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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

New Zealand

With Ideal Technology I engage with our clients as a Performance Engineer responsible for helping our clients develop stable solutions. We are guided by a strong focus on Performance, developing robust test strategies and performance models, with an aim towards diagnosing all performance defects and tuning the solution performance.Proficient with most tools, but we primarily use Apache's JMeter, alongside Teleriks Test Studio, NeoLoad, LoadRunner and Silk Performer where necessary. Java, JavaScript, Perl, C++ are commonly used for our scripting and data analysis, with other tools such as Tableau.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Over 5 years at Qual IT I contributed to a number of organisations, and developed an array of skills in the Performance and Automation Engineering space. Chief among these were: strong communication, and technical ability in execution projects, and a dedication to helping improve and deliver strong software solutions through functional, performance and automation test strategies. I learned to be adaptable working on a wide array of projects with different technologies; and always appreciated the opportunity to engage with new technologies, and people. These skills, combined with attention to detail and consistent delivery of a quality service, aided in completing valuable, meaningful and successful Test Engagements. Some core skills, and technologies I worked with at Qual IT include:• Test Suite Creation: Silk Performer, NeoLoad, Apache JMeter, LoadRunner, SoapUI and LoadUI• Performance testing focussing on solution Scalability, Capacity, adherence to NFRs, and diagnosis of performance defects throughout the stack• Workload Modelling taking into account theories important to valuable test development such as queueing theory and Little’s law• Data Analysis using Tableau, Excel, PerfMon and development of shell scripts and Perl parsers• Automation testing: SoapUI and Selenium 2• Integration testing using SoapUI• Web technologies: HTML5, Javascript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Silverstripe, PHP, C#• Unit testing: JUnit, Sapphire testing• Databases: MySQL, Oracle RDBMS• ESB solutions: WSO2• Monitoring Solutions: Nagios, NewRelic, PRTG, SAR• SOAP/B2B• Test Strategy development, Interim and Exit Report documentationAttached is a summary list of engagements I completed while working with Qual IT.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

I worked with a small team on multiple projects using the Scrum form of agile project management. Here I familiarized myself with PHP and the SilverStripe CMS, and drew on his previous experience with SQL and HTML5 to create an in house interactive web based learning tool for students and staff.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Developed site management tools for a startup, working across the stack with Ruby on Rails, PosgreSQL, Javascript and HTML5.