Software Performance Test Team Lead (Until August 2015)• Manage all performance testing across the company, bring all products inline to reduce costs, follow the same process, tools, analysis, and reporting processes. Reduce the performance test tools from six to three.• Create a shared performance team that is familiar with all performance test tools to work across all company projects.• Requirement and design document review for marked for performance test new features and modules.• Lead efforts to reduce error rates on all applications and create performance requirements/standards across all projects.• Reduce performance issues to zero for all projects for standard application areas tested. Before this role, we averaged two-five performance issues per release.• Increase performance testing efficiency across all projects. Significant reduction in the number of required performance test team members.• Automate performance test tasks to increase efficiency and reduce the time required for test execution, average savings of 25-50% of time savings across projects. Reduce lead time for test execution to less than 10 minutes for all tests, reduce report generation time to less than one hour after test completion, previously performance test lead time was over one-two days for most projects, and at least one additional day to generate and share reports.• Adopt shift-left strategies for all performance testing projects.• Setup process for continuous improvements across all performance projects, documentation, procedures and best practices across each release, to improve at least one part of the process by each team member each cycle.• Train/mentor team members from entry-level to mid-range, to expert level performance test resources. Typically hire an entry-level resource, provide training programs to move them to mid-level resources within six months, and expert-level within 1.5 years.Software Performance Test Engineer (Thomson Scientific merged with Reuters)

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Software Performance Test Engineer (August 2007 - September 2012)• Manage performance testing against standard application areas, no performance issues released into production during this period. Before this role, we averaged 1-3 performance issues per release.• Gather production system usage information to model system usage patterns for performance test use cases and load scenario configurations through log analysis and custom metrics gathering feature internal to our applications. • Create/maintain performance framework based on system usage patterns, reviewed quarterly to determine changes in customer usage patterns for use case updates and run-time scenario updates.• Analyze, troubleshoot, and work to resolve application performance issues.• Setup/maintain and confirm environment integrity for performance testing environments.• Requirement and design document review for all new application features and modules, prepare and execute manual test plans as needed to support testing efforts.• Test planning and execution following shift-left strategies.Software Developer until August 2007 (see desc from ScholarOne / Company bought by Thomson Scientific)

• Manuscript Central Software Developer (PHP/MySQL based web application).• Troubleshoot and solve development-related support issues.• Implement all product development and enhancement changes on the application.• Test functionality around all changes implemented before release into production. Testing through unit tests for specific application changes and regression tests for other major areas of the application before release.• Implement new procedures to document/track all product changes implemented.• Develop and test all product enhancement requests.• Creating SQL queries to update/retrieve user data outside of normal application functionality.

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It was a great job, great company and great work environment. I did software quality assurance work, software development.