Personal Information Name: Kristof Goossens Date of Birth: 15 November 1982 Place of residence: Wemmel Summary Kristof is active as a software testing professional since 2003. In a short time frame Kristof moved from being a technical software testing engineer to a test coordinator for technical software testing projects, in environments such as Sharepoint, Oracle, JAVA and.net. Setting up and maintaining several test environments don t have any secrets to him. Kristof is an expert in test automation and performance measurement by using the HP software testing portfolio (Quicktest Pro and Loadrunner). Next to his technical knowledge and experience Kristof is also successful in building, coordinating and managing teams. He uses the international recognized ISTQB standards. He acquired a PRINCE2 certification in august 2010, both Foundation and Practitioner levels. Page 1 of 8
Professional experience Gosecure 03/2008 - Present Projects: NMBS 10/2013 12/2013: Technical Test coordinator / Test Tooling and Methodology Expert Train and coach colleagues in standard procedures for functional testing, test automation and performance testing. Building and coordinating test teams. Improve the quality and performance of several software solutions within the B- Holding group and its customers Participate in Interviews to recruit new colleagues Train new colleagues in Testing (based upon ISTQB principles) Coaching and coordinating: functional, automation and performance standards and problems Investigate, report and follow-up problems with automation and performance tools Research new test tools, prepare costs-benefits evaluation and report to the test manager Prepare the Tool-specifications before publication Assist team members with Creating, Executing and maintaining performance tests Understand and validate the acceptance criteria with the NMBS users Report the results of the performance tests to the users Create (Performance) Test plan Assist team members with creating Test Scenario s and executing them Report the results of the executed test scenario s to the customer Create a self-service website for Quality Center maintenance tasks (php) Ensure standardization of test reports by creating an automated Test Report generation system (php) HP Loadrunner, HP QuickTest Pro, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM11 - admin), HP Business Availability Center (HP BAC : scripting), OTA Client, Site Admin Client, php, Symfony2, Zend, MySQL, Agile (SCRUM), V-Model, Visual Studio, MS Visio, MS Project, J2EE, Oracle Forms, SOAP,.Net, Norton Ghost, Page 2 of 8
AXA Bank & Insurance 08/2012 09/2013: Test Tooling Expert Setting up standards for ALM usage, test automation and performance testing. Assist in international setup of ALM 11.0 Platform (AXA Global) Assist in migration of Quality Center 9.0 to shared ALM 11.0 platform (AXA Belgium) Create Performance Test approach for different internal projects Execute and Report Load- and Performance Testing different internal projects Script End-to-End monitoring for HP Business Availability Center Quality Center 9.0 administration Participate in Interviews to recruit new colleagues Coaching: automation and performance standards and problems Investigate, report and follow-up problems with automation and performance tools Research new test tools, prepare costs-benefits evaluation and report to the test manager Assist team members with Creating, Executing and maintaining performance tests Report the results of the performance tests to the users HP Loadrunner, HP Business Availability Center, HP QuickTestPro, HP Quality Center (admin), HP Service Test, Siteminder, agile (SCRUM), V-Model, Sharepoint 2007/2010, J2EE, SOAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft,.Net, Citrix, Page 3 of 8
NMBS 17/03/2008 08/2012: Technical Test coordinator / Test Tooling and Methodology Expert Setting up standard procedures for functional testing, test automation and performance testing. Building and coordinating test teams. Improve the quality and performance of several software solutions within the B- Holding group and its customers Planning of team of testers (performance & automation) Yearly Budget Planning (Software Tools) Participate in Interviews to recruit new colleagues Train new colleagues in Testing (based upon ISTQB principles) Coaching and coordinating: functional, automation and performance standards and problems Investigate, report and follow-up problems with automation and performance tools Research new test tools, prepare costs-benefits evaluation and report to the test manager Prepare the Tool-specifications before publication Assist team members with Creating, Executing and maintaining performance tests Understand and validate the acceptance criteria with the NMBS users Report the results of the performance tests to the users Create (Performance) Test plan Assist team members with creating Test Scenario s and executing them Report the results of the executed test scenario s to the customer Create a self-service website for Quality Center maintenance tasks (php) Ensure standardization of test reports by creating an automated Test Report generation system (php) HP Loadrunner, HP QuickTestPro, HP Quality Center (admin), php, agile (SCRUM), V- Model, Visual Studio, MS Visio, MS Project, Sharepoint 2007, J2EE, Oracle Forms, SOAP, HP WebInspect, HP QAInspect, Software Security, OWASP,.Net, Norton Ghost, Page 4 of 8
Data Flow Consultancy 11/2006 03/2008: Load- and Performance Consultant / Test Automation Consultant Projects: FedEx (November 2006 February 2007) : Setup load- and performance tests for a J2EE web application. Setup load- and performance tests for a Java WebStart application. Isabel (March 2007 March 2008): Create and maintain Load- and Performance tests for all the Web applications. Because the nature of Isabels clients, there is a lot of security measures in place. Certificates and SSO had to be implemented in the tests as well. HP Loadrunner, HP QuickTestPro, HP Quality Center, Compuware Client Vantage, Websphere, BEA Weblogic, SSO Syntigo 12/2005 11/2006 : Technical Tester Responsibilities: Functional Tester : Manually test several web applications (J2EE) and 1 Java-based fat client. Technical Test engineer : Transfer the Compuware-based test environment to a Mercury-based test environment. Create automatic tests based upon the manual test cases using Compuware QARun and Mercury Quick Test Pro Test the performance of the different applications using Compuware QALoad and Mercury Loadrunner. Setup a new Mercury-based environment. Convert the test environment from a Compuware-based environment to a Mercury-based environment. Compuware QALoad, Compuware QARun, Compuware Client Vantage, HP Loadrunner, HP QuickTestPro, HP Quality Center, JIRA, Clearcase Page 5 of 8
Academic background Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel: Bachelor Degree in Applied Computer Sciences with a minor in Networking. Education 2013 : Quality Center 9.2 to Application Lifecycle Management 11.5 Delta (HP) 2012: Test Data Management using DB-Main and TDM (Rever) 2011 : Scripting for BAC/BSM (HP) 2010 : IGEL AIP training (IGEL) 2010 : PRINCE2(R) Foundation and Practitioner (Kluwer) 2009 : Web security training: SQL Injection, XSS, Metasploit, (BT) 2007 : HP/Mercury LoadRunner Training: Official LoadRunner training course (CTG) 2006 : Mercury Training: LoadRunner, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center (Syntigo Internal) 2006 : Compuware Training: QARun, Testpartner, ClientVantage, QALoad (Syntigo Internal) 2001 : Intel PRO/Wireless Seminar with Hands-On Training (Intel) Knowledge and skills Languages French sufficient knowledge to have a regular/technical conversation English fluent knowledge spoken and written Dutch mother tongue Project Management PRINCE2 Foundation certification PRINCE2 Practitioner certification Page 6 of 8
IT knowledge Description: Test Management Test Tools Operating Systems Programming Languages Databases Firewalls & Security Other Server Software Specifications: HP/Mercury Quality Center/ALM Methodologies (V-Model, Scrum, ) Write Master Test Plan Setup Standards and Best Practices (request forms, report templates, etc) Coaching colleagues (Performance, Automation, Standards, ) Microsoft Project HP/Mercury LoadRunner (advanced) HP/Mercury Quick Test Pro (advanced) HP/Mercury BAC/BSM setup/maintenance (basic) HP/Mercury BAC/BSM scripting (advanced) Compuware QALoad Compuware QARun Compuware Client Vantage Selenium WATIR (Web Application Testing In Ruby) Windows Client versions Windows Server versions Linux Distros (Ubuntu, Gentoo, Debian, Redhat, SuSe, Mandrake, Knoppix, ) Solaris (Basic knowledge) C / C++ / C# VBA Java Perl Bash scripting HTML/XHTML/CSS XML/XSL(T) PHP Ruby JavaScript / Actionscript ASP.net Oracle SQL Server Access MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite Iptables Microsoft ISA Server Snort Single-Sign-On (SSO) Security Certificates Microsoft IIS Apache Veritas Backup Page 7 of 8
Office Automation Software Version Management Tools Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003. Exchange Server CVS StarTeam ClearCase SVN (Subversion) Page 8 of 8