Sherry Perkins Email & Phone Number

Providence, Ri, Us

London, Gb

Responsibilities include:Collaborating with development, product, network, architects and quality assurance teams to design and implement performance testing strategies based on application and technology specifications from business requirements (NFRs and SLAs). Designing performance testing approaches that mimic current production usage as well as provide insight into any areas of potential risk with resilience, growth and user experience.Hands-on script development, test data creation and maintenance, designing testing scenarios and executing performance tests based on testing approaches designed with project teams.Communicating and analyzing results in a manner befitting the audience as well as providing confidence in the process used to measure the platform or software as well as tracking and reporting defects. Improving the performance engineering process by ensuring best practices are incorporated into every task in an effort to reduce time spent on designing and implementing testing methods.Interfacing with and mentoring offshore performance team members (India and Sri Lanka) to implement performance testing best practices, providing measurement confidence, ensuring colleagues are empowered and successful.Supporting role for user account administration and maintenance for AWS/Cloud and test lab instances.Primary Tools: Micro Focus/LoadRunner 12.6x, ALM and Performance Center, NewRelic and AppDynamics, Fiddler, Postman, Jenkins, Maven and concept level/intro to Kubernetes, jMeter, OctoPerf, and NeoLoad.

Boston, Ma, Us

Software Performance Testing using Hewlett Packard/Mercury toolset: LoadRunner, Quick Test Professional/WinRunner, Quality Center and Analysis.Short-term consulting position developing testing assets (scripts, data, results, and process) and providing recommendations for future testing efforts.Tracking and resolving project issues and defects and reporting all findings to project and development teams.

Software Performance Testing utilizing Hewlett Packard/Mercury toolsets: LoadRunner, Quick Test Professional/WinRunner, Quality Center, and Analysis Tool.Collaboration with the Business, Development, Quality and Network Support Analysts to develop and implement Automation policies and proceduresMaintained lab test machines, automation tool versions, installations, and configuration procedures.Incorporated industry best practices and solutions into the team and department.Mentored colleagues on best practices with the performance tools and assisting with tracking, debugging and reporting issues.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Software Quality Engineering - implementing performance test methodologies and strategies.Collaborated on multiple projects simultaneously.Designed and implemented strategies from business requirements.Executed various performance tests (baseline, benchmark, capacity/stress, regression), tracked and resolved any defects or issues and communicated results to the team.Authored weekly progress reports for management, mentored colleagues, and documented standard processes for training purposes.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Developed baseline, benchmark and performance testing strategies for IBM’s Net.Commerce and HTTP Web Server applications using the TPC-W standard.Assisted with gathering specifications for buying and implementing HP’s LoadRunner tool used for future testing initiatives.Installed and configured various operating systems: OS/400, AIX and WinNT.Assisted with building the OS/400 operating system by following detailed operational test checklists.