Professional Summary

Principal QA Performance Engineer with 20+ years of experience in load, stress, and endurance testing across ERP, SaaS, and enterprise systems. Proven leader mentoring QA teams and collaborating with stakeholders to improve performance and reliability. Expert with JMeter, k6, LoadRunner; strong in SQL/Postgres, AWS/Kubernetes, and observability tooling.

Core Skills

• Performance: JMeter
• k6
• LoadRunner
• Automation: Selenium
• Postman
• Pytest
• ERP & SaaS
• SQL
• Postgres
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Networks & Firewalls
• App Servers
• CI/CD: Jenkins
• CircleCI
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Monitoring: Grafana
• Prometheus
• Dynatrace
• New Relic
• Splunk
• Project Mgmt: Jira
• Confluence
• Agile/Scrum

Work Experience

• Founder / Principal QA Automation & Performance Engineer — Simple QA, Atlanta

  • Led QA automation and performance test strategy for enterprise clients.
  • Implemented RSpec automation, troubleshooting, and customer experience improvements.
  • Evaluated test automation tools, frameworks, and ERP/SaaS integrations; mentored distributed teams.

• Sr QA Automation & Performance Engineer — Roadie (acquired by UPS), Atlanta

  • Directed performance, stress, and endurance testing of API services, databases, and data science systems.
  • Introduced HA/failover simulations validating high-availability readiness.
  • Optimized AWS (Aurora, RDS, ELB, Kubernetes, EC2, S3) for scalability and reliability.
  • Secured Google API cache approval reducing costs by 50%.
  • Established QA standards across CI/CD with Jira, Postman, Pytest, JMeter, CircleCI; mentored QA engineers.

• QA Manager / Principal QA Performance & Automation Engineer — Kaneva, Atlanta

  • Led full‑stack functional and performance testings.
  • Integrated automated performance testing into CI/CD; developed crash analysis reporting reducing crash rates and improving conversion.
  • Managed and mentored QA team, collaborated with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to enhance product quality and performance.

• Lead QA Engineer — Peer 1 Hosting, Atlanta

  • Planned and executed QA strategies for enterprise ERP applications in sales, billing, and provisioning.
  • Reviewed and approved test plans; supervised execution to ensure accuracy and compliance.

• Sr QA Engineer — MedAssets, Atlanta

  • Verified chargemaster tool functionality for hospitals, ensuring compliance and reimbursement accuracy.
  • Automated testing of ERP workflows with TestComplete, SQL, and ODBC integration.

• Sr Test Engineer — Lockheed Martin, New Orleans

  • Automated web application UI testing. Backend automated testing proprietary DoD HR system protocols for improved efficiency and compliance.

Education

BS, Computer Science — Baker College (2012)

Certification

Applied Data Science Leveraging AI — MIT (2025)