SUMMARY

• Experienced information technology professional with expertise in performance and functional testing, test data management, implementation of QA Center of Excellence, project management, enterprise architecture, application development, business process analysis, systems integration, and multiple platform systems development.
• Strengths include strong customer focus, creativity, leadership, and a quick understanding of business needs.
• Proficient in the development of Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Data, Test Cases and Test Reports.
• Successfully managed consultants and delivered projects, which were on time and on budget to numerous Fortune 100 clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Access, Adobe Acrobat Writer, BitBucket, Confluence, Excel, git, Grafana, Graphite, HP Performance Center, HP Quality Center/ALM, StormRunner Load, Jenkins, Jira, jMeter, LoadRunner Analysis, LoadRunner Vugen, MS Project, NodeJS, PostMan, PowerPoint, Python 3, Selenium, SharePoint, Sikuli, SoapUI, Sublime Text, TextPad, Visio, Visual Studio Code, Word

Operating Systems: CentOS 5, CentOS 7, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, RHEL, Suse Linux, Android

Packages: HP LoadRunner (Certified), HP Performance Center, StormRunner Load, DataDog, SumoLogic, AppDynamics

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Microsoft Access

Languages: Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, VB script, Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed performance test scenarios based upon observed application usage. Worked with product owners to determine how their end users used the application.
• Utilized application usage monitoring to identify trends in application usage that should be reflected in the performance test scenarios.
• Designed and coordinated the construction of API based performance tests which are used as a deployment regression performance test used by individual teams when they deploy their contributions.
• Designed and applied a test data management process to give the right amount of test data for the performance test campaign.
• Collaborated with Product Owners, Devops and Developers to implement a performance dashboard to show performance test results and real world performance of the application.
• Integrated performance testing into a Scrum/Agile development environment.
• Integrated the performance test suite into the continuous integration/continuous deployment product release cycle.
• Updated Performance Test Automation Standards and Policies.
• Collaborated in the modification of existing testing environments - functional, UAT and performance to reflect portions of the Production environment.

Confidential

Application Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the performance engineering of four applications, three J2EE 3 tiered web applications, and an AWS based multiple tenant application with CI/CD.
• Implemented application usage monitoring program for use in the building of appropriate performance testing scenarios.
• Developed performance test scenarios based upon observed application usage. Interviewed customers to determine how their end users used the application.
• Designed and implemented a synthetic test data generator to provide realistic synthetic test data to be used in support of the type of performance testing to be conducted.
• Designed and applied a test data management process to give the right amount of test data for the performance test campaign.
• Designed and Implemented a Performance Test Environment which supported AWS based Multi-Tenancy in a CI/CD environment.
• Lead performance testing projects using HP Performance Center protocols employed - Web/HTTP, TruClient, Webservice (SOAP, JSON), RTE (RDP).
• Collaborated with Information Security and Data Owners for the creation of the Sensitive Data Controls to be used in the non-production performance environment.
• Supervised offshore Performance Testing staff in the conduct of performance test preparation and execution.
• Collaborated with Product Owners, Devops and Developers to implement a performance dashboard to show performance test results and real world performance of the application.
• Integrated performance testing into a Scrum/Agile development environment.
• Integrated the performance test suite into the continuous integration/continuous deployment product release cycle of a subscription based multiple tenant cloud application.
• Collaborated with the Product Owners to develop performance-based non-functional requirements for each of the applications within the product portfolio.

Confidential

Test Data Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented a Test Data Provisioning system to provide the proper amount of desensitized test data to be used in support of the type of testing to be conducted
• Designed and implemented a Test Data Management system with processes to provide the right amount of data for the test campaign. Used MS Project to manage project.
• Collaborated with Project Management Office to incorporate Test Data practice methodologies into the SDLC.
• Collaborated with Information Security and Data Owners for the creation of the Sensitive Data Controls to be used in the non-production environment.
• Implemented Industry best practices with regards to the desensitization and deployment of sensitive data in non-Production environments.
• Supervised Data Protection staff in the conduct of data protection and deployment of data to non-production environments.

Confidential

Senior Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects across various functional areas.
• Lead performance testing projects using HP Performance Center or LoadRunner, protocols employed - Web/HTTP, Click and Script, TruClient, Webservice (SOAP, JSON), RTE(Citrix, Telnet and TN3270).
• Worked with stakeholders to design and implement performance testing strategies to confirm the capability and capacity of an application system to meet current and future transactional load.
• Implemented a uniform test result and defect reporting mechanism for functional and performance testing.
• Involved in architecture analysis and design of various applications and suggested design recommendations to enhance functionality and performance.
• Reviewed application traffic data to design functional and performance tests which accurately reflect real world usage of the application and its related growth.
• Collaborated with PMO, Information Security and Data Owners to improve and optimize Quality Assurance processes.
• Designed, Published and Implemented a Roadmap to create a Software Quality Assurance Center of Excellence covering standards and policies to achieve high quality applications and processes.
• Designed and specified data management solutions strategies for test environments. Data masking, data extraction and data restoration.
• Designed and implemented automated and manual test strategies to confirm application functionality.
• Created Test Automation Standards and Policies.
• Reviewed functional and design specifications and developed test strategies across multiple clients and projects. These included Performance and Functional testing.
• Using agreed upon standard templates, wrote detailed test plans, test cases, and test reports across multiple clients and projects.
• Published Quality Metrics for Management and Project Reporting.
• Designed models of test environments for comparison to production environments.
• Lead a team in conducting an Infrastructure survey for a national manufacturing firm and provided expert solutions on re-engineering.
• Responsible for the creation of testing environments - functional, UAT and performance.
• Assisted the client in locating and identifying performance bottlenecks within the application and backend systems. These bottlenecks were code and configuration related.
• Designed and implemented a performance testing strategy to confirm the installation of an inbound and outbound software based faxing system. Worked with an outside vendor to send and receive faxes on their equipment.
• Identified poorly configured systems such as load balancing appliances, database connections, database indexes etc. which resulted in better application performance.
• Mentored client in the building of a properly size performance test system and database. This allowed successive releases to be functional and performance tested to determine if the performance had improved or degraded.
• Reviewed client performance test processes with an eye to improving the process for repeatability of performance test and improved quality of release.