Kristin Kostlan Email & Phone Number

Leawood, Kansas, United States

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Creating and executing tests for ongoing software development projects• Identifying and reporting bugs, inconsistencies and anomalies• Agile Environment Utilizing MS Team Foundation Server, Git Hub, Jira, Confluence• Automated GUI Functional Testing (Telerik)• Validating and retrieving data from SQL, Mongo DB, ElasticSearch, Hive, Cosmos• Postman API tests• Load testing with Jmeter

Kansas City, Missouri Area

 Perform load testing tasks on a variety of web, ejb driven, batch and web service applications. Producing test scripts to emulate application load including HTTP requests, SOAP requests.  Load Test Tool evaluation experience IBM Websphere 6.1 Administrative Console Configuration and JVM/application tuning and maintenance experience.  Precise I3 System Analysis Tool experience. SQL and J2EE performance evaluation. IBM Support Assistance Workbench experience. Thread, Garbage Collection, Memory analysis.  Creating scripts and enhance with data correlation and customer commands with testing tools including: JMeter Soap UI IBM Rational Robot HP Loadrunner VUGen Using SQL to acquire data pools from MSSQL and DB2 database for use in load test scripts and analysis of results.  Review system performance results for recommendations. Focus on SQL Server and Websphere server performance. Evaluation of : CPU and Memory Utilization Database locking, blocking or deadlock conditions Websphere JVM heap size, garbage collection Database connection settings.

Provide professional service in software requirements and testing. Review high level and detailed software design documentationPerform data mining activities on Oracle and MS SQL backend databases, using SQL to validate functionality and identify data sets to use for functional and system testing activities. Compose and execute functional and system test cases Compare software performance with specifications to assure proper output results and report problems for resolution, using Compuware Track Record. Compuware QA Director Compuware Track Record

Performed business requirements analysis Performed software testing tasks on a variety of applications, producing test cases and test summaries Provided level of effort input for software development plansCreated technical documentation Reviewed high level and detailed software design documentationWorked with customers on a continuing basis to resolve software, hardware or data management issues requiring high-level communication and deductive skills.Compared software performance with specifications to assure proper output results and report problems for resolution

Performed software support and hardware troubleshooting via telephone, Internet, fax and letter. Worked with customers on a continuing basis to resolve software, hardware or data management issues requiring high-level communication and deductive skills.Compared software performance with specifications to assure proper output results and report problems for resolution Supported software focus group meetingsCreated training materials and conducted training sessions at the Departments of Education's Electronic Access Conferences Edited technical referencesInvolved in supporting projects outside of the department in order to generate new businessActed as a bilingual representative, primarily working with post-secondary educational institutions in Puerto Rico

Mba, Information Technology Emphasis

Activities and Societies: Classwork included exposure to general systems design, evaluation and testing and database management.

Ba, English, Spanish

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Delta Pi Semester of Study Abroad in Costa Rica.