Mike Breen Email & Phone Number

Nashua, NH, US

Westford, Massachusetts, United States

• Lead engineer of a four-engineer “pod”. Supervise in-house and remote off-short teams through product release cycles. Collaborate with management and development on testing strategy for various features of emergency.
• Contribute to various scrum teams working on different projects and features – front end, back end, new and legacy features, etc.
• Contribute to test automation framework built on Selenium and Java. Designed automated testing for new product.
• Assist customer support when key issues arose in the field
• Work with developers in testing new code before it was incorporated into the product
• Take a lead role to insure product updates are thoroughly tested to insure high quality

Hudson, New Hampshire, United States

• Lead performance testing and load testing effort of cloud environment against hosted applications in both real-world and simulated environments. Automated testing by building up C# script library and framework.
• Design performance tests that insure products are performing at peak efficiancy
• Run performance tests on resource-dependant tax and financial applications
• Design and run load testing scenarios and workflows that can be run at scale to ascertain how many simultaneous logins can be reasonably supported before a customer would notice a performance drop-off
• Work with operations in testing deployments before hosting it in the Right Networks environment
• Building performance test automation framework using the C# language

Bedford, MA

• Supervise in house and remote off-shore teams through product release cycles. Communicate and plan team strategy with management and development. · Contribute to various different scrum teams working in very different.
• Feature test industry standard network management software system
• Design performance tests that insure product is performing at peak efficiancy
• Run performance tests on resource-dependant network discovery module
• Deploy networking scenarios of varying complexity in order to leverage performance data with real-world situations
• Work with developers in testing new code before it was incorporated into the product

Burlington, MA

Supervise in house and remote off-shore teams through product release cycles. Communicate and plan team strategy with management and development. In addition to previous job duties, perform the following:· Contribute to various different scrum teams working in very different areas of the product – front-end, back-end, deployment, etc.· Contribute to test.

Burlington, Massachusetts

• Test network management software in both real-world and simulated environments. Lead performance testing effort on network management product. Automated testing utilizing and adding to existing Selenium Java framework.
• Feature test industry standard network management software system
• Design performance tests that insure product is performing at peak efficiancy
• Run performance tests on resource-dependant network discovery module
• Deploy networking scenarios of varying complexity in order to leverage performance data with real-world situations
• Work with developers in testing new code before it was incorporated into the product

Manchester, New Hampshire

• Tested a wide variety of websites and web-based applications. Designed and implemented test scenarios. Designed, introduced, and implemented QA process departmentally and company wide
• Developed QA process for engineering department which was implemented and deployed company-wide
• Defined test case parameters and developed test cases for a variety of websites utilizing many different Content Management Systems
• Ran manual test cases designed to be both a check list for standard website design as well as test customized features
• Ran load test scenarios for larger heavy traffic websites using Apache jMeterReported results of testing and any bugs discovered using a variety of different reporting tools
• Worked with developers in testing new code before it was deployed to staging and customer websites

Nashua, NH

• Tested web authoring and content management solution. Designed and implemented test environments and scenarios.
• Defined test case parameters and developed test cases for Ektron CMS software solution
• Ran manual test cases during Agile / Scrum sprints and development cycles
• Ran demonstrations at the end of sprints to show stakeholders and product management new work as it was being developed
• Reported results of testing and any bugs discovered in Microsoft TFS
• Worked with developers in testing new code before it was incorporated into the product

Wilmington, MA

IT Support to twenty-person Industrial Engineering department, and 80 remote locations* Support software and hardware for Engineering staff, including configuration of laptops, Lotus Notes, and industrial applications* Configure, deploy, and administer Windows 2003 and 2008 database servers* Research and purchase equipment for Engineers and remote.

• Tested various video conferencing protocols in existing and newly developed software. Designed and implemented server-based test environment.
• Tested video conferencing solution in a system-level environment
• Tested audio and video conferencing protocols including SIP, H.323
• Deployed and configured Microsoft Active Directory domain – including DNS, DHCP, Office Communication Server, Exchange server, Certificate services - for real-world testing environment
• Smoke-tested product as new builds became available
• Wrote and developed test plans for various aspects of video conferencing software before and during development cycle

• Provided technical expertise and support to large civil engineering firm in charge of large scale Transportation Project
• Tested and deployed environmental and traffic monitoring hardware for implementation into Transportation Project
• Tested and deployed large software system and network installed in the Operational Control Center and throughout the Project
• Followed test plans that incorporate hardware in real-world environment, suggested and wrote improvements for test plans
• Recorded change requests and reported defects found in software and hardware
• Performed regression testing to insure that defect fixes were implemented

• Tested routing on new VPN product then in development. Quickly took on a lead role in an eight engineer team. Implemented large, complex OSPF test bed.
• Tested and scaled OSPF networks during development of new product. Testing focus included: o Utilization of multiple areas o Implementation of varying LSA types - network, router, summary, external o Execution of.
• Built large test bed utilized in scaling and staging of OSPF-based network traffic
• Wrote test plans that incorporate company hardware in real-world environment
• Recorded change requests and reported "bugs" found in code
• Worked closely with development to insure stability of code, tested new code as made available

• Provided live technical support for high-profile customers and key product lines. Performed on-site support when needed. Supported and was responsible for eight junior engineers.
• Solved customers’ IP, OSPF and RIP routing and switching issues including multiple OSPF areas, redistribution of non-protocol networks into RIP and OSPF networks, Vlan configuration and implementation, and various.
• Explored solutions in a lab environment
• Assisted team members with problems outside of their expertise
• Assumed responsibility when cases became too technical or political for junior team members
• Went to customer sites to identify and eliminate critical issues

• Tested new Windows version of DOS software during development period. Provided customer support during high revenue period.
• Tested and error tracked new software product
• Provided technical support during key period of corporate year
• Diagnosed and resolved customer problems

• Researched, designed, and implemented various network and software technologies for company and various clients
• Implemented and maintained company and client network and software
• Provided consultation to determine client computing needs
• Implemented client network systems of varying sizes