>> My name is Josh Rector [phonetic] and I'm a self-work quality experience test manager.
My team specifically is responsible for performance testing of applications
so you take applications that are developed by development staff in my company
and those applications have to be tested to make sure
that they work correctly before we put them in the hands of our end users.
One type of testing that we do that my team does is performance testing so we make sure
that once the application is under load, there's lots of users using the application
that it performs in an acceptable level and then so I've got a team of folks that do
that type of testing on the application.
So I work for a large manufacturing company and we have many different applications,
many different technologies that we work on
and our test organization is a shared test organization so we get applications
from many different development groups that a come in and some are dot net related,
some are java related, some are edw related and so the test organization really gets
to field a broad spectrum of technologies and just to interact
with the broad spectrum of technologies.
And so we have some tools in-house that allow us to generate the load on those applications
and measure either the response time or the application utilization and that type of thing.
A busy day usually will start around 7 o'clock in the office I'm usually,
you know we work in Atlanta so I don't work real close to the office so I
but try to beat the traffic, I'm up by 6 and out the door and starts at 7 o'clock
and I'm usually most productive from 7 o'clock until about 9 am where nobody else bothers me.
And as you know a lot of folks don't get in until 9 and then
around 9 AM I usually have conference calls to get on and we have multiple different locations
across the country and so we spend a lot of time on the phone because a lot of people we interact
with aren't in the same office as we are.
And so it for me as the manager I'm not necessarily doing the day to day hands on task
as much as I am reporting status and putting out fires and handling,
you know those type of...those type of things and usually that's on a call.