+ Develop test automation for the new MSN.com website. Own automated Functional Test In Production. Develop automated tests for check-in testing and deployment verification testing.+ Lead test efforts (test planning, test case, test environment, execution, defect tracking) and work with project managers and developers in projects’ deliveries.+ Monitor production to pre-alert failures by creating and using monitoring and alarming tools. Gather relevant information from logs and investigate failure causes. Define and collect KPI metrics. Run pre-prod and production performance testing.+ Design and conduct FMEA failure mode testing to proactively prevent failures and reduce failure impacts.+ Perform security testing including threat modeling to eliminate or minimize security risks on msn.com.

+ Led performance engineering team & worked with cross functional teams in web-based application development lifecycles.+ Analyzed system risks: new feature impacts on quality, performance, capacity and resources.+ Created test plan, designed test method, developed test procedures.+ Automated test data generation, execution and reporting that reduced test cycle time by 45%.+ Led application verification: created test plan, designed test method, developed test procedures.+ Identified performance bottleneck and worked with cross functional teams to enhance under-performed components to ensure released products met or exceeded service levels.+ Optimized patient data processing system that reduced system downtime by 90%.+ Planed, designed and executed various performance testing including single transaction, load, stress and target testing.+ Modeled and generated demand projections, performed capacity planning & testing to ensure right sizing and meeting growing user demand with minimum necessary resources.+ Designed performance test infrastructures for US and EU data centers that provide effective and concurrent testing.

+ Evaluated and customized automated performance testing and monitoring tools.+ Developed and executed test plans and test cases, Designed test methods and automated test tools.+ Initiated real-world test design that provided more realistic and predictable testing.+ Defined performance monitoring needs and developed monitoring methods and tools.+ Led production virtualization proof of concept project that validated the concept and provided virtualization configurations. Led performance testing on data center virtualization project. This project reduced hardware (servers) by 40%.

+ Developed automated testing programs for NetBackup on both Unix and Windows systems including design, implementation and testing, significantly improved test efficiency.+ Designed and performed software verification and validation on new features. Reviewed requirements, created test plans, designed and wrote test cases, and executed testing.+ Led and conducted performance analyses and tuning on a disk storage software component. Coordinated performance testing efforts between two companies (Veritas and Network Appliance).+ Conducted runtime error analyses with Purify and performed code coverage measurements with PureCoverage, providing memory leak detection and test coverage metrics.+ Evaluated and implemented a unit test tool (C++Test) for development teams. This helped developers identify issues early in the development cycle

+ Custom developed Cisco’s network Unified Communications system.+ Implemented and maintained CVS revision control system for the code development.+ Consulted and deployed Cisco IP Call Center solutions. Integrated, configured, scripted and trouble shot IPCC components: ICM, IP IVR, Call Manager and CTI.

+ Developed features for an object-oriented medical application.+ Optimized software application, increasing the application's performance by over 40%.+ Authored and maintained design documents for internal development and FDA auditing.+ Established a performance analysis procedure including standards and policies. Developed a measurement tool to monitor application’s performance. This ensured application met performance requirement.+ Developed and maintained the configuration management and build system, providing successful code testing and integration.+ Developed and maintained a Unix database and related APIs for patient and clinical study data.+ Performed software verification and validation: writing test plans, coding test cases, executing regression tests, integration tests and system tests, reporting and tracking bugs.