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Nicholas T. Pappas Certified Product Consultant (CPC) in HP/Mercury LoadRunner 8.1 Web |
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Phone: 214-517-9299 Fax: 866-836-6572 Email: webmaster@Enterprise-Testing.net |
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Enterprise-Testing.net |
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Veteran computer software engineer with 30 years total experience – 15 years in test-automation. Primary areas of expertise include: · Mercury Interactive test tools specialist; over 12 years experience with LoadRunner using Web, and Terminal Emulation. · Over 6 years strong experience with WinRunner version 6.0 through 9.0 · Two years experience with TestDirector version 7.x including installation and administration. · Recent experience with QTP 9.2. |
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· Strong experience and expertise with SiteScope versions 8.0 though 8.7, including installation, configuration, maintenance, and administration; synthetic user script development and deployment for end-user experience monitoring, SAP Java Web Monitoring, Oracle monitoring, plus others. · Experience in Mercury J2EE Diagnostics including J2EE for SAP: installation, configuration, instrumentation, stand-alone operation, as well as integration with LoadRunner 8.1 · Segue Products: three years Silk Performer: two years Silk Test · Strong proficiency in Apache-JMeter (freeware, open source load test tool) for running very large performance tests (30,000+ Vusers). · Additional experience in other open source test tools such as openSTA. · Very strong custom script development skills in all tools, including all Mercury and Segue test automation tools; very strong C language skills. · Experience with installation, deployment and configuration of Shunra Network hardware appliance for network emulation. · Working knowledge in shell scripting languages for Unix / Linux shells (sh, ksh, csh, & bsh), cross-platform languages (Perl, Tcl/Tk), and Microsoft Windows Script Host (wsh, bat & cmd files). · Mastery of industry best practices and methodologies for all areas of test automation (both performance and functional testing), including: · Mastery of Entire Test Life Cycle: Test-case / test-scenario identification and development; test plan development, test automation for unit test, integration test, system/end-to-end test, UAT, on-going regression testing; architecture design and development of test bed / test harness design, development, and deployment; test-cycle management, post-test-execution analysis and reporting. · Issue (defect) tracking and reporting, and regression test-cycle operations · Comprehensive Automated Performance Testing Expertise: Load, stress, benchmark, endurance, break-point, isolation, and end-to-end, as well as all other types of performance testing; real time monitoring, post execution analysis and diagnosis of bottlenecks – from small systems (10s or 100s of users), to large enterprise-wide system performance testing (thousands to tens of thousands of users), up to Internet applications serving 100,000-plus users. Comprehensive Automated Functional Verification Testing Expertise: Well versed with white-box and black-box testing strategies, test case coverage vs. risk-exposure analysis, etc. Prior to entering the test automation field, initial 15 years of IT career involved developing large financial systems for major Wall Street firms in Commercial Banking, International Leasing, Municipal Bond Rating, Brokerage, Foreign Exchange, and Precious Metals Commodities Trading: J. P. Morgan-Chase, S & P, Merrill Lynch, Citibank, Solomon Brothers, DLJ, and many others. Relocated to California during the “SDI Era” to help develop new software systems in high-tech areas for private and defense sector, e.g. computer spectroscopy control, aerospace factory floor automation, automated electronic instrument calibration (e.g. TOW laser guidance systems), “strategic defense reconnaissance”, and other DoD related projects. Clients included RAND, Bosch & Lomb, XEROX PARC, Hughes Aircraft Company “EDSG” (Electro-optical Data-Systems Group”), TRW Space and Technology, Rand, and others. Additional Expertise in WinRunner/XRunnerQTP & TestDirector/Quality-Center |
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Located in Dallas, TX but will travel. |