1. LEON SERY
Performance and Automation
Expert/Team Leader
Dganya 52/24, Netanya
052-8543296
leonsery@gmail.com
Summary
9 years of experience in Non-Functional Certification of Enterprise
Business solutions comprising Load Testing, Performance Tuning and
Automation, using innovative testing approaches, comprehensive
knowledge of HP (Mercury) optimization software, vast competence in
a variety of newest programming technologies, and far-reaching
abilities in creatively solving complicated problems.
Professional Skills
• Technically oriented team leader – 2 years of proven experience as
activity leader in Comverse. Capable of identifying a team’s needs and
offering constructive solutions enhancing the team’s work in general
and each member’s in particular. Vast experience in interviewing new
employees on technological issues.
• Comprehensive technical knowledge in Networking and WEB,
excellent programming skills, along with vast experience in
LoadRunner, WinRunner, QuickTest Pro. Powerful Win32 and UNIX
administration and scripting.
• Vast experience in performance testing of complex multi-tier network
solutions including performance analysis, troubleshooting and tuning
of HP-UX, IBM AIX, SUN Solaris and Linux servers, in-depth knowledge
of performance testing methodology.
• Highly creative quick learner and innovator – personally designed and
developed performance monitoring solutions for UNIX and variety of
automation tools, established new testing techniques for wide range of
applications.
• Customer-oriented, excellent coaching and interpersonal
communication skills – proven experience in training customers for
load testing and automation, proven experience in training employees
for non-functional testing approaches.

2. Work Experience
AMDOCS 2008 – Present
Performance Analyst – SPOT Team, PBG
• Establishing new network-based approaches to non-functional certification of newest
“TurboCharging” solution – part of Amdocs billing suite
• Design and implementation of new performance testing approaches of first Amdocs Billing
End-to-End testing Lab
• Performance testing of J2EE-based solutions on HP-UX, AIX and Solaris servers
• Administration and performance tuning WebLogic and WebSphere application servers
• Profiling-based performance analysis, troubleshooting and optimization of components
• Adapting HP Glance as a LoadRunner UNIX external monitor for online and offline
monitoring
COMVERSE 2007 – 2008
Activity Leader - Performance Team, Mobile Internet Solutions
• Leading and coordinating all load testing activities in MIS division
• Creation of Performance Testing Management Plans and design of load tests
• Performance KPIs definition, technical assistance to System Architects
• Working with customers, investigating real traffic on site and load models definition
Performance Expert – Mobile Data Division
• End-to-End load testing of complex, multi-component mobile internet gateway system
• Component-oriented performance testing. Building realistic load emulations
• Experience in performance testing of Databases (Oracle, MSSQL Server, LDAP)
• Vast experience in networking (devices, topology, protocols)
• Vast experience with protocol analyzers and networking testing equipment
• Extensive experience in LoadRunner using comprehensive knowledge of advanced, hidden
and non-documented features
• Vast experience in UNIX shell script development. Linux and UNIX administration.
Personally designed and developed SPIDER - a new UNIX performance monitoring solution
• Web and Application Servers administration and tuning (Apache, lighttpd, IIS, Tomcat)
MERCURY INTERACTIVE 2001 – 2007
Load Expert – “New Initiatives” team, Mercury SOA project
• Participating in architecture design and project development
• Establishing testing approaches for new Mercury SOA-related software applications
• SOAP and WebServices expertise
Automation expert – Mercury Performance Center, LoadRunner team
• In charge of designing, developing and maintaining automation tools
• Coaching team members and customers for effective testing automation
• Customer oriented vision - visited several Mercury customers within PSO engagement
program to solve non-conventional performance testing and tuning issues
QA Engineer – LoadRunner, ERP/CRM and WEB-related protocols team
• Technical expert of several LR protocols – Web, WAP, MMS, Radius
• Design of testing environments for newest LR protocols - SAPGUI, WebServices, AMF
• Design and creation of Web Services and AMF testing labs – server and client side coding
• Design and execution of performance benchmarking new LoadRunner protocols

3. Technology Expertise
• Network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, Radius, Diameter, RTSP, IMAP, SMTP, WAP,
MMS, FTP. Network sniffers – tcpdump, ethereal, SUN snoop, HP nettl.
• WEB - HTML, WebServices, WML, JavaScript, VBS, ASP, ASP.NET, AMF
• Software development - VB6, VBA, MS Jet, VB.NET, C#, C, C++, JAVA
• Run-time profilers - Mercury Diagnostics, Quantify, JProbe, valgrind, callgrind,
caliper, strace, trass, tusc
• DB – Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access
• Windows and UNIX scripting - CScript, VBScript, bash, ksh, tcsh, awk…
Education
MERCURY CERTIFICATION PROGRAM Dec. 2004
• Mercury LoadRunner Certified Product Consultant (LR CPC)
TRAINING COURSES 2000 - 2009
• Cellular Networks (Inter Bit) • Advanced UNIX scripting (Hi-Tech College)
• J2EE for QA Engineers (2Train4) • Introduction to JAVA (John Bryce)
• Programming with VB.NET (Hi-Tech College) • XML & WebServices (Inter Bit)
• Understanding C# (Hi-Tech College) • C++, JAVA (Hacker Software)
• Mobile Internet Gateway (Comverse) • MS Access, VB, ASP (Hacker Software)
BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV, Beer-Sheva 1994 – 1997
• M.Sc. degree in Molecular Biology
MEDICAL SCHOOL, Lugansk, Ukraine 1985 – 1991
• MD (pediatrics)