scalability testing I was responsible for tuning SQL, making recommendations to SQL server configurations as well as modifying and setting up hardware for both app servers and data servers.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for writing and publishing performance testing methodology for Confidential .
• Documents Written were Application Test Strategy, Performance Test Strategy, Defect Lifecycle, Entrance and Exit Criteria as well as Test Case Creation Process.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Performance Engineering Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Daily duties included working with the client to set up a testing methodology as well as writing and executing both Loadrunner and Quick Test Professional automated test scripts.
• I was responsible for setting up the Quality Center database for test script storage, traceability and custom reporting for the project management team.
• I created and modified all loadrunner scripts in version 9.0 using the Virtual User Generator as well as helped the automation team with end user testing in Quick Test Professional V9.1.
• During this testing the following protocols were utilized, Web, Seibel, and WinSock.
• I was responsible for modification and maintenance on all test scripts. The operating system for this project was OS/390.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Senior Performance Engineering Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Daily duties as a member of the performance team included creation of test cases, test scripts and test plans for a multi - tier application.
• Test scripts were written in loadrunner 8.0 using the Virtual User Generator, and were created using the web protocol as well as Seibel and Custom.
• I was responsible for creating the driving scripts as well as the test scripts that executed the test cases.
• These scripts involved extensive modification and were not simply record and playback. I was also responsible for working directly with the development team to come up with the correct parameters for the test scripts and test plans since there was no Business Analyst on this project.
• During the performance testing I was also responsible for monitoring the AUT as well as the hardware and reporting the metrics gathered.