Nikita Toulinov

OBJECTIVE:

Software Engineering Manager: Performance, QA, Test, DevOps

accelerating time to market while improving quality

with proven ability to deliver

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Software Quality Assurance and Release Engineer/Manager with 25+ years of intensive experience in process and products' improvement and in designing, building, validating, systems' certifications, maintaining and troubleshooting of e-Commerce / m-Commerce applications for corporate enterprises and Open Source communities. 20+ years of leadership and 20+ years of team management experience. Programming background. Software Development Life Cycle, Quality Control Cycle, Test Methodology and Deployment/Release/DevOps processes. Expertise in conducting on all development and post-delivery stages a variety of tests such as: Feasibility, Completeness, Consistency, Testability, Traceability, White Box / Structural, Unit, Integration, Sanity (Smoke), System / End-To-End, Boundary, Regression, Scalability, Recovery, Functional, Stress/Performance, Load/Performance, Longevity/Performance, Volume, Capacity, Latency, Behavioral, Environment/Compatibility (Cross-Platform / Cross-Browser), Security, Y2K, Usability, Comparison, and Acceptance. Setup and managed environment for Black Box, Ad Hoc, Alpha and Beta testing. Extensive experience with several automation testing tools (Visual Test, QA Partner, SilkTest, SilkPerformer, JavaStar, SQA Suite, WinRunner, X-Runner, LoadRunner, Homer/WebStress) and version control tools (SourceSafe, ClearCase, Perforce, RCS). Expertise in all types of Test Documentation: Test Plans, System Decomposition Diagrams (using both structural and OO (UML) approach), Test Tree, Test Scenarios, Test Cases (both manual and automated), Functional Specifications (including HIPO charts). Conducted Information Design / Navigation analysis for Web based applications. Strong wireless device and content testing experience.

Productive professional. Demonstrated in wide-ranging projects strong leadership and teamwork skills. Reliable, able to perform well under pressure. Able to work under tight deadlines and rapidly changing priorities. Detail oriented with the ability to be multi-tasked. Capable to learn quickly new technical skills as well as to share knowledge with others. Proven ability on multiple projects to increase productivity of the whole team and shorten development cycle. Committed to sacrifice personal life to deliver on time at any personal cost.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Hardware: IBM PC and compatibles, Apple Macintosh, IBM AS/400, IBM RS/6000, IBM zOS/390, Sun SPARC Ultra 1/5, E220R, E420R, Bloomberg, IoT medical wearables.

OS: MS DOS 6.22, PC DOS 2000, Unix shells (BASH, Bourne, Korn, tcsh), MS Windows 3.1/3.11 for Workgroups, 95/98/Me, NT 3.5/3.51/4.0 Workstation / Server, 2000 Professional / Advanced Server Beta 3/RC1/RC 2, XP/7/8, 2003/2008 Server Enterprise, Vista, CE 1.1/1.2, IBM OS/2 Wrap 4, IBM OS/400, MacOS 7.0/8.0/8.5/8.6/9.0/X, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Solaris SunOS 2.4/2.5/2.6/2.7/2.8/2.9/10, RedHat Linux 4.0/5.2/6.0/6.1/6.2/7.0/7.1/7.3/8.1, Corel LinuxOS 1.0/1.1/1.2, FreeBSD 3-4, BeOS 5, WMWare ESX 2.5/30.

S/W & SaaS: Visio 5.0/2000/2002/2003/2008, MS Office 95/97/2000/XP/2003/2008, Sun StarOffice 2/5/6/7, Oracle OpenOffice 0/1/2/3/4, Corel WordPerfect 5.0/6.0/7.0/9.0, Lotus Suite 97, Lotus Notes 4.6, cc: Mail 8.1, Adobe PhotoShop 4.0/5.0/5.5/6.0, Adobe Illustrator 7.0, Adobe PageMill 3.0, Allaire HomeSite 4.0, Macromedia Director 6.0/7.0, PowerQuest DriveCopy, mIRC, Oracle SQL*Plus 8.0.4.0.0, Siebel Financial, Network Associates Sniffer 2.0/3.0 Pro, tcpdump/tcpflow, HornetQ, RabbitMQ, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure.

Web Clients: Phone.com UP.SDK 2.0.2/3.2/4.0, Mosaic, Lynx, MS Internet Explorer 2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11, Netscape Navigator/Communicator 2.xx/3.xx/4.0x/4.5/4.61/4.7/4.72/6.0/6.01/7.0, NeoPlanet, Arachne, Amaya, 1X, NetPositive, Sun HotJava 1.0/1.1/3.0, Opera 3.0/3.51/3.60/3.62/4.0/5.0/5.5/8/10/12, Konqueror 2.1.1, Mozilla Firefox 2-25, Chrome 4-31.

Web Servers: Apache 1.3.9-1.3.15, IBM WebSphere, MS IIS 2.0/3.0/4.0/5.0, Netscape-Enterprise, iPlanet, Allaire ColdFusion 4.0, Jrun 3.0, BEA/Oracle WebLogic 7/8.4/9.2/10/11, OpenGrid Network 2.1.0.7/2.1.0.8, JServ, Tomcat 3/4/5./

RDBMS: Oracle 7/8/9i/10g/11i/12, IBM DB2 V6.1, MS Access 2.0/7.0/`97/2000, FoxPro, dBase, Sybase 10/11, Informix, Paradox 9, MS SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000 Enterprise, mySQL, GNU SQL Server, Cassandra/Hadoop, MongoDB.

Test Tools: Segue QualityWorks/QAParther 4.x / SilkTest 2.1.2/2.1.4/5.0/5.01/5.02/5.03/5.5/6.0, Segue SilkPerformer 3.0/3.5/3.51/4.0/4.5, Segue SilkMonitor 1.0, Mercury AstraSiteManager, Mercury WinRunner 4.0/5.0/6.0, Mercury X-Runner, Mercury LoadRunner 4.0/6.0/8.1.4, RSW eSuite (eTest, eLoad, eMonitor), WinDiff, WinStone 98, WinBench 98, WebBench 3.0, WinHEC, MS Visual Test 3.0/4.0, Rational Visual Test 6.0, Ration SQA Suite 6.0, Rational PerformanceStudio, Rational Rose 98, Rational Robot, Rational TestFactory, Rational Test Manager, Rational Rurify, Rational Quantify, Rational PureCoverage, Rational SoDA, SunTest JavaStar 1.1/1.2 / JavaScope, Web Analyser, HTML Validator 3.0/3.5/4.0, Xenu Link Sleuth 1.1a, WebAnalyzer 1.0/2.0, RadView WebLoad, MS Homer 1.0 / MS WebStress, Optimizeit 1.x/3.0, KL Group JProbe Developer Suite 2.0/2.8/3.0, GNU gprof, GNU gcov, –cx, dprof, BigBrother, ArgoGroup DeviceMaster, Selenium 1.0, JMeter, JProfiler 6.4/7.1, Selenium 2.0 WebDriver 2.4, Node.js/Mocha, TestNG, Cucumber, SolarWinds Real-Time Bandwith Monitor, Postman, Curl, Elasticsearch, Lucene/Solr, New Relic.

CM Tools: GNU RCS, CVS 1.10.6-1.10.10, WinCVS 1.1/1.2, jCVS, Rational ClearCase, Perforce 99.1, MS SourceSafe 5.0/6.0, Rational RequisitePro, Rational ClearDDTS, Mercury TestDirector 5.0/6.0/7.0, Rational ClearQuest, GNU GNATS 3.2, Mozilla BugZilla, PVCS, NetResults ProblemTracker 2.0 – 4.0, Soffront TrackWeb, TeamShare tTrack 4.01, Collabnet IssueZilla, GitHub git, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Nagios.

Languages: Fortran, UML, JSP, HTML 3.2/4.0, DHTML, CSS, HDML/WML, XML, JavaScript 1.1/1.2, VB Script, Visual Basic, VBA, Pascal, SQL, Actuate Basic 3.0, C/C++, Java, Java (Sun JFC), ActiveX, Perl/CGI, ASP, Python.

IDEs: Sun JDK 1.1.x/1.2.x/1.3.x/1.4/1.5/1.6/1.7, jsdk, jswdk, Borland JBuilder 2.0/3.0/4.0, Symantec Visual Café 3.0/4.0, MS Visual C++ Pro 4.0/5.0/6.0, Borland C++ Builder Pro 3.0, MS J++ 2.0, Borland Delphi 4, MS Visual Basic 3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0, IntelliJ IDEA 2.5-13, GNU gcc, Jenkins.

FULL-TIME PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Oracle America, Inc. (former Oracle Corporation)

www.oracle.com Redwood Shores, CA

June 2008 - Present PMTS of Performance Sustainability Reliability Team

2013-Present. Supporting and troubleshooting of DSS environments for Oracle Fusion Apps and ORMB. Collected and analyzed PSR measurements; cold/warm UI RTs, Server Timings, ECIDs, SQL/FND Traces, SQLHC reports, AWRs, JFRs, JPS CPU Profiles, hprof Heap Dumps, browser (FireBug, HttpFox, HttpWatch) reports, RUEI incidents and Session Diagnostics, client cookies, web servers logs and GC logs, BI (bi_server1, nqserver, nqquery) logs. Analyzed 100+ RUEI auto-bugs, 86 bugs investigated and updated, filed 23 new performance bugs. Worked with Dev, Ops and other PSR teams (DB, BI ADF) to investigate root causes and to verify solutions. 21 other engineers' bugs investigated. 16 ADSweb tickets resolved. 8 QA Flows PSR data collected in DSS environments for RUP1, RUP2, RUP3, RUP4 and reports generated. 4 Search UI (Classic FusionApps) flows PSR data collected in REL7ST2 DIT env for different users. Verified new/pontential bugs against current bugs in the BugDB. Found and troubleshooted browser-side caching issues. Global Search investigations and logs collections for ECSF calls, Parked Threads and other resource leaks issues. Troubleshooted JProfiler profile settings and profile.jfs configurations. Upgraded JProfiler version from 6.4 to 7.1. Changed env settings (server settings like heap and other JVM options), measure and generated comparison reports. Trained AquaLogic developers how to use DevPartner for Java. Troubleshooted OOM failures - hundreds/thousands of open $Proxy DB sessions issues. Investigated STUCK Threads issues. Upgraded JRockit MissionControl version from 4.0 to 4.1. Run PSR standards audit scripts and generated reports. Manually verified PSR compliance of servers' JVM settings and for OHS, OID and FUSION_DB and changed required settings. Worked with Arhitects Team to support DSS env and ADSweb for Capacity/Re-Sizing project; OVM settings, CPU and RAM utilizations, OATS settings. PSR coverage of FUSE project: found 2 new functional issues; collected and analyzed PSR measurements (UI RTs, Server Timings, ECIDs, SQL/FND Traces, AWRs, JFRs); tested against different versions and generated comparison reports.

2012. Tested and optimized several demos for for Oracle Fusion Apps and ORMB to meet KPIs (UI RTs < 5 sec, SQLs < 1 sec). DSS Fusion B16 FA HCM demos, DSS Fusion B16 FA PRJ demos: filed and resolved 24 bugs, RTs improved 20-90%. DSS Fusion B16 FA SQL tunings and DB sizings - worked with PSR DB team to analyze SQL queries, execution plans and to improve/tune SQLs’ queries exe times - SQLs improved 30-97%. DSS Fusion RUP1 FA CRM demos: analyzed and resolved 2 ADS tickets, filed and resolved 2 bugs, RTs improved 30-90%. DSS Fusion RUP1 FA FIN/PRG demos: analyzed and resolved 2 ADS tickets, filed and resolved 4 bugs, RTs improved 25-70%. DSS Fusion RUP1 FA HCM demos: issues / ADS tickets investigations and fixing: analyzed and resolved 3 ADS tickets, filed and resolved 6 bugs, RTs improved 40-95%. Trained (published to internal wiki detailed instructions how to install, setup and configure FA) PSR DB team (8 engineers) how to install FusionApps from scratch; DB + WLS + data + setup + config.

2011. Oracle FusionApps projects: HCM (ST3B8; ST3B10; LSSD; VLDB - D8B3, D8B4, D8B4A, D8B4C, ST3B12, ST3B13, ST3B13+patches; WIN64; ST3B14; ST3B15; RC RT; ST3B16); CRM; FIN; ORMB; Stress; Functional; HA; Customer issues (OOW, Demos); Environments (ST/QA/Dev); LR>OATS migration.

2010. Oracle PSR projects: URM 11gR1+, HCM 11gR1+, OOW, ORMB, AquaLogic, Customer issues, PSR bugs/fixes, Environments (VMWare virtual labs - Dev/QA; Load balancing setup); WLS development support. PSR tunings. PSR labs maintenance.

2009. Oracle PSR projects: OWLCS 11gR1, ORMB, Analytics 11gR1. PSR investigations: CPU spikes, JRockit tuning, Memory leaks, PSR 11gR1>11gR1+ regressions, Production verifications. Oracle labs setup and troubleshooting. Success criteria is met: 11gR1/11gR1+ released successfully, received praises from Dev/QA/PM teams.

( Environment: Oracle Enterprise Linux, BEA WebLogic 10/11, Oracle 11/12 )

2008. BEA>Oracle projects knowledge transfer: trained Oracle engineers on ALI/ALUI products, trained Oracle developers on JRockit Mission Control, trained Oracle engineers on JRockit tuning. Oracle new PSR projects: WLS (BEA>Oracle transition); OCMS (Presence, WS, PS, PWS); URM, HCM CMP, PAY, PER, BEN; ORMB; PSR labs.

( Environment: Empirix Hammer SIP, SoftWell Presence, SOAP UI load tool, CAT )

Oracle America, Inc. (former BEA Systems, Inc.)

www.bea.com San Francisco, CA

October 2006 - June 2008 Lead Performance Engineer

Defined, designed, implemented and maintained infrastructure (platforms – networks, hardware, software; tools – automation, monitoring, profiling) for several ALUI projects. Collaborated with Development Directors and Project/Product Managers. Built virtual labs using WMWare ESX 3.0 and LabManager 1.0. Analyzed and tuned up systems’ performance. Developed custom performance API test harnesses and Mercury LoadRunner 8.1.4 tests. Prepared reports, presentations, trainings and white papers. Performance projects for ALI and ALUI products: Portal updates/patches, Interaction 6.5 MP2, Ensemble 1.0.1.2 patch, Ensemble 2.0, Pathways 1.5 patch, Analytics 2.5, Security G7, Directory G7, Collaboration 100-day release. Performance Infrastructure/Lab maintenance: RunnerLab (30 VMs) for Ensemble Dev/QA/PM teams, ESX Performance lab (6 ESX servers, 23 VMs), Legacy Performance lab (52 nodes), Labs' authentication settings (SiteMinder, SPNEGO, CoredID), F5 Load Balancer setup and maintenance. Performance investigations: Memory leaks, Performance regressions, Production verifications, OLE proxy stability/longevity/stress, 64-bit porting.

( Environment: WMWare ESX 2.5/30, Sun Solaris 9/10, MS Windows 2003 Server EE, BEA WebLogic 8.4/9.2, MS SQL Server 2000sp4/2005 EE, Oracle 9i/10g )

Oracle America, Inc. (former Sun Microsystems, Inc.)

www.sun.com/software/products/delivery_server/ Santa Clara, CA

January 2004 - August 2006 Java SQE Lead / Wireless Test Manager

Lead integration, performance and managing device test automation for Sun Content Delivery Server 3.6.1/4.0/5.0 that built on a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) architecture and which provides full control over mobile content lifecycle - service providers can add, manage, download, and bill for virtually any type of wireless content. Designed and implemented/coded test harnesses for CDS APIs using Java, ksh, bash, JavaTest to automate Billing, DRM and LDAP integration testing. Managed OMA 1.0 DRM content protection testing. Managed team of 12 mobile device test engineers in 3 locations – Santa Clara (California), Bangalore (India) and Stockholm (Sweden). Evaluated wireless device test automation solutions and conducted negotiating and purchasing of $1M+ software. Automated wireless device testing with ArgoGroup DeviceMaster. Re-designed QA processes to achieve shorter test cycles and to save engineering resources. Organized and managed device content (MIDP-1, MIDP-2, iAppli, ringtones, wallpapers, videos) and localization (English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian) testing. Brought-in 2 new clients – Quios, Inc. and BrainMedia, Inc. Built and supported demo environments for Sales and Marketing. Prepared presentations on cost-saving initiatives, new customers’ acquisitions, team management, etc. Trained Ops Sustaining engineers.

( Environment: Sun Solaris 9/10, BEA Systems WebLogic 7/8, SunOne AppServer 7/8, Sun LDAP Directory Server 5.1/5.2, Oracle 9i/10g )

IBM

www.ibm.com/software/data/ondemand/ San Jose (Silicon Valley Labs), CA

April 2003 - December 2003 Senior Performance Lead

Lead performance test automation and capacity planning effort for DB2® Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, zOS, iSeries, Windows) - family of DB2 content management products which provide high performance middleware to automatically manage formatted computer output. Designed and implemented/coded test harnesses for OnDemand APIs using Java, C++, PERL, sh, bash, and Rational TestStudio 2003 (Rose, RequisitePro, TestManager, Robot, Quantify, PureCoverage, SoDA) to quantify performance, determine bottlenecks, set benchmarks and design tuning solutions.

( Environment: IBM AIX, HP-UX, IBM zOS/390, IBM iSeries OS/400, IBM OS/2, RedHat Linux 7.3, Sun Solaris 7-8, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere, IBM Trivoli Storage)

Bank of America

BankOfAmerica.com Pleasant Hill, CA

May 2002 - March 2003 Principal System Engineer / Process Architect

Defined and re-designed overall System Development Life Cycle for Nation wide Residential Real Estate Appraising System. Documented all the processes and train the team members. Designed Project Plans and merged all co-existing projects into Master Project Plan. Re-designed all the processes and merge parallel teams into one team. Prepared presentations for the upper management. Defined and enforced System Configuration Management. Implemented and maintained Version Control processes with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. Administered VSS. Maintained 3 concurrent branches of the code. Developed and maintained Perl/mySQL code to run custom Issue Tracking System (based on open-source version of BugTrack). Defined and enforced Software Release Methodology. Implemented and maintained Staging/Release environments (dev>DEV>QA>STAGE>PROD) and synchronized all the environments with Production. Labeled and installed Release Candidate Builds for each product revision. Tracking code/version changes and documenting them into Release Notes. Prepared installation reports for each product release. Located and resolved problems in the code for quick application/configuration fixes. Defined Entrance/Exit criteria for each regression cycle. Automated Load/Volume test with customs scripts and freeware.

( Environment: MS Windows NT 4.0 Server / 2000 Advanced Server, Siebel Financial Analytics, Languages: C++, VB6 )

Software Test Laboratories

San Francisco, CA

November 2001 - April 2002 Senior Technical Manager

Trained consultants for AOL Time Warner / Netscape and Wells Fargo Bank. Managed custom automated test tools development and distribution. Prepared presentations and training sessions.

( Environment: RedHat Linux 7.1, MS Windows XP, Languages: Java 2, Python, PERL )

Collabnet, Inc.

www.collab.net Brisbane, CA

May 2001 - November 2001 QA+Release Architect/Director

Built QA department for the company from the scratch within 6 weeks. Hired 2 QA Engineers, 1 Release Engineer, and 7 interns. Established externship program with local computer schools. Managed releases and deployment verification for the following projects: Sun Microsystems: JXTA – www.jxta.org

NetBeans – www.netbeans.org

OpenOffice – www.openoffice.org

GridEngine – gridengine.sunsource.net

SunSource.net - www.sunsource.net

Oracle: OTNCast – otnxchange.oracle.com

Hewlett-Packard: IPSSources - www.ipssources.com

Motorola: iDEN Developer Program - www.idendev.com

Nokia: Open Standards Terminal - www.ostdev.com

Developed test harnesses with Sitraka Jprobe Server-Side Suite 2.8.1/3.0 (JCoverage, ThreadAnalyzer, MemoryProfiler), Jtest, and custom program – commandX. Automated Load/Performance test suites to meet customers’ requirements with Segue Software SilkPerformer 4.5, and Functional/Regression test suites with Segue Software SilkTest 5.5. Designed procedures to check all test scripts to CVS. Maintained custom issue tracking tool – IssueZilla. Developed and maintained internal QA Web site. Developed and updating test coverage documents (test matrix) against each new version of the core product – SourceCast. Correlated release schedules with customers (Motorola, Oracle, Sun, HP, Nokia) and allocated internal resources to meet external deadlines. Delivered documentation packages (Release Notes, Test Plans, Use Case, Test Cases, Test Matrixes) to the internal team as well as to the customers.

( Environment: RedHat Linux 6.2 / 7.1, Solaris 8 / SunOS 2.5.8, Apache 1.3.14, JServ, mySQL 3.2, CVS, Languages: Java 2, PERL 5, Python, XML, mSQL, JavaScript 1.2, CSS, HTML 4.0 )

AOL Time Warner / Netscape

shopping.netscape.com Mountain View, CA

April 2001 - August 2001 Senior Technical Manager

Managed team of 8 engineers in AOL/Netscape Shopping Search and Merchant Tools division. Defined scope of weekly production updates. Managed weekly deployments; coordinated weekly pushes with AOL NOC team on East Coast, conducted post-reviews of cross-team efforts. Verified database (Oracle and Sybase) integrity for complex (15 components, 64 nodes) DataMart and Search system. Coordinated synchronization of Dev, QA and Prod systems. Evaluated processes in regard to Amazon.com Search integration. Established internship. Evaluated employees performance and prepared promotions.

( Environment - Solaris 8 / SunOS 2.5.8, HP 9000/800 HP-UX, Netscape Enterprise Server 3.2, Oracle 8.1.7, Sybase 12, CVS. Languages: Java 2, PERL 5 (mod_perl, mod_proxy), XML, SQL, JavaScript 1.2, CSS, HTML 4.0)

Quios, Inc.

www.quios.com San Francisco, CA

June 2000 - March 2001 QA Director / Release Manager

Built QA Department for the company (brought in Test Engineers, QA Engineers, Test Developers, established Internship Program with Bay Area Quality Assurance Schools, organized new Wireless Test Lab). Introduced, defined, designed, implemented and improving QA Methodology for development process and Test Methodology for the company’s products (2,000,000 users worldwide and partners including MSN-Benelux, Excite-Europe, HotBar, Yoonee, Cycosmos, StudentUK, ESAT, FortisBusiness, VT4). Mapped and re-engineering Release Process. Controlled quality of the development process on all phases: Definition, Analysis, High-Level Design, Low-Level Design, Coding, Unit Test, Integration Test, System Test, Post-Delivery. Modified existing corporate Win32/IIS-based Defect Tracking System (TeamShare TeamTrack 4.01) to supported range of Projects (Wireline/HTTP to Wireless/SMS Messaging System, WAP portal). Automated localization test for languages: US-English, UK-English, Italian, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Swedish, Flemish). Automated functional/regression testing of company’s Web apps to shorten Regression cycle. Automated latency test of SMS delivery and analyzed SMS routing options through various SMS Gateways (Prosodie, Minich, NovelSoft, IC3S, NetSize, Verizon). Designed and automated test of XML Gateways for mass SMS submission. Automated Performance / Load / Volume / Longevity / Latency / Scalability measurement and monitoring using Segue Software SilkPerformer 3.51 and Microsoft WebApplication StressTool 1.1. Designed procedures to check all test scripts to CVS.

( Environment - Solaris SunOS 2.5.7. RedHat Linux 6.1/6.2, Apple MacOS 8.6/9.0/OSX, Apache 1.3.14, Oracle 8.1.5/8.1.6, CVS; Languages: PERL 5 (mod_perl, mod_proxy, mod_rewrite), XML, SQL, JavaScript 1.2, CSS, HTML 4.0, HDML, WML )

OpenGrid, Inc. (former Ensemble Solutions, Inc.)

www.OpenGrid.com Santa Clara, CA

February 1999 - June 2000 Senior SQA Engineer / QA Manager

Built QA Department for the company (brought in Test Engineers, established Internship Program with Bay Area Quality Assurance Schools, organized 4 new Test Labs). Introduced and implemented QA Methodology for development process and Test Methodology for the company’s products. Controlled quality of the development process on all phases: Definition, High-Level Design, Low-Level Design, Coding, Unit Test, Integration Test, System Test, Post-Delivery. Modified existing corporate Unix-based Bug Tracking System (GNU GNATS 3.2) and setup new Defect Tracking System (NetResults ProblemTracker 3.02). Upgraded Defect Tracking System to version 3.06 and later to 3.11. Setup complete set of Test Documentation for 4 different projects: (i) eStore - Hilton on-line (both desktop and handheld browsers) reservation system; (ii) Skywalker - Integrated with Motorola/StafFish wireless instant messaging system; (iii) ClickNetwork/MarketPlace - free Web site development and hosting; (iv) Fastbook - Pegasus on-line (both desktop and handheld browsers) reservation and messaging system. Automated functional/regression testing of company’s Web apps. Evaluated cost and performance of different development solutions (Hardware Platform, OS, Web Server, App Server, Development Environment, Client Environment). Developed, executed and maintained stress, load, longevity automated scripts against new builds to measure reliability and performance of the overall system. Compared results of the tests for each proposed system solution. Evaluated ClearCase vs. SourceSafe vs. Perforce. Participated in migration from CRS to Perforce.

(Environment - MS Windows NT 4.0 Workstation / Server, Solaris SunOS 2.5.1, RedHat Linux 5.2/6.0, Apache 1.3.9, IBM HTTP Server, IBM WebSphere, Bea WebLogic, IBM DB2, Oracle 7, RCS, Perforce 99.1; Languages: Java (Borland JBuilder2.0/3/0, Sun JDK 1.2, MS J++ 2.0), JSP, EJB, JDBC, proprietary HTX language, XML, JavaScript 1.2, HTML 4.0, HDML, WML)

Sinex Securities, LLC

www.rapidtrade.com San Francisco, CA

September 1997 - February 1999 Senior Software Developer / QA Lead

Reviewed, analyzed and validated system’s functional specifications for Completeness, Consistency, Feasibility and Testability. Defined, designed, developed and implemented corporate 1-year Test Plan and Test Scenarios. Performed White Box Analysis and Debugging of Java, XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS. Mentored Test Team in design and execution of Test Cases. Assured management that all features are tested, detected problems are properly reported and assigned to the owners. Modifies existing test plans to reflect specification changes. Modified 2 corporate Problem Tracking Systems (Lotus Notes 4.6 and MS Access 7.0). Assisted management in introduction and validating compliance with ISO standards. Assisted development in Unit, Integration testing, improving UI (both Graphical and Information Design), and performance of the overall system. Assisted DBA in database maintenance to ensure proper tune and backup procedures. Evaluated, acquired and installed various software products (such as Version Control tools, Monitoring tools, Load Balancing Tools, Automated Functional and Performance Test Tools, Code Coverage Tools, RAID, IDE, Siebel CRM).

(Environment - Windows 95/98 / NT 4.0 Workstation / Server, Unix shells; RedHat Linux 4.0, Siebel; Languages: HTML 3.2, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL)

IBM (through Swift and Associates, IBM partner)

www.ibm.com/ru/ Tyumen, RU - Moscow, RU - Boise, ID - San Francisco, CA

May 1993 - September 1997 Software Developer / Quality Control Engineer

Analyzed C-cover reports to ensure complete coverage of functions in all brunches of the code. Detected “dead” code. Debugged C, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, VB Script code, added relevant comments. Performed functional, user interface and compatibility testing of comprehensive database application, reviewed and analyzed system's functional specifications, developed and implemented test plans, ran complete test cycles for each product revision. Developed and implemented test scenarios and test cases (including Millennium problem) based on expected user experience. Conducted exhaustive scenarios to reproduce user behavior and randomize requests. Performed different types of tests: functional, regression and boundary. Ran complete test cycles for each product revision. Generated load from various types of clients. Reported bugs to Bug Tracking System (MS Access 7.0). Participated in discussions regarding each build, design reviews and change request meetings. Was a member of small group that concentrated on to improve performance of the application. Suggested core changes in B-tree to reduce number of disk accesses. Conducted research on competitor packages to assist development in functional definition.

(Environment - Windows 95 / NT 4.0 Workstation / Server, Unix shells; Testing Tools – C-cover, Silk Test 1.0 MS Visual Test 4.0; Languages – C, MS Visual C++ 4.0, MS Visual Basic 4.0, HTML, VB Script, JavaScript, OLE)

PART-TIME CONSULTING PROJECTS:

SQA Ideologist

Process Mapping, Re-Engineering, Process Improvement

Analyzed and Re-Defined Release Process, Provided Quality / Quality Control Vision, Shortened Development / Release Cycles, Defined and Designed Test Procedures, Trained personnel, Established QA Departments and Internship/Externship Programs, Implemented (coded) Load/Performance Test Scripts using Segue SilkPerformer and Microsoft WebApplication StressTool, Installed / Configured / Integrated with Version Control/Configuration Management System / Administered Defect Tracking Systems for:

Swift & Associates, LLC www.theSwifts.com January 1997 - December 1999

uGetHeard.com www.uGetHeard.com August 1999 - August 2000

CampusGrid.com www.CampusGrid.com March 2000 - August 2001

Attivo Software www.attivo.com August 2000 - August 2001

TouchPoint (CardStore) www.CardStore.com January 2001 - July 2001

AltoWeb www.AltoWeb.com January 2001 - August 2001

Modis, Inc. www.modisIT.com March 2002 - March 2003

Wells Fargo Bank www.WellsFargo.com May 2002 - August 2002

Analysts International www.analysts.com March 2003 - December 2003

Hewlett Packard www.hp.com October 2003 - December 2003

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

SOFTWARE TRAINING CENTERS San Francisco, CA - San Mateo, CA - Sacramento, CA

May 1998 - May 2001 Lead Instructor / Director of Education

Licensed by State of CA Bureau of Post-Secondary Education to teach Computer Science in State of California

Taught the courses:

Advanced Software Quality Assurance and Release Engineering, UML (Unified Modeling Language), Web Server Performance Measurement, (Apache, IBM HTTP Server, MS IIS, Allaire Jrun, BEA WebLogic, Sun-Netscape iPlanet), Web Design, Technology, Production and Testing, Project Management with Distributed Development Teams.

Developed course and lab curriculum, schedules, handouts and hired instructors for the following classes:

Object-Oriented Programming for Web and Databases, (Unix, NT, Apache, IIS, C/C++, Java, VB, PERL, XML, mySQL, Oracle), Build / Release Engineering, Web Design, Java Programming, Oracle Database Administration, Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Introduction to Unix, Unix System Administration.

Evaluated instructor performance. Created instructors’ development plans. Created career development plans for graduated students. Recruited graduated students for internship and externship in Silicon Valley companies.

EDUCATION:

May 2005 ARGO GROUP TRAINING Bangalore, India

Wireless Device Test Automation

Configuration and Test Automation

August 2003 IBM EDUCATIONAL SERVICES San Jose, CA

DB2 Administration

Series of Configuration and Performance Tuning classes

April 2000 PHONE.COM Redwood City, CA

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol Structure, HDML, WML, WMLScript

January 2000 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Berkeley, CA

Java and OO Systems

Distributed Object Computing Patterns with CORBA and RMI

November 1999 RATIONAL UNIVERSITY Cupertino, CA

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