Performance Testing Quality Assurance

Jack Schwartz

Cumming, GA *****

Cell: 1-973-***-****

**********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-schwartz-73595928a/

Summary:

I possess more than twenty years of experience leading testing of multiple software applications. My areas of expertise are in the entire SDLC, including manual and automated QA, performance testing, and leading UAT groups. I have led multiple global teams that have tested multpile systems in manual, automated and performance testing disciplines. Creating test cases and user stories, test plans, analysis of end to end systems as well production of reports to identify remediation opportuinities to both product owners and stakeholders. I possess excellent technical skills, as well as interpersonal skills to gather information and generate high level dialogs between non technical and technical people.

Experience:

Tata Consulting Services, Alpharetta, Georgia

September 2017 – October 2023

On Assignment at Ernst & Young, LLP

Performance Test Architect

Initiated meetings with business analysts, clients and stakeholders to create clear, accurate and measurable requirements with acceptance criteria

Involved in full SDLC in Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies

Designed functional, UAT, regression and performance testing strategy, including SOWs, detailed test plans and use cases

Managed and led multiple concurrent global teams of performance testers during testing

Created and maintained documentation used to communicate system functionality and materials needed for functional, UAT and performance testing

Created and delivered performance engineering reports to upper management, analyzing results and identifying activities required to mitigate the risk going forward

Reported and documented system errors and abnormalities and provided remediation suggestions to stakeholders

Worked with management to ensure completion of requested work effort while navigating shifting priorities and multiple assignments

Ernst & Young, LLP, Alpharetta, Georgia and Secaucus, New Jersey

July 1999 – August 2017

Hired as Performance Tester, promoted to Performance Engineering Lead

Performed load testing on multiple client/server & Azure Cloud applications using multiple testing tools, including Rational Performance Studio, Load Runner, Microsoft Visual Studio, JMeter

Reported and documented system errors and abnormalities and provided remediation suggestions

Executed SQL queries to validate testing accuracy

Led multiple global teams of performance testers

Created and maintained Performance Testing Handbook

Designed and implemented Performance Testing standards for multi service line tests

Chubb Professional Resources, Parsippany, NJ

On Assignment at Ernst & Young, LLP

November 1998-June 1999

Quality Assurance Automation/Performance Tester

Performed load testing on multiple client/server applications using Rational’s Performance Studio

Produced detailed system test reports

Designed and implemented Quality Assurance test scripts, both manual and automation

Executed SQL queries to validate testing efforts

Wrote and maintained quality assurance tests using SQA Robot

Reported and documented system errors and abnormalities

Chubb Professional Resources, Parsippany, NJ

On Assignment at Computer Horizons

July 1998-October 1998

Quality Assurance Manual Tester

Manually tested insurance applications after Y2K remidiation was complete

Wrote and executed manual scripts to validate fixes

Compiled documentation of completed validation scripts to provide confidence applications would not fail during Year 2000 trunover

Education:

Chubb Institute, Team 2000 Program, Diploma in Computer Programming: 480 hours of intensive training

Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ, Computer Science

Training:

MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Outlook

PeopleSoft, Configuration & Administration

Rational Software, Advanced Performance Studio

Rational Software, Performance Studio

WinMill Software, SQA Suite: Team Test Edition

in IBM Mainframe programming skills

SAFe Agile Test Automation SharePoint

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