Performance Test Specialist at Virgin Media
Salisbury, United Kingdom
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- Performance Test Specialist at Virgin Media
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- Lead Performance Tester at BBC
- Performance Test Specialist at Virgin Mobile
- Lead Performance Tester at Legal & General
- Performance Test Specialist at Reed Publishing
- Senior Test Analyst at Barclays Global Investor
- Performance Test Manager at Sony (uk)
- Performance Test Specialist at Fish4
- Performance Test Manager at Cable and Wireless
- Performance Test Manager at Landmark Information Group
- Performance Test Manager at ASE
- Performance Tester at Reuters
- Unit Performance Test Consultant at Hutchison 3G
- Senior Silk Test Consultant at Equant
- Performance Test Consultant at Ordnance Survey
- Integration Engineer / Performance Tester at BSkyB
- Integration Tester at Oracle
- MultiMedia Test Analyst at tescom
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Martin Croft Bsc(Hons) MBCS CITP’s Summary
• TESTING
• Process improvement in testing
• Writing test approach, test plans and test scripts
• Implementing test approaches
• Ten years interactive testing experience
• Eight years experience performance testing
• Four years Integration testing experience
• Experience of Large Commercial and public-sector application systems. Sectors include Pension, Insurance, Media, Banking, Information providers, Portals, Technology Companies.
Degree educated, BSC and CITP (Chartered IT Professional, BCS)
Business focused Technician
In depth knowledge of n/tier architectures
Excellent communication skills to all levels, from Developer to Director
Good team player with flexibility to work on own initiative
Mobile Number ; 07515 352448
Martin Croft Bsc(Hons) MBCS CITP’s Specialties:
TECHNOLOGIES
• Technology experience J2EE, XML, XSL, J2ME (midlets), SAP, TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, UDP, 3g, SOAP, Oracle, SQL, GIS, GML, citrix.
• TOOLS
• Test tools experience: Segue Silk Performer, HP LoadRunner, Loadrunner Diagnostics, Quality Centre, OpenSTA.
Martin Croft Bsc(Hons) MBCS CITP’s Experience
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Performance Test Specialist
Virgin Media
(Public Company; VMED; Telecommunications industry)
September 2009 — Present (4 months)
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Lead Performance Tester
BBC
(Public Company; BBC; Broadcast Media industry)
September 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Worked on a large multi vendor platform to deploy off-line editing solution to the BBC. Worked closely with project owners to ensure good test coverage and project palnning. Technologies used: Java, Dot NET, sharepoint etc.. Tools used : Loadrunner, clearquest, etc.
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Performance Test Specialist
Virgin Mobile
(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)
June 2008 — September 2008 (4 months)
Scoping, implementing, executing, reporting performance test activities on multiple projects within virgin mobile. Using Loadrunner 9.1.
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Lead Performance Tester
Legal & General
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; LGEN; Financial Services industry)
January 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Brought in to manage and execute the performance testing for a advisor portal supporting over 4500 users. Leading a small team of performance testers and working closely with test managers and business owners to ensure the non-functional testing produced a more business focused results. Performance increased as cycles and releases were taken through greater rigor. Produced results presentations for senior management. Worked with external development house to develop their performance testing and pin point bottlenecks within their application. Mentored internal performance team members working on other projects within L&G. Completed a four month POC with Loadrunner Diagnostics to provide indepth diagnostics on the server infastructure.
Tools used: Loadrunner 8.1, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Loadrunner Diagnostics, CA Intrascope
Technologies covered: .NET 1.1, .NET2.0, IIS, SQL Server. -
Performance Test Specialist
Reed Publishing
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)
October 2006 — December 2006 (3 months)
Reeds EGi web site provides customers with estate information. The original web site was classic ASP running on SQL Server. The new replacement runs on .NET 1.1 and SQL server 2003. I wrote and agreed a performance test plan / Approach document. Scoped out test data requirements and then carried out benchmarking of the old site and benchmark and performance test of the new site and infrastructure. Load runner V8.1 was used for the testing.
Tools Used: Loadrunner 8.1, Excel, Word
Technologies covered: Classic ASP, .NET 1.1, IIS, SQL Server -
Senior Test Analyst
Barclays Global Investor
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Banking industry)
October 2005 — August 2006 (11 months)
Most of this role was made up of scoping out the global Segue toolset implementation, Successfully commissioned servers and infrastructure to support. Advised and implemented a reference platform for the main BGi Database, this enabled the business to test changes before going live.
After successfully signing off a performance test process I then trained and mentored permanent members of staff to take on the performance testing within the organization. As the only UK member of the central test team my last role was to recruit test analysts and a manager to carry on and support the testing process. -
Performance Test Manager
Sony (uk)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
July 2005 — September 2005 (3 months)
Performance tested their new European web portal for the "Like No Other" campaign
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Performance Test Specialist
Fish4
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2005 — May 2005 (5 months)
Performance tested the new version of their web portal
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Performance Test Manager
Cable and Wireless
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
May 2004 — October 2004 (6 months)
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Performance Test Manager
Landmark Information Group
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)
March 2004 — May 2004 (3 months)
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Performance Test Manager
ASE
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
November 2003 — February 2004 (4 months)
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Performance Tester
Reuters
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
2003 — 2003 (less than a year)
among other projects, I was responsible for the organization of the testing portion of a global benchmarking project on one of Reuters flagship products. The project was controlled from London and ran agents in London, New York, Singapore and Tokyo.
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Unit Performance Test Consultant
Hutchison 3G
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
February 2002 — January 2003 (1 year )
Used open source tools to load test the components of their content management system providing content to various handsets
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Senior Silk Test Consultant
Equant
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ENT; Telecommunications industry)
November 2001 — March 2002 (5 months)
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Performance Test Consultant
Ordnance Survey
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2001 — November 2001 (9 months)
Working as part of the test team and web development team I was responsible for implementing a complete performance testing approach. This included implanting the selected tool within the OS infrastructure, benchmarking existing systems, analysis and design of performance profiles for new developments.
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Integration Engineer / Performance Tester
BSkyB
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BSY; Broadcast Media industry)
August 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 3 months)
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Integration Tester
Oracle
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
June 1998 — July 1999 (1 year 2 months)
Bskyb / Open Interactive Project.
The project consisted of five major releases to the client, which included Gadgets developed in C, Oracle Forms, Oracle 8 Databases, OAS and OVS. -
MultiMedia Test Analyst
tescom
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1996 — June 1998 (1 year 9 months)
Working with clients like microsoft, noho, cyberia testing interactive web and CD content
